PHP Script to send Email

PHP Script to send Email

Now a days PHP is most commonly used language for developing web applications and is also flexible, as it provides several features that reduces the human efforts and several programs can be made in PHP that would be responsive and will work automatically whenever required. Today, we will discuss about similar PHP applcation that is PHP Script to send email.

PHP Script to send email

There is a simple built in function in PHP for sending mails that is mail() function, this PHP function allows us to send mail to anyone on the internet.

PHP mail() Function

Here you will learn sending simple mail using PHP mail() function

<?php
// the message
$msg = "First line of text\nSecond line of text";

// use wordwrap() if lines are longer than 70 characters
$msg = wordwrap($msg,70);

// send email
mail("someone@example.com","My subject",$msg);
?>

Syntax of PHP mail() function

Here is the syntax of PHP mail() Function

mail(to,subject,message,headers,parameters);

To : Here you have to specify the Receivers email
Subject : Here subject of the email is specified.
message : In this part comes the main message which to want to mail to anyone.
header : It is optional part that can be used for specifying additional headers like cc, bcc from etc
parameters : It is optional and can be used for specifying some additional parameters to send mail program

NOTE - Minimum version of PHP 4 is required for using mail() function.

Example

<?php
$to = "somebody@example.com, somebodyelse@example.com";
$subject = "HTML email";

$message = "
<html>
<head>
<title>HTML email</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>
This email contains HTML Tags!</p>
<table>
<tr>
<th>Firstname</th>
<th>Lastname</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>John</td>
<td>Doe</td>
</tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>
";

// Always set content-type when sending HTML email
$headers = "MIME-Version: 1.0" . "\r\n";
$headers .= "Content-type:text/html;charset=UTF-8" . "\r\n";

// More headers
$headers .= 'From: <webmaster@example.com>' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'Cc: myboss@example.com' . "\r\n";

mail($to,$subject,$message,$headers);
?>

This was all about PHP Script to send email, simply we have used mail function for sending mail. If you are facing some problem or want to share something you are free to comment below.

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