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**njarrold** · 04-03-2005, 02:57 PM

Can anyone help. I've got a PHP script on a contact us page, and have an automated email saying thanks for your email, blah blah, what I want to do is to change the font, but I've tried and keep getting a message saying there's an error in the code, what I've got is this

$messagetosender="$Thank you for your enquiry \n\rWe will endeavour to respond to your request within 48 hours \n\r\n\rXXX";

Can anyone help with changing the font to COmic Sans?

**pitbull82** · 04-03-2005, 03:37 PM

Hmmm. Do you send it as text/html ? If so, add to your body attribute style="font-family: "Comic Sans;" and it should work. I have to admit that I haven't tried it but I'm almost sure that it'will work...

**leavethisplace** · 04-04-2005, 05:07 AM

Before sorting out your font size problem, let's sort out the code problem you have right there

Quote:

$messagetosender="$Thank you for your enquiry \n\rWe will endeavour to respond to your request within 48 hours \n\r\n\rXXX";

Why is there a $Thank at the beginning, $ should only be used to tell PHP that the single word attached is a variable - I doubt $Thank is a variable unless your English is poor.

Secondly, it's good practise when doing things like emails in php to split the lines, to tidy it up. Also, PHP is going to moan about the fact you have \n in there, so to get around this, all we have to simply do is escape them, notice the use of claiming the variable using '' not "":

PHP Code:


			
$messagetosender = 'Thank you for your enquiry ' . "\n\r" . 'We will 

endeavour to respond to your request within 

48 hours ' . "\n\r\n\r" . 'XXX';

I have no idea what the XXX bit at the end is for, but i assume you know

**njarrold** · 04-05-2005, 11:47 AM

Thanks but that didn't seem to work, just told me I had an error on line 2

I also tried to tidy up the code as per your suggestion and it kept telling me I had an error on line 34, so thanks but I left it as it was.

Still can't change the font, can anyone help?

**pitbull82** · 04-05-2005, 12:24 PM

Either you haven't read my reply or you haven't unserstood it or you simple have no idea about CSS/PHP/HTML...

But there you go - that's the code:

PHP Code:


			
<?php



    $sender='sender@somewhere.something';

    $name='Sender name';

    $recipient="somebody@somewhere.something";



    $x_mailer="PHP ".phpversion();

    $headers="MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";

    $headers.="Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8\r\n"; 

    $headers.="Return-Path: ".$sender."\r\n";    

    $headers.= "From: =?UTF-8?B?".base64_encode($name)."?= <".$sender."> \r\n";

    $headers.="Reply-To: ".$sender."\r\n";

    $headers.="X-Mailer: ".$x_mailer."\r\n";

    

    $content="<html><head></head><body style=\"font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 20px;\">";

    $content.="SAMPLE TEXT...";

    $content.="</body></html";

    

    $topic="=?UTF-8?B?".base64_encode("SAMPLE MAIL TOPIC")."?="; 

    

    mail($recipient,$topic,$content,$headers);

    

?>

Note, that in this sample code, the encoding is UTF, name of the font is "COMIC SANS MS" - I use Windows and there's no 'Comic Sans' font at all in the system. I've just written it and tested in Thunderbird - in the mail I've got, the text is written in 20px Comic Sans MS so it works.

Everything clear?