Php mail function not sending in html format

Question

In PHP, I'm trying to send emails in HTML format. So far I have this

            $subject = "Password Reminder";
            $message = "Your password is <b>{$password}</b>.<br/><br/><br/><br/>me";
            $message = wordwrap($message, 70, "\r\n");
            $headers = 'From: [email protected]' . '\r\n' .
                'Reply-To: [email protected]' . '\r\n' .
                'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion() . '\r\n' .
                'MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n' . '\r\n' .
                'Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1\r\n';

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

I followed this guide: http://css-tricks.com/sending-nice-html-email-with-php/

But when I get the email, it shows with the tags, I want it to interpret the tags into html.

Does anyone know whats wrong?

Thanks.

I hate to rain on somebody's parade, but I've visited that site (css tricks) countless times to see that most or all information on that site contained errors. When in doubt, always refer to the actual (PHP) manuals --- Consult the manual on both mail() and header() functions on PHP.net — Funk Forty Niner
– Funk Forty Niner, Commented Dec 21, 2013 at 20:11
To add from some recently-learned information, take out 'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion() as you're giving potential hackers information about your server and is a security hole. This, comes from a reliable source here on SO. — Funk Forty Niner
– Funk Forty Niner, Commented Dec 21, 2013 at 20:13

klarki · Accepted Answer · 2014-08-25 10:31:55Z

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this is most likely the problem: 'MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n' . '\r\n' .

after two endlines the headers end and the body starts. So your content-type declaration of text/html is being parsed as message body, while it belongs to headers.

remove one endline and it should work:

'MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n'

also I noticed you use single quotes for \r\n. You should use double quotes or else they will be escaped. You need them to be parsed.

 'From: [email protected]' . "\r\n" .
                'Reply-To: [email protected]' . "\r\n" .
                'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion() . "\r\n" .
                'Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1'."\r\n".
                'MIME-Version: 1.0'."\r\n\r\n";

edited Aug 25, 2014 at 10:31

answered Dec 21, 2013 at 20:07

klarki

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