Php mail function
Oct 28, 2009 Home -> Beginners, Php
The mail() function allows you to send emails directly from a script. This function returns TRUE if the email was successfully accepted for delivery, otherwise it returns FALSE.
bool mail ( string $to , string $subject , string $message [, string $additional_headers [, string $additional_parameters ]] )
To send email using PHP, you use the mail() function. This accepts 5 parameters as follows (the last 2 are optional)
| to | Required. The recipient’s email address. |
| subject | Required. The email’s subject line. |
| message | Required. The actual email body. |
| headers | Optional. Additional header fields such as “From”, “Cc”, “Bcc” etc. |
| parameters | Optional. Any additional parameters. |
You can email as a text type mail or html mail.
A simple text type mail example :
<?php
$to = ‘nobody@example.com’;
$subject = ‘the subject’;
$message = ‘hello’;
$headers = ‘From: webmaster@example.com’ . “\r\n” .
‘Reply-To: webmaster@example.com’ . “\r\n” .
‘X-Mailer: PHP/’ . phpversion();
mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);
?>
A simple html mail example :
// multiple recipients
$to = ‘nobody@example.com’ . ‘, ‘; // note the comma
$to .= ‘admin@example.com’;
// subject
$subject = ‘Birthday Reminders for August’;
// message
$message = ‘
<html>
<head>
<title>Birthday Reminders for August</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>Here are the birthdays upcoming in August!</p>
<table>
<tr>
<th>Person</th><th>Day</th><th>Month</th><th>Year</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Joe</td><td>3rd</td><td>August</td><td>1970</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Sally</td><td>17th</td><td>August</td><td>1973</td>
</tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>
‘;
// To send HTML mail, the Content-type header must be set
$headers = ‘MIME-Version: 1.0′ . “\r\n”;
$headers .= ‘Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1′ . “\r\n”;
// Additional headers
$headers .= ‘To: nobody , nobody ‘ . “\r\n”;
$headers .= ‘From: Birthday Reminder ‘ . “\r\n”;
$headers .= ‘Cc: admin1@example.com’ . “\r\n”;
$headers .= ‘Bcc: admin2@example.com’ . “\r\n”;
// Mail it
mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);
?>
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