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Astrid
Astrid

Reputation: 1312

PHP Mail header for emails with special characters in the subject or message

My code:

$to      = '[email protected]';
$subject = $_REQUEST['subject'] ;
$message = $_REQUEST['message'] ;
$header = "From: [email protected]\r\n"; 
$header.= "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n"; 
$header.= "Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1\r\n"; 
$header.= "X-Priority: 1\r\n"; 

mail($to, $subject, $message, $header);

When i send a mail with special characters such as ®ð-˚©-ʼ“æ,˚ˍðß©, in the message, it works but spacing is no longer dealt with (every new line or space gets removed) And the second problem is that the special characters are not displayed in the subject. They just output like: øʼªʼ

Thanks in advance!

Upvotes: 6

Views: 58650

Answers (4)

TFennis
TFennis

Reputation: 1423

Content-Type: text/html

If you set this header that means you have to send HTML to the user. You can either decide to use something like TinyMCE to let the user write the message in a Word-style editor and use the HTML output from that. Or set your headers to plaintext.

Content-Type: text/plain

EDIT: Try this

$to      = '[email protected]';
$subject = $_REQUEST['subject'] ;
$message = $_REQUEST['message'] ;
$header = "From: [email protected]\r\n"; 
$header.= "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n"; 
$header.= "Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8\r\n"; 
$header.= "X-Priority: 1\r\n"; 

mail($to, $subject, $message, $header);

Upvotes: 12

user3820294
user3820294

Reputation: 31

I have used this header and this is worked for me...

$headers = '';
$headers = 'MIME-Version: 1.0'.PHP_EOL;
$headers .= 'Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1'.PHP_EOL;
$headers .= 'From: [email protected]<From: [email protected]>'.PHP_EOL;

Upvotes: 3

Ghigo
Ghigo

Reputation: 2332

Don't use mail() function. Use a fully crafted class that does (correctly) the job for you.

http://code.google.com/a/apache-extras.org/p/phpmailer/

Upvotes: 1

Babblo
Babblo

Reputation: 803

the problem with your code is because special characters need "special" charset too.

Try changing the charset=ISO to charset=UTF8...

Also, PHP mail() functions works ok, but you will find a lot more benefits and options if you go for a better solution like Swift Mailer

Upvotes: 0

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