Sending emails from PHP using Gmail API
Question
I'm having trouble sending out HTML embedded emails from PHP with Gmail API.
Here's the code:
$raw_message .= "To:".$email['name']." <".$email['email'].">\r\n";
$raw_message .= 'Subject: =?utf-8?B?' .base64_encode($email_array['subject']) . "?=\r\n";
// Set the right MIME & Content type
$raw_message .= "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";
$raw_message .= "Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8\r\n";
$raw_message .= 'Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable' . "\r\n\r\n";
$mime = rtrim(strtr(base64_encode($raw_message), '+/', '-_'), '=');
$message = new Google_Service_Gmail_Message();
$message->setRaw($mime);
$template = $this->load->view('email/default_email_template', $email_template_array, true);
$raw_message .= $template;
$mime = rtrim(strtr(base64_encode($raw_message), '+/', '-_'), '=');
$message = new Google_Service_Gmail_Message();
$message->setRaw($mime);
$response = $service->users_messages->send($user, $message);
The email that I receive is just plain text.
Could use some help here.
Thanks in advance!
EDIT: Here's my template
<body style="height: 100% !important; margin: 0 !important; padding: 0 !important; width: 100% !important;margin: 0 !important; padding: 0 !important;">
<!-- HEADER -->
<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" style="border-collapse: collapse !important;">
<tr>
<td bgcolor="#fff" align="center">
<!--[if (gte mso 9)|(IE)]>
<table align="center" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="500">
<tr>
<td align="center" valign="top" width="500">
<![endif]-->
<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" style="border-collapse: collapse !important;max-width: 500px;width: 100% !important; max-width: 100% !important;">
<tr>
<td align="center" valign="top" style="padding: 15px 0;margin: 0 auto !important;" class="logo">
<a href="https://www.example.com" target="_blank">
<img alt="Logo" src="https://example.com/home/images/logo.png" width="90" height="90" style="border: 0; height: auto; line-height: 100%; outline: none; text-decoration: none; display: block; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: #ffffff; font-size: 16px;" border="0">
</a>
<span style="font-size: 40px; color: #000000;">mad</span><span style="font-size: 40px; color: #e18a07;">gigs</span>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
<!--[if (gte mso 9)|(IE)]>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
<![endif]-->
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td bgcolor="#ffffff" align="center" style="padding: 0px 15px 20px 15px;padding: 50px 15px 50px 15px !important;" class="section-padding">
<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="500" class="responsive-table" style="border-collapse: collapse !important;width: 100% !important;">
<tr>
<td>
<table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="border-collapse: collapse !important;">
<tr>
<td>
<!-- COPY -->
<table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="border-collapse: collapse !important;">
<tr>
<td align="center" style="font-size: 25px; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: #333333; padding-top: 30px;padding: 10px 5% 10px 5% !important;text-align: center" class="padding-copy">HI THERE</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="center" style="padding: 20px 0 0 0; font-size: 16px; line-height: 25px; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: #666666;padding: 10px 5% 10px 5% !important;text-align: center;" class="padding-copy">BODY OF THE EMAIL</td>
</tr>
</table>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td bgcolor="#ffffff" align="center" style="padding: 20px 0px;">
<!--[if (gte mso 9)|(IE)]>
<table align="center" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="500">
<tr>
<td align="center" valign="top" width="500">
<![endif]-->
<!-- UNSUBSCRIBE COPY -->
<table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" style="border-collapse: collapse !important; max-width: 500px;width: 100% !important;" class="responsive-table">
<tr>
</tr>
</table>
<!--[if (gte mso 9)|(IE)]>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
<![endif]-->
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td bgcolor="#DFE4E6" align="center" style="padding: 20px 0px;">
<!--[if (gte mso 9)|(IE)]>
<table align="center" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="500">
<tr>
<td align="center" valign="top" width="500">
<![endif]-->
<!-- UNSUBSCRIBE COPY -->
<table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" style="border-collapse: collapse !important;max-width: 500px;width: 100% !important;" class="responsive-table">
<tr>
<td align="center" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; color:#666666;">
</td>
</tr>
</table>
<!--[if (gte mso 9)|(IE)]>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
<![endif]-->
</td>
</tr>
2 answers
solution1
0 2017-01-11 12:41:17
You can try to check this tutorial on how to send a message using a PHP. You will learn here how to send HTML content inside an e-mail body, you can achieve this in many ways.
These two are the commonly used:
- Using inbuilt 'mail()' function of PHP.
- Using 'PHPMailer' library.
Just check the tutorial to learn the steps that you need and the sample code that serves as a guide for you.
For more information, check these threads:
solution2
0 2017-01-11 12:50:23
Use inline styles to design the email/default_email_template page. Don't use css classes. If you use classes, your design will be visible in outlook and other email service tools. But not in gmail. Because gmail adds pre-characters to CSS class names.
solution3
0 2017-01-11 18:19:06
After doing hours of research on this I finally figured it out. The charset in my raw message must be set to Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 & not utf-8 .
More on this topic here -
Stackoverflow answer on the difference between UTF-8 and ISO-8859-1
Original article from Wikipidea on ISO-8859-1
Now, my mails are going out with all the styles in tact. Checked in on different clients, & it works perfectly fine on all of them!
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