Website Builders Resource http://websitebuildersresource.com Your Web Development Source Mon, 25 Jan 2010 21:53:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 en hourly 1 WebsiteBuildersResourcehttp://feedburner.google.com Send HTML Email with PHP and mail() http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/WebsiteBuildersResource/~3/BCiaRYVUyTI/ http://websitebuildersresource.com/2010/01/25/send-html-email-with-php-and-mail/#comments Mon, 25 Jan 2010 21:52:39 +0000 builderadmin http://websitebuildersresource.com/?p=858 The PHP mail() function is great for sending plain text emails but it will not send HTML emails without special headers.

Here is a PHP mail() with HTML example:

$body_html = '
	<html>
		<head>
			<title>HTML Test Email</title>
			<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
		</head>
		<body>
			<p>
				This is a test.
			</p>
		</body>
	</html>
';

$from = 'sender@example.com';
$to = 'recipient@example.com';
$subject = 'HTML Test Email';
$headers = "From:$from\n" .
    "MIME-Version: 1.0\n" .
    "Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1";

mail($to, $subject, $body_html, $headers);

Demo

Demo Send HTML Email with PHP and mail()

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'BW' => 'Botswana', 'BV' => 'Bouvet Island', 'BR' => 'Brazil', 'IO' => 'British Indian Ocean Territory', 'VG' => 'British Virgin Islands', 'BN' => 'Brunei Darussalam', 'BG' => 'Bulgaria', 'BF' => 'Burkina Faso', 'BI' => 'Burundi', 'KH' => 'Cambodia', 'CM' => 'Cameroon', 'CA' => 'Canada', 'CV' => 'Cape Verde', 'KY' => 'Cayman Islands', 'CF' => 'Central African Republic', 'TD' => 'Chad', 'CL' => 'Chile', 'CN' => 'China', 'CX' => 'Christmas Island', 'CC' => 'Cocos (Keeling) Islands', 'CO' => 'Colombia', 'KM' => 'Comoros', 'CG' => 'Congo', 'CK' => 'Cook Islands', 'CR' => 'Costa Rica', 'CI' => 'Cote D\'ivoire', 'HR' => 'Croatia', 'CU' => 'Cuba', 'CY' => 'Cyprus', 'CZ' => 'Czech Republic', 'DK' => 'Denmark', 'DJ' => 'Djibouti', 'DM' => 'Dominica', 'DO' => 'Dominican Republic', 'TP' => 'East Timor', 'EC' => 'Ecuador', 'EG' => 'Egypt', 'SV' => 'El Salvador', 'GQ' => 'Equatorial Guinea', 'ER' => 'Eritrea', 'EE' => 'Estonia', 'ET' => 'Ethiopia', 'FK' => 'Falkland Islands (Malvinas)', 'FO' => 'Faroe Islands', 'FJ' => 'Fiji', 'FI' => 'Finland', 'FR' => 'France', 'GF' => 'French Guiana', 'PF' => 'French Polynesia', 'TF' => 'French Southern Territories', 'GA' => 'Gabon', 'GM' => 'Gambia', 'GE' => 'Georgia', 'DE' => 'Germany', 'GH' => 'Ghana', 'GI' => 'Gibraltar', 'GR' => 'Greece', 'GL' => 'Greenland', 'GD' => 'Grenada', 'GP' => 'Guadeloupe', 'GU' => 'Guam', 'GT' => 'Guatemala', 'GN' => 'Guinea', 'GW' => 'Guinea-Bissau', 'GY' => 'Guyana', 'HT' => 'Haiti', 'HM' => 'Heard and McDonald Islands', 'HN' => 'Honduras', 'HK' => 'Hong Kong', 'HU' => 'Hungary', 'IS' => 'Iceland', 'IN' => 'India', 'ID' => 'Indonesia', 'IQ' => 'Iraq', 'IE' => 'Ireland', 'IR' => 'Islamic Republic of Iran', 'IL' => 'Israel', 'IT' => 'Italy', 'JM' => 'Jamaica', 'JP' => 'Japan', 'JO' => 'Jordan', 'KZ' => 'Kazakhstan', 'KE' => 'Kenya', 'KI' => 'Kiribati', 'KP' => 'Korea', 'KR' => 'Korea, Republic of', 'KW' => 'Kuwait', 'KG' => 'Kyrgyzstan', 'LA' => 'Laos', 'LV' => 'Latvia', 'LB' => 'Lebanon', 'LS' => 'Lesotho', 'LR' => 'Liberia', 'LY' => 'Libyan