mail

(PHP 3, PHP 4 )

mail -- send mail

Description

bool mail (string to, string subject, string message [, string additional_headers])

Mail() automatically mails the message specified in message to the receiver specified in to. Multiple recipients can be specified by putting a comma between each address in to.

Example 1. Sending mail.

mail("rasmus@lerdorf.on.ca", "My Subject", "Line 1\nLine 2\nLine 3");
      

If a fourth string argument is passed, this string is inserted at the end of the header. This is typically used to add extra headers. Multiple extra headers are separated with a newline.

Example 2. Sending mail with extra headers.

mail("nobody@aol.com", "the subject", $message,
     "From: webmaster@$SERVER_NAME\nReply-To: webmaster@$SERVER_NAME\nX-Mailer: PHP/" . phpversion());
      
You can also use fairly simple string building techniques to build complex email messages.

Example 3. Sending complex email.

/* recipients */
$recipient .= "Mary <mary@u.college.edu>" . ", " ; //note the comma
$recipient .= "Kelly <kelly@u.college.edu> . ", ";
$recipient .= "ronabop@php.net";

/* subject */
$subject = "Birthday Reminders for August";

/* message */
$message .= "The following email includes a formatted ASCII table\n";
$message .= "Day \t\tMonth \t\tYear\n";
$message .= "3rd \t\tAug \t\t1970\n";
$message .= "17rd\t\tAug \t\t1973\n";

/* you can add a stock signature */ 
$message .= "--\r\n"; //Signature delimiter
$message .= "Birthday reminder copylefted by public domain";

/* additional header pieces for errors, From cc's, bcc's, etc */

$headers .= "From: Birthday Reminder <birthday@php.net>\n";
$headers .=