Can you send html through mail()

[Anon]

Can you force mail() function in PHP to send html?

[figment]

I have never had any problems with it.

just build the strings into the message body.

Granted.. the reciever should have a mail client that reads html....

[Anon]

If I attach a html files, it Yahoo will show it, but if I send the hard code html, it just show text

[Anon]

I there a way to check a mail server if it read html or if it need to send a html file in so it can read it?

[Anon]

Whether or not a person can view HTML in email is in no way controlled by the mail server. That is a setting that is controlled client-side.

With that aside.

Here is the excerpt directly from the the documentation of the mail() function located on php.net (which you probably didn't read)

/ 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";

Tony, RTFM.

[Anon]

thx

[hiasl]

The easiest way is to use Richard Heyes' MIME Mail Class, which can be found at

http://phpclasses.websapp.com/browse.html/package/32.html