PHP html email not sending

Question

my php email script doesn't seem to be sending but I can't see why. Also I understand that there are certain security flaws with my script, any advice with that is much appreciated!

thank you

  <?php

include('config.php');

$email1 = $_POST['email1'];

$id = $_POST['id'];
$fname = $_POST['fname'];
$firstname = $_POST['firstname'];
$surname = $_POST['surname'];


$to = '$email1';
$from = "$email"; 
    $subject = "SC - You Have a Reply"; 

        $body = "<html> 
  <body bgcolor=\"#FFFFFF\"> 
    <center> 
        <b>Dear $firstname</b> <br> 
        <font color=\"red\">You have a response, regarding your Ad on StudentClutter!</font> <br>
         <p> --------------------------------------------------------- </p>
         <b> $fname </b>
         <p> --------------------------------------------------------- </p>
         <p> ".stripslashes($_POST['body'])." </p>
         <br>
         <br>
         <br>
         <p> You can reply to them by email: $emailadd </p>
         <br>
         <br>
         <br>
         <p>Thank you for using studentclutter.com </p>
         <p> -- The Student Clutter Team </p>
    </center> 
  </body> 
</html>";

    // To send the HTML mail we need to set the Content-type header. 
    $headers = "MIME-Version: 1.0rn"; 
    $headers .= "Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1rn"; 
    $headers  .= "From: $from\r\n"; 

    // now lets send the email. 
    mail($to, $subject, $body, $headers); 

    echo "Message has been sent!"; 

 ?>

Answer 1

You are using single quotes around $email1 , these are not necessary. Remove the quotes and it should work just fine.

Like this

$to = $email1;

I would advise you to check out the PHPMailer class, this class offers a whole range of features, along with security. It is very easy to use, just read through the documentation.

UPDATE

You have not escaped the return and new line special characters at the end of some of the headers. Change the end of the lines to look like this:

\r\n";

PHP html email not sending

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solution1
1 ACCPTED 2012-12-17 22:19:19

PHP html email not sending

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1 answers

solution1 1 ACCPTED 2012-12-17 22:19:19

solution1
1 ACCPTED 2012-12-17 22:19:19