How to send html email using Amazon SES in PHP - php

Question

I am a complete noob in AWS. I configured AWS SES today and now I am able to send an email to a recipient using this code.
<?php
// Replace sender#example.com with your "From" address.
// This address must be verified with Amazon SES.
define('SENDER', 'sender email');
// Replace recipient#example.com with a "To" address. If your account
// is still in the sandbox, this address must be verified.
define('RECIPIENT', 'recipient email');
// Replace smtp_username with your Amazon SES SMTP user name.
define('USERNAME','my username');
// Replace smtp_password with your Amazon SES SMTP password.
define('PASSWORD','my password');
// If you're using Amazon SES in a region other than US West (Oregon),
// replace email-smtp.us-west-2.amazonaws.com with the Amazon SES SMTP
// endpoint in the appropriate region.
define('HOST', 'email-smtp.us-west-2.amazonaws.com');
// The port you will connect to on the Amazon SES SMTP endpoint.
define('PORT', '587');
// Other message information
define('SUBJECT','Hello from Driffle!');
define('BODY','Test Email');
require_once 'Mail.php';
$headers = array (
'From' => SENDER,
'To' => RECIPIENT,
'Subject' => SUBJECT);
$smtpParams = array (
'host' => HOST,
'port' => PORT,
'auth' => true,
'username' => USERNAME,
'password' => PASSWORD
);
// Create an SMTP client.
$mail = Mail::factory('smtp', $smtpParams);
// Send the email.
$result = $mail->send(RECIPIENT, $headers, BODY);
if (PEAR::isError($result)) {
echo("Email not sent. " .$result->getMessage() ."\n");
} else {
echo("Email sent!"."\n");
}
?>
But when I try to send an html formatted email. The output email returns plain text. Looking for a solution to send html emails through Amazon SES.

Answer 1

Found it. I was doing it a bit wrong, but this works...
Add these headers:
'Mime-Version' => '1.0',
'Content-Type' => 'text/html; charset="ISO-8859-1"',
Then submit the body as HTML markup (keep it simple as possible to begin with - it does not need to be a "page" necessarily).
bh

Answer 2

added content-type in $headers . It worked for me
require_once 'Mail.php';
$headers = array (
'Content-Type' => "text/html; charset=UTF-8", // <- add this line
'From' => SENDER,
'To' => RECIPIENT,
'Subject' => SUBJECT);