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I am trying to create an autoresponder email and the content is a PHP variable. I want it to output HTML code and right now it's not. 

//Example:
$respondmessage = " Hello $fullname,
 We are confirming your Appointment today!
Please <a href="http://yourlink.com/">click here to confirm</a>!
";

This outputs:

Hello Your Name,
 We are confirming your Appointment today!
Please <a href="http://yourlink.com/">click here to confirm</a>!

In the email. Is there a way to make the email accept HTML code?

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How are you sending the email? You can send emails in HTML format, but by default they'll be plain text. – andrewsi yesterday
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Show the entire relevant PHP code. BTW you forgot to put backslash before the double-quotes – Dor yesterday

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You can following line as an header in your code :

$headers = "Content-type: text/html\r\n";

This will help you to create email into HTML

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From http://php.net/manual/en/function.mail.php example# 4

<?php

// multiple recipients
$to = '[email protected]' . ', '; // note the comma
$to .= '[email protected]';

// subject
$subject = 'Birthday Reminders for August';

// message
$message = '
<html>
<head>
  <title>Birthday Reminders for August</title>
</head>
<body>
  <p>Here are the birthdays upcoming in August!</p>
  <table>
    <tr>
      <th>Person</th><th>Day</th><th>Month</th><th>Year</th>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>Joe</td><td>3rd</td><td>August</td><td>1970</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>Sally</td><td>17th</td><td>August</td><td>1973</td>
    </tr>
  </table>
</body>
</html>
';

// 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 <[email protected]>, Kelly <[email protected]>' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'From: Birthday Reminder <[email protected]>' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'Cc: [email protected]' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'Bcc: [email protected]' . "\r\n";

// Mail it
mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);
?>
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Assuming you're using the built in mail function in PHP:

<?php
// multiple recipients
$to  = '[email protected]' . ', '; // note the comma
$to .= '[email protected]';

// subject
$subject = 'Birthday Reminders for August';

// message
$message = '
<html>
<head>
  <title>Birthday Reminders for August</title>
</head>
<body>
  <p>Here are the birthdays upcoming in August!</p>
  <table>
    <tr>
      <th>Person</th><th>Day</th><th>Month</th><th>Year</th>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>Joe</td><td>3rd</td><td>August</td><td>1970</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>Sally</td><td>17th</td><td>August</td><td>1973</td>
    </tr>
  </table>
</body>
</html>
';

// 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";

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

This example is from: http://us2.php.net/manual/en/function.mail.php

The important part is the $headers variable.

By the way, as andrewsi mentioned - you need to escape your quotes:

$respondmessage = "Hello $fullname,
    We are confirming your Appointment today!
    Please <a href=\"http://yourlink.com/\">click here to confirm</a>!";
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This looks like what I need! Thank you! I will test this out in an hour or so and let you know how it works for me! I looked up something earlier and it said something about the charset but couldn't find a definite answer. Thanks again! Will let you know! – Phil Mulkins yesterday

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