Send HTML table with data via mail in php

Question

I have a php code in my website to send a mail for contact Us section. I want to show user's input in tabular format in mail body.

php code

<?php
try{
        $name = $_POST['name'];
        $phone = $_POST['phone'];
        $email = $_POST['email'];
        $comments = $_POST['comments'];
        $to = "[email protected]";
        $response = mail($to, 'Query from website',
        "<table>
        <tr>
          <th>Name</th>
          <th>Contact Number</th> 
          <th>Email-Id</th>
          <th>Comments</th>
        </tr>
        <tr>
          <td>'.$name'</td>
          <td>'.$phone'</td>
          <td>'.$email'</td>
          <td>.'$comments'</td>
        </tr>
      </table>
      ");
      print_r($response); 
    } catch(Exception $e){
        print_r($e);
    }
?>

The issue is whole html code appears in mail body.

LahiruTM · Accepted Answer · 2019-12-27 11:44:43Z

Refer below example as described in the PHP manual page.

<?php
// Multiple recipients
$to = '[email protected], [email protected]'; // note the comma

// Subject
$subject = 'Birthday Reminders for August';

// Message
$message = '
<html>
<head>
  <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>Johny</td><td>10th</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>
';

// To send HTML mail, the Content-type header must be set
$headers[] = 'MIME-Version: 1.0';
$headers[] = 'Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1';

// Additional headers
$headers[] = 'To: Mary <[email protected]>, Kelly <[email protected]>';
$headers[] = 'From: Birthday Reminder <[email protected]>';
$headers[] = 'Cc: [email protected]';
$headers[] = 'Bcc: [email protected]';

// Mail it
mail($to, $subject, $message, implode("\r\n", $headers));
?>

Kunal Mahajan · Accepted Answer · 2019-12-27 13:17:41Z

I have altered your code a bit. Your variable names didn't get the values as they were inside qoutation marks(') and also they weren't preceded and succeeded by (.). You didn't use content-type header to use these HTML tags to get rendered properly. Please refer the below code. Also, there must be an implode function to return these headers as they are stored in array.

<?php
try{
        $name = $_POST['name'];
        $phone = $_POST['phone'];
        $email = $_POST['email'];
        $comments = $_POST['comments'];
        $to = "[email protected]";
        $headers[] = 'MIME-Version: 1.0';
        $headers[] = 'Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1';
        $message = '<html><body>';
        $message .= '<table border="1">
        <tr>
          <th>Name</th>
          <th>Contact Number</th> 
          <th>Email-Id</th>
          <th>Comments</th>
        </tr>
        <tr>
          <td>'.$name.'</td>
          <td>'.$phone.'</td>
          <td>'.$email.'</td>
          <td>'.$comments.'</td>
        </tr>
      </table>';
        $response = mail($to, 'Query from website', $message,implode("\r\n",$headers));
      print_r($response); 
    } catch(Exception $e){
        print_r($e);
    }
?>

Alexander van Oostenrijk · Accepted Answer · 2019-12-27 11:42:50Z

1

You'll have to tell mail what the content-type of your message is, by providing it with headers. The mail function's signature is:

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

Create a content-type header and pass it to mail:

$headers = "Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8";

answered Dec 27, 2019 at 11:42

Alexander van Oostenrijk

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