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email sending function with email address validator.
sends HTML email, so you can style your email message with inline styles and everything you can do to a webpage.

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<?php

/*------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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|                             PHParadise source code
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|-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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| file:             send email
| category:         communication
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| last modified:    Mon, 20 Jun 2005 16:40:24 GMT
| downloaded:       Wed, 08 Sep 2010 01:24:40 GMT as copy from textarea
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| code URL:
| http://phparadise.de/php-code/communication/send-email/
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| description:
| email sending function with email address validator. sends HTML email, so you
| can style your email message with inline styles and everything you can do to a
| webpage.
|
------------------------------------------------------------------------------*/

// checks the syntax of the emailaddress
function check_email($emaildddress)
{
	$goodchars = '^[A-Za-z0-9\._-]+@([A-Za-z][A-Za-z0-9-]{1,62})(\.[A-Za-z][A-Za-z0-9-]{1,62})+$';

$isvalid = true;
	if(!ereg($goodchars,$emaildddress))
	{
		$isvalid = false;
	}
	return $isvalid;
} 
 
// sends the HTML email 
function html_email($recipient,$subject,$message,$from,$replyto)
{ 
	$array = array("\'" => "'");     
	$message = strtr($message, $array);   
	$message = '<html><body>'.$message.'</body></html>'."\r\n\r\n";
	$extra = 'From: '.$from.' <'.$replyto.'>'."\r\n";
	$extra .= 'Content-Type: text/html; charset="ISO-8859-1"'."\r\n";
	$extra .= 'Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable'."\n\r\n";
	mail($recipient, $subject, $message, $extra);
}
 
// use like this
// specify the address the mail will be sent from
$mail_sender = 'sender@example.com';
// specify the name of the sender
$mail_sender_name = 'example sender';
// specify the recipient email address
$mail_recipient = 'recipient@example.com';
// specify the subject of the email (no HTML here!)
$mail_subject = 'HTML email test';
// the body of the email - you can use HTML here
$mail_body = '
<h1 style="color: red;">Hello there</h1>
<p>this email should be styled HTML...</p>';

// if email addresses are valid
if(check_email($mail_recipient) && check_email($mail_sender))
{
	// send HTML mail with PHP
	html_email($mail_recipient,$mail_subject,$mail_body,$mail_sender_name,$mail_sender);
	echo '
	<p>the email &quot;'.$mail_subject.'&quot; was successfully sent to '.$mail_recipient.'</p>';
}else{
	echo '
	<p>invalid email address - email was not sent</p>';
}
 
?>

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