Send HTML email - suggestions for BSFN coding

[PPACHECO]

Has anyone out there written any business functions to send body messages in html format? If so, please provide some guidance or samples.

Thank you in advance.

 

[GELR]

/**************************************************************************
* Business Function: SendEmailHTML
*
* Description: Send Email With HTML Content
*
* Parameters:
* LPBHVRCOM lpBhvrCom Business Function Communications
* LPVOID lpVoid Void Parameter - DO NOT USE!
* LPDSD559 lpDS Parameter Data Structure Pointer
*
*************************************************************************/

JDEBFRTN (ID) JDEBFWINAPI SendEmailHTML (LPBHVRCOM lpBhvrCom, LPVOID lpVoid, LPDSD5598010 lpDS)

{
/************************************************************************
* Variable declarations
************************************************************************/
JCHAR szFrom[257],
szTo[257],
szCC[257],
szSubject[257],
szMessageTextString[30001],
szNameOfAttachmentFile[257],
szAttachmentDisplayText[257],
szNameOfLogFile[257],
cIncludeAttachmentFlag01,
cSendCopyOfEMailToSelfFlag01,
cSetOneWorldErrorFlag01,
cRecordOperInLogFileFlag01,
szOpenMode[5];

int ErrorCode;

int NumAttachments={0};
JDEMailError err=eOK;
JDEMailMessageAtt *smtpAtt = NULL;


/************************************************************************
* Declare structures
************************************************************************/

/************************************************************************
* Declare pointers
************************************************************************/

/************************************************************************
* Check for NULL pointers
************************************************************************/
if ((lpBhvrCom == (LPBHVRCOM) NULL) ||
(lpVoid == (LPVOID) NULL) ||
(lpDS == (LPDSD5598010) NULL))
{
jdeErrorSet (lpBhvrCom, lpVoid, (ID) 0, _J("4363"), (LPVOID) NULL);
return ER_ERROR;
}

/************************************************************************
* Set pointers
************************************************************************/

/************************************************************************
* Main Processing
************************************************************************/
/* Copy data structure into local variables */
jdeStrncpy(szFrom, lpDS->szFrom, DIM(szFrom));
jdeStrncpy(szTo, lpDS->szTo, DIM(szTo));
jdeStrncpy(szCC, lpDS->szCC, DIM(szCC));
jdeStrncpy(szSubject, lpDS->szSubject, DIM(szSubject));
jdeStrncpy(szMessageTextString, lpDS->szMessageTextChar30000, DIM(szMessageTextString));
jdeStrncpy(szNameOfAttachmentFile, lpDS->szNameOfAttachmentFile, DIM(szNameOfAttachmentFile));
jdeStrncpy(szAttachmentDisplayText, lpDS->szAttachmentDisplayText, DIM(szAttachmentDisplayText));
jdeStrncpy(szNameOfLogFile, lpDS->szNameOfLogFile, DIM(szNameOfLogFile));
jdeStrncpy(szOpenMode, lpDS->szOpenMode, DIM(szOpenMode));

cIncludeAttachmentFlag01 = lpDS->cIncludeAttachmentFlag01;
cSendCopyOfEMailToSelfFlag01 = lpDS->cSendCopyOfEMailToSelfFlag01;
cSetOneWorldErrorFlag01 = lpDS->cSetOneWorldErrorFlag01;
cRecordOperInLogFileFlag01 = lpDS->cRecordOperInLogFileFlag01;

/*
I0500725_RemoveSurroundingBlanks(szFrom);
I0500725_RemoveSurroundingBlanks(szTo);
I0500725_RemoveSurroundingBlanks(szSubject); */

ErrorCode = 0;

if (jdeStrlen(szFrom) == 0)
ErrorCode = 1;

if (jdeStrlen(szTo) == 0)
ErrorCode += 2;

if (jdeStrlen(szSubject) == 0)
ErrorCode += 4;


if (cIncludeAttachmentFlag01 == _J('1'))
{
if (jdeAccess(szNameOfAttachmentFile, 0)) /* "access" returns 0 if file exists */
{
ErrorCode += 16;
}
else
{
/* Populate attachment structure */
NumAttachments=1;
smtpAtt=malloc(sizeof(JDEMailMessageAtt));
memset (smtpAtt, 0, sizeof(JDEMailMessageAtt)) ;

smtpAtt[0].pVoid=NULL; /* This is always NULL */
jdeStrcpy(smtpAtt[0].filename, lpDS->szNameOfAttachmentFile);
smtpAtt[0].filetype=ATT_FILE;
jdeStrcpy(smtpAtt[0].displayname, lpDS->szAttachmentDisplayText);
}
}
else
{
NumAttachments = 0;
}

if (cSendCopyOfEMailToSelfFlag01 == _J('1') && ErrorCode == 0)
{
if (jdeStrlen(szCC) > 0)
jdeStrcat(szCC, _J(";"));
jdeStrcat(szCC, szFrom);
}

if (ErrorCode == 0)
{
/* Send the E-mail*/

/* SAR 7180331 Use new API old send email is depracated*/
err=JDE_SendEMailSMTPExt(szFrom,
szMessageTextString,
szSubject,
TEXT_HTML,
smtpAtt,
NumAttachments,
szTo,
szCC,
NULL);


if (err != eOK)
ErrorCode += 32;
}

if(err != eOK)
{

if (cSetOneWorldErrorFlag01 == _J('1'))
{
if(err == eSendError)
{
jdeSetGBRError (lpBhvrCom, lpVoid, (ID) 0, _J("033X")); /* Error 033X = One or more addresses are invalid */
}
else
{
jdeSetGBRError (lpBhvrCom, lpVoid, (ID) 0, _J("053X")); /* Error 053X = Email Error - Check your jde.log file */
}
}
}

if (ErrorCode != 0)
if (cRecordOperInLogFileFlag01 == _J('1'))
/* I0500725_WriteErrorsToLogFile(lpBhvrCom, err, ErrorCode, szNameOfLogFile, szOpenMode, szMessageTextString, &lpDS->mnAddressNumber, lpDS->nMailMergeDataRecordNumber); */


if (cIncludeAttachmentFlag01 == _J('1'))
free(smtpAtt); /* free memory */

IntToMathNumeric(ErrorCode, &lpDS->mnErrorCodeReturned);



/************************************************************************
* Function Clean Up
************************************************************************/
return (err == eOK)?ER_SUCCESS:ER_ERROR;
}

 

[PPACHECO]

Thanks for the responce. So basically I do what I do now only format the message text with html tags?