Accent in my form mail - PHP

[rendudesign]

Hi,

This my problem,

I find a PHP script who let me able to create a form mail in flash. User enter informations in a flash form  and after the form communicate with this php page:

<?php

$sendTo = "need@help.com";
$subject = "Un message de votre site Web";
$headers = "From: MESSAGE <need@help.com>\r\n";
$headers .= "Reply-To: " . $_POST["item4"] . "\r\n";
$headers .= "Return-path: " . $_POST["item4"];

$item1 = mb_convert_encoding($item1 ,"iso-8859-9","utf-8");
$item1 = $_POST["item1"];

$item3 = mb_convert_encoding($item3 ,"iso-8859-9","utf-8");
$item3 = $_POST["item3"];

$item4 = mb_convert_encoding($item4 ,"iso-8859-9","utf-8");
$item4 = $_POST["item4"];

$item6 = mb_convert_encoding($item6 ,"iso-8859-9","utf-8");
$item6 = $_POST["item6"];

$item7 = mb_convert_encoding($item7 ,"iso-8859-9","utf-8");
$item7 = $_POST["item7"];

$scevap = mb_convert_encoding($scevap, "iso-8859-9", "utf-8");
$scevap = $_POST["scevap"];

$body = "Nom ou Entreprise : $item1 \nE-mail : $item4 \nTelephone : $item3 \nRace de chien : $item6 \n\nMESSAGE : \n$item7 ";

$message =stripslashes($message);

mail($sendTo , $subject , $body , $headers);

?>

then I receive perfectly the message in my mail box but accent caracter like é ' à ect ... doesn't work, they are replaced by strange caracter.

Somebody have an idea of what I have to do to see accent perfectly ?

Thanks for everybody who will help me !

[David_Powers · Accepted solution]

Your PHP script is attempting to convert from utf-8 encoding to iso-8859-9, but everything is the wrong way round. For example:

$item1 = mb_convert_encoding($item1 ,"iso-8859-9","utf-8");
$item1 = $_POST["item1"];

$item1 doesn't exist at the time you're trying to convert it. For it to work, the lines need to be the other way round:

$item1 = $_POST["item1"];
$item1 = mb_convert_encoding($item1 ,"iso-8859-9","utf-8");

However, it's not necessary to convert from UTF-8. Simply make the email UTF-8 encoded. To do this, you need to add the encoding to the headers. However, your current script has a serious security flaw in it. You should never include an email address gathered from a form in the headers without first checking that it isn't attempting to inject a spam relaye into your email.

Change this section:

$headers = "From: MESSAGE <need@help.com>\r\n";
// include the email in the headers only if safe
if (!preg_match('/Content-Type:|Cc:|Bcc:/i', $_POST['item4'])) {
  $headers .= "Reply-To: " . $_POST["item4"] . "\r\n";
  $headers .= "Return-path: " . $_POST["item4"] . "\r\n";
}
// send the email as UTF-8 encoding
$headers .= 'Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8';

[rendudesign]

You got it !

Thanks you very much ... it's very helpfull and appreciated !