PHP - Sending Html E-mails Generated In Php Through Thunderbird/evolution

Hello I am working on php website. Now here im working on sending orders. So once it is ordered the confirmation e-mail goes to one who ordered(he enters his e-mail id manually) and the head of the department(e-mail ids written in code).
But now I have put a checkbox that if the person is head of the department he checks the checkbox and e-mail should be sent to him. So how to verify this by checkbox.Can anyone please help me with this. The person should not get 2 e-mails.
I hope I was clear in explaining my doubt. If not please do ask me for more explanation.
Thank you.

I have this script that sends an E-mail to my custoemr when an account is created and does a Bcc to me. Every email gets sent once, then about 2 min later another one is sent. So both the customer and myself get 2 emails. I did a test and just after the mail() function i write to a text file. What is odd is that it logs the sent mail 2 times. So somehow it is going through it a second time. The time difference between the first and the second seem to usually be about 2-3 min.

For exampel this was only sent one time. My guess is there has to be something wrong with my headers, but i have been over them many times and tried different configurations.
 
To: ben@....com
Time 05/12/2011 12:18:30 am

To: ben@...com
Time 05/12/2011 12:21:09 am

Code: [Select]
<?php 


$db_con = mysql_pconnect($hostname, $username, $password) or trigger_error(mysql_error(),E_USER_ERROR); 
mysql_select_db($database, $db_con);

if((isset($_POST['password'])) && ($_POST['password'] == 'mandb108' )) {

  $install_date = date("Y-m-d");
$end = mktime(0, 0, 0, date("m"), date("d"), date("y")+1);
$end_date = date("Y-m-d", $end); 

$folder = $_POST['folder'];
$school_db = $_POST['school_db'];
$school_name = $_POST['school_name'];

// Check to see if school, db or folder exists
if (mysql_num_rows(mysql_query("Select * FROM $select_table WHERE `school_name` = '$school_name'"))) { 
$message = 'School Name Already Exists in Database'; 
} elseif (mysql_num_rows(mysql_query("Select * FROM $select_table WHERE `school_db` = '$school_db'"))) {
$message = 'Database Already Exists';
} elseif (mysql_num_rows(mysql_query("Select * FROM $select_table WHERE `school_folder` = '$folder'"))) {
$message = 'School Folder Already Exists';
} else {



////////////////////id, school, db, folder, install, renew, end, contact, email, job, notes  
$insertSQL = sprintf("INSERT INTO $select_table VALUES (null, %s, %s, %s, %s, '$install_date', null, '$end_date', %s, %s, null, null)",

GetSQLValueString($_POST['school_state'], "text"),
GetSQLValueString($_POST['school_name'], "text"),
GetSQLValueString($_POST['school_db'], "text"),
GetSQLValueString($_POST['folder'], "text"),
GetSQLValueString($_POST['contact'], "text"),
GetSQLValueString($_POST['email'], "text"));

mysql_select_db($database, $db_con);

if($Result1 = mysql_query($insertSQL, $db_con) or die(mysql_error())) {
$message = 'Added to Database - Successful<br>';
} else { 
$message = 'Added to Database - Failed<br>';
}

// Funcatiobn to copy sampel folder to new directory for school
full_copy("01_sample","$folder");

// Echo results
$message .= 'Install Date - '.$install_date;
$message .= '<br>';
$message .= 'Expire Date - '.$end_date.'<br>';
$message .= 'Copy of Folder - Successful<br>';
$message .= '<br><br>School - ';
$message .= $_POST['school_name'];
$message .= '<br>Database - ';
$message .= $_POST['school_db']; 
$message .= '<br>Folder - ';
$message .= $_POST['folder']; 
$message .= '<br>Contact - ';
$message .= $_POST['contact']; 
$message .= '<br>Email - ';
$message .= $_POST['email'];

// Write to school_info file 
$open = fopen ("$folder/school_info.php", "at");
fwrite($open, "<?php\n$".$old);
fwrite($open, "school_folder = '$folder';\n$".$old);
fwrite($open, "school_db = '$school_db';\n$".$old);
fwrite($open, "database = $".$old);
fwrite($open, "school_db;\n?>".$old);
fclose($open);


// Link to create a database on voting site
$message .= '<br><a href="http://www.anaheimartscouncil.com:2082/frontend/x3/sql/index.html" target="_blank">Cpanel</a><br>';

// link to setup Database tables on new site
$message .= '<br><a href="'.$folder.'/index.php?install=yes&school='.$school_name.'" target="_blank">Database Setup</a><br>';
// link to send email to client
$message .= '<br><a href="web_install.php?email=yes&school_db='.$school_db.'">Send E-mail</a><br><br>';


}// end if school name, databae or folder already exists

} elseif ((isset($_GET['email'])) && ($_GET['email'] == 'yes')) {

$school_db = $_GET['school_db'];
$results = mysql_query("select * from tbl_schools_vote WHERE school_db = '$school_db' LIMIT 1");
// removed the while loop to get rid of duplicate emails.
//while($row = mysql_fetch_array($results)){
$row = mysql_fetch_array($results);
$school_contact = $row['school_contact'];
$school_folder = $row['school_folder'];
$school_contact_email = $row['school_contact_email'];

