HTML and PHP in Settings Page. And Welcome Mail.

kcsteve · **Posted:** Fri Jan 19, 2007 5:00 am

two other questions:

1. i have tested the "join" function. i'm getting the infos in the database, but it's not sending the e-mails. i thought about it and couldn't remember giving it any pop user or password info, only to the database. how does it send e-mails?

2. in the settings area, can we use script other than in the thank you mail? I would like to display database information in other settings, like the thank you message.

3. can the thank you mail and the text in the thank you message page be made with HTML? I'd like to link in both of them.

4. do you have a suggestion for making the information that people send somewhat secure?

thanks!

kcsteve · **Posted:** Fri Jan 19, 2007 5:02 am

Forget the one about the mail not sending. I figured that one out. The rest, though. Thank you.

bylla · **Posted:** Fri Jan 19, 2007 4:09 pm

2. I'm not sure exactly what you mean, but you can't add any other information in the thank you email from the database other then the information already mentioned.

3. Hmmm, yes if you edit join.php a little bit hten it should work (I have never tested it). Find this code in join.php:

Code:

mail($useremail,"Your password",$message,$from);

Replace it with this code:

Code:

   $newmessage = "This is a multi-part message in MIME format.

------=_NextPart_000_004E_01C6871C.3855D0E0
Content-Type: text/plain;
   charset=\"iso-8859-1\"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable


------=_NextPart_000_004E_01C6871C.3855D0E0
Content-Type: text/html;
   charset=\"iso-8859-1\"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC \"-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN\">
<HTML><HEAD>
<META http-equiv=3DContent-Type content=3D\"text/html; =
charset=3Diso-8859-1\">
<META content=3D\"MSHTML 6.00.2900.2873\" name=3DGENERATOR>
<STYLE></STYLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY>$message";
   $newmessage .= "</BODY></HTML>\n\n------=_NextPart_000_004E_01C6871C.3855D0E0--";
mail($useremail,"Your password",$newmessage,"$from\nMIME-Version: 1.0\nContent-Type: multipart/alternative;\n   boundary=\"----=_NextPart_000_004E_01C6871C.3855D0E0\"");

Now you should be able to send HTML emails.

4. Exactly how do you mean.

/Andreas

kcsteve · **Posted:** Fri Jan 19, 2007 11:26 pm

2. in the settings area, can we use script other than in the thank you mail? I would like to display database information in other settings, like the thank you message.

bylla wrote:

2. I'm not sure exactly what you mean, but you can't add any other information in the thank you email from the database other then the information already mentioned.

-OK. for instance, i collect a few other variables on the join section. I would like to be able to draw from my database in the:

3. can the thank you mail and the text in the thank you message page be made with HTML? I'd like to link in both of them.

bylla wrote:

3. Hmmm, yes if you edit join.php a little bit hten it should work (I have never tested it). Find this code in join.php . . .Replace it with this code . . .

thank you thank you thank you. you rock.

4. do you have a suggestion for making the information that people send somewhat secure?

bylla wrote:

4. Exactly how do you mean.

i want to make sure that passwords are not sent through the mail naked. OK, when people are sending their information - their login, password, and other things that I ask for on the join page - is there a way to add any code that either gets the little "encrypted page" icon to flash on, or to at least have the same effect? perhaps third party code . . .

as always, thanks for the help.

bylla · **Posted:** Sat Jan 20, 2007 9:23 am

2. In the login, logout and invalid login pages you can't add any information from the database. In any of the password protected pages you can add any data you like. If you get the data fromthe user table (where usernames, emails, passwords etc are stored), then do like this to for example show the email address of the user:

Code:

<? echo mysql_result($user_info,0,"email"); ?>

If you need to show information from another table, then you first have to run the MySQL query:

Code:

<? $table_info = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM tablename WHERE 1");
echo mysql_result($table_info,0,"field name");
?> 

4. To do that you need a SSL certificate. You can get one or read more about that at eXavier.com. I suggest you ask your web host if they can install a SSL certificate for you if you get one.

A SSL certificate on your web hosting account will look like this: secure.xaviermedia.com

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