html email

[youngnoviceinneedofh]

Hi guys, i have finally got normal email to work with php, but I now want to be able to send html emails with it, from a form. This is the code that i have, but it doesnt send it as html, but just as text:

<?php

//define the subject of the email
$subject = $attn; 
//create a boundary string. It must be unique 
//so we use the MD5 algorithm to generate a random hash
$random_hash = md5(date('r', time())); 
//define the headers we want passed. Note that they are separated with \r\n
$headers = "From: $visitormail\r\n";
//add boundary string and mime type specification
$headers .= "\r\nContent-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=\"PHP-alt-".$random_hash."\""; 
$headers .= "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";
$headers .= "Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1\r\n";

//define the body of the message.
ob_start(); //Turn on output buffering
?>
--PHP-alt-<?php echo $random_hash; ?>  
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" 
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

<h1>Hello World!!! 
This is simple text email message. 

--PHP-alt-<?php echo $random_hash; ?>  
Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" 
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

<h2>Hello World!</h2>
<p>This is something with <b>HTML</b> formatting.</p> </h1>

--PHP-alt-<?php echo $random_hash; ?>--
<?
//copy current buffer contents into $message variable and delete current output buffer
$message = ob_get_clean();
//send the email
$mail_sent = @mail("[email protected]", $subject, $message, $headers );
//if the message is sent successfully print "Mail sent". Otherwise print "Mail failed" 
echo $mail_sent ? "Mail sent" : "Mail failed";
?>

The email comes out with this in it
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

<h1>Hello World!!!
This is simple text email message.

--PHP-alt-<?php echo $random_hash; ?>
Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

<h2>Hello World!</h2>
<p>This is something with <b>HTML</b> formatting.</p> </h1>

Can someone help.
Thanks
Alex

[CornedBee]

Don't you have to add a boundary before the first part, too?

[penagate]

HTML emails are an abomination. I strongly suggest you don't use them.

[youngnoviceinneedofh]

sorry not understanding boundaries, your probably right, what boundary do i need to add?