I am using the following code for sending info from a form to an email address. It is working very nicely, however I am new to the world of PHP. I know that "\n" works as a line break. I am eager to learn more PHP text styling, like how would I make bold text, headers etc. appear in the email I receive?

<?php
$recipient = "email@email.net";

$subject = "Message from $firstname $lastname";

$content = "Name: $firstname $lastname \n Email: $email) \n Message: $message";

mail($recipient, $subject, $content) or die("Could not send email!");
?>

I suppose what I'm really looking for is a good link. Thanks in advance.

\n\r

Anyways, you will want to watch out for form injection and such.

Don't give him a link to an over-complecated script when he wants to learn. There may not be any point in inventing the bike, but it's a fun and rewarding thing to do.

Pear also has a very nice class for sending mail

http://pear.php.net/mail