cron sends html source not a html email

**ctbhost** · 12-31-2004 12:32 AM

i have setup a cron job to yrun a php script - the scrip, if run from a browser shows the results fine but when the cron runs it - the email i get has just the source code in it rather than a html page. how do i get it to send as a html email ???

i get

Content-type: text/html
X-Powered-By: PHP/4.3.9

<html>
<title>the hello page</title>
<head>
<body>
hello world
</body>
</html>

instead of just

hello world

any advise would be great

**elleryjh** · 01-02-2005 11:05 AM

I don't think there's any way to send html mail with cron. I suppose you could send the email in the script and have no output. My advice would be to just remove all the html from the script that is being run in cron.

**ctbhost** · 01-02-2005 11:12 AM

Originally Posted by elleryjh

I suppose you could send the email in the script and have no output.

thats a good idea - didnt think of that

Thanks

**chirpy** · 01-02-2005 11:12 AM

Indeed. If you want HTML emails, you'll need to modify your PHP script to send out the email and set the content-type in the email header to text/html. You cannot expect cron to do that, it simply sends a plain text email when reporting output.

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