Arab Jamahiriya', 'LI' => 'Liechtenstein', 'LT' => 'Lithuania', 'LU' => 'Luxembourg', 'MO' => 'Macau', 'MK' => 'Macedonia', 'MG' => 'Madagascar', 'MW' => 'Malawi', 'MY' => 'Malaysia', 'MV' => 'Maldives', 'ML' => 'Mali', 'MT' => 'Malta', 'MH' => 'Marshall Islands', 'MQ' => 'Martinique', 'MR' => 'Mauritania', 'MU' => 'Mauritius', 'YT' => 'Mayotte', 'MX' => 'Mexico', 'FM' => 'Micronesia', 'MD' => 'Moldova, Republic of', 'MC' => 'Monaco', 'MN' => 'Mongolia', 'MS' => 'Montserrat', 'MA' => 'Morocco', 'MZ' => 'Mozambique', 'MM' => 'Myanmar', 'NA' => 'Namibia', 'NR' => 'Nauru', 'NP' => 'Nepal', 'NL' => 'Netherlands', 'AN' => 'Netherlands Antilles', 'NC' => 'New Caledonia', 'NZ' => 'New Zealand', 'NI' => 'Nicaragua', 'NE' => 'Niger', 'NG' => 'Nigeria', 'NU' => 'Niue', 'NF' => 'Norfolk Island', 'MP' => 'Northern Mariana Islands', 'NO' => 'Norway', 'OM' => 'Oman', 'PK' => 'Pakistan', 'PW' => 'Palau', 'PA' => 'Panama', 'PG' => 'Papua New Guinea', 'PY' => 'Paraguay', 'PE' => 'Peru', 'PH' => 'Philippines', 'PN' => 'Pitcairn', 'PL' => 'Poland', 'PT' => 'Portugal', 'PR' => 'Puerto Rico', 'QA' => 'Qatar', 'RE' => 'Reunion', 'RO' => 'Romania', 'RU' => 'Russian Federation', 'RW' => 'Rwanda', 'LC' => 'Saint Lucia', 'WS' => 'Samoa', 'SM' => 'San Marino', 'ST' => 'Sao Tome and Principe', 'SA' => 'Saudi Arabia', 'SN' => 'Senegal', 'YU' => 'Serbia and Montenegro', 'SC' => 'Seychelles', 'SL' => 'Sierra Leone', 'SG' => 'Singapore', 'SK' => 'Slovakia', 'SI' => 'Slovenia', 'SB' => 'Solomon Islands', 'SO' => 'Somalia', 'ZA' => 'South Africa', 'ES' => 'Spain', 'LK' => 'Sri Lanka', 'SH' => 'St. Helena', 'KN' => 'St. Kitts and Nevis', 'PM' => 'St. Pierre and Miquelon', 'VC' => 'St. Vincent and the Grenadines', 'SD' => 'Sudan', 'SR' => 'Suriname', 'SJ' => 'Svalbard and Jan Mayen Islands', 'SZ' => 'Swaziland', 'SE' => 'Sweden', 'CH' => 'Switzerland', 'SY' => 'Syrian Arab Republic', 'TW' => 'Taiwan', 'TJ' => 'Tajikistan', 'TZ' => 'Tanzania, United Republic of', 'TH' => 'Thailand', 'TG' => 'Togo', 'TK' => 'Tokelau', 'TO' => 'Tonga', 'TT' => 'Trinidad and Tobago', 'TN' => 'Tunisia', 'TR' => 'Turkey', 'TM' => 'Turkmenistan', 'TC' => 'Turks and Caicos Islands', 'TV' => 'Tuvalu', 'UG' => 'Uganda', 'UA' => 'Ukraine', 'AE' => 'United Arab Emirates', 'GB' => 'United Kingdom (Great Britain)', 'US' => 'United States', 'VI' => 'United States Virgin Islands', 'UY' => 'Uruguay', 'UZ' => 'Uzbekistan', 'VU' => 'Vanuatu', 'VA' => 'Vatican City State', 'VE' => 'Venezuela', 'VN' => 'Vietnam', 'WF' => 'Wallis And Futuna Islands', 'EH' => 'Western Sahara', 'YE' => 'Yemen', 'ZR' => 'Zaire', 'ZM' => 'Zambia', 'ZW' => 'Zimbabwe' );

<select> Example

<form method="post" action="">
	<select name="country">
		<option></option>
		<?php
		foreach ($options as $key => $val)
		{
			?>
			<option value="<?php echo $key; ?>" <?php echo ($_POST['country'] == $key) ? 'selected=""' : ''; ?>><?php echo $val; ?></option>
			<?php
		}
		?>
	</select>
</form>

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Demo PHP Country Array

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This script calls ticker.php for the first item to set in the ticker <div> and also set the total count for the javascript to loop through then calls the appropriate indexed item from the $json array in ticker.php.

