html in email

07-01-2007, 5:07 PM

hi,

the next line i use to send email with php, its the body of the message it
should display the mail but it schow no html and displays the html tags like
plain text. how can i do this so that the html becomes active when the user
open the email??

$message = "<html><body>Hi $username,\n\n<A
HREF='http://www.somedomain.com/phpfile.php?$username'>Please click
here</A></body></html>";

tnx

07-01-2007, 5:07 PM

"The Lone Wolf" <jcorp.webmaster@pandora.be> wrote in message
news:<69z_a.65754$F92.7419@afrodite.telenet-ops.be>...
>
> the next line i use to send email with php, its the body of the message it
> should display the mail but it schow no html and displays the html tags like
> plain text. how can i do this so that the html becomes active when the user
> open the email??
>
> $message = "<html><body>Hi $username,\n\n<A
> HREF='http://www.somedomain.com/phpfile.php?$username'>Please click
> here</A></body></html>";

Let's say that right now you are sending mail like this:

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

What you need to do is to add "MIME-Version: " and "Content-type: "
headers to your message:

$headers = "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n" .
"Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\r\n";
mail ($to, $subject, $message, $headers);

Basically, you are telling the receiving program, "Please interpret
the following message is HTML". If you don't do this, the receiving
program will assume the e-mail content is plain text and act accordingly.

Cheers,
NC

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