05 Apr 2015

Day 23: Sending Emails in PHP

Posted in PHP, PHP step by step tutorials By bestonetechnologies On April 5, 2015

mail() function is use to send an email in PHP.

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

mail function requires 3 mandatory arguments and 2 optional arguments:

Parameter	Description
to	Required field. Specifies the receiver / receivers email id.
subject	Required field. Specifies the subject of the email.
message	Required. Specifies the message to be sent.
headers	Optional. Specifies additional headers, like From, Cc, and Bcc.
parameters	Optional. Specifies an additional parameter to the send in email

Example 1: Send an email.

<?php
$to = “mailto@example.com”;
$subject = “php email example”;
$msg = “Your message here.”;
mail($to,$subject,$msg);
?>

Example 2: Sending HTML in email.

<?php
$to = “mailto@example.com”;
$subject = “Sending HTML in email”;
$msg = “<html><head><title>HTML email</title></head><body><p>Sending email with html constants.</p>
<table><tr><td>User Name : </td> <td>Albert</td></tr> <tr><td>Password : </td> <td>12345</td></tr>
</table></body></html>”;

// headers parameter is required when sending HTML email as below:
$headers = “MIME-Version: 1.0” . “\r\n”;
$headers .= “Content-type:text/html;charset=UTF-8” . “\r\n”;

// More values that we can pass in headers
$headers .= ‘From: ‘ . “\r\n”;
$headers .= ‘Cc: myboss@example.com’ . “\r\n”;

if(mail($to,$subject,$message,$headers)) {
echo “Mail sent successfully”;
} else {
echo “Error while sending mail.”;
}
?>

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