{"id":943,"date":"2013-07-22T15:14:31","date_gmt":"2013-07-22T22:14:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jim-zimmerman.com\/?p=943"},"modified":"2013-07-22T15:41:22","modified_gmt":"2013-07-22T22:41:22","slug":"sending-email-from-php-using-mail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jim-zimmerman.com\/?p=943","title":{"rendered":"Sending email from PHP using mail()."},"content":{"rendered":"

To send text email from PHP:<\/p>\n

tomailaddress<\/em>‘;
\n$from = ‘frommailaddress<\/em>‘;
\n$subject = ‘Here is my subject.’;
\n$message = ‘Some text in the body of the message.’;<\/p>\n

$headers .= ‘X-Priority:1 (Highest)’ . “\\r\\n”;
\n$headers .= ‘From: ‘ . $from . “\\r\\n”;
\nmail( $to, $subject, $message, $headers) or print ‘Could not send mail’;
\n?>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

To send HTML email from PHP:<\/p>\n

tomailaddress<\/em>‘;
\n$from = ‘frommailaddress<\/em>‘;
\n$subject = ‘Here is my subject.’;
\n$message = ‘
\n<HTML>
\n<BODY>
\n <B>
\n Some bold text
\n <\/B>
\n <P>
\n Some other HTML stuff.
\n<\/BODY>
\n<\/HTML>
\n‘;<\/p>\n

$headers = ‘MIME-Version: 1.0’ . “\\r\\n”;
\n$headers .= ‘Content-type: text\/html; charset=iso-8859-1’ . “\\r\\n”;
\n$headers .= ‘X-Priority:1 (Highest)’ . “\\r\\n”;
\n$headers .= ‘From: ‘ . $from . “\\r\\n”;
\nmail( $to, $subject, $message, $headers) or print ‘Could not send mail’;
\n?>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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