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    copied!<p>i'm trying to bit together some code from a php tutorial that shows how to make a very basic PHPMailer form that sends a plain text email to a mailing list. The simplicity is exactly what I want for the most part since a couple of people will be using this form, though I want to include the capability to use HTML in the form. So if for example, I want to use <code>&lt;center&gt;</code> tags or insert a hosted image <code>&lt;img src="www.link.com/img.jpg"&gt;</code> to make the email a bit more rich. </p> <p>At the moment, i'm not able to figure out how to enable the html embedding. If I put the HTML code into a form, it simply just outputs the code as such <code>&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;text&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;</code> where as I want the email to be displayed as just: <b><i>text</i></b></p> <p>I was thinking it could be the <code>IsHTML(True);</code> variable but everything seems to work fine when I send emails out. If I get rid of the <code>&lt;input type</code> and change it to say <code>&lt;span</code>then the email message is just blank.</p> <p>here is the original code I am working off of: <a href="http://yorkspace.wordpress.com/simple-php-mailing-list/" rel="nofollow">http://yorkspace.wordpress.com/simple-php-mailing-list/</a></p> <p>here is the sendmail.php, which is where one goes to edit the message, preview, then send:</p> <pre><code>&lt;?php require "maillist-settings.inc.php"; if ($_POST['preview']) { $email_array = $_POST['emaillist']; if (is_array($email_array)) { $subject = $_POST['emailtitle']; $message = $_POST['emailmessage']; $bcc_list = implode(", ", $email_array); echo "&lt;table&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;"; echo "&lt;form action=\"" . $_SERVER['SCRIPT_URL'] . "\" method=\"POST\"&gt;"; foreach ($email_array as $email_address) { echo "&lt;input type=\"hidden\" name=\"emaillist[]\" value=\"" . $email_address . "\"&gt;"; } echo "&lt;input type=\"hidden\" name=\"emailtitle\" value=\"" . $subject . "\"&gt;"; echo "&lt;input type=\"hidden\" name=\"emailmessage\" value=\"". $message ."\"&gt;"; echo "&lt;input type=\"submit\" name=\"sendemail\" value=\"Send Email\"&gt;&lt;/form&gt;"; echo "&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;"; } else if ($_POST['sendemail']) { LoadLib_PHPMailer(); $mail = new MLMail; $email_array = $_POST['emaillist']; if ( is_array($email_array) == TRUE ) { $mail-&gt;AddAddress($mail-&gt;From); $mail-&gt;Subject = stripslashes($_POST['emailtitle']); $mail-&gt;Body = stripslashes($_POST['emailmessage']); if(!$mail-&gt;Send()) echo "There has been an error sending email:&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;" . $mail-&gt;ErrorInfo . "&lt;/b&gt;"; else echo "Message has been sent successfully.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href=\"" . $_SERVER['SCRIPT_URL'] . "\"&gt;Send another message&lt;/a&gt;"; $mail-&gt;ClearAddresses(); } } else { $sEditSubject = $_POST['emailtitle']; if (isset($sEditSubject)) $subject = $sEditSubject; else $subject = ""; $sEditMessage = $_POST['emailmessage']; if (isset($sEditMessage)) $message = $sEditMessage; else { $message = "\n\n\n&lt;br&gt;FOOTER&lt;/BR&gt;\n\n"; } echo "Subject:"; echo "&lt;br&gt;&lt;input type=\"text\" name=\"emailtitle\" size=\"80\" value=\"" . htmlspecialchars(stripslashes($subject)) . "\"&gt;&lt;/input&gt;"; echo "&lt;br&gt;Message:"; echo "&lt;br&gt;&lt;textarea name=\"emailmessage\" rows=\"20\" cols=\"72\"&gt;" . htmlspecialchars(stripslashes($message)) . "&lt;/textarea&gt;"; echo "&lt;br&gt;&lt;input type=\"submit\" name=\"preview\" value=\"Preview\"&gt;&lt;/form&gt;"; } ?&gt; </code></pre> <p>and this is the maillist-settings.inc.php which is called from the sendmail.php</p> <pre><code>&lt;?php $listname = "Mailing List"; $listfile = "list.csv"; $sPHPMAILER_PATH = "phpmailer"; $sProtocol = "http://"; $sReferrer = "index.php"; $bEmailSend = true; $sSendType = "smtp"; $sFromEmailAddress = "email@email.com"; $sFromName = "my name"; $sSMTPHost = "mail.smtp.com"; $sSMTPAuth = true; $sSMTPUser = "email@email.com"; $sSMTPPass = "password"; $iSMTPPort = 25; $ishtml = true; require $sPHPMAILERpath . "class.phpmailer.php"; require $sPHPMAILERpath . "class.smtp.php"; // Define parameters as class MLMail class MLMail extends PHPMailer { // Set default variables for all new objects var $From; var $FromName; var $Mailer; var $IsHtml; var $WordWrap; var $Host; var $SMTPAuth; var $Username; var $Password; var $Port; function MLMail() { parent::SetLanguage('en','phpmailer/language/'); $this-&gt;From = $GLOBALS['sFromEmailAddress']; $this-&gt;FromName = $GLOBALS['sFromName']; $this-&gt;Mailer = $GLOBALS['sSendType']; $this-&gt;IsHtml = $GLOBALS['ishtml']; $this-&gt;WordWrap = $GLOBALS['sWordWrap']; if ($this-&gt;Mailer == "smtp") { $this-&gt;Port = $GLOBALS['iSMTPPort']; $this-&gt;Host = $GLOBALS['sSMTPHost']; $this-&gt;SMTPAuth = $GLOBALS['sSMTPAuth']; if ($this-&gt;SMTPAuth) { $this-&gt;Username = $GLOBALS['sSMTPUser']; $this-&gt;Password = $GLOBALS['sSMTPPass']; } } } } </code></pre>
 

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