Darko Martić - IT Engineer, eBusiness and eCommerce Professional
Sending HTML e-mail with PHP
It’s really hard for me to read unformatted e-mails, and it’s getting annoying when I recieve some important information and loose my eyes on scanning bunch of text in search for text I need to read.
I was also one of those programmers who didn’t “found time” to format those notification e-mails sent to webshop customers, but after some time I realized what I was missing:
- attractive looking e-mail newsletters to attrack customers to buy more
- simplifying user registration with easy to read next registration process step
- etc.
Looking from a programming perspective, sending HTML e-mail from PHP is just as easy as sending plain text e-mails – using mail() function + defining a simple parameter in a message header.
Here’s a PHP sample code:
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<?php
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// reciever, sender, subject
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$to = "me@here.com";
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$from = "you@there.com";
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$subject = "Hello HTML e-mail World!";
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// message body
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$message = "<body>
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<strong>This is my first HTML e-mail I sent via PHP</strong>
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<font color=\"red\">Great!</font>
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<a href=\"http://example.com\"> example.com</a>";
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// headers defining HTML format
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$headers = "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";
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$headers .= "Content-type: text/html; charset=utf-8\r\n";
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$headers .= "From: $from\r\n";
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// sending e-mail
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?>
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August 12, 2009 @ 6:21 am
Great article, again. These informations are especially useful …
August 17, 2009 @ 2:39 pm
really useful for my urgent doubt thaks