PHP mail(); Send e-mail as plain text AND a HTML

Question

I've the following PHP code for sending e-mails with PHP mail() as HTML:

<?php
    $to = "[email protected]";

    $subject = "This is the subject";

    $headers = "From: Me<[email protected]>\r\n";
    $headers .= "Return-Path: [email protected]\r\n";
    $headers .= "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";
    $headers .= "Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8\r\n";
    $headers .= "X-Priority: 1\r\n";

    $message = "This is my <b>message</b>!";

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

But I want to support plain text and HTML. HTML for things like bold font and plain text to show This is my message! in non-html supporting email clients instead of This is my <b>message</b>!.

How can I do this?

I read about boundary. Is that what I'm looking for? But if so, how to use it? I don't understand it.

Yes, boundary is part of what you need. You can see a full example and explanation of how to do what you're looking to do here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10267840/sending-an-email-with-php-plain-text-and-html. — Ben Shoval, Feb 10 '17 at 13:08

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 10 '17 at 14:22

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I would strongly suggest you to use existing library like PHPMailer (https://github.com/PHPMailer/PHPMailer), which could do everything you need and even more.

$mail = new PHPMailer;
$mail->isHTML(true);
$mail->Body = '<b>Html body</b> here.';
$mail->AltBody = 'Normal text here.';

answered Feb 10 '17 at 14:22

Zapo

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I don't like libraries. – Feb 10 '17 at 16:19

PHP mail(); Send e-mail as plain text AND a HTML

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