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December 7th, 2012, 06:07 AM

hudbarnett

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PHP-General - Echo tables

Hi there

I'm working on a feedback form that sends a copy of the content to the sender. In the email it lists the following and prints it out. How would i take the following information and lay it out into a table using the echo command?

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 $message = 'Name: '.$name.' 

Email: '.$mailFrom.' 

Telephone: '.$telephone.' 

Address: '.$address.' 

Message: '.$message_text;

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December 7th, 2012, 06:57 AM

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If the objective is to put a table in an email, you wouldn't echo anything. You need to build the email using something like PHPMailer.

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December 7th, 2012, 07:02 AM

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Quote:

Originally Posted by gw1500se

If the objective is to put a table in an email, you wouldn't echo anything. You need to build the email using something like PHPMailer.

Ah, i thought that by placing a table around the code would display it in a table format in the email. I have seen some example on how to do this but so far I've had no luck and haven't been able to get it working.

Thanks for your reply.

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December 7th, 2012, 08:05 AM

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Quote:

Originally Posted by hudbarnett

How would i take the following information and lay it out into a table using the echo command?

Exactly the same as if you were building it for a webpage but instead of echo, use variable concatenation,

eg

PHP Code:


		
			
//

echo "<table>";

echo "<tr><td>....</td><td>....</td></tr>";

echo "<tr><td>....</td><td>....</td></tr>";

echo "<tr><td>....</td><td>....</td></tr>";

echo "<tr><td>....</td><td>....</td></tr>";

echo "</table>";

becomes

PHP Code:


		
			
//

$output.="<table>";

$output.="<tr><td>....</td><td>....</td></tr>";

$output.="<tr><td>....</td><td>....</td></tr>";

$output.="<tr><td>....</td><td>....</td></tr>";

$output.="<tr><td>....</td><td>....</td></tr>";

$output.="</table>";

if you're going from existing source code to new, do a find and replace for "echo" and replace with "$output.=" (without quotes

)

Then, use a library like PHPMailer (see gw1500se's post) to build and send an HTML email (using the html that's in your $output variable);

If you really really really wanted to use echo then you'd want to wrap output buffers around the relevant echo statements and then collect the contents into a variable which you would then pass into PHPMailer to send an html email

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December 7th, 2012, 08:40 AM

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Northie

Exactly the same as if you were building it for a webpage but instead of echo, use variable concatenation,

eg

PHP Code:


		
			
//

echo "<table>";

echo "<tr><td>....</td><td>....</td></tr>";

echo "<tr><td>....</td><td>....</td></tr>";

echo "<tr><td>....</td><td>....</td></tr>";

echo "<tr><td>....</td><td>....</td></tr>";

echo "</table>";

becomes

PHP Code:


		
			
//

$output.="<table>";

$output.="<tr><td>....</td><td>....</td></tr>";

$output.="<tr><td>....</td><td>....</td></tr>";

$output.="<tr><td>....</td><td>....</td></tr>";

$output.="<tr><td>....</td><td>....</td></tr>";

$output.="</table>";

if you're going from existing source code to new, do a find and replace for "echo" and replace with "$output.=" (without quotes

Hi there

Thank you for pointing me in the right direction, i'm going to give it a go and see how i get on.

Thank you

Hudbarnett

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