PHP mail html format not working

Question

Using php, and with this code I receive the email as a plain text, did I miss something? as I need to send formatted email which could contain links for example.

$to = "[email protected]";
$subject = "Password Recovery";

$body = '
<html>
    <head>
        <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
        <title>Birthday Reminders for August</title>
    </head>
    <body>
        <p>Here are the birthdays upcoming in August!</p>
        <table>
            <tr>
                <th>Person</th><th>Day</th><th>Month</th><th>Year</th>
            </tr>
            <tr>
                <td>Joe</td><td>3rd</td><td>August</td><td>1970</td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
                <td>Sally</td><td>17th</td><td>August</td><td>1973</td>
            </tr>
        </table>
    </body>
</html>
';

$headers  = 'MIME-Version: 1.0' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1' . "\r\n";
$headers = "From: [email protected]\r\n"."X-Mailer: php";
if (mail($to, $subject, $body, $headers)) 
echo "Password recovery instructions been sent to your email<br>";

andrewsi · Accepted Answer · 2012-08-16 19:59:58Z

23

You've re-set your headers:

$headers  = 'MIME-Version: 1.0' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1' . "\r\n";
$headers = "From: [email protected]\r\n"."X-Mailer: php";

You're missing a dot in that last line, which is over-writing the previous two:

$headers  = 'MIME-Version: 1.0' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1' . "\r\n";
$headers .= "From: [email protected]\r\n"."X-Mailer: php";

answered Aug 16, 2012 at 19:59

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Mukesh Over a year ago

@andrewsi thanks I was also having similar problem with missing .

Rishabh Over a year ago

Buddy you saved the day :)

Patt Mehta · Accepted Answer · 2012-08-16 20:00:09Z

Look at this example, this is sufficient to send mail in php:

<?php 
    //change this to your email. 
    $to = "[email protected]";
    $from = "[email protected]";
    $subject = "Hello! This is HTML email";

    //begin of HTML message 
    $message ="
<html> 
  <body> 
    <p style=\"text-align:center;height:100px;background-color:#abc;border:1px solid #456;border-radius:3px;padding:10px;\">
        <b>I am receiving HTML email</b>
        <br/><br/><br/><a style=\"text-decoration:none;color:#246;\" href=\"www.example.com\">example</a>
    </p>
    <br/><br/>Now you Can send HTML Email
  </body>
</html>";
   //end of message 
    $headers  = "From: $from\r\n"; 
    $headers .= "Content-type: text/html\r\n";

    //options to send to cc+bcc 
    //$headers .= "Cc: [email][email protected][/email]"; 
    //$headers .= "Bcc: [email][email protected][/email]"; 

    // now lets send the email. 
    mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers); 

    echo "Message has been sent....!"; 
?>

MazarD · Accepted Answer · 2015-06-11 05:45:15Z

3

I found the same problem with a specific mail server, in my case the solution was to set "\n" instead of "\r\n" as the end of line for the headers.

answered Jun 11, 2015 at 5:45

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Alex Spataru Over a year ago

I can confirm, sometimes this is the issue.

Grassant · Accepted Answer · 2020-04-18 19:31:07Z

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Even though your problem seems to be caused by re-assigning to $headers, I've ran into a similar problem and discovered the cause to be the double line-ending "/r/n". Some mail apps such as Bluemail, start the mail body (effectively ending the headers) after reading a double line ending.

In my case, it was solved by changing this:

$headers  = 'MIME-Version: 1.0' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1' . "\r\n";
$headers .= "From: [email protected]\r\n"."X-Mailer: php";

to this:

$headers  = 'MIME-Version: 1.0' . "\n";
$headers .= 'Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1' . "\n";
$headers = "From: [email protected]\n"."X-Mailer: php";

answered Apr 18, 2020 at 19:31

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