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How to send HTML-formatted message with standard mail function in PHP


I am trying to use the following in my contact us form to receive nicely formatted html email from my visitors:

$message .='<table width="800" border="0" cellspacing="3" cellpadding="3" style="margin-bottom: 20px">';
$message .='<caption style="text-align:left;background:#eee;padding:5px;font-size:18px;font-weight:bold;">Webmail</caption>';
$message .='<tr><td width="200"><strong>Date</strong></td><td width="600" style="border:1px solid #ccc;">'.$todayis.'</td></tr>';
$message .='<tr><td width="200"><strong>From</strong></td><td width="600" style="border:1px solid #ccc;">'.$name.'</td></tr>';
$message .='<tr><td width="200"><strong>Email</strong></td><td width="600" style="border:1px solid #ccc;">'.$email.'</td></tr>';
$message .='<tr><td width="200"><strong>Subject</strong></td><td width="600" style="border:1px solid #ccc;">'.$recipient.'</td></tr>';
$message .='</table>';
$message .= '<div style="width:770px;background:#eee;padding:15px;">';
$message .= '<div style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 18px;padding-bottom: 10px;">Your Message</div>';
$message .= $message;
$message .= '</div>';
$message .='<table width="800" border="0" cellspacing="3" cellpadding="3" style="margin-bottom: 20px">';
$message .='<caption style="text-align:left;background:#eee;padding:5px;font-size:18px;font-weight:bold;">Webmail Data</caption>';
$message .='<tr><td width="200"><strong>IP Address</strong></td><td width="600" style="border:1px solid #ccc;">'.$ip.'</td></tr>';
$message .='<tr><td width="200"><strong>Browser Info</strong></td><td width="600" style="border:1px solid #ccc;">'.$httpagent.'</td></tr>';
$message .='<tr><td width="200"><strong>Referral</strong></td><td width="600" style="border:1px solid #ccc;">'.$httpref.'</td></tr>';
$message .='</table>';

$headers = "From: " . $email . "\r\n";
$headers .= "Reply-To: ". $email . "\r\n";
$headers .= "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";
$headers .= "Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1\r\n";
$headers .= "X-Priority: 1\r\n";
$sent = mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);

The problem I have is that when I use text/html the email shows as sent but I am not getting it, when I am changing it to text/plain everything works fine except that I get everything in plain text without any HTML formatting.

I am on my own dedicated Apache server, running Plesk 12.0.18 and CentOS6.6 do I need to configure anything on the server? I have tried to configure the email to receive everything in HTML format, but seems like it did not work.

Any help is appreciated.


Solution

  • Php Html email

    <?php
    $to = "abc@gmail.com";
    $subject = "PUT_SUBJECT_HERE";
    $mail_body = '<html>
    <body bgcolor="#573A28" topmargin="25">
    Put HTML content here with variables from PHP if you like
    Variable display Example: ' . $subject . ' 
    <h1>this is a heading</h1>
    </body>
    </html>';
    //$headers  = "From: abc@gmail.com";
    //$headers .= "Content-type: text/html";
    
    // Always set content-type when sending HTML email
    $headers = "MIME-Version: 1.0" . "\r\n";
    $headers .= "Content-type:text/html;charset=UTF-8" . "\r\n";
    
    // More headers
    $headers .= 'From: <abc@gmail.com>' . "\r\n";
    mail($to, $subject, $mail_body, $headers);
    ?>
    

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