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    <p>Firstly I am not a programmer - so I am trying to adapt things to what I need. I have been working for some weeks on a html form that produces a unique code and emails the data to me and the form owner. </p> <p>I have managed to get all this to work and build it into my website. </p> <p>However the last vestige is that I want to format the email into html and I have searched and read and tried many different pieces of code for this - some even from here with no success. I ether get code, nothing or all the info in one uninterrupted sentence. </p> <p>Here is my php. Near the bottom is the info I need in the mail at <code>$email_message</code></p> <p>Form code:</p> <pre><code>&lt;div style="position:absolute;left:0px;top:546px;width:350px;height:84px;"&gt; &lt;style type="text/css"&gt; .formtxt{color:white;} &lt;/style&gt; &lt;?php $tokens = 'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ0123456789'; $serial = ''; for ($i = 0; $i &lt; 3; $i++) { for ($j = 0; $j &lt; 4; $j++) { $serial .= $tokens[rand(0, 35)]; } if ($i &lt; 2) { $serial .= '-'; } } ?&gt; &lt;form name="contactform" method="post" action="bridalcontact.php"&gt; &lt;table width="350px" align="center"&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td valign="top"&gt; &lt;label for="first_name"&gt; &lt;span class="formtxt"&gt;First Name*&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/label&gt; &lt;/td&gt; &lt;td valign="top"&gt; &lt;input type="text" name="first_name" maxlength="50" size="20"&gt; &lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td valign="top""&gt; &lt;label for="last_name"&gt; &lt;span class="formtxt"&gt;Last Name*&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/label&gt; &lt;/td&gt; &lt;td valign="top"&gt; &lt;input type="text" name="last_name" maxlength="50" size="20"&gt; &lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td valign="top"&gt; &lt;label for="email"&gt; &lt;span class="formtxt"&gt;Email*&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/label&gt; &lt;/td&gt; &lt;td valign="top"&gt; &lt;input type="text" name="email" maxlength="80" size="20"&gt; &lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td valign="top"&gt; &lt;label for="security"&gt; &lt;span class="formtxt"&gt;What colour is the sky *&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/label&gt; &lt;/td&gt; &lt;td valign="middle"&gt; &lt;input type="text" name="security" maxlength="80" size="20"&gt; &lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td valign="top"&gt; &lt;label for="telephone"&gt;Code&lt;/label&gt; &lt;/td&gt; &lt;td valign="top"&gt; &lt;input type="disabled" name="code" size="20" value='&lt;?php echo "$serial"?&gt;'readonly&gt; &lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td colspan="2" style="text-align:center"&gt; &lt;input type="submit" value="Submit"&gt; &lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;/table&gt; &lt;/form&gt; &lt;/div&gt; </code></pre> <p>Php code:</p> <pre><code>&lt;?php if(isset($_POST['email'])) { // EDIT THE 2 LINES BELOW AS REQUIRED $email_to = "my email address here"; $email_subject = "Your AODJ voucher"; function died($error) { // your error code can go here echo "We are very sorry, but there were error(s) found with the form you submitted. "; echo "These errors appear below.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"; echo $error."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"; echo "Please go back and fix these errors.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"; die(); } // validation expected data exists if(!isset($_POST['first_name']) || !isset($_POST['last_name']) || !isset($_POST['email']) || !isset($_POST['security'])) { died('We are sorry, but there appears to be a problem with the form you submitted.'); } $first_name = $_POST['first_name']; // required $last_name = $_POST['last_name']; // required $email_from = $_POST['email']; // required $security = $_POST['security']; // required $code = $_POST['code']; // not required $error_message = ""; $email_exp = '/^[A-Za-z0-9._%-]+@[A-Za-z0-9.-]+\.[A-Za-z]{2,4}$/'; if(!preg_match($email_exp,$email_from)) { $error_message .= 'The Email Address you entered does not appear to be valid.&lt;br /&gt;'; } $security_exp = "/blue/"; if(!preg_match($security_exp,$security)) { $error_message .= 'Wrong solar system - sorry.&lt;br /&gt;'; } //$string_exp = "/^[A-Za-z .'-]+$/"; //if(!preg_match($security_exp,$security)) { //$error_message .= 'Wrong solar system - sorry.&lt;br /&gt;'; //} $string_exp = "/^[A-Za-z .'-]+$/"; if(!preg_match($string_exp,$first_name)) { $error_message .= 'The First Name you entered does not appear to be valid.&lt;br /&gt;'; } if(!preg_match($string_exp,$last_name)) { $error_message .= 'The Last Name you entered does not appear to be valid.&lt;br /&gt;'; } if(strlen($error_message) &gt; 0) { died($error_message); } $email_message = "Form details below.\n\n"; function clean_string($string) { $bad = array("content-type","bcc:","to:","cc:","href"); return str_replace($bad,"",$string); } $email_message .= "First Name: ".clean_string($first_name)."\n"; $email_message .= "Last Name: ".clean_string($last_name)."\n"; $email_message .= "Email: ".clean_string($email_from)."\n"; $email_message .= "code: ".clean_string($code)."\n"; // create email headers $headers = 'From: '.$email_from."\r\n". 'Reply-To: '.$email_from."\r\n" . 'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion(); @mail($email_to, $email_subject, $email_message, $headers); @mail($email_from, $email_subject, $email_message, $headers); ?&gt; &lt;?php if( !empty( $_POST ) ) { header( "Location: bridaloptionsthanks.html" ) ; exit ; } } ?&gt; </code></pre>
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    2. COWe've all got to start somewhere. First, get rid of the @ signs. They're swallowing errors that you might need to see. Second, you can call mail once and BCC it to yourself if you'd like. I'd change all those `\n` to `\r\n`. Also add `\r\n` after the <br> tags and ditch the `/` that's in the <br>. What do you want the HTML to look like? Just line breaks? This was the first result when I googled php sending html email: http://css-tricks.com/sending-nice-html-email-with-php/
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    3. COYou'll never get anything sent to output in HTML with your edits until you add `$headers = "Content-type: text/html\r\n";`
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