[SOLVED] formated emails

[SirChick]

How do you send emails with a formatted layout like using < br > etc

 

I have tried it, i did this but it didn't work:

 

<?php
// Send the email.
$subject = "Welcome";
$headers = 'Activation';
$message = "Thank you for registering. To activate your account, please click on this link:";
$message = $message. "www.domain.com/activate.php?x=" .mysql_insert_id(). "&y=$EmailCode";
$message = $message. ". <br>Your username is $Username <br>
Your password is $Password2 !";
mail($Email, $subject, $message, $headers);
?>

 

The email just shows the < br > as text so it looks like this:

 

<br>Your username is test <br> Your password is test !

 

Which is obviously a bit of a pain... so how is it done exactly?

[peranha]

use \r\n will cause a line break.

 

<?php
// Send the email.
$subject = "Welcome";
$headers = 'Activation';
$message = "Thank you for registering. To activate your account, please click on this link:";
$message = $message. "www.domain.com/activate.php?x=" .mysql_insert_id(). "&y=$EmailCode";
$message = $message. ". \r\nYour username is $Username \r\n
Your password is $Password2 !";
mail($Email, $subject, $message, $headers);
?>

[SirChick]

use \r\n will cause a line break.

 

<?php
// Send the email.
$subject = "Welcome";
$headers = 'Activation';
$message = "Thank you for registering. To activate your account, please click on this link:";
$message = $message. "www.domain.com/activate.php?x=" .mysql_insert_id(). "&y=$EmailCode";
$message = $message. ". \r\nYour username is $Username \r\n
Your password is $Password2 !";
mail($Email, $subject, $message, $headers);
?>

 

Thank you and also how do you make sure that the link to the activation page will be click able because some people report it just comes out as text which they have to copy and paste?

[peranha]

try adding http:// in front of it

 

do you know if it is a specific email server that is doing this, I havent had any problems, but I have http:// in front of mine.

[SirChick]

hotmail is but gmail doesn't so its specific to email server of hotmail (to my knowledge).

[peranha]

Add http:// in front of it, mine works fine in hotmail this is what I have.

 

$message.="http://www.website.com/confirmation.php?passkey=$uniqueid \r\n";

[SirChick]

Ok thank you