question: php automatically sent mail & html tags

[sebbie79]

In my newsletter module, the automatically generated reply email asking to confirm registration shows all the html tags, identically as what the whole piece of message basically looks in my php script...
You guys, do you know what I did wrong and how I can avoid that? I tested it with email accounts that do enable html tags, so it obviously comes from my script...

Here below is the piece of script found "guilty"...

function InviaMail($nome="", $mail="", $mittente="[e-mail]", $azione, $id) {
// Controllo che le varibili siano settate
if ( $nome=="" || $mail=="" ) {
echo "Can't find the e-mail!";
return 0;
}

$confirm = "http://".getenv(HTTP_HOST).dirname($_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME'])."/confirm.php";

// sender's email
$dominio = $_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'];

// recipient's email
$destinatario = $mail;	

// email's content	  

$messaggio = "";

if ( $azione == "registra" ) {
// this is where I hit a snag...
// the message below is shown as is.					
$messaggio .= "Hello <strong>".$nome."</strong>!<br>".
"Thank you for joining<strong><a href='".$dominio."'>".$dominio."</a></strong> "."<font color='#ff0000'>'s Newsletter</font><br>".
"In order to validate your new subscription, you will need to click the following link"."<a href='".$confirm."?action=add&id=".$id."&nome=".md5($nome)."&mail=".md5($mail)."'>here</a>!<br><br>".
"Thank you!";

// email's title
$oggetto = "Submission to our Newsletter:".$dominio;	

} elseif ( $azione == "elimina" ) {
$messaggio .= "Hello <strong>".$nome."</strong>!<br>".
"A delete action to newsletter of "."<strong><a href='".$dominio."'>".$dominio."</a></strong> ".
"We will delete your E-mail<br>".
"To confirm, click "."<a href='".$confirm."?action=delete&id=".$id."&nome=".md5($nome)."&mail=".md5($mail)."'>here</a>!<br><br>".
"Thank you!";

// email's title
$oggetto = "Deletion from our Newsletter:".$dominio;
}	  

Thanks!

[sneakyimp]

I'm not super familiar with the whole MIME-in-email concept, but I believe the issue is that the format of your mail message doesn't declare the message contents as HTML. I don't think the code above is necessarily to blame. I'm guessing that you are using the php mail function.

I have no idea how to declare a message to be HTML rather than plain text using mail -- i would guess that you need to set a header for it by setting the 4th parameter. I do know that this is much easier to do if you use a mailer class like PHPMailer.

[Xager]

You have to set the the mail body to html.
I really recoment using a 3'rd-part mail sender such as phpmailer but if you really wanna use the built in functio have a look at mail() example #4

EDIT: Same as sneakyimp said 🙂