Sending HTML emails with PHP?

[j_mac]

Can you send HTML encoded emails with the PHP mail function?
Actually it would be even better if there was a mail application that could do it. It would need to be for PCs. I need to have some images that are on a web server linked in the email without attaching them. The kind of thing you would get from places like Outpost.com and Amazon.
I remember reading that in order to send an HTML email you needed to change the content type header.

[Wancieho]

Here you go:


$from = "From: Your name <youremail@yourdomain.com>\r\nReturn-Path:youremail@yourdomain.com \r\nMIME-Version: 1.0\r\nContent-Type: text/html; charset=\"iso-8859-1\"";

mail($to,$subject,$body,$from);

[j_mac]

Cool.
Is there a program for PCs that can do the same thing?

[Wancieho]

Not to my knowledge but this is pretty straight forward? :)

[Musicman]

Hi,

if you want your html mails to reach their destination (and not just some people using only outlook), have a look at these articles
http://www.webmasterbase.com/article.php?pid=24&aid=679
http://www.webmasterbase.com/article.php?pid=82&aid=679

I have found that 99.9 % of incoming html-only mails (especially if they are base64 encoded) are just spam. The remainder comes from scripts whose authors do not know any better

Musicman

[Wancieho]

Hmmmmmm, Musicman does the way i'm doing it get seen as spam?

[Musicman]

Hi,

I am using a text-only mail program, so when I get a html-only mail, the program shows two buttons, one to open the browser and one to delete. Which one would you prefer? :)

Musicman