Send email using PHP

[virus05]

Hello,

How can I send email using PHP code

 

[brettzuya]

i think its to impossible to do!!!i haven't try that before.

 

[Hazirak]

It is, in fact, possible. There's even a built-in function that does exactly that:

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

"to" is who you're sending the email to.

"subject" is the subject line of the email.

"message" is the email message itself.

"headers" are things like From:, Cc:, and Bcc: in that order. You must at least include a From: address, the other two fields are optional. Each field in here should be separated by a newline character ("\n").

Example:

mail("to@example.com", "Test Email Message", "This is a test email message, please disregard.","from@example.com");

 

[DeadBattery]

Thread Moved to Programming Help

 

[marshian]

The mail() function is indeed the basic way to send mail using php.
However, you made a mistake with the headers. All headers must be separated by "\r\n", not just by "\n". And this is wrong in your example too...

$to = "to@example.com"; //Other possibilities: "Name <to@example.com>"
$subject = "Test Email Message"; //Plain text
$message = "This is a test email message, please disregard."; //You can also use HTML or any other content type here.
$headers = "From: $from"; //The "From: " part is required!
$headers .= "\r\n"; //Separation mark
$headers .= "Content-type: text/plain"; //You aren't limited to just from, bcc etc headers.
$headers .= "\r\n\r\n"; //Double one to end it.
mail($from, $subject, $message, $headers);

mail headers are like html headers, you can give loads more than just from.

- Marshian

 

[woiwky]

The mail() function is indeed the basic way to send mail using php.
However, you made a mistake with the headers. All headers must be separated by "\r\n", not just by "\n". And this is wrong in your example too...

$to = "to@example.com"; //Other possibilities: "Name <to@example.com>"
$subject = "Test Email Message"; //Plain text
$message = "This is a test email message, please disregard."; //You can also use HTML or any other content type here.
$headers = "From: $from"; //The "From: " part is required!
$headers .= "\r\n"; //Separation mark
$headers .= "Content-type: text/plain"; //You aren't limited to just from, bcc etc headers.
$headers .= "\r\n\r\n"; //Double one to end it.
mail($from, $subject, $message, $headers);

mail headers are like html headers, you can give loads more than just from.

- Marshian

You don't need a double or even a single CRLF(\r\n) at the end of the headers. The last header doesn't need to be followed by anything(with mail(), not speaking generally about http headers).

Also, I know it's just an example but it's worth mentioning that $from would have to be sanitized to exclude injections of additional headers. You'd usually use a regular expression or other such restrictive validation for the rare cases you use user input in headers. But at the least, you shouldn't allow \r or \n.

 

[gcottick]

Some sites seems pretty limited on the mail functions but everything I am trying on x10 (with intermediate PHP) seems to be working out fine.

Does anyone know the limit on the number of addresses in a BCC (no, this is not for spamming purposes!!?

Thank... Cy

 

[solucionesmalagonforo]

the number of accounts depends on your capacity

 

[Hazirak]

The mail() function is indeed the basic way to send mail using php.
However, you made a mistake with the headers. All headers must be separated by "\r\n", not just by "\n".

My bad. Too used to thinking of \r\n as a Windows Server thing.

 

[DefecTalisman]

If this topic is still open.
Here is a function I use to construct html mail headers.

   function constructHeader() // Construct the mail headers
	{
		$this->Header  = 'MIME-Version: 1.0'."\r\n";
		$this->Header .= 'Content-Type: text/html;charset=iso-8859-1'."\r\n";
		$this->Header .= 'X-Priority: 3 (Normal)'."\r\n";
		$this->Header .= 'X-MSMail-Priority: Normal'."\r\n";
	
		$this->Header .= 'To: '.$this->ToName.' <'.$this->ToAdd.'>'."\r\n";
		$this->Header .= 'Return-Path: '.$this->ToAdd."\r\n";
		$this->Header .= 'From: '.$this->FromName.' <'.$this->FromAdd.'>'."\r\n";
		$this->Header .= 'Reply-To: '.$this->FromName.' <'.$this->FromAdd.'>'."\r\n";
		$this->Header .= 'X-Mailer: PHP/'.phpversion();
	}

its OO but can be easily changed to straight php