phpeveryday.com

This is a part of tutorial series about sending email in PHP. We know, many different type of email get sent. Email can contains file attachments, inline images, dual format (HTML/text), and so on. We begin with simple email. It use basic function, mail().

To understand how to send a simple email, you can look following code:

  <?php
  // Setting a timezone, mail() uses this.
  date_default_timezone_set('America/New_York');

  // Set email address destination and subject
  $to = 'example@phpeveryday.com';
  $subject = 'Test Text Email Only';
  
  // Define the headers we want passed.  
//Note that they are separated by \r\n
  $headers = "From: me@mysite.com\r\nX-Mailer: Custom PHP Script";
 
  // Your message here:
  $body = "Hi.\n\nHello World!\n\nRegards,\n\nWiwit.";
  
  // Finally, send the email
  mail($to, $subject, $body, $headers);
  ?>