Editor

Hi,

I had my website re-designed recently. The folks who did it did not do a great job. I have some knowledge of html code, but I am not an expert. Here is my problem.

On my website I have a newsletter function. I can create a newsletter using the admin section of my site. The newsletter is created using the FCKEditor, the editor works great. The only problem I am having is that when I send out the newsletter, the source code is displayed along with the contents. I want to display the contents without the source code. Here is an example of what I mean:

The editor sends a newsletter to the subscriber that looks like this:

<Font="arial" color="fff000" size="3">Thank you for subscribing to my newletter.
 
etc.

It should like this:

Thank you for subscribing to my newsletter.

How do I fix this? I can get into the source code. The newsletter function is a php page. All I need to know is what I need to change in the code to eliminate the html source from being displayed in conjunction with the message in the newsletter.

Thank you for your time.

Thu, 07/05/2007 - 02:16

kaeverens

Joined: 08/02/2007

Posts: 126

RE: Editor

That's not a problem caused by the editor. The problem appears to be that your email is not sending with the correct Content-type. If you view the source of the email, somewhere in the top part (the headers), you will probably find "Content-type: text/plain", where it should be more like "Content-type: text/html; Charset=utf8"

Thu, 07/05/2007 - 02:59

hansolorrt

Joined: 05/07/2007

Posts: 2

RE: Editor

Kae thanks for your reply. I had a feeling it was something with the code on the actual email message. The problem is I can't find the location of the code you indicated. I think perhaps this may be hidden somewhere with a different or alternate code. If you notice where the value of what I typed into the editor is, the code surrounding it is odd, just doesn't look right. I think that is where the problem may be. Like I said, I am NOT an expert in this. Here is a copy of the code on each of the pages where the code resides:

Newsletter admin page, this is what the page looks like before I enter my message into the editor:

<link href="../css/style.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">
<link href="../../css/style.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />

<html>
<body topmargin="0" bottommargin="0">
<table width="774" border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border:1px solid #000066;">
  <tr>
    <td width="772" ><img src="../images/logo.jpg"  height="83"></td>
  </tr>
    <tr>
    <td height="30"  align="right" style="background-image:url(../images/admin_head.JPG); padding-right:10px;"><a class="left_links" href="manage_banner.php">Manage Banner</a> | <a class="left_links" href="manage_newsleter.php">Newsletter</a> |  <a class="left_links" href="feature.php">Manage Featured Products </a> | <a class="left_links" href="logout.php">Logout</a>  </td>
  </tr>
     <tr>
 
  <tr>
    <td   height="440" valign="top" align="left" bgcolor="#EAEAEA">   
   
  

<style>
.paging_red
{
text-decoration:none;
text-align:right;
font-size:20px;
font-weight:bold;
color:#FF0000;
}
.paging_red.hover
{
text-decoration:none;
text-align:right;
font-size:20px;
font-weight:bold;
color:#FF0000;
}
.paging_gen
{
text-decoration:none;
text-align:right;
font-size:12px;
font-weight:bold;
color:#330066;
}
.paging_gen.hover
{
text-decoration:none;
text-align:right;
font-size:12px;
font-weight:bold;
color:#330066;
}

</style>

  

<link href="css/style.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">
<br/>
<form name="form1" method="post" action="manage_newsleter.php">
<table width="98%" border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
  <tr>
    <td align="center" class="text_black_head">Manage Newsletter. </td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td align="center"> <hr color="#003366" /></td>
  </tr>
  <tr height="4">
    <td align="center" > </td>
  </tr>
</table>

<table width="98%" border="0" align="center" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2" >
  <tr  >
    <td colspan="5"  align="center" class="black_normal" >
      &nbsp;</td>
    </tr>
  <tr  >
    <td  align="center">&nbsp;</td>
    <td  align="center">&nbsp;</td>
    <td  align="center">&nbsp;</td>
    <td colspan="2"  align="right" class="left_links"><a href="add_news.php" class="left_links">Add Newsletter</a> </td>
    </tr>
  <tr class="table_heading" style="background-image:url(../images/admin_head.JPG);">
    <td width="17"  align="center">#</td>
    <td width="145"  align="center">Title</td>
    <td width="135"  align="center">Date of Posting </td>
    <td width="222"  align="center">Action</td>
    <td width="20"  align="center"><input name="checkbox2" type="checkbox" class="main_heading"  onchange="status_check(document.form1.checkbox2,document.form1.chkBox)" value="checkbox"/></td>
  </tr>
    <tr  bgcolor="#FFFFFF">
    <td align="center" class="black_normal">1</td>
    <td align="center" class="black_normal">BMC Welcome</td>
    <td align="center" class="black_normal">05 Jul, 2007</td>
    <td align="center">
      <a href="active_news.php?id=8&active=0" class="left_links">Deactivate</a>
    | 
   <a class="left_links" href="edit_news.php?id=8">Edit</a> | 
   <a class="left_links" href="delete_news.php?id=8" onclick="return delete_confirmation()">Delete</a> | <a href="send_news.php?id=8" class="left_links">Send</a> </td>
    <td valign="top"><input name="chkBox[]" type="checkbox" class="adminRow1"   id="chkBox"  value="8"    /></td>
  </tr>
    <tr  bgcolor="#F5F5F5">
    <td align="center" class="black_normal">2</td>
    <td align="center" class="black_normal">July Newsletter</td>
    <td align="center" class="black_normal">05 Jul, 2007</td>
    <td align="center">
      <a href="active_news.php?id=9&active=0" class="left_links">Deactivate</a>
    | 
   <a class="left_links" href="edit_news.php?id=9">Edit</a> | 
   <a class="left_links" href="delete_news.php?id=9" onclick="return delete_confirmation()">Delete</a> | <a href="send_news.php?id=9" class="left_links">Send</a> </td>
    <td valign="top"><input name="chkBox[]" type="checkbox" class="adminRow1"   id="chkBox"  value="9"    /></td>
  </tr>
      <tr>
    <td align="center" class="black_normal">&nbsp;</td>
    <td align="center" class="black_normal">&nbsp;</td>
    <td align="center" class="black_normal">&nbsp;</td>
    <td colspan="2" align="right"><input name="Submit" type="submit" class="click" value="Delete" onclick="return ask_ques()" /></td>
    </tr>
  <tr>
    <td align="center" class="black_normal">&nbsp;</td>
    <td colspan="4" align="right" class="black_normal"></td>
    </tr>
</table>
</form>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">
function delete_confirmation()
{
var t=confirm("Are you sure you want to delete");
if (t)
{
return true;
}
else
{
return false;
}


