How to add HTML content in php mail() function

In this post i would like to explain about how to add HTML content to PHP mail() function. Few servers are supports PHP mailer class then we can send mails with Sending mails using PHP mailer class . And few servers are not supporting PHP mailer class. For those below function will be useful to send mails with HTML content.

The PHP Code

<?php
$to = "[To Address]";
$subject = "Contact Details";

$headers = 'MIME-Version: 1.0' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1' . "\r\n";

// Additional headers
$headers .= 'To: Anil Labs <To Address>' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'From: Anil Labs <To address>' . "\r\n";
// Additional headers
$email_body = "<table width="721" height="186" border="0" align="left">
<tr>
<td colspan="3" style="background-color:#666666; color:#FFFFFF" align="left"><strong>Contact - Us </strong></td>
</tr>
<tr><td>First Name : </td> <td>:</td> <td>Anil Labs</td><tr>
<tr><td>Email</td> <td>:</td> <td>To Address</td></tr>
<tr><td>Subject</td> <td>:</td> <td>".$subject."</td></tr>
<tr><td valign='top'>Comments</td> <td valign='top'>:</td> <td>test</td></tr>

</table>";

$message = "<html>
<head>
<title></title>
</head>
<body ><center>
".stripslashes($email_body)."
</center>
</body>
</html>
";

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

?>

3 thoughts on “How to add HTML content in php mail() function”

Abdul Baquee says:

October 25, 2011 at 7:53 pm

Lovely dude 🙂

beshoy William says:

July 19, 2012 at 1:51 pm

Thanks a lot man, This was really so Helpful, Thanksssssss

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