[hudbarnett]

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?

$message = 'Name: '.$name.' 
Email: '.$mailFrom.' 
Telephone: '.$telephone.' 
Address: '.$address.' 
Message: '.$message_text; 

Thanks

Hudbarnett

[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.

[hudbarnett]

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.

Hudbarnett

[Northie]

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

//
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

//
$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

[hudbarnett]

Originally Posted by Northie

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

eg

//
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

//
$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

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