Add HTML formatting in phpmailer

Question

I am using PHP mailer to send an online form directly to email. I want to edit the form like this:

$message = '<p>The following request was sent from: '</p>;
$message .= '<p>Name: '.$name.'</p><br />';
$message .= '<p>Phone: '.$phone.'</p><br />';
$message .= '<p>Email: '.$email.'</p><br />';

However, in the email I receive back, I get the <p>, <br />, etc. Not the formatting I want, but the actual HTML. It has always worked for me, then I realized I was using the stock PHP mail function. not sure if PHP mailer has different parameters OR if I just missing small here?

Where would I set the headers for text/html?

    $mail = new PHPMailer();
    $mail -> IsSMTP();
    $mail -> Host = "---";
    $mail -> Port = 25;
    $mail -> SMTPAuth = false;
    $mail -> Username = EMAIL_USER;
    $mail -> Password = EMAIL_PASS;
    $mail -> FromName = $from_name;
    $mail -> From = $from;
    $mail -> Subject = $subject;
    $mail -> Body = $message;
    $mail -> AddAddress("---");

    $result = $mail -> Send();

score 47 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 09 '12 at 17:53

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In PHP mailer, you need to set below

$mail->IsHTML(true);

Note: $mail means your PHPMailer object.

Reference Link: PHPMailer

answered Dec 09 '12 at 17:53

GBD

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score 33 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 09 '12 at 17:50

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By default, the PHP `mail()` function is `text/plain`.

In your mail() headers, change the content-type to text/html and try.

Example:

<?php 
    $body = "<html>\n"; 
    $body .= "<body style=\"font-family:Verdana, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size:12px; color:#666666;\">\n"; 
    $body = $message; 
    $body .= "</body>\n"; 
    $body .= "</html>\n"; 

    $headers  = "From: My site<noreply@example.com>\r\n"; 
    $headers .= "Reply-To: info@example.com\r\n"; 
    $headers .= "Return-Path: info@example.com\r\n"; 
    $headers .= "X-Mailer: Drupal\n"; 
    $headers .= 'MIME-Version: 1.0' . "\n"; 
    $headers .= 'Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1' . "\r\n"; 

    return mail($recipient, $subject, $message, $headers); 
?>

PHP Mailer:

You need to set IsHTML(true):

$mail->IsHTML(true);

answered Dec 09 '12 at 17:50

Praveen Kumar Purushothaman

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Show your PHP `mail()` function declaration. Or see my updated answer. :) – Praveen Kumar Purushothaman Dec 09 '12 at 17:52
Ok, I'm not using the php mail function, but now that I think about it, when I do I ALWAYS make sure to put text/html. in the OO PHPHmailer, I dont see where I set this. I will add my code to show you what I have. – TheLettuceMaster Dec 09 '12 at 17:52
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Set `IsHTML(true)` in PHP Mailer. – Praveen Kumar Purushothaman Dec 09 '12 at 17:54
I see that in the body of the email, you're including the HTML and BODY tags. Is that necessary when sending an email? Good practice? As of right now I'm just styling the body without html and body tags. – Vince May 22 '17 at 10:21

Add HTML formatting in phpmailer

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By default, the PHP `mail()` function is `text/plain`.

Example:

PHP Mailer:

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Add HTML formatting in phpmailer

2 Answers2

By default, the PHP mail() function is text/plain.

Example:

PHP Mailer:

Linked

By default, the PHP `mail()` function is `text/plain`.