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Why are the html tags showing up in my string in PHP?

Answer 1

+3 A:

You have to set an additional header when sending from php for the email to display using html format:

Content-Type: text/html; charset=whatever

MartinodF 2009-05-27 03:25:07

Answer 2

+10 A:

If this is an email, you have to set the mime type to text/html instead of text/plain. Otherwise your email reader will interpret the message as plain text and ignore all the html tags.

For example, lets say you are calling the mail function like this:

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

In $headers, you'd need something along these lines (adjusted for your particular case, of course):

$headers = "From: [email protected]\r\n";
$headers .= "Reply-To: [email protected]\r\n";
$headers .= "Content-Type: text/html";

If you want to send both plain text and html email (so non-html readers can see a clean version of the email without all those tags), I would suggest taking a look at this tutorial for a more detailed explanation of multipart emails.

Marc W 2009-05-27 03:25:19

Answer 3

+3 A:

Make sure you send the header that states it is HTML...

example:

mail('[email protected]', 'Subject',
'<html><body><b>Hello</b></body></html>',
"To: The Receiver <[email protected]>\n" .
"From: The Sender <[email protected]>\n" .
"MIME-Version: 1.0\n" .
"Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1");

Phobis 2009-05-27 03:27:20

Whenever I include this line: "MIME-Version: 1.0\n", Apple Mail shows the HTML tags inside the body, I have to remove it to have Mail show HTML, why is this anyone?

Anriëtte Combrink 2009-12-03 09:22:50

Answer 4

A:

If you would like to send mail with PHP I would recommend you with PEAR Mail_Mime package instead of plain mail function

Pavels 2009-05-27 14:22:43

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