HTML email just shows as Code

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Sending HTML email from PHP

Using PHP to send an email.

I want it to be HTML based but when I get the email in my inbox it just shows the raw code.

How can I make it interprited as HTML rather then just text?!

For everyone asking to see the code

<?php
//The email of the sender
$email = $_POST['email'];
//The message of the sender
$message = "<html></html>";
//The subject of the email
$subject = "Fanshawe Student Success";
$extra = $email."\r\nReply-To: ".$email."\r\n";
mail($email,$subject,$message,$extra);
?>

How about *you* show some code so that we know what you're talking about. — zzzzBov, Jul 28 '11 at 14:40
http://www.google.com/search?q=html+e-mail+php and http://php.net/mail (example #4) — ceejayoz, Jul 28 '11 at 14:40
Use [Swiftmailer](http://swiftmailer.org) or [PHPMailer](http://phpmailer.worxware.com) and stop building your own MIME messages. — Marc B, Jul 28 '11 at 14:41

score 7 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 28 '11 at 14:42

7

from the docs: http://php.net/manual/en/function.mail.php

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

obviously $headers has to be passed to the mail

answered Jul 28 '11 at 14:42

Tim Hoolihan

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I think the problem is much deeper :D – Griwes Jul 28 '11 at 14:44

score 5 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 28 '11 at 14:45

here you go:

// multiple recipients
$to  = 'someemail@address.com';

//subject
$subject = 'Email Template for Lazy People';

//message body
$message = "
<html>
<head>
  <title>My Title</title>
</head>
<body>
    <div>
        <b>My email body</b>
    </div>
</body>
</html>
";

//add headers
$headers  = 'MIME-Version: 1.0' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'To: yourself<info@yourself.com>' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'From: myself<info@myself.com>' . "\r\n";

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

Thanks all, Our Prof. never went over headers when we went over mailscripts so it was not so obvious for me. But greatly Appreciated! — Philip Kirkbride, Jul 28 '11 at 14:47

HTML email just shows as Code

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