Php mail: how to send html?

The code below is sending an email correctly but for the body. I need to show html in the body of the message and I cannot make it. The examples in the web won’t send the email 🙁

How can I fix my code to send the email with the html in the body?

Thanks a ton!

<?php

$to = '<a href="https://getridbug.com/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection" class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="ff9286929e9693bf929e9693d19c9092">[email protected]</a>';

$subject = 'I need to show html'; 

$from ='<a href="https://getridbug.com/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection" class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="26435e474b564a4366435e474b564a430845494b">[email protected]</a>'; 

$body = '<p style=color:red;>This text should be red</p>';

ini_set("sendmail_from", $from);

$headers = "From: " . $from . "rnReply-To: " . $from . "";
  $headers .= "Content-type: text/htmlrn"; 
if (mail($to, $subject, $body, $headers)) {

  echo("<p>Sent</p>");
 } else {
  echo("<p>Error...</p>");
 }

?>

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Method 1

use this header for the mail:

 $header  = "MIME-Version: 1.0rn";
 $header .= "Content-type: text/html; charset: utf8rn";

and for the content/body:

<html>
    <head>
        <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
... ... ...

it’s important to use inline css commands and recommanded to use tables for the interface.

…

In your Mail-Body you than have to put HTML code with head and body

Method 2

Have you looked at the headers of the incoming mail? It says

Reply-To: [email protected]: text/html

Simply add another rn here:

Reply-To: " . $from . "rn";

Method 3

I recommend rather than messing around with doing this yourself you use one of the many free classes available all over the web to do it.

I would recommend: PHPMailer

Method 4

I found this works well!

Source

<?php
//define the receiver of the email
$to = '<a href="https://getridbug.com/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection" class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="60190f151201040412051313200518010d100c054e030f0d">[email protected]</a>';
//define the subject of the email
$subject = 'Test HTML email'; 
//create a boundary string. It must be unique 
//so we use the MD5 algorithm to generate a random hash
$random_hash = md5(date('r', time())); 
//define the headers we want passed. Note that they are separated with rn
$headers = "From: <a href="https://getridbug.com/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection" class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="7d0a181f101c0e09180f3d18051c100d1118531e1210">[email protected]</a>rnReply-To: <a href="https://getridbug.com/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection" class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="ceb9abaca3afbdbaabbc8eabb6afa3bea2abe0ada1a3">[email protected]</a>";
//add boundary string and mime type specification
$headers .= "rnContent-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="PHP-alt-".$random_hash."""; 
//define the body of the message.
ob_start(); //Turn on output buffering
?>
--PHP-alt-<?php echo $random_hash; ?>  
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" 
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

Hello World!!! 
This is simple text email message. 

--PHP-alt-<?php echo $random_hash; ?>  
Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" 
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

<h2>Hello World!</h2>
<p>This is something with <b>HTML</b> formatting.</p> 

--PHP-alt-<?php echo $random_hash; ?>--
<?
//copy current buffer contents into $message variable and delete current output buffer
$message = ob_get_clean();
//send the email
$mail_sent = @mail( $to, $subject, $message, $headers );
//if the message is sent successfully print "Mail sent". Otherwise print "Mail failed" 
echo $mail_sent ? "Mail sent" : "Mail failed";
?>

Method 5

Simple answer: Don’t do it. HTML emails are evil and annoying. At least if there’s no PROPER plaintext version included. Proper = same information like in the HTML version, not just a stupid comment about getting another email client or a link to the html version if it’s available on the web.

If you really need it: http://pear.php.net/package/Mail_Mime

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