Send Mail Using mail() Function in PHP
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. from@yourdomain.com for
http://yourdomain.com site.
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- <?php
- $to = 'myfriend@gmail.com';
- $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'."\r\n";
- $headers .= 'Reply-To: from@email.me'."\r\n";
- $headers .= 'Return-Path: from@email.me'."\r\n";
- $headers .= 'X-Mailer: PHP5'."\n";
- $headers .= 'MIME-Version: 1.0'."\n";
- $headers .= 'Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1'."\r\n";
- mail($to, $subject, $body, $headers);
- ?>