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This snippet can be used in situations where you would like to send customized emails to prospective users that were invited by your site members to join your site. By manipulating the headers, we have the ability to send full blown HTML emails with images and custom layouts using tables.

	function sendMail($to,$fromName,$fromEmail,$ownerImage)
	{

			
		$body ='
					<table style="width: 600px;">
						<tbody><tr>
							<td colspan="2">
							<img src="your_logo_image_here"></td>
						</tr>
						<tr>
							<td><img src="your_member_profile_image_here">
						</td></tr>
						<tr>
							<td><h3>'. $fromName .' has invited you to join <font color="orange">Your_Site_Name</font></h3></td>
						</tr>
						<tr>
							<td>
<a href="link_back_to_your_registration_page" style="text-decoration: none;"></a>
<h1><a href="link_back_to_your_registration_page" mce_href="link_back_to_your_registration_page" style="text-decoration: none;">
<font color="blue">Click Here to Join!</font></a></h1></td>

						</tr>

						<tr>

							<td>If the above link does not work try the one below.</td>

						</tr>

						<tr>

							<td colspan="3">link_back_to_your_registration_page</td>

						</tr>

					</tbody>
</table>
					
				';
		
				$subject = $fromName . " wants you to check out this site.";
				$header  = "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";
				$header .= 'Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1' . "\r\n";
				$header .= "Organization: YOUR_SITE_NAME \r\n";
				$header .= "Content-Transfer-encoding: 8bit\r\n";
				$fromTag  = $fromName." <" . $fromEmail . ">";
				$header .= "From: ".$fromTag."\r\n";
				$replyTag = $fromName." <" . $fromEmail . ">";
				$header .= "Reply-To: ".$replyTag."\r\n";
				$header .= "Message-ID: <".md5(uniqid(time()))."@{$_SERVER['SERVER_NAME']}>\r\n";
				$header .= "Return-Path: ". $fromEmail ."\r\n";
				$header .= "X-Priority: 3\r\n";
				$header .= "X-MSmail-Priority: Low\r\n";
				$header .= "X-Mailer: PHP\r\n"; //hotmail and others dont like PHP mailer. --Microsoft Office Outlook, Build 11.0.5510
				$header .= "X-Sender: ".$fromEmail."\r\n";
				
				mail($to, $subject, $body, $header);
				}
			}
	}

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