Colors in PHP

[Anon]

Ok i've looked around and haven't found a post for this so here goes...

1) Say i have something like:

$var = "Hello";

2) Now i want to use the value of $var
as the headning in an email but at the
same time I want to make the value
(in this case the word hello) come out
in RED.

BTW, I can't use HTML tags for this ie
"<font color="red"> <? echo $var; ?> </font>"

because I'm only using php and nothing else..

any suggestions?

[Anon]

Foolish me, i wrote some html stuff and it got interpreted.. ok what was suppose to go there was

font color=a_color php here /font

[brandonschnell]

your question makes no sense. php itself provides no way to change formatting or colors to the user. in most cases html does that.

in its simpliest form, email is a 7bit ascii transfer system. most newer email clients can handle color & formatting, but again, thats done using html.