php email html link, but just showing up as html code

Question

Hi everyone, I'm trying to e-mail a html table, that has links within it. But when I receive the e-mail, it just shows me the html code itself.

I'm using PHP pear to send the email.

I try constructing a string like so

$body = "<table>";

$body = $body . "<tr><td><a href='http://google.ca'&gt;Google&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;";

$body = $body . "</table>";

then e-mailing it, but when I receive the e-mail, it comes like this

<table><tr><td><a href='http://google.ca'&gt;Google&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;

Any suggestions? Thanks!

Answer 1

It doesn't look like you're setting the Content or MIME-type for HTML email (which means its just being sent in plain text).

Check out this link for a guide on HTML email in PHP: http://articles.sitepoint.com/article/advanced-email-php

Answer 2

You'll want to ensure you are passing HTML to the setHTMLBody() function. If the problem continues, we'll need to see more of your PHP code.