How to send html email by php?

[kante]

How can i send an html email by the funciton mail() with php?

I tryed setting the headers but it doesn't work:

mail($email,$subject,$textemail,"From:$sender\nContent-Type:text\html\n");

How can i solve this?

Thank you!

[Anon]

Try this one. It works fine.

<?

 // ************************************ 
 // E-mail functions (binary attachment) 
 // ************************************ 


function m_attach_bin( $to_fname, $subject_ftext, $message, $from, $type )
{
  static $hold_to= "";
  static $hold_subject= "";
  static $hold_from= "";
  static $hold_message= "";

 static $boundary= "-----------------kjbsdf9873987348735";
 $MIME= "MIME-Version: 1.0\nContent-Type: multipart/mixed;\n\tboundary=\"$boundary\"\n\nThis is a multi-part message in MIME format.\n\n";
 $startMsg= "\n--$boundary\nContent-Type: text/plain;\n\tcharset=\"iso-8859-1\"\nContent-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit\n\n";
 $ending= "\n--$boundary--";

  if ( $to_fname== "" )     /* send it! */ 
  {
    $hold_message=$hold_message . $ending;

    return( mail( $hold_to, $hold_subject, $hold_message, $hold_from ) );
  }
  elseif ( $message== "" )  /* we must be attaching a file */ 
  {    
    $hold_message=$hold_message .  "\n--$boundary\nContent-Type: image/".$type. ";\n\tname=\"$to_fname\"\nContent-Transfer-Encoding: base64\nContent-Disposition: inline;\n\tfilename=\"$to_fname\"\n\n$subject_ftext";

  }
  else       /* starting a new message */ 
  {
    $hold_to=$to_fname;
    $hold_subject=$subject_ftext;
    $hold_message=$startMsg . $message. "\n\n";
    $hold_from= "From: $from\n$MIME\n";
  }
};


function m_attach_file_bin( $shortname, $longname, $type )
{
  $fp=fopen($longname, "r");

  $in = fread( $fp, filesize( $longname ) );
  fclose( $fp );
  $out= chunk_split(base64_encode($in));

  return( m_attach_bin( $shortname, $out,  "",  "", $type ) );
};


function m_attach_send_bin($type)
{
  return( m_attach_bin(  "", "", "", "", $type ) );
};

$dest_email="dest. email address";
$title="MIME TEST mail2";
$message_to_send="Another MIME Test with *.png";
$from="sender email address";
$type="extention e.g. png";
$filename="filename with extention";
$path="complete path including filename";
m_attach_bin($dest_email, $title, $message_to_send, $from, $type);
m_attach_file_bin($filename, $path, $type);
m_attach_send_bin($type);    

?>

[Anon]

Could you possibly explain to me how I could implement this code into a page.
That is to say, imagine a popup window with a link that says "email the this popup(images and html formatting included) to a friend or colleague". Would this be possible? and if so how?