Sending an email containing HTML code (in PHP)

[hsn]

Hello,

My Php program is supposed to send an HTML email to some user client. I tried to do it using mail() function however, the HTML code appears as the content of the email!

Mailing part of my code:

$contents = '<b>Hello!!!</b>';
$subject  = 'test!';
$email    = '[e-mail]';
mail($email, $subject, $contents);

Can anyone help me with sending HTML emails with a Php program? :queasy:

[Shrike]

Add an email header stating that the content is HTML.

$contents = '<b>Hello!!!</b>';
$subject  = 'test!';
$email    = '[e-mail]';
$header = "Content-type: text/html\r \n";
mail($email, $subject, $contents, $header);

[hsn]

oh thanks man, it works!

[rachel2004]

hsn, the PHP manual covers this in example 4 for the mail() function. A quick check of the manual could have saved you some headaches. For future reference:

http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.mail.php

[hsn]

Well, sometimes I see that Php manual is not useful at all! That's why it's not my first reference for php!!
For example, now I'm searching about something that I don't know in Php but I cannot find it in php manual or maybe I don't know how to find it there. Actually, I'm not a professional php programmer. I'm a C programmer and learning php based on my knowledge in C and computer science in general 🙂

[rachel2004]

php.net has a search engine too.

But as a C programmer/computer science person, I'm sure you took advantage of it.

[Shrike]

/me grins 😃

[hsn]

yea of course I took advantage of it but as I said sometimes it does not provide me the desired information especially for those functions which are not very popular.