Question

I’m trying to send email using PHP. I found many posts here and I feel lost. I tried to use many codes but none of them works.

Finally, I read about PEAR and I have the following code, I’m working on Mac OSX 10.7.3 with MAMP having PHP 5.3.6.

What do I need to do to have the code works, it shows an error loading page!? Is there any configurations?

If anyone has a working example with instructions for configurations, please share.

<?php
require_once "Mail.php";

$recipients = '[e-mail]';

$headers['From']    = '[e-mail]';
$headers['To']      = '[e-mail]';
$headers['Subject'] = 'Test message';

$body = 'Test message';

$params['sendmail_path'] = '/usr/lib/sendmail';

// Create the mail object using the Mail::factory method
$mail_object =& Mail::factory('sendmail', $params);

$mail_object->send($recipients, $headers, $body);

if (PEAR::isError($mail)) {
  echo("<p>" . $mail->getMessage() . "</p>");
 } else {
  echo("<p>Message successfully sent!</p>");
 }
?>

Answer 1

With PHP sending an email couldn’t be simpler:

mail('[e-mail]', 'Subject', 'Here comes the message');

That’s it. Keep in mind that your server needs to be configured to send email though.

http://php.net/manual/en/function.mail.php