//} // end while loop


$email_message = 'Dear ';
$email_message .= $school_contact;
$email_message .= ',<br>';


$subject = "Voting 4 Schools - Account Activated";
$email_message .= 'Your Voting 4 Schools account has been setup. Below is all the information that you should need to get started.<br><br>
Here is a link to your voting site. <a href="http://www.voting4schools.com/'.$school_folder.'">www.voting4schools.com/'.$school_folder.'</a><br><br>At the bottom of the page you will find an admin link. The user name and password are as follows<br><br>User Name: admin<br>Password: vote<br><br>When you log in please go to the control panel and create a new admin user and delete the default one that we have assigned you. At the top of the page you will find a link that says video tutorial. If you are unsure how to use the software, this is a great place to start. If you have any questions, or need help setting it up, please let us know.<br><br>Thank You,<br>Ben Star<br><br>Software 4 Schools<br>(866)757-7226<br><a href="http://www.software4schools.com">www.software4schools.com</a>';

// website link here
//$to = $school_contact_email.', support@software4schools.com';
$to = $school_contact_email;
//$email = 'support@software4schools.com';
//$headers = "To: ".$school_contact_email."\r\n";
//$headers .= "From: Software 4 Schools <support@software4schools.com>" . "\r\n";
//$headers .= "Bcc: Software 4 Schools <support@software4schools.com>" . "\r\n";
//$headers .= "MIME-Version: 1.0" . "\r\n";
//$headers .= "Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" . "\r\n";

$headers = 'From: michael@anaheimartscouncil.com' . "\r\n" .
'Reply-To: anaheimartscouncil.com' . "\r\n" .
'Bcc: ben@software4schools.com' . "\r\n" .
'Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1';
//. "\r\n";
//. 'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion();



if (mail($to, $subject, $email_message, $headers)) {
$date = date('m/d/Y h:i:s a', time());
$myFile = "mail.txt";
$fh = fopen($myFile, 'a') or die("can't open file");
$stringData = "To: ". $to."\n";
fwrite($fh, $stringData);
$stringData = "Time ". $date."\n\n";
fwrite($fh, $stringData);
fclose($fh);


$message = 'E-mail was sent once';
}else {
$message = 'Problem sending message';
}


} elseif ((isset($_POST['password'])) && ($_POST['password'] != 'mandb108' )) {

$message = 'Password is incorrect';
$folder = $_POST['folder'];
$school_db = $_POST['school_db'];
$school = $_POST['school'];
$contact = $_POST['contact'];
$email = $_POST['email'];


} else {
// not sure what to do here yet...


} // end if password isset from post
if (!isset($_POST['school_db'])) {
$school_db = 'voting_';
}
?>

I've been using something like this to send email messages to users on a site:

                $to = $email;
                $subject = "Message From Microsoft.com\r\n"; 
                $headers = "From: support@Microsoft.com\r\n"; 
                $headers .= "Return-Path: support@Microsoft.com\r\n";
                $headers .= "Reply-To: support@Microsoft.com\r\n"; 
           
                $message = "<html><body><img src='http://www.Microsoft.com/images/logo.png' /><br /><br />You have a message from Bill:<br /><br />";
                $message .= '<img src="' . $image . '" /><br /><br />';
                $message .= 'Isn't it pretty?.<br /><br />';
                $message .= '<a href="http://www.Microsoft.com">Microsoft.com</a></body></html>';
           
                mail($to,$subject,$message,$headers);

This sends, literally, text like this:

<html><body><img src='http://www.Microsoft.com/images/logo.png' /><br /><br />You have a message from Bill:<br /><br /><img src="http://www.Microsoft.com/images/billiam.jpg" /><br /><br />Isn't it pretty?.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.Microsoft.com">Microsoft.com</a></body></html>

Obviously, I would like the email to hide the HTML, but use it to format the output.  Also, I'd obviously like the image to show up, not a link to the image, and I would like the link to show up as a link, not as HTML.

How do I do this?  Cheers.

I have a form on my website that currently uses the mail() function to send the information it collects and all works fine. I want to switch it over to open the email in Thunderbird on the user's machine so they can view it prior to sending. This should be much less complicated but I can't find answers anywhere, all I want to do is just open the email in the user's email client with the proper information/attachments included. Anyone? Thanks!

Howdy - good evening dear PHP-Friends,

i am new  to programming.  I have a couple of (hundred) adress( and data ) lines that look like the following:


{'url': 'http://Url.org/~dilbert/', 'cname': 'dibert_1', 'name': 'Dilbert_1', 'email': 'dilbert_1@ncf.ca'}
{'url': 'http://Url.org/~dilbertwo/', 'cname': 'dilbert_2', 'name': 'Dilbert_2', 'email': 'dilbert_2@hotmail.com'}
{'url': 'http://Url.org/~dilberthree/', 'cname': 'dilbert_3', 'name': ' Dilbert_3', 'email': 'dilbert_3@gmail.com'}

and so forth....

Well  - i want to put the data into the Thnderbird-Adressbook: But the adressbook does not take the data in this format. So what can i do with the data-set. How  to Manipulate!?


Note: At least a name and a E-Mail-Adress is needed. Nothing more - but - a Mail - Adress is pretty important.

i look forward to hear from you

if you have any further questions - jus t lemme know!