PHP mail() function is used to send eamils. We can send text email, HTML email, attachments with email using PHP mail() function.
PHP Syntax :
mail($to,$subject,$message,$headers,$extra_parameters);
Parameters,
$to - Required. Receiver, or receivers of the mail.
$subject - Required. Subject of the email to be sent.
$message - Required. Defines the message to be sent.
$headers - Optional. Specifies additional headers, like From, Cc, and Bcc. Multiple extra headers should be separated with a CRLF (\r\n).
$extra_parameters - Optional. Additional parameter can be used to the sendmail program like the one defined in the sendmail_path configuration setting. (Example, this can be used to set the envelope sender address when using sendmail with the -f sendmail option)
Email Configuration in php.ini
PHP must be configured correctly in the php.ini file with the details of how your system sends email. Open php.ini file available in /etc/ directory and find the section texted [mail function].
Configure smtp port, smtp server, send mail from, send email path , header as per as below in php.ini file
[mail function]
; For Win32 only.
; http://php.net/smtp
SMTP=localhost
; http://php.net/smtp-port
smtp_port=25
; For Win32 only.
; http://php.net/sendmail-from
;sendmail_from = [email protected]
; For Unix only. You may supply arguments as well (default: "sendmail -t -i").
; http://php.net/sendmail-path
;sendmail_path =
; Force the addition of the specified parameters to be passed as extra parameters
; to the sendmail binary. These parameters will always replace the value of
; the 5th parameter to mail().
;mail.force_extra_parameters =
; Add X-PHP-Originating-Script: that will include uid of the script followed by the filename
mail.add_x_header=On
; The path to a log file that will log all mail() calls. Log entries include
; the full path of the script, line number, To address and headers.
;mail.log =
; Log mail to syslog (Event Log on Windows).
;mail.log = syslog
Sending Simple Email
You can send simple email as per as below example.
PHP Example :
<?php
$msg = "Learn PHP by aryatechno. \n Learn HTML by aryatechno.";
// use wordwrap() if lines are longer than 70 characters
$msg = wordwrap($msg,70);
// send email
if(mail("[email protected]","Learn Tutorials",$msg))
{
echo "Email is sent successfully.";
}else {
echo "Email is not sent successfully.";
}
?>
Output:
Email is sent successfully.
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