In the article How to send a simple email from a php script we have seen how to send a simple email using a php script.
This is useful but sometimes you could prefer to send html formatted email, especially if you are sending automated messages like a subscription confirmation, for example those messages you receive when you have subscribed a service and then on this email you have to click a link to confirm your subscription.
It’s not very professional sending a plain text message the user has to copy and paste the confirmation link into the browser instead of clicking on an hyperlink.
<?php
$to = “username@mailservice.domain”;
$verify_link = “http://www.yourdomain.com/yourverificationlink.php&$to“;
$subject = ‘Please confirm your subscription’;
$message = “<html>
<body bgcolor=\”#DCEEFC\”>
Dear <strong>$username</strong>,<br>
Welcome and thank you very much for joining our community!<br>
To finish the process and activate your account, please click the following URL:
<br><br>
<a href=\”$verify_link\”>subscribe</a>
<br>
</body>
$headers = ‘From: Community – enjoy our community <welcome@yourdomain.com>’ . “\r\n” .
‘X-Mailer: PHP/’ . phpversion() . “\r\n”;
$headers .= “MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n”;
$headers .= “Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1\r\n”;
mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);
?>
That’s all, now you only have to parametrize the script for your needs,
Gg1