For the impatient:
Demo of the jQuery AJAX News Ticker

PHP: ticker.php

if ($_GET['r'] == 1)
{
    // Removing browser caching
    header( "Expires: Mon, 20 Dec 1998 01:00:00 GMT" );
    header( "Last-Modified: " . gmdate("D, d M Y H:i:s") . " GMT" );
    header( "Cache-Control: no-cache, must-revalidate" );
    header( "Pragma: no-cache" );
}

$json = array();

$json[] = array(
	'url' => '#1',
	'text' => 'First Item Text'
);

$json[] = array(
	'url' => '#2',
	'text' => 'Second Item Text'
);

$json[] = array(
	'url' => '#3',
	'text' => 'Third Item Text'
);

$json[] = array(
	'url' => '#4',
	'text' => 'Fourth Item Text'
);

if ($_GET['r'] == 1)
{
    echo json_encode(array($json[((int)$_GET['i'] - 1)]));
}

jQuery

<?php
// Call the ticker.php script to grab the first item and total items
require('ticker.php');
?>

var total = <?php echo count($json); ?>;
var current = 1;

$(document).ready(function(){
	setInterval("get_ticker()", 3000); // Change this to your specified need time, in milliseconds
});

function get_ticker()
{
	// Increment the counter
	if (current != total)
	{
		current  ;
	}
	else
	{
		current = 1;
	}

	// Get the data
	$.ajax({
		type: "GET",
		dataType: "json",
		cache: false,
		url: "ticker.php?i="   current   "&r=1",
		timeout: 2000,
		error: function() {
			alert("Failed to submit");
		},
		success: function(data) {
			$.each(data, function(i, j){
				$("#ticker-link").attr("href", j.url);
				$("#ticker-link").text(j.text);
			});
		}
	});
}

HTML

<div id="ticker">
	<!-- Display the first item -->
	<a href="<?php echo $json[0]['url']; ?>" id="ticker-link"><?php echo $json[0]['text']; ?></a>
</div>

Demo/Download

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Here is demo that might help explain:
jQuery Innerfade with Separate Link Region Demo

jQuery

Place this in your <head> section:

<script type="text/javascript" src="jquery.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="jquery.innerfade.js"></script>

<script type="text/javascript">
	$(document).ready(function(){
		$('#fade').innerfade({
			speed: 1000,
			timeout: 4000,
			type: 'sequence'
		});
	});
</script>

To change the HTML elements you need to apply the HREF to open jquery.innerfade.js and go to Line 79-84. You can comment out the debug text.

// Set the news link
var this_element = $(elements[current]);
var matches = /<a\s [^>]*href="([^"]*)"[^>]*>(.*)<\/a>/i.exec(this_element.html());
var url = matches[1];
$("a#news-link").attr("href", url);
$("div#news-link-debug").html("Debug Item HREF: " + url);

HTML

<ul id="fade">
	<li><a href="#1">Item 1</a></li>
	<li><a href="#2">Item 2</a></li>
	<li><a href="#3">Item 3</a></li>
	<li><a href="#4">Item 4</a></li>
</ul>

<div id="news-link"><a href="#1">Click Here</a></div>
<div id="news-link-debug"></div>

Demo/Download

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$xml = simplexml_load_string($curl_result, 'SimpleXMLElement', LIBXML_NOCDATA);

foreach ($xml->item as $f)
{
    echo $f->attributes()->id . '<br />';
}


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SimpleXML Default

Request

$url = 'http://www.devshed.com/rss-feeds-11.xml';

$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FAILONERROR, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 3); 

// Execute, close connection
$curl_result = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch); 

// Convert to SimpleXML
$xml = new SimpleXMLElement($curl_result);
print_r($xml);

Response

Notice that the <description> node is blank.

