how to format php email

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I will make it really simple. I want to send an email by php. now here is code.

$line = '\n';
$a = "Customer Phone: ";
$b = "Customer Last Name: ";
$message = $a.$number.$line.$b.$LastName;       

$to = "[email protected]";
$subject = "Umrah Booking";
$from = $mailer;
$headers = "From:" . $from;
mail($to,$subject,$message,$headers);

here is the output:

Customer Phone: 0712345678\nCustomer Last Name: Showkot

and the email is showing no sender. It says nobody.

I want the email to be look like:

Customer Phone: 0712345678
Customer Last Name: Showkot

and I also want to show that the email is from [email protected]

NikitaBaksalyar · Accepted Answer · 2011-11-23 08:27:25Z

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1) Change '\n' to "\n". Special characters (such as \n) are interpreted only in double-quoted strings.

2) Try to change "From:" to "From: ". Or, perhaps, variable $from has no value.

edited Nov 23, 2011 at 8:27

answered Nov 23, 2011 at 8:22

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Wiseguy Over a year ago

+1 for explaining why and not just what to do. I was about to comment about why different quotes were necessary, but then you just added that.

forgotten Over a year ago

Thank You... I just logged in to say that the problem is solved!! anyway thanks a lot :-)

aBadAssCowboy · Accepted Answer · 2011-11-23 09:01:28Z

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You can use a html mail also., in that you can send a mail which is actually formatted using html.. this is very simple and yu can almost use all tags which yu use to format content in html and even css can be added..!! you need to add headers to send html mail.

here is a example..!

$to = "[email protected]";
$subject = "Test mail";
$a = "Customer Phone: ";
$b = "Customer Last Name: ";
$message = $a.$number.$line.$b.$LastName;  
$message="
<html>
<body>
  <h1>$a</h1>: $number <br> <h1>$b</h1>: $LastName<br>
</body>
</html>";

$from = "[email protected]";
$headers = "From: $from\r\n";
$headers .= "Content-type: text/html\r\n";

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

try this too., it will work..! :)

answered Nov 23, 2011 at 9:01

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forgotten Over a year ago

Thank you It already worked!! I have processed it :-) but thank you anyway for your concern!!

Tudor Constantin · Accepted Answer · 2011-11-23 08:25:11Z

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$line = "\n";
$a = "Customer Phone: ";
$b = "Customer Last Name: ";
$message = $a.$number.$line.$b.$LastName;

$to = "[email protected]";
$subject = "Umrah Booking";
$from = $mailer;
$headers = "From: " . $from. "\r\n".
'Reply-To: '. $from . "\r\n" .
'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion();
mail($to,$subject,$message,$headers);

answered Nov 23, 2011 at 8:25

Tudor Constantin

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Ravin Sardal · Accepted Answer · 2014-09-16 01:47:25Z

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You can enter html in the message tag for example:

$message = '<html><body>';
$message .= '<h1>Hello, World!</h1>';
$message .= '</body></html>';

answered Sep 16, 2014 at 1:47

Ravin Sardal

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