What are the common challenges faced when parsing and formatting email content in PHP scripts?

One common challenge when parsing and formatting email content in PHP scripts is handling HTML content properly. To ensure that HTML tags are not displayed as plain text in the email, you can use the htmlspecialchars() function to escape special characters. Another challenge is dealing with line breaks and formatting issues. You can use the nl2br() function to convert newline characters to HTML line breaks for proper display in the email. 

// Escape special characters in HTML content
$htmlContent = "<p>Hello, <strong>world</strong>!</p>";
$formattedContent = htmlspecialchars($htmlContent);

// Convert newline characters to HTML line breaks
$textContent = "This is a line.\nThis is another line.";
$formattedText = nl2br($textContent);

// Send formatted content in email
$emailContent = "<html><body>{$formattedContent}<br>{$formattedText}</body></html>";
mail('recipient@example.com', 'Subject', $emailContent, 'Content-Type: text/html');

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