How do I send HTML formatted mail using PHP?

php email formatting

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Solution 1

You have to specify that the contents of the mail is HTML:

mail("[email protected]", "subject", "<i>Italic Text</i>", "Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1");

Solution 2

See example 4 on this page:

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

Solution 3

I believe you must set the content-type to text/html in your headers.

Something like the string "Content-type:text/html"

Where to "insert" this header? Take a look at the function reference at http://php.net/manual/en/function.mail.php

Solution 4

You need to have a properly formed html doc:

$msg = "<html><head></head><body><i>Italic Text</i></body></html>";

Edit:

And send headers:

$headers  = 'MIME-Version: 1.0' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1' . "\r\n";

mail("[email protected]", $msg, $headers);

Solution 5

In order for it to be properly interpreted, you must also set the headers in the email, especially:

$headers  = 'MIME-Version: 1.0' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1' . "\r\n";

You should also set the other usual headers. The message can finally be sent like this:

mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);

You should refer to the php manual mail page for more information.

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Updated on October 29, 2020

Comments

DexCurl over 3 years
Trying to send a html email via mail(), however gmail just displays the email as plain text, no mark up, eg:
```
mail("[email protected]", "subject", "<i>Italic Text</i>");
```
just appears as
```
<i>Italic Text</i>
```
Any ideas?
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- Álvaro González about 13 years
  
  You can't use HTML in the message subject.
- DexCurl about 13 years
  
  sorry, my apologies, didn't notice I skipped the subject parameter