[0] => SimpleXMLElement Object
(
	[title] => Exception Handling in PHP
	[pubDate] => Mon, 04 Jan 2010 09:00:01 -0500
	[link] => http://www.devshed.com/c/a/PHP/Exception-Handling-in-PHP/?kc=rss
	[description] => SimpleXMLElement Object
		(
		)
	[guid] => http://www.devshed.com/c/a/PHP/Exception-Handling-in-PHP/?kc=rss
)

SimpleXML using simplexml_load_string

Request

$url = 'http://www.devshed.com/rss-feeds-11.xml';

$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FAILONERROR, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER,1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 3); 

// Execute, close connection
$curl_result = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch); 

$xml = simplexml_load_string($curl_result, 'SimpleXMLElement', LIBXML_NOCDATA);
print_r($xml);

Response

<description> is now filled in.

[0] => SimpleXMLElement Object
(
	[title] => Exception Handling in PHP
	[pubDate] => Mon, 04 Jan 2010 09:00:01 -0500
	[link] => http://www.devshed.com/c/a/PHP/Exception-Handling-in-PHP/?kc=rss
	[description] =>
In this second part of a two-part series on error and exception handling in PHP, we focus specifically on handling exceptions. This article is excerpted from chapter 8 of the book Beginning PHP and Oracle: From Novice to Professional, written by W. Jason Gilmore and Bob Bryla (Apress; ISBN: 1590597702).
-  Exception Handling
Languages such as Java, C#, and Python have long been heralded for their efficient error-management abilities, accomplished through the use of exception handling. If you have prior experience working with exception handlers, you likely scratch your head when working with any l...
	[guid] => http://www.devshed.com/c/a/PHP/Exception-Handling-in-PHP/?kc=rss
)

Demos

SimpleXML Default
SimpleXML using simplexml_load_string

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For those who have been here before I’m sure you noticed the new template. I am in the process of migrating from the Google Syntax Highlighter plugin to Chili so code in some posts needs to be reformatted.

Great content is on it’s way including a lot of custom Wordpress plugins, Wordpress tutorials, X-cart plugins, X-cart themes, PHP scripts, etc, etc.

Hope everyone has a great 2010!!!

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I know the basics about Wordpress, built a few blogs, created custom templates and even a few very simple plugins but I find it easier to grasp something new when someone else has written a book filled with real world examples. That is exactly what “How to be a ROCKSTAR WordPress Designer” is. The book covers a lot of ground from the basics to what else can WordPress be used for.

The concepts of blog design, how to move your design comps from Photoshop to HTML, explaining “the loop”, how to extend your template without writing a plugin, basic plugin building, splitting your template into multiple files, widgets and everything else you need to get from not knowing anything about building a WordPress theme to a ninja in no time.

My favorite part is the final chapter in the book that lists “Innovative Ways to Use WordPress“, and the items listed are truly innovative. The diversity of uses show just how powerful yet simple WordPress really is.

This book has answered a lot of questions I had when trying to sift through the WordPress API documentation and even a lot of online examples I had downloaded and reviewed. Collis Ta’eed and Harley Alexander have done an incredible job writing this book and I can’t wait to read the others available from the Rockable Press.

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Leon Brocard (Blog) and Jake Brumby (Mr Monkey) have done a great job consolidating some of the most important parts of the web site/web application creation process in an easy to read 85 page book. Everything from start to finish is included from planning, creating an outline, managing how to get the project completed, technologies to use, building the site, best practices and much more.

The book is to the point and does not include examples for every point covered but that’s not the point of the book. It’s to give you an idea of what you should be doing to ensure that your next web site project goes smoothly. Even the most seasoned web designer or web developer can benefit from this book and I recommend that you pick up a copy.

FYI

There is a spreadsheet version of the tick list at the end of the book available by request. Send an email to authors@tickmyboxes.com and request your copy. I have also been told that the authors are planning to create an online version of the checklist for book owners.

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Fill multiple selects with JSON data onchange

This example fills a second (or more) <select> HTML element with data from a JSON request. Useful in those situations where the selection of the previous <select> element determines what needs to go in the next <select> such as car manufacturers, makes, year, models, etc.

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Fill multiple selects with JSON data onchange and set the default for secondary <select> on post

This exmaple is similar to the above but by default the second <select> will lose it’s selected value after a POST. This example will remedy that problem.

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Set the default selected value for a <select> HTML element onload

This example will show how to set the default selected value on page load.

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