Multi-Part E-mail Message Error

[brendan3eb]

I followed a tutorial and attempted to send a multi-part message out to my members e-mail addresses which are kept in a database, however everyone on the list just receives a blank e-mail with an attachment. If anyone could direct me to the problem with my code, I'd be very happy. Here is my codE:

$semi_rand = md5(time());
$mime_boundary = "==Multipart_Boundary_x{$semi_rand}x";
$message = "
This is a multi-part message in MIME format.\n\n
--$mime_boundary \n
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=\"iso-8859-1\"\n
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit\n\n
$textnewsletter
\n\n
This is a multi-part message in MIME format.\n\n
--$mim_boundary \n
Content-Type: text/html; charset=\"iso-8859-1\"\n
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit \n\n
$htmlnewsletter";
mail("$row[email]", $subject, "", "From: Shurtugal <[e-mail]>;\n".
"MIME-Version: 1.0\n".
"Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=\"$mime_boundary\"");

[Sarah Atkinson]

You might try PHPList [tincan.co.uk] for sending out e-mails. Why reinvent the wheel right?
Sarah

[jatar_k]

mail("$row[email]", $subject, "", "From: Shurtugal <[e-mail]>;\n".

ummm,

bool mail ( string to, string subject, string message [, string additional_headers [, string additional_parameters]] )

your third param is empty, therefore, no message ;)

[brendan3eb]

ahh...im such an idiot, I spent so much time looking at the php manual trying to figure out if I'm using invalid syntax or something like that and didn't notice that simple little thing :)

edit: i put the message in, but now I get an attachment with the message appearing as

This is a multi-part message in MIME format.

--==Multipart_Boundary_x1d10f686146a85a8ec8f176c802406e0x

Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"

Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

test

This is a multi-part message in MIME format.

--

Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1"

Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

<b>test</b>

I just changed it so I'm still trying a few things out, but if any of you guys have a clue on what to change let me know :)

[edited by: brendan3eb at 6:50 pm (utc) on June 28, 2005]

[jatar_k]

that's why we post, sometimes it's just the benefit of an extra pair of eyes that haven't gone cross eyed lookin at the same code for hours (or days) ;)