formatting an e-mail

**webdesign** · 08-17-2004 09:36 AM

I'm trying to send my form information in an e-mail, but i want to format parts of it... for example, if this is my message:

$to = "me@myplace.com";
$subject = "New Service Customer Application";
$msg = "Service Application\n";
$header = "From: New Customer";

$msg.= "\nMEMBERSHIP INFORMATION\n";
$msg.= "Name: ".$_SESSION['first']." ".$_SESSION['last']."\n";
$msg.= "Mailing Address: ".$_SESSION['mailAddress']."\n";
$msg.= "City: ".$_SESSION['mailCity']." ";
$msg.= "State: ".$_SESSION['mailState']." ";
$msg.= "Zip Code: ".$_SESSION['mailZip']."\n";
$msg.= "Previous Address: ".$_SESSION['preAddress']."\n";
$msg.= "City: ".$_SESSION['preCity']." ";
$msg.= "State: ".$_SESSION['preState']." ";
$msg.= "Zip Code: ".$_SESSION['preZip']."\n";

$msg.= "\nCREDIT INFORMATION\n";
$msg.= "Previous Telephone Number: ".$_SESSION['preAC']."-".$_SESSION['prePrefix']."-".$_SESSION['preNum']." ";
$msg.= "Disconnect Date: ".$_SESSION['dcMonth']."/".$_SESSION['dcDay']."/".$_SESSION['dcYear']."\n";
$msg.= "Name service was under: ".$_SESSION['nameUnder']." ";

$msg.= "\nAUTOMATIC BILL PAYMENT\n";
if ($_SESSION['bankDeductY'] != "")
$msg.= "Enroll in Automatic bank Deduct: ".$_SESSION['bankDeductY']."\n";
if ($_SESSION['bankDeductN'] != "")
$msg.= "Enroll in Automatic bank Deduct: ".$_SESSION['bankDeductN']."\n";

$msg.= "\nTERMS AND CONDITIONS AGREEMENT: ".$_SESSION['verify']."\n";

mail($to, $subject, $msg, $header);?>

if I want the items in red here to be bold, how would I do this??

**iamlucky13** · 08-17-2004 10:55 AM

Assuming the recipient's email client supports html, just put tags in it.

Code:

$msg.="\n<b>Membership Information</b>\n";

**webdesign** · 08-17-2004 10:57 AM

Yeah, I tried that, seems so simple, doesn't it? But it doesn't work

**iamlucky13** · 08-17-2004 11:20 AM

Hmmm...maybe your client doesn't support html, or maybe you need to go through the whole process of

Code:

<html><head></head>
<body>...

I guess try the manual and see if you can figure it out from there.

PHP manual for mail()

*EDIT* I just noticed this while setting up an email script on my own (from php.net):

PHP Code:


/* To send HTML mail, you can set the Content-type header. */

$headers  = "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";

$headers .= "Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\r\n";



to send the mail

/* and now mail it */

mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);

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