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January 16th, 2013, 02:26 AM
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How to send PHP email calendar request with HTML body
Hi there,
I am trying to send an email using PHP (in Wordpress) that is a calendar request. The calendar request arrives fine however the message body (which should be HTML) is blank.
Below is the code. Any help would be GREATLY appreciated.
Tania
Code:
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//$firstname is the first name of target
//$lastname is the last name of target
//$email is the targets email address
//$meeting_date is straight from a DATETIME mysql field and assumes UTC.
//$meeting_name is the name of your meeting
//$meeting_duration is the duration of your meeting in seconds (3600 = 1 hour)
//$message_body is the body of the message.
function sendIcalEmail($firstname,$lastname,$email,$subject,$meeting_date,$meeting_name,$meeting_duration,$me ssage_body,$attachments = "") {
$meetingstamp = STRTOTIME($meeting_date . " UTC");
$dtstart= GMDATE("Ymd\THis\Z",$meetingstamp);
$dtend= GMDATE("Ymd\THis\Z",$meetingstamp+$meeting_duration);
$todaystamp = GMDATE("Ymd\THis\Z");
$from_name = "My Company";
$from_address = "company@domain.com.au";
$meeting_description = $message_body."\n\n";
$meeting_location = "My Office"; //Where will your meeting take place
//Convert MYSQL datetime and construct iCal start, end and issue dates
$meetingstamp = STRTOTIME($meeting_date . " UTC");
$dtstart= GMDATE("Ymd\THis\Z",$meetingstamp);
$dtend= GMDATE("Ymd\THis\Z",$meetingstamp+$meeting_duration);
$todaystamp = GMDATE("Ymd\THis\Z");
//Create unique identifier
$cal_uid = DATE('Ymd').'T'.DATE('His')."-".RAND()."@quattrocatering.com.au";
//Create Mime Boundry
$mime_boundary = "----Meeting Booking----".MD5(TIME());
/*Setting the header part, this is important */
//Create Email Headers
$headers = "From: ".$from_name." <".$from_address.">\n";
$headers .= "Reply-To: ".$from_name." <".$from_address.">\n";
$headers .= "MIME-Version: 1.0\n";
$headers .= "Content-Type: text/calendar;\nmethod=REQUEST;\n";
$headers .= ' charset="UTF-8"';
$headers .= "\n";
$headers .= "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit";
//Create Email Body (HTML)
$message = "--$mime_boundary\r\n";
$message .= "Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8\n";
$message .= "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit\n\n";
$message .= "<html>\n";
$message .= "<body>\n";
$message .= '<p>Dear '.$to_name.',</p>';
$message .= '<p>'.$description.'</p>';
$message .= "</body>\n";
$message .= "</html>\n";
$message .= "--$mime_boundary\r\n";
//Create ICAL Content (Google rfc 2445 for details and examples of usage)
$ical = 'BEGIN:VCALENDAR
PRODID:-//Microsoft Corporation//Outlook 11.0 MIMEDIR//EN
VERSION:2.0
METHOD:REQUEST
BEGIN:VEVENT
STATUS:NEEDS ACTION
EXPECT: IMMEDIATE
ORGANIZER:MAILTO:'.$from_address.'
DTSTART:'.$dtstart.'
DTEND:'.$dtend.'
LOCATION:'.$meeting_location.'
TRANSP:OPAQUE
SEQUENCE:0
UID:'.$cal_uid.'
DTSTAMP:'.$todaystamp.'
DESCRIPTION:'.$meeting_description.'
SUMMARY:'.$subject.'
PRIORITY:5
X-MICROSOFT-CDO-IMPORTANCE:1
CLASS:PUBLIC
BEGIN:VALARM
TRIGGER:-PT3D
ACTION:DISPLAY
DESCRIPTION:Reminder
END:VALARM
BEGIN:VTIMEZONE
TZID:US/Central
END:VTIMEZONE
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR';
$message .= 'Content-Type: text/calendar;name="meeting.ics";method=REQUEST\n';
$message .= "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit\n\n";
$message .= $ical;
//SEND MAIL
ob_start();
wp_mail( $email, $subject, $message, $headers, $attachments );
ob_end_clean();
}
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January 16th, 2013, 04:41 AM
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pollyanna
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Join Date: Jul 2012
Location: Germany
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Hi,
I don't know the exact standards for mails, but this looks pretty broken. There is no boundary definition in the Content-Type header, the new lines are a wild mixture of \r\n and \n (\r\n is the correct one), and the random whitespace between the headers also looks weird.
It might be a good idea to completely throw away this lowlevel stuff and use a mailer library like phpmailer. Only use mail() if you really know what you're doing.
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February 8th, 2013, 03:08 AM
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Quote: | Originally Posted by wattsyourweb Hi there,
I am trying to send an email using PHP (in Wordpress) that is a calendar request. The calendar request arrives fine however the message body (which should be HTML) is blank.
Below is the code. Any help would be GREATLY appreciated.
Tania
Code:
-------------------------------------
//$firstname is the first name of target
//$lastname is the last name of target
//$email is the targets email address
//$meeting_date is straight from a DATETIME mysql field and assumes UTC.
