[php] Send HTML in email via PHP

How can I send an HTML-formatted email with pictures using PHP?

I want to have a page with some settings and HTML output which is sent via email to an address. What should I do?

The main problem is to attach files. How can I do that?

This question is related to php html email send

The answer is


The trick is to know the content id of the Image mime part when building the html body part. It boils down to making the img tag

https://github.com/horde/horde/blob/master/kronolith/lib/Kronolith.php

Look at the function buildMimeMessage for a working example.


You need to code your html using absolute path for images. By Absolute path means you have to upload the images in a server and in the src attribute of images you have to give the direct path like this <img src="http://yourdomain.com/images/example.jpg">.

Below is the PHP code for your refference :- Its taken from http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.mail.php

<?php
// multiple recipients
$to  = '[email protected]' . ', '; // note the comma
$to .= '[email protected]';

// subject
$subject = 'Birthday Reminders for August';

// message
$message = '
  <p>Here are the birthdays upcoming in August!</p>
';

// To send HTML mail, the Content-type header must be set
$headers  = 'MIME-Version: 1.0' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'Content-type: text/html; charset=UTF-8' . "\r\n";

// Additional headers
$headers .= 'To: Mary <[email protected]>, Kelly <[email protected]>' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'From: Birthday Reminder <[email protected]>' . "\r\n";


// Mail it
mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);
?>

Simplest way is probably to just use Zend Framework or any of the other frameworks like CakePHP or Symphony.

You can do it with the standard mail function too, but you'll need a bit more knowledge on how to attach pictures.

Alternatively, just host the images on a server instead of attaching them. Sending HTML mail is documented in the mail function documentation.


Sending an html email is not much different from sending normal emails using php. What is necessary to add is the content type along the header parameter of the php mail() function. Here is an example.

<?php
    $to = "[email protected]";
    $subject = "HTML email";
    $message = "
    <html>
    <head>
    <title>HTML email</title>
    </head>
    <body>
    <p>A table as email</p>
    <table>
    <tr>
    <th>Firstname</th>
    <th>Lastname</th>
    </tr>
    <tr>
    <td>Fname</td>
    <td>Sname</td>
    </tr>
    </table>
    </body>
    </html>
    ";
    // Always set content-type when sending HTML email
    $headers = "MIME-Version: 1.0" . "\r\n";
    $headers .= "Content-type:text/html;charset=UTF-8" . "\r\b";
    $headers .= 'From: name' . "\r\n";
    mail($to,$subject,$message,$headers);
?>

You can also check here for more detailed explanations by w3schools


Use PHPMailer,

To send HTML mail you have to set $mail->isHTML() only, and you can set your body with HTML tags

Here is a well written tutorial :

rohitashv.wordpress.com/2013/01/19/how-to-send-mail-using-php/


I have a this code and it will run perfectly for my site

  public function forgotpassword($pass,$name,$to)
    {
        $body ="<table  width=100% border=0><tr><td>";
        $body .= "<img width=200 src='";
        $body .= $this->imageUrl();
        $body .="'></img></td><td style=position:absolute;left:350;top:60;><h2><font color = #346699>PMS Pvt Ltd.</font><h2></td></tr>";
        $body .='<tr><td colspan=2><br/><br/><br/><strong>Dear '.$name.',</strong></td></tr>';
        $body .= '<tr><td colspan=2><br/><font size=3>As per Your request we send Your Password.</font><br/><br/>Password is : <b>'.$pass.'</b></td></tr>';
        $body .= '<tr><td colspan=2><br/>If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us at:<br/><a href="mailto:[email protected]" target="_blank">[email protected]</a></td></tr>';
        $body .= '<tr><td colspan=2><br/><br/>Best regards,<br>The PMS Team.</td></tr></table>';
        $subject = "Forgot Password";
        $this->sendmail($body,$to,$subject);
    }

mail function

   function sendmail($body,$to,$subject)
        {
            //require_once 'init.php';


            $from='[email protected]';      
            $headersfrom='';
            $headersfrom .= 'MIME-Version: 1.0' . "\r\n";
            $headersfrom .= 'Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1' . "\r\n";
            $headersfrom .= 'From: '.$from.' '. "\r\n";
            mail($to,$subject,$body,$headersfrom);
        }

image url function is use for if you want to change the image you have change in only one function i have many mail function like forgot password create user there for i am use image url function you can directly set path.

function imageUrl()
    {
        return "http://".$_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'].substr($_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME'], 0, strrpos($_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME'], "/")+1)."images/capacity.jpg";
    }

You can easily send the email with HTML content via PHP. Use the following script.

<?php
$to = '[email protected]';
$subject = "Send HTML Email Using PHP";

$htmlContent = '
<html>
<body>
    <h1>Send HTML Email Using PHP</h1>
    <p>This is a HTMl email using PHP by CodexWorld</p>
</body>
</html>';

// Set content-type header for sending HTML email
$headers = "MIME-Version: 1.0" . "\r\n";
$headers .= "Content-type:text/html;charset=UTF-8" . "\r\n";

// Additional headers
$headers .= 'From: CodexWorld<[email protected]>' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'Cc: [email protected]' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'Bcc: [email protected]' . "\r\n";

// Send email
if(mail($to,$subject,$htmlContent,$headers)):
    $successMsg = 'Email has sent successfully.';
else:
    $errorMsg = 'Email sending fail.';
endif;
?>

Source code and live demo can be found from here - Send Beautiful HTML Email using PHP


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