How to get a Clickable Link inside this text string in PHP

Question

I have tried to send an email from PHP with the next body:

$message .= 'This is a simple message';
$message .= "\n";
$message .= 'http://www.yahoo.com';
$message .= "\n";
$message .= "<a href='https://www.google.com'>Google</a>";
$message .= "\n";

As a result I got the next output:

This is a simple message    //This line is ok
http://www.yahoo.com        //This line is ok
<a href='https://www.google.com'>Google</a> //It should appear the word Google clickable but it does not

Instead of having the word Google with the link clickable to the Google site I get the html code, how could I fix this? Thanks

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered May 27 '19 at 17:43

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I'm not sure, haven't tried it but maybe try:

$message .= '<a href="https://www.google.com">Google</a>';

NOTE: added double quotes in href link

answered May 27 '19 at 17:43

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered May 27 '19 at 17:48

You need to be sure you're sending mail as HTML and not as text/plain that is probably in your case so you get HTML as source code and not as it should look like.

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

How to get a Clickable Link inside this text string in PHP

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