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mail script in php

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Can you post the mail method? To send an email, the smtp address or something else is needed...

cowabunga1984 2010-05-20 05:48:16

Answer 2

+1 A:

Here is a wrapper function I use to send emails (text or html):

// $Sender: Sender email
// $Recipient: Recipient email
// $Subject: Email subject
// $Detail: Plain text or HTML (should include <html> and <body> tags)
// $Type: TEXT or HTML

function sendmail( $Sender, $Recipient, $Subject, $Detail, $Type )
{
    switch ( $Type )
    {
        case "TEXT":
            $Header  = "From: $Sender\n";
            break;
        case "HTML":
            $Header  = "From: $Sender\n";
            $Header .= "MIME-Version: 1.0\n";
            $Header .= "Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\n";
            break;
    }
    return mail( $Recipient, $Subject, $Detail, $Header );
}

Salman A 2010-05-20 06:15:03

Answer 3

A:

Can you clarify whether you are having trouble sending emails using this method? From what I can see, your code is good, and should operate without any problems.

I just tested this code, myself, and it works fine.

It should be noted that the mail() function returns TRUE on success and FALSE on failure so echoing that is not a terribly useful thing to do. (You'll just get "1" if it worked and "0" if it didn't.)

If you are wanting to include more advanced features and facilities in your emails, however, you may want to look at PHPmailer, which is a PHP Class allowing for the sending of HTML Emails, changing various settings like the Sender's email address and name, etc.

Lucanos 2010-05-20 06:31:49

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