embedding images and formatting html into a email with php script

[greggd]

Im trying to setup a php email submit script that will allow me to embed images and format the email with html. There was an example on this forum but comments are no longer allowed. When I try to use the code from the example, the email shows the html tags. When I try to modify the posted example to work with my script the script seems to fail and does not send a email. I need some help finding out why the html formating is not working.

Thanks
Gregg

Here is my script that is failing.

if(isset($_POST)) {

// CHANGE THE TWO LINES BELOW
$email_to = “[email protected]”;

function died($error) {
// your error code can go here
echo “We are very sorry, but there were error(s) found with the form you submitted. “;
echo “These errors appear below.

“;
echo $error.”

“;
echo “Please go back and fix these errors.

“;
die();
}

// validation expected data exists
if(!isset($_POST) ||
!isset($_POST) ||
!isset($_POST) ||
!isset($_POST) ||
!isset($_POST))
{
died(‘We are sorry, but there appears to be a problem with the form you submitted.’);
}

$first_name = $_POST; // required
$email_from = $_POST; // required
$email_doctor = $_POST; // required
$output_comments = $_POST;
$comments = $_POST; // required

$error_message = “”;
$email_exp = ‘/^[A-Za-z0-9._%-]+@[A-Za-z0-9.-]+.[A-Za-z]{2,4}$/’;
if(!preg_match($email_exp,$email_from)) {
$error_message .= ‘The Patient Email you entered does not appear to be valid.
‘;
}

if(!preg_match($email_exp,$email_doctor)) {
$error_message .= ‘The Doctor Email you entered does not appear to be valid.
‘;
}
$string_exp = “/^[A-Za-z .’-]+$/”;
if(!preg_match($string_exp,$first_name)) {
$error_message .= ‘The First Name you entered does not appear to be valid.
‘;
}
if(strlen($comments) < 2) {
$error_message .= ‘The Comments you entered do not appear to be valid.
‘;
}
if(strlen($error_message) > 0) {
died($error_message);
}

function clean_string($string) {
$bad = array(“content-type”,”bcc:”,”to:”,”cc:”,”href”);
return str_replace($bad,””,$string);
}
// format the message
$email_message = “Form details below.nn”;
$email_message = ‘‘;
$email_message .= ‘‘;
$email_message .= “First Name: “.clean_string($first_name).”n”;
$email_message .= “Patient Email: “.clean_string($email_from).”n”;
$email_message .= “Doctor Email: “.clean_string($email_doctor).”n”;
$email_message .= “OutPut Comments: “.clean_string($output_comments).”n”;
$email_message .= “Comments: “.clean_string($comments).”n”;
$email_message .= ““;

// format the subject
$email_subject = “referral form for ” .$first_name ;
// create email headers
$headers = ‘MIME-Version: 1.0’ . “rn”;
$headers .= ‘Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1’ . “rn”;
$headers = ‘From: ‘.$email_doctor.”rn”.
‘Reply-To: ‘.$email_doctor.”rn” .
‘CC: ‘.$email_doctor. ‘,’ .$email_to.”rn” .
‘X-Mailer: PHP/’ . phpversion();
@mail($email_from, $email_subject, $email_message, $headers);

?>

Thank you for contacting us. We will be in touch with you very soon.

}
die();
?>

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