How to send PHP mail with HTML formatting

Question

Everything was working ok until i added HTML. This code is sending the Email with an address as my hosting account username not the email i'm specifying.

$from = "info@site.com";
$headers = "From:" . $from. "\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);

After sending, the email is from some weird User@gdfgdfhgfdf bla bla intead of 'info@site.com';

and i assume it's my headers.

Thanks.

possible duplicate of [problem with php mail 'From' header](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2014081/problem-with-php-mail-from-header) — putvande, Jan 15 '14 at 10:58

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 15 '14 at 11:00

1

You're overwriting your headers, by using the = sign twice in a row, the second line should be

$headers  .= 'MIME-Version: 1.0' . "\r\n";

answered Jan 15 '14 at 11:00

Shankar Narayana Damodaran · Answer 2 · 2014-01-15T11:13:36.037

0

Try including your $from inside the $headers like this.

$from = "info@site.com";
$headers  = 'MIME-Version: 1.0' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'From: InfoSite <'.$from.'>'."\r\n"; //<--- Like this.
mail($to,$subject,$message,$headers);

edited Jan 15 '14 at 11:13

answered Jan 15 '14 at 11:00

Shankar Narayana Damodaran

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Why do you have `From:` twice? And if you're going to put a name before the address, you have to put the address inside `<...>`. – Barmar Jan 15 '14 at 11:02
is infosite the full site like www.site.com? on line four – user3109875 Jan 15 '14 at 11:19
Nope you can put any text there. – Shankar Narayana Damodaran Jan 15 '14 at 11:21

How to send PHP mail with HTML formatting

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