PHP provides you with built in mail () function to send emails. The general syntax of this function is given below.
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PHP Mail Function Syntax
mail(to,subject,message,headers,parameters);
In PHP, 4 parameters are passed inside the mail () function –
to – In this we put the email id you want to send the mail to.
subject – in this we write the subject of the email.
message – put any message you want to send in it.
headers – this is an optional field, in which you have to give from, cc, bcc etc.
parameters – This is also an optional field.
Example 1:- sendmail.php
<?php
$from = "yourmailid@gmail.com"
$to = "tomailid@gmail.com";
$subject = "My Message : - Experts PHP";
$message = "<h1>Hello Friend, I am Experts PHP.</h1>";
$header = "From : ".$from."\r\n";
$header .= "MIME-Version : 1.0 \r\n";
$header .= "Content-type : text/html \r\n";
if(mail ($to,$subject,$message,$header)){
echo "Email sent successfully.";
}
else{
echo "Email cannot sent.";
}
?>
Example 2:- sendmail.php
<?php
$to = 'jyoti@email.com';
$subject = 'Marriage Proposal';
$from = 'yourmailid@email.com';
$headers = 'MIME-Version: 1.0' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'From: '.$from."\r\n".
'Reply-To: '.$from."\r\n" .
'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion();
$message = '<html><body>';
$message .= '<h1 style="color:red;">Hi Jyoti ji!</h1>';
$message .= '<p style="color:green;font-size:16px;">Will you marry me?</p>';
$message .= '</body></html>';
// Sending email
if(mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers)){
echo 'Your mail has been sent successfully.';
} else{
echo 'Unable to send email. Please try again.';
}
?>
Cc:- Message is sent to more than one email id from Cc (Carbon copy). The receiver who is the receiver sees all the email id of Cc.
Bcc:- Message is sent to more than one email id from Bcc (Blind carbon copy). But the receiver who is the receiver does not see the email id of Bcc.