Taking an image path from my website and sending it through email as link

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I have a database "db" with a table "tb" which have image details that I upload to a folder and as well as the name and path of the image to database (table tb).

I have created a script for email in PHP as follows:

$recipients="[email protected]";

$subject="some subject";  

$headers= "'From: <[email protected]>'";

$message="<a href='http://http://example.com/image/imagename.jpg' target='_blank'>Click here to see image</a>";

mail($recipients,$subject,$message,$headers);
}

Mail function working good but when the recipients received the mail, the link in body of the mail is shown as:

<a href='http://http://mcqpage.com/image/imagename.jpg' target='_blank'>Click here to see image</a>

I want that the recipients only recieve the "click here to see image" link and after click the target file open.

You need to sent a HTML mail see http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11238953/send-html-in-email-via-php — Jan Bluemink, Aug 04 '16 at 11:27

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 04 '16 at 11:39

When sending an email with PHP, you can set whether you want to send a plain text email or an HTML email. The default is plain text and none of the email content is parsed. That is why you see the link as a regular text instead of an HTML link.

To send an email with HTML content, you need to set the content-type header. So, your headers would be:

$headers= "'From: <[email protected]>'" . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1' . "\r\n";

Note that you can also change the charset as appropriate.

d.coder · Answer 2 · 2016-08-04T11:30:28.530

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You need to set mail type in mail header as suggested by others:

$headers= "'From: <[email protected]>'\r\n";
$headers .= "Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8\r\n";

edited Aug 04 '16 at 11:30

answered Aug 04 '16 at 11:25

d.coder

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score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Aug 04 '16 at 11:28

You need to specify the message type in the headers:

$to = '[email protected]';
$from = '[email protected]';

$subject = 'Website Change Request';

$headers = "From: " . strip_tags($_POST['req-email']) . "\r\n";
$headers .= "Reply-To: ". strip_tags($_POST['req-email']) . "\r\n";
$headers .= "CC: [email protected]\r\n";
$headers .= "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";
// This line is the most important!
$headers .= "Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1\r\n"; 

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

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

Taking an image path from my website and sending it through email as link

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