Using PHP to send email

This feature is useful if you want your site to auto-send you alerts when a transaction is made, or user submits a request, etc. Here is a code to send a simple text email. You can find other codes (send HTML email, send email with attachments) at this site.

<?php //define the receiver of the email $to = 'youraddress@example.com'; //define the subject of the email $subject = 'Test email'; //define the message to be sent. Each line should be separated with \n $message = "Hello World!\n\nThis is my first mail."; //define the headers we want passed. Note that they are separated with \r\n $headers = "From: webmaster@example.com\r\nReply-To: webmaster@example.com"; //send the email $mail_sent = @mail( $to, $subject, $message, $headers ); //if the message is sent successfully print "Mail sent". Otherwise print "Mail failed"  echo $mail_sent ? "Mail sent" : "Mail failed"; ?>

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