Email Form Issues

Hi,

I have an email script which at the minute sends the email with no formatting.

It gets every variable from the form and sends it through.

Here is the code:

<?php
$my_email = "email";

//  Initialise variables

$errors = array();

if($_SERVER['REQUEST_METHOD'] == "POST"){$form_input = $_POST;}elseif($_SERVER['REQUEST_METHOD'] == "GET"){$form_input = $_GET;}else{exit;}

// Remove leading whitespace from all values.

function recursive_array_check(&$element_value)
{

if(!is_array($element_value)){$element_value = ltrim($element_value);}
else
{

foreach($element_value as $key => $value){$element_value[$key] = recursive_array_check($value);}

}

return $element_value;

}

recursive_array_check($form_input);

// Check referrer is from same site.

if(!(isset($_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER']) && !empty($_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER']) && stristr($_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'],$_SERVER['HTTP_HOST']))){$errors[] = "You must enable referrer logging to use the form";}

// Check for a blank form.

function recursive_array_check_blank($element_value)
{

global $set;

if(!is_array($element_value)){if(!empty($element_value)){$set = 1;}}
else
{

foreach($element_value as $value){if($set){break;} recursive_array_check_blank($value);}

}

}

recursive_array_check_blank($form_input);

if(!$set){$errors[] = "You cannot send a blank form";}

// Strip HTML tags from all fields.

function recursive_array_check2(&$element_value)
{

if(!is_array($element_value)){$element_value = strip_tags($element_value);}
else
{

foreach($element_value as $key => $value){$element_value[$key] = recursive_array_check2($value);}

}

return $element_value;

}

recursive_array_check2($form_input);

// Validate name field.

if(isset($form_input['name']) && !empty($form_input['name']))
{

if(preg_match("`[\r\n]`",$form_input['name'])){$errors[] = "You have submitted an invalid new line character";}

if(preg_match("/[^a-z' -]/i",stripslashes($form_input['name']))){$errors[] = "You have submitted an invalid character in the name field";}

}

// Validate email field.

if(isset($form_input['email']) && !empty($form_input['email']))
{

if(preg_match("`[\r\n]`",$form_input['email'])){$errors[] = "You have submitted an invalid new line character";}


}

// Display any errors and exit if errors exist.

if(count($errors)){foreach($errors as $value){print "$value<br>";} exit;}

// Build message.

function build_message($request_input){if(!isset($message_output)){$message_output ="";}if(!is_array($request_input)){$message_output = $request_input;}else{foreach($request_input as $key => $value){if(!empty($value)){if(!is_numeric($key)){$message_output .= "\n".$key.": ".build_message($value);}else{$message_output .= "\n".build_message($value);}}}}return $message_output;}

$message = build_message($form_input);

$message = $message . "\n\n-- \n Email sent from Website";

$message = stripslashes($message);

$subject = "Referral Form";

$headers = "From: " . $form_input['email'] . "\n" . "Return-Path: " . $form_input['email'] . "\n" . "Reply-To: " . $form_input['email'] . "\n";

mail($my_email,$subject,$message,$headers);

?>

PHP:

My question is how do I go about formatting what the email will look like?

Thanks

 

Do you want to send HTML messages?

 

Yes, basically I want the emails to look nice and formatted when they go through to the recipient.

 

Example 1117 of the php manual:
Sending HTML email

 

if you are not using template, have you tried heredoc ?

$message = <<<MAIL
here you make a
template design with all the variable needed


MAIL;

then you send it with simple mail() ;

 

you can send in html via inbox phpmmailer download here