[SOLVED] mail message text format

[asmith]

hey guys

how can i use html tags in my mail message ?

 

$to = "x@x.com";
$sub = "test";
$msg = "<b>hello<b><br />this is a test   \n mail!!<p>paragraph</p>";
$head = "From:john";

mail($to,$sub,$msg,$head);

 

the only thing works in he $msg is \n , in shows html tags.

or maybe i should ask how can i format the mail message text ?

[MadTechie]

Try this

<?php
// To send HTML mail, the Content-type header must be set
$headers  = "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";
$headers .= "Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\r\n";

// Additional headers
$headers .= "To: peter <$to>\r\n";
$headers .= "From: john <john@example.com>\r\n";

$to = "x@x.com";
$sub = "test";
$msg = "<b>hello<b><br />this is a test   \n mail!!<p>paragraph</p>";

$msg= nl2br($msg); //convert /n to <br>

mail($to,$sub,$msg,$headers);
?>

[asmith]

thanks a lot!

 

// To send HTML mail, the Content-type header must be set

 

 

how many options i got ? how many kind of mails we got ?

[MadTechie]

its not Mail format but Content-type.. the standard HTML page Content-type is text/html,

for more info read up on MIME

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIME,

 

UTF-8 = Unicode (your see that used alot as well)

 

*Edit: Typo

[asmith]

gotcha! thanks for the information.