HTML mail();

DuNuNuBatman

I am working on a mailer system for a friend, anyway, what I am trying to do is format the email in html not just plain text. Here is what I have now.

$address = "THEIR ADDRESS";
$subject = "MY SUBJECT";
$body = "THE BODY IN HTML FORMAT";

$mailThis = mail($address, $subject, $body);

echo "$mailThis";

Now how do I get this to look like a html doc?

yelvington

You send the proper Content-type header. See RFC2045, 2046, et cetera.

http://www.faqs.org/

Or just look at any of the HTML mails in your mailbox.

pablodelapena

It is all in the manual. Read it well and only post if you are REALLY stuck, you obviously didnt look very hard.

But I'm feeling generous, and your lucky cause I have a handy wee script ready to go!

//Subject
$subject = "Email subject";

//recipient
$email = "somebody@somewhere.com";

//Message
$message = "
<html>
<head>
 <title>Title</title>
</head>
<body>
Hello world!
</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 .= "From: Andrew Smith <somebody@somewhere.com>\r\n";

//and now mail it
mail($email, $subject, $message, $headers);

pablodelapena

Thats straight out the manual (more or less). Bite me. It works.

The post I'm reffering to got deleted. Could some kind mod do the same for mine seeing as it is irrelevant now.