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Important Issues in Sending HTML Email

August 8th, 2006

If you want your HTML email to put into recipient’s INBOX, you have to follow some rules.
Following are some important issues for sending HTML email:

1. Remove unnecessary HTML tags:

Remove these tags from your mail content:
- DOCTYPE
- <html>, </html>
- META Tag
- HEAD
- BASE
- LINK
- TITLE
- Comments

2. Use table for layout

Because of the very limited support of style sheets in webmail clients, the best and safe way to layout your html e-mail is to use tables.

3. Use Online Image

4. Hide Image Toolbar

5. Use Shortcut URLs:
URLs of email should be short/small.

6. Dont Use Anchors

7. Use Simple Inline Stylesheet

For example:
<td style=”font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size:
10px;” >Vivamus ut sem. Fusce aliquam nunc vitae purus. </td >

8. Create your design with a white background color

Most webmail and e-mail clients use a white background color to display messages.

9. Use the title attribute instead of alt

The alt attribute for images doesn’t work in Gecko-based browsers such as Firefox and Mozilla

10. Use <br /> instead of <p>

11. Don’t use forms

12. Don’t use _JavaScript:
_JavaScript in HTML e-mail is never a good idea because of all the dangerous scripting (for example XSS attacks) that can be executed. For this reason most webmail and e-mail clients disable _JavaScript by removing or ignoring it.

13. Provide a link for display in the browser

14. Keep Your Subject Short and Informative

15. Don’t Use DHTML and Flash

16. Send your e-mail as multipart/alternative

If you send a HTML e-mail to people with a webmail or e-mail client who can’t read HTML e-mail, they will only see the HTML code. If you don’t know what your recipients use, send your e-mail as multipart/alternative. This is the HTML version and the plain text version.

These issues greatly affect the HTML email. Currently I am working on a project where the emails must have to be sent to INBOX. I got success following these issues. I am researching more on that.

Regards,
$Rupom

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Nurul Islam, Our Brother :: Save Him

August 3rd, 2006

Nurul Islam, A fourth year Electrical Enginerring student of Rajshahi University of Engineering & Technology (RUET), is suffering from kidney damage problem. Doctors’ tests said that his both kideneys are damaged. A lot money is needed to save Nurul from this condition. But his family can’t afford that. So people from the different levels of the society are trying to help Nurul. Can’t we help Nurul to get life back to this nice world ? Or should not we try to save Nurul Islam ?

See the innocent face of Nurul Islam. Our minimal combined contribution can save a thousands of Nurul Islam. Please broaden your hands, let Nurul keep among us.

Please contribute as much as you can to save our brother Nurul Islam.

To help Nurul Islam, please send your contribution to:
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TAHMINA AKTAR
Saving account no - 34115593
JANATA BANK.
Dilkusha Corporate Branch, Dhaka.
Bangladesh
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Please forward this content to others.

$Rupom

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Prize “CGI Programming with Perl” to Dhaka

July 25th, 2006

Yesterday I got “Innovation Award” winning prize from PHP Classes, an O’relly book named “CGI Programming with Perl”. The prize reached to Dhaka three days earlier, I released it by UPS and got in my hand yesterday. I started my reading on “CGI Programming with Perl” just after receiving the book. I developed two projects by Perl, but I had no “hard copy” book on Perl. This book will help me to know more about Perl. I have already digged a bit and found a lot resources there.

Once again my thanks to “PHP Classes” members for their votes that made me the winner of the “Innovation Award” of May 2006.

I am happy in programming !

$Rupom

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Gmail Address Book Grabber :: New Demo

July 23rd, 2006

Yesterday I updated the “Gmail Addressbook Grabber” class and put it to my site’s demo section. From now on, you will see the live example of this class in my site. Please follow this location and see the addressbook grabber:

http://www.rupom.info/demos/grab_gmail/

Changes took places in this version are:
- CURL enability is no longer the only option to use this class
- fsockopen has been used as an alternative of CURL
- “Connection Closing” is performed as soon as the data is retrieved from Gmail

Feel free to suggest me about this new version.

Regards,
$Rupom

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Submit Codes to phpResource Coding Contest

July 23rd, 2006

We, phpResource Group, started the coding contest at the beginning of this month. We were expecting many codes from the members of the group. Already some members participated the coding contest. But the expectation was too much big for this coding contest. We expected at least 50 codes from the members, but got a very few. This is because many members thought that their codes might not be good enough for the contest. But I would like to express my theme positively for them. You no need to hesitate about your code - feel free and participate the contest, may be something very innovative is hidden inside your code. We encourage you to submit codes to the contest.

To submit code, please go to http://contest.phpresgroup.org and login with your login credientials. If you are not a member of phpResource Group, please join phpResource Group first, register at http://contest.phpresgroup.org and submit your codes. Once you submitted your code, you will get your code listed to Code Gallery as a participant.
Best wishes for you - you may be winner of this month.

