PHP mail html format not working

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Using php, and with this code I receive the email as a plain text, did I miss something? as I need to send formatted email which could contain links for example.

$to = "receiver@test.com";
$subject = "Password Recovery";

$body = '
<html>
    <head>
        <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
        <title>Birthday Reminders for August</title>
    </head>
    <body>
        <p>Here are the birthdays upcoming in August!</p>
        <table>
            <tr>
                <th>Person</th><th>Day</th><th>Month</th><th>Year</th>
            </tr>
            <tr>
                <td>Joe</td><td>3rd</td><td>August</td><td>1970</td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
                <td>Sally</td><td>17th</td><td>August</td><td>1973</td>
            </tr>
        </table>
    </body>
</html>
';

$headers  = 'MIME-Version: 1.0' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1' . "\r\n";
$headers = "From: info@test.net\r\n"."X-Mailer: php";
if (mail($to, $subject, $body, $headers)) 
echo "Password recovery instructions been sent to your email<br>";
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4 Answers

Even though your problem seems to be caused by re-assigning to $headers, I've ran into a similar problem and discovered the cause to be the double line-ending "/r/n". Some mail apps such as Bluemail, start the mail body (effectively ending the headers) after reading a double line ending.

In my case, it was solved by changing this:

$headers  = 'MIME-Version: 1.0' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1' . "\r\n";
$headers .= "From: info@test.net\r\n"."X-Mailer: php";

to this:

$headers  = 'MIME-Version: 1.0' . "\n";
$headers .= 'Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1' . "\n";
$headers = "From: info@test.net\n"."X-Mailer: php";
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