display links in php

Question

I know this is simple but my brain is fried from trying to solve a different problem!

I'm using php's mail function to email the user. Below is my code. See the a href link, how do I get this to display as an actual link within the php?

$email=someone@example.com;
$content= "Dear Whoever,    
NB: Please click <a href=\"document.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here</a> to read and download the terms and conditions.";

mail( "$email", "Welcome", $content, "From: support@example.com"); 

Answer 1

As noted above, your code has error. It should be:

email='someone@example.com';
$content= "Dear Whoever,    
NB: Please click <a href=\"document.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here</a> to read and download the terms and conditions.";

mail( $email, "Welcome", $content, "From: support@example.com"); 

You would need to set the mime type to HTML in the header, and use it as a parameter in the mail() function.

From the manual

// To send HTML mail, the Content-type header must be set
$headers  = 'MIME-Version: 1.0' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1' . "\r\n";

// Additional headers
$headers .= 'To: Mary <mary@example.com>, Kelly <kelly@example.com>' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'From: Birthday Reminder <birthday@example.com>' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'Cc: birthdayarchive@example.com' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'Bcc: birthdaycheck@example.com' . "\r\n";

// Mail it
mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);

Though I usually use SwiftMailer and it has other neat features.