HTML formatted text sent by mail() showing HTML source code, not rendered!?

[physaux]

Here is the code I based my email on. It is going to be set to a daily cron to send me updates. I have a whole variable of information, called $output, which, when I ECHO, comes out nice on my page. I now tried to send that value in an email, however it appears in my email not "formatted", but I see all the raw html code.

 

$to      = '[email protected]';
$subject = 'the subject';
$message = $output;
$headers = 'From: [email protected]' . "\r\n" .
    'Reply-To: [email protected]';

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

 

Does anyone know if it is possible for me to get the output I want?

[akitchin]

you must add the content type to your e-mail header, so that the e-mail client recognizes your text as HTML. here is an explanation of how to do that.

[physaux]

ah ok that worked perfectly thanks