HTML mail with dyanmic values

Here is what I need to do. I need to be able to dynamically generate custom emails. I have been using PHP's mail() function, but I have been encouraged to try phpmailer or Zendmail. But it doesn't seem to be able to handle custom emails.
What I need to do is be able to grab values from the form and insert them into the body of the message. I've been doing:
$message = '<html><body><p>First name: ' $first . '<br/><br/>';
$message .= ...(rest of message)
Then I do:
mail($recipient, $subject, $message, $headers); using the right headers for HTML.
Is there a way to do what I want with phpmailer or Zendmail? Is there a way to do this in OOP instead that might improve on what are getting to be very lengthy pages? I'd appreciate some guidance.

Solution:

Using phpmailer you could try the code below.
$message = '<html><body><p>First name: '. $first . '<br/><br/>';

$mailer = new PHPMailer();
// other fields / properties
$mailer->Subject = $subject;
$mailer->AddAddress($receipient);
$mailer->IsHTML(true);
$mailer->Body = $message;
$mailer->Send();
you'd need to set the other fields for it to work properly though.

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