sending html tags with mail()

[Anon]

Can someone tell me what I need to add to my code in order for the html tags to get parsed correctly? I have checked on php.net and all I can find is how to send attachments, which I am not interested in...

Here is the code I am using:

$delim = "\n";
$keep_blanks = TRUE;

$mailto = "[e-mail]";
$subject = "subject goes here";
$message = "<a href="link">message goes here</a>";

mail("$mailto", "$subject", "$message", "From: someone");

basically I just want the <a href> tag and any other basic html to get recognized. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[kennethl]

You need to send the "Content-Type: text/html" header with the email.

mail("$mailto", "$subject", "$message", "From: someone\r\nContent-Type: text/html");

[junebug]

also, $message should look like this:

$message = "<a href=\"link\">message goes here</a>";

[ccgorman]

This is a mail function I have started using. It is a combination of code I have found on the web and a bit of tweaking I have done here and there. It has worked great so far, but any suggestions to improve would be appreciated.

define ("NO_HTML", "This is a MIME encoded message.\r\n\r\n");
define ("FROM_NAME", "David Hasselhof");
define ("FROM_EMAIL", "[e-mail]");

function mailit($to,$subject,$message,$message_html="",$to_name="") {

//add From: header
if (FROM_NAME && FROM_EMAIL) {
	$from_name=ereg_replace(","," ",FROM_NAME);
	$from_name=ereg_replace(";"," ",FROM_NAME);
	$headers = "From: ".FROM_NAME." <".FROM_EMAIL.">\r\n";
}
elseif (FROM_EMAIL) {
	$headers = "From: ".FROM_EMAIL."\r\n";
}

if ($to_name) {
	$to_name=ereg_replace(","," ",$to_name);
	$to_name=ereg_replace(";"," ",$to_name);
	$to = $to_name." <".$to.">";
}

if ($message_html) {
	//specify MIME version 1.0
	$headers .= "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";

	//unique boundary
	$boundary = uniqid("MAILIT");

	//tell e-mail client this e-mail contains//alternate versions 
	$headers .= "Content-Type: multipart/alternative" . 
	   "; boundary = $boundary\r\n\r\n"; 

	//add message to people with clients who don't understand MIME 
	$headers .= NO_HTML; 

	//plain text version of message 
	$headers .= "--$boundary\r\n" . 
	   "Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1\r\n" . 
	   "Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64\r\n\r\n"; 
	$headers .= chunk_split(base64_encode($message)); 

	//HTML version of message 
	$headers .= "--$boundary\r\n" . 
	   "Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1\r\n" . 
	   "Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64\r\n\r\n"; 
	$headers .= chunk_split(base64_encode($message_html));

	//send message 
	return mail($to, $subject, "", $headers);
}
else {
	//plain text version of message 
	return mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);
}

}

David (http://www.esquilax.com/baywatch/index.shtml)

[rrijnders]

I use the class by Richard Heyes, works great!

http://www.heyes-computing.net/

click on "HTML Email Class" in the side menu.

-- Rich Rijnders