HTML email with PHP tags

Hi Guys,

Not sure if this is possible.

If I'm sending HTML emails, how can I include PHP tags? I've tried the
standard <?php tags and just inserting them anyway, but neither seem to
work. I really just want to format the text to make it look better
rather than putting images etc.

I.e. using this example from sitepoint.com

<?php
mail('recipient@xxxxxxxx', 'Subject',
'<html><body><p>Your <i>message</i> here.</p></body></html>',
"To: The Receiver <recipient@xxxxxxxx>\n" .
"From: The Sender <sender@xxxxxxxx>\n" .
"MIME-Version: 1.0\n" .
"Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1");
?>

Within the <html> tags I'd like to include variables like $usernames
etc.

Thanks

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