How to Send an Email Using PHP

This is a raw script on sending an email using php. Typically I would either post something to the script and insert into a database, this is however just the send mail itself, html formatted.


<?php

    //Single reciepent

    $to  = 'test@example.com';

    

    /* multiple recipients

    $to  = 'aidan@example.com' . ', '; // note the comma

    $to .= 'wez@example.com';

    */

    // subject

    $subject = 'The Subject';

    

    // message

    $message = '

        <html>

        <head>

          <title>The title of the html file</title>

        </head>

        <body>

          <p>Here is the test email</p>

          <table>

            <tr>

              <th>Person</th><th>Day</th><th>Month</th><th>Year</th>

            </tr>

            <tr>

              <td>Joe</td><td>3rd</td><td>August</td><td>1970</td>

            </tr>

            <tr>

              <td>Sally</td><td>17th</td><td>August</td><td>1973</td>

            </tr>

          </table>

        </body>

        </html>

    ';

    

    // To send HTML mail, the Content-type header must be set

    $headers  = 'MIME-Version: 1.0' . "\r\n";

    $headers .= 'Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1' . "\r\n";

    

    // Additional headers

    $headers .= 'To: Mary <mary@example.com>, Kelly <kelly@example.com>' . "\r\n";

    $headers .= 'From: The tester <thetester@example.com>' . "\r\n";

    $headers .= 'Cc: thetester1@example.com' . "\r\n";

    $headers .= 'Bcc: thetester2@example.com' . "\r\n";

    

    // Mail it

    mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);



//What to do after the email is sent

    header('Location: http://www.example.com/thetestemailsent/');

?>

You can read more about it on stackoverflow here.