html formatted email

MasterKaos · Feb 29, 2004

I'm using the mail() function to send email, was wonderring what i have to do to send it in html? I'm assuming i need to send some sort of headers that identify the message as html?

Also, at the moment html is overkill, because i'm just using it to for new lines. If i'm not using html, how would i put a newline character in? I mean the message body is being pasted together from a few strings, i would like to put a new line between each string.

Hope the above makes sense, i'm pretty tired...

Thanks!

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rouse01 · Feb 29, 2004

I recomend HTML Mime mail which can be found at:

http://www.phpguru.org/mime.mail.html.

The download is small & includes several examples. Also is simple to use.

Keith

sleipnir214 · Feb 29, 2004

I've had good success with PHPMailer

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MasterKaos · Mar 1, 2004

Umm, ok so does this mean i have to add on a library to PHP to send html mail? is it not possible to send html email using the standard modules included in php?

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Chacalinc · Mar 1, 2004

yes, you can do it, but what the guys are telling you is there are some libraries to make your code easy to implement.

Anyway, take a look to example 4 of mail function in php.net:

Code:

<?php
/* recipients */
$to  = "mary@example.com" . ", " ; // note the comma
$to .= "kelly@example.com";

/* subject */
$subject = "Birthday Reminders for August";

/* message */
$message = '
<html>
<head>
 <title>Birthday Reminders for August</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>Here are the birthdays upcoming in August!</p>
<table>
 <tr>
  <th>Person</th><th>Day</th><th>Month</th><th>Year</th>
 </tr>
 <tr>
  <td>Joe</td><td>3rd</td><td>August</td><td>1970</td>
 </tr>
 <tr>
  <td>Sally</td><td>17th</td><td>August</td><td>1973</td>
 </tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>
';

/* To send HTML mail, you can set the Content-type header. */
$headers  = "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";
$headers .= "Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\r\n";

/* additional headers */
$headers .= "To: Mary <mary@example.com>, Kelly <kelly@example.com>\r\n";
$headers .= "From: Birthday Reminder <birthday@example.com>\r\n";
$headers .= "Cc: birthdayarchive@example.com\r\n";
$headers .= "Bcc: birthdaycheck@example.com\r\n";

/* and now mail it */
mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);
?>

Chacalinc · Mar 1, 2004

take a look to $headers in the previous example.

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