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Revision: 62359
at February 18, 2013 21:23 by apphp-snippets
Initial Code 
<?php
$to = '[email protected]';
$subject = 'Test Email';
$body = 'Body of your message here. You can use HTML tags also, e.g. <br><b>Bold</b>';
$headers = 'From: John Smith'."
";
$headers .= 'Reply-To: [email protected]'."
";
$headers .= 'Return-Path: [email protected]'."
";
$headers .= 'X-Mailer: PHP5'."\n";
$headers .= 'MIME-Version: 1.0'."\n";
$headers .= 'Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1'."
";
mail($to, $subject, $body, $headers);
?>
Initial URL 
http://www.apphp.com/index.php?snippet=php-send-mail-using-mail-function
Initial Description 
The mail() function allows you to send emails directly from a script. Remember, that most of shared hosting providers require (for security reasons) to use the domain name of your hosting in "FROM" email, e.g. [email protected] for http://yourdomain.com site.
Initial Title 
Send Mail using mail function in PHP
Initial Tags 
php, mail
Initial Language 
PHP