PHP - read HTML input from a form

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I have a form that will dynamically send emailers . This form takes the email id of the recipient ,the subject and the body content.

I am using PHPMailer class to go about this. When it comes to plain text ,the emailers work just fine. But I want to add a functionality where the users can paste html into the body part so that the emailer can parse/read them and send the html'ized version of the emails.

I tried this , but it didn't work as the the entire HTML was mailed as text.

$email_msg = htmlentities($_POST['mail_msg'], ENT_QUOTES, "UTF-8");

Any advice would be helpful .

Thanks in advance.

Content-type: text/html?

u_mulder
– u_mulder

2014-03-07 07:46:17 +00:00
Commented Mar 7, 2014 at 7:46 — u_mulder
– u_mulder, Commented Mar 7, 2014 at 7:46

Grant · Accepted Answer · 2014-03-07 07:46:51Z

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Did you set the PHPMailer default to HTML:

$mail->IsHTML(true);

answered Mar 7, 2014 at 7:46

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Loïc · Accepted Answer · 2014-03-07 07:46:41Z

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Modify your mail headers :

$header  = "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";
$header .= "Content-type: text/html; charset: utf8\r\n";

answered Mar 7, 2014 at 7:46

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user1411837 Over a year ago

Thank you for responding..the above solution helped and worked.

Loïc Over a year ago

It's okay, it's better anyway. I'm being old I need to read php doc again.

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