Sending HTML email with PHP

Question

I am trying to send an html email with PHP and it keeps coming just as text. All of the values are generated correctly from the php it is just text in the email. Here is the code:

    $to='xxxxxxx@xxxxxxx.com';
    $from = 'xxxxxxx@xxxxxxxx.com';
    $headers  = 'MIME-Version: 1.0' . "\r\n";
    $headers .= 'Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1' . "\r\n";
    $headers = "From: $from \r\n";
    $subject = "Print Run: " . $run . " is ordered";
    $body ="<html>
            <head>
            </head>
            <body>
            <table>
                <tr>
                    <th>Company</th>
                    <th>Quantity</th>
                    <th>Size</th>
                    <th>Date Added</th>
                    <th>
                    </th>
                </tr>";
            for($i = 0; $i < $arraySize; $i++){     
                $body .= "<tr><td>" . $companyName[$i] . "</td><td>" . $quantity[$i] . "</td><td>" . $cardSize[$i] . "</td><td>" . $dateAdded[$i] . "</td></tr>";
            }
            $body .= "<tr>
                        <td style=\"font-weight:bold; border-style:solid; border-top-width:1px;\">Totals</td>
                        <td style=\"font-weight:bold; border-style:solid; border-top-width:1px;\">" . $totals . "</td>
                        <td></td>
                        <td></td>
                        <td></td>
                        </tr>
                        </table>
                        </body>
                        </html>";

    mail($to,"Print Run: " . $run . " is ordered",$body,$headers);

did you check if it's not caused by your email client settings? — mishu, Apr 05 '12 at 15:21

score 11 · Accepted Answer · edited Apr 05 '12 at 15:22

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You overwrite the header on the last of the three lines:

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

Should be (note the dot):

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

edited Apr 05 '12 at 15:22

Alix Axel

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answered Apr 05 '12 at 15:21

Simon Forsberg

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Wasn't so hard to discover it, really :) – Simon Forsberg Apr 05 '12 at 15:23
One other gotcha i've seen is the "\r\n". This will fail on some systems and should be replaced with PHP_EOL. – Mr Griever Apr 05 '12 at 15:24
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@Matt H: Your comment is misleading, you should back that up with the RFC and PHP source-code. `"\r\n"` is absolutely correct, see as well [Which line break in php mail header, \r\n or \n?](http://stackoverflow.com/q/4415654/367456). – hakre Apr 05 '12 at 15:43

Sending HTML email with PHP

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