What is PHP mail?
PHP mail is the built in PHP function that is used to send emails from PHP scripts.
The mail function accepts the following parameters;
- Email address
- Subject
- Message
- CC or BCC email addresses
Syntax
mail($to_email_address,$subject,$message,[$headers],[$parameters]);
HERE,
- “$to_email_address” is the comma separated email address of the mail recipients
- “$subject” is the email subject
- “$message” is the message to be sent.
- “[$headers]” is optional, it can be used to include information such as CC, BCC
- CC is the acronym for carbon copy. It’s used when you want to send a copy to an interested person i.e. a complaint email sent to a company can also be sent as CC to the complaints board.
- BCC is the acronym for blind carbon copy. It is similar to CC. The email addresses included in the BCC section will not be shown to the other recipients.
- “$parameters” is optional. Specifies an additional parameter to the sendmail program (the one defined in the sendmail_path configuration setting). (i.e. this can be used to set the envelope sender address when using sendmail with the -f sendmail option)
Example to Send a simple email:
<?php
// the message
$msg = "Example to send a simple email";
// send email
mail("[email protected]","Your subject",$msg);
?>
The mail method will returns TRUE if the mail was successfully accepted for delivery, FALSE otherwise.
Example to Send an HTML email:
<?php
$to = "[email protected], [email protected]";
$subject = "Example of the HTML email";
$message = "
<html>
<head>
<title>Example of the HTML email</title>
</head>
<body>
<table>
<tr>
<th>Name</th>
<th>Job</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>tony stark</td>
<td>Actor</td>
</tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>
";
// Set content-type when sending HTML email
$headers = "MIME-Version: 1.0" . "\r\n";
$headers .= "Content-type:text/html;charset=UTF-8" . "\r\n";
// Headers
$headers .= 'From: <[email protected]>' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'Cc: [email protected]' . "\r\n";
mail($to,$subject,$message,$headers);
?>
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