Php Mail

Here I will show you the complete tutorial to send mails using php

To send email using PHP, you use the mail() function. This accepts 5 parameters as follows (the last 2 are optional)

mail(to,subject,message,headers,parameters)

Parameter	Description
to	Required. The recipient's email address.
subject	Required. The email's subject line.
message	Required. The actual email body.
headers	Optional. Additional header fields such as "From", "Cc", "Bcc" etc.
parameters	Optional. Any additional parameters.

Examples

Simple Mail

 "Thank you for registering!",
 "Hello ayon, thank you for the tutorial!",
 "From: viewer@somebloggersite.com");
?>

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// Set up parameters
$to = "exampleayon@qmail.com";//or $_GET/$_POST['postorgetvalue']; To get value from forms.
$subject = "Thanks";
$message = "Hello ayon, thank you for the tutorial!";
$from = "viewer@somebloggersite.com";//or $_GET/$_POST['postorgetvalue']; To get value from forms.
$headers = "From: $from";

// Send email
mail($to,$subject,$message,$headers);

// Inform the user
echo "Thanks for registering! We have just sent you an email with your password.";
?>

Advance Html Mails

//add From: header
$headers = "From: webserver@localhost\r\n";

//specify MIME version 1.0
$headers .= "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";

//unique boundary
$boundary = uniqid("HTMLDEMO");

//tell e-mail client this e-mail contains//alternate versions
$headers .= "Content-Type: multipart/alternative" .
"; boundary = $boundary\r\n\r\n";

//message to people with clients who don't
//understand MIME
$headers .= "This is a MIME encoded message.\r\n\r\n";

//plain text version of message
$headers .= "--$boundary\r\n" .
"Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1\r\n" .
"Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64\r\n\r\n";
$headers .= chunk_split(base64_encode("This is the plain text version!"));

//HTML
version of message
$headers .= "--$boundary\r\n" .
"Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1\r\n" .
"Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64\r\n\r\n";
$headers .= chunk_split(base64_encode("This the HTML version!"));

//send
message
mail("root@localhost", "An HTML Message", "", $headers);
?>

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