How do I send HTML formatted mail using PHP?

Question

Trying to send a html email via mail(), however gmail just displays the email as plain text, no mark up, eg:

mail("[email protected]", "subject", "<i>Italic Text</i>");

just appears as

<i>Italic Text</i>

Any ideas?

Answer 1

You have to specify that the contents of the mail is HTML:

mail("[email protected]", "subject", "<i>Italic Text</i>", "Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1");

Answer 2

See example 4 on this page:

http://php.net/manual/en/function.mail.php