//$meeting_name is the name of your meeting
//$meeting_duration is the duration of your meeting in seconds (3600 = 1 hour)
//$message_body is the body of the message.
function sendIcalEmail($firstname,$lastname,$email,$subject,$meeting_date,$meeting_name,$meeting_duration,$me ssage_body,$attachments = "") {
$meetingstamp = STRTOTIME($meeting_date . " UTC");
$dtstart= GMDATE("Ymd\THis\Z",$meetingstamp);
$dtend= GMDATE("Ymd\THis\Z",$meetingstamp+$meeting_duration);
$todaystamp = GMDATE("Ymd\THis\Z");
$from_name = "My Company";
$from_address = "company@domain.com.au";
$meeting_description = $message_body."\n\n";
$meeting_location = "My Office"; //Where will your meeting take place
//Convert MYSQL datetime and construct iCal start, end and issue dates
$meetingstamp = STRTOTIME($meeting_date . " UTC");
$dtstart= GMDATE("Ymd\THis\Z",$meetingstamp);
$dtend= GMDATE("Ymd\THis\Z",$meetingstamp+$meeting_duration);
$todaystamp = GMDATE("Ymd\THis\Z");
//Create unique identifier
$cal_uid = DATE('Ymd').'T'.DATE('His')."-".RAND()."@quattrocatering.com.au";
//Create Mime Boundry
$mime_boundary = "----Meeting Booking----".MD5(TIME());
/*Setting the header part, this is important */
//Create Email Headers
$headers = "From: ".$from_name." <".$from_address.">\n";
$headers .= "Reply-To: ".$from_name." <".$from_address.">\n";
$headers .= "MIME-Version: 1.0\n";
$headers .= "Content-Type: text/calendar;\nmethod=REQUEST;\n";
$headers .= ' charset="UTF-8"';
$headers .= "\n";
$headers .= "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit";
//Create Email Body (HTML)
$message = "--$mime_boundary\r\n";
$message .= "Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8\n";
$message .= "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit\n\n";
$message .= "<html>\n";
$message .= "<body>\n";
$message .= '<p>Dear '.$to_name.',</p>';
$message .= '<p>'.$description.'</p>';
$message .= "</body>\n";
$message .= "</html>\n";
$message .= "--$mime_boundary\r\n";
//Create ICAL Content (Google rfc 2445 for details and examples of usage)
$ical = 'BEGIN:VCALENDAR
PRODID:-//Microsoft Corporation//Outlook 11.0 MIMEDIR//EN
VERSION:2.0
METHOD:REQUEST
BEGIN:VEVENT
STATUS:NEEDS ACTION
EXPECT: IMMEDIATE
ORGANIZER:MAILTO:'.$from_address.'
DTSTART:'.$dtstart.'
DTEND:'.$dtend.'
LOCATION:'.$meeting_location.'
TRANSP:OPAQUE
SEQUENCE:0
UID:'.$cal_uid.'
DTSTAMP:'.$todaystamp.'
DESCRIPTION:'.$meeting_description.'
SUMMARY:'.$subject.'
PRIORITY:5
X-MICROSOFT-CDO-IMPORTANCE:1
CLASS:PUBLIC
BEGIN:VALARM
TRIGGER:-PT3D
ACTION:DISPLAY
DESCRIPTION:Reminder
END:VALARM
BEGIN:VTIMEZONE
TZID:US/Central
END:VTIMEZONE
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR';
$message .= 'Content-Type: text/calendar;name="meeting.ics";method=REQUEST\n';
$message .= "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit\n\n";
$message .= $ical;
//SEND MAIL
ob_start();
wp_mail( $email, $subject, $message, $headers, $attachments );
ob_end_clean();
}
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Code:
$message = "BEGIN:VCALENDAR\r\n";
$message .= "VERSION:2.0\r\n";
$message .= "CALSCALE:GREGORIAN\r\n";
$message .= "METHOD:REQUEST\r\n";
$message .= "BEGIN:VEVENT\r\n";
$message .= "STATUS:CONFIRMED\r\n";
$message .= "DTSTART:".$dates."T".$dstart."\r\n";
$message .= "DTEND:".$dates."T".$dend."\r\n";
$message .= "ORGANIZER;RSVP=TRUE;CN=\"".$toName[0]->name."\":mailto:".$from."\r\n";
$message .= "UID:".$inid."\r\n";
$message .= 'X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN">\n<HTML>\n<HEAD>\n<META NAME="Generator" CONTENT="MS Exchange Server version 08.01.0240.003">\n<TITLE></TITLE>\n</HEAD>\n<BODY>\n'.$description.'</BODY>\n</HTML>'."\r\n";
$message .= "ATTENDEE;PARTSTAT=NEEDS-ACTION;RSVP= TRUE;CN=recipient:".$result[0]->email."\r\n";
$message .= "LOCATION:room1\r\n";
$message .= "TRANSP:OPAQUE\r\n";
$message .= "SEQUENCE:".++$seq."\r\n";
$message .= "DESCRIPTION:\r\n";
$message .= "SUMMARY:".$subject."\r\n";
$message .= "ACTION:DISPLAY\r\n";
$message .= "END:VEVENT\r\n";
$message .= "END:VCALENDAR\r\n";
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