[Forum] How can I send HTML email by admincp

[Abdulla Ashoor]

hello,

is there are ways to send HTML emails by admincp? and how can accomplish this

regards

[Abdulla Ashoor]

ok I got it

solved

[MarylandMommy]

Can you share what you did, so that others reading or searching have the answer?

[Abdulla Ashoor]

Can you share what you did, so that others reading or searching have the answer?

yes of course. but I don't know if there are security issues assosiated with this or not

edit file forumdir/includes/class_mail.php

find:

text/plain 

replace with:

text/html 

I think this can be achieved with plugins using "mail_send" hook to replace the $headers
and make it more saftly when you are using this for specific users

[Zachery]

That won't take care of some other issues, if it was really that easy we'd just do it.

[wynode]

That won't take care of some other issues, if it was really that easy we'd just do it.

What's the reason that HTML email isn't allowed still ?

[David Copeland]

yes of course. but I don't know if there are security issues assosiated with this or not

edit file forumdir/includes/class_mail.php

find:

text/plain 

replace with:

text/html 

I think this can be achieved with plugins using "mail_send" hook to replace the $headers
and make it more saftly when you are using this for specific users

Will this work with Ver 4.2 ?

[Panthro]

What's the reason that HTML email isn't allowed still ?

The problem with this is that all other emails will just stop working.

as you're sending all your emails with text/htmls emails that are plain text and don't have like, a <br > for line break WON'T show up as it was supposed to do with normal CR line breaks.

You'd need to change ALL your email templates to have like the <br> in place...I know because I did that for phpbb and it was a mess...

The problem with vbulletin is that it's harder to update a bunch of email templates....as they're all phrases.

[Abdulla Ashoor]

Try this. Create a new plugin and add the following then save.

Hook Location: mail_send
Title: Auto HTML Emails

PHP Code:

if(strlen($message) != strlen(strip_tags($message)))
{
    $headers = str_replace('Content-Type: text/plain', 'Content-Type: text/html', $headers);
} 

Plugin Active: Yes


Note: use at your own risk. We do not provide support for third party addons including my suggestion.

[LEARNER29]

Try this. Create a new plugin and add the following then save.

Hook Location: mail_send
Title: Auto HTML Emails

PHP Code:

if(strlen($message) != strlen(strip_tags($message)))
{
$headers = str_replace('Content-Type: text/plain', 'Content-Type: text/html', $headers);
} 

Plugin Active: Yes


Note: use at your own risk. We do not provide support for third party addons including my suggestion.

this is EXACTLY what this mod does

[Mark.B]

This thread is six years old, no need to bump it up.