Currently we have three sponsors for this coding contest. Three prizes will be distributed among the winners.

Participate the coding contest - broaden your coding horizon !

Regards,
$Rupom

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Common Problems with MySQL and PHP

July 13th, 2006

We get some common problems during our development work by PHP/MySQL. Here is a short list of common problems with MySQL and PHP along with possible solutions:

Error: Maximum Execution Time Exceeded: This is a PHP limit; go into the php.ini file and set the maximum execution time up from 30 seconds to something higher, as needed. It is also not a bad idea to double the RAM allowed per script to 16MB instead of 8MB.

Fatal error: Call to unsupported or undefined function mysql_connect() in …: This means that your PHP version isn’t compiled with MySQL support. You can either compile a dynamic MySQL module and load it into PHP or recompile PHP with built-in MySQL support. This process is described in detail in the PHP manual.

Error: Undefined reference to ‘uncompress’: This means that the client library is compiled with support for a compressed client/server protocol. The fix is to add -lz last when linking with -lmysqlclient.

Error: Client does not support authentication protocol: This is most often encountered when trying to use the older mysql extension with MySQL 4.1.1 and later. Possible solutions are: downgrade to MySQL 4.0; switch to PHP 5 and the newer mysqli extension; or configure the MySQL server with –old-passwords. (See “Client does not support authentication protocol”, for more information.)

[reference: http://dev.mysql.com]

See more about it here:
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/php-problems.html

Enjoy PHPing !

Regards,
Rupom

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Google Checkout API :: Another Option for Online Transaction

July 6th, 2006

Google Checkout is a checkout process that you integrate with your website, enabling your customers to buy from you quickly and securely, using a single username and password. Once they do, you can use Google Checkout to charge their credit cards, process their orders, and receive payment in your bank account.

Google Checkout works with Google’s search advertising program, AdWords, to increase your sales and minimize your expenses. Shoppers who see the Google Checkout badge on your AdWords ads will more easily find you when they search, and for every dollar you spend on AdWords, you can process $10 in sales for free.

See more of Google Checkout API

Google Checkout will spread light to the world of online transaction — no doubt.
Google is greatly serving the online peoples and making life easier.

$Rupom

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Being a Moderator of Weberforums.Com

July 6th, 2006

I got the moderatorship of WeberForums. Site admin Berber proposed me this moderatorship. I was really very excited getting this offer. It’s really a good option to contribute the Open Source Community. I am hoping that I will be able to contribute there more and more.

Here is the list of forums I have been moderator for :
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1. PHP General
2. PEAR
3. MySQL General
4. Security
5. JavaScript
6. SEO
7. XML & XSL
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My special thanks to the WeberForums admin Berber. Now it’s time to contribute there as well as phpResource Group.

I am very happy !

$Rupom

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Superior Code at Planet Source Code

July 5th, 2006

Planet Source Code(http://www.planet-source-code.com) has selected my code the Superior Code for the coding contest of month June, 2006. This month I am getting many good results - this is one of them. Really nice to get such good news. I will be given a prize from their list of prizes. Planet Source Code authority has also given me a badge to show in my site/blog. Here’s that:

My code has been placed to Planet Source Code’s All-Time Hall of Fame.

It made me happy and encouraged a lot to contribute the Open Source Community more and more.

Rupom

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Being The “Innovation Award Winner” of May, 2006

July 1st, 2006

Finally my class Graph Coloring won the “Innovation Award” at PHP Classes. I am very happy for this achievement. I got light to my life getting the result from PHP Classes authority. I got 33.33% votes among all classes nominated in May, 2006. My thanks to the users those liked my class and voted me.

Graph Coloring is one of the most important branch of Computer Science. Efficient graph coloring is very muh useful in many applications. Graph Coloring even can encrypt huge data. I have done a bit research on that. My paper “Graph Coloring for Encryption : A New Approach of Huge Data Secretion” was accepted and published in the proceedings of International Conference on Electrical, Electronics and Computer Engineering (ICEECE), 2003. This was also an innovative work and has been marked so. You can find a lot of innovative research topics in Graph Coloring. So lets start innovative works.

The winners ranking list (of month May,2006) is here:
http://www.phpclasses.org/winners.html

PHP Classes authority has given me a badge to let me mention that my
package is the winner of this award. Here is that:

This achievement will greatly encourage and motivate me to contribute the Open Source Community more and more.

My special thanks to the users those voted me. Also thanks to the PHP Classes authority for grabbing it to their innovation list.

Regards,
MA Razzaque Rupom

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Important Issues in Sending HTML Email

Nurul Islam, Our Brother :: Save Him

Prize “CGI Programming with Perl” to Dhaka

Gmail Address Book Grabber :: New Demo

Submit Codes to phpResource Coding Contest

Common Problems with MySQL and PHP

Google Checkout API :: Another Option for Online Transaction

Being a Moderator of Weberforums.Com

Superior Code at Planet Source Code

Being The “Innovation Award Winner” of May, 2006

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