}
function ask_ques()
{
var t=confirm("Are you sure you want to delete");
if (t)
{
return true;
}
else
{
return false;
}


}

</script>
<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">
function status_check(field1,field)
{
if(field1.checked == true)
{

checkAll(field);
}
else
{
uncheckAll(field);

}

}

function checkAll(field)
{
 
for (i = 0; i < field.length; i++)
   field[i].checked = true ;
}

function uncheckAll(field)
{
for (i = 0; i < field.length; i++)
   field[i].checked = false ;
}
</script>

</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td colspan="2" align="center" class="blue_text" style="background-color:#666666;color:#FFFFFF;font-size:12px;text-align:center" height="10">Copyright &copy;  bluemarlinchronicles.com All rights Reserved. Powered by <a href="<a href="http://www.ameriteckwebservices.com" target="_blank">http://www.ameriteckwebservices.com</a>" target="_blank" class="left_links">AWS</a></td>
  </tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>

This is the resulting source code after I enter my message via the FCK Editor:

<link href="../css/style.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">
<link href="../../css/style.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />

<html>
<body topmargin="0" bottommargin="0">
<table width="774" border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border:1px solid #000066;">
  <tr>
    <td width="772" ><img src="../images/logo.jpg"  height="83"></td>
  </tr>
    <tr>
    <td height="30"  align="right" style="background-image:url(../images/admin_head.JPG); padding-right:10px;"><a class="left_links" href="manage_banner.php">Manage Banner</a> | <a class="left_links" href="manage_newsleter.php">Newsletter</a> |  <a class="left_links" href="feature.php">Manage Featured Products </a> | <a class="left_links" href="logout.php">Logout</a>  </td>
  </tr>
     <tr>
 
  <tr>
    <td   height="440" valign="top" align="left" bgcolor="#EAEAEA">   
   
<link href="../../css/style.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">
<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript" src="js/jsval.js"></script>
<table>
<tr height="13"><td>&nbsp;</td></tr>
</table>
<form name="form1" method="post" action="edit_news.php?id=9" onSubmit="return validateStandard(this);">
    <table width="727" border="0" align="center" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2" style="border:1px solid #333333">
    <tr>
      <td colspan="3"  style="background-image:url(../images/admin_head.JPG);">Edit Newsleter.</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td width="5" height="23">&nbsp;</td>
      <td width="120">&nbsp;</td>
      <td width="580">&nbsp;</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td height="23">&nbsp;</td>
      <td class="black_normal" align="right">Title : </td>
      <td><input name="textfield" type="text" class="textfield" value="July Newsletter" required=1 err="Please enter valid title." regexp="JSVAL_RX_CHAR"> 
        <span class="text_red_bold">*</span> </td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td height="23">&nbsp;</td>
      <td class="black_normal" align="right">Description : </td>
      <td>
     <div><input type="hidden" id="FCKeditor1" name="FCKeditor1" value="&lt;p&gt;Hi,&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Just a newsletter to say hello&lt;/p&gt;" /><input type="hidden" id="FCKeditor1___Config" value="" /><iframe id="FCKeditor1___Frame" src="editor/fckeditor.html?InstanceName=FCKeditor1&amp;Toolbar=Default" width="600" height="300" frameborder="no" scrolling="no"></iframe></div>     &nbsp;</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td height="23">&nbsp;</td>
      <td class="black_normal" align="right">Is Active :</td>
      <td valign="middle" class="black_normal">
          <input name="radiobutton" type="radio" value="1" checked="checked">
              Yes 
              <input name="radiobutton" type="radio" value="0" >
            
      No</td></tr>
    <tr>
         <td height="23">&nbsp;</td>
      <td class="black_normal" align="right">&nbsp;</td>
      <td valign="middle" class="black_normal"><input name="Submit" type="submit" class="button_gen" value="Save"></td>
    </tr>
  </table>
  <p>&nbsp;</p>
</form>
 
</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td colspan="2" align="center" class="blue_text" style="background-color:#666666;color:#FFFFFF;font-size:12px;text-align:center" height="10">Copyright &copy;  bluemarlinchronicles.com All rights Reserved. Powered by <a href="<a href="http://www.ameriteckwebservices.com" target="_blank">http://www.ameriteckwebservices.com</a>" target="_blank" class="left_links">AWS</a></td>
  </tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>

I am unable to get any code for the page subsequent to this, once I hit enter on this page, the message is marked to be sent. There is no page after this one.

Thu, 07/05/2007 - 03:07

kaeverens

Joined: 08/02/2007

Posts: 126

RE: Editor

the problem has nothing to do with the content of the email. it has to do with the /headers/ (invisible bits that get sent with the email that tell the email client how to treat it).

this problem occurs when the Content-type has not been sent with the email.

in PHP, an email is sent something like this:
mail('kae@verens.com','subject','bold text','Content-type: text/html');

I think you're missing the bit at the end.