email - How to send mail using PHP?

Question

I'm using Windows Vista OS. PHP, MySQL as the database and Apache web server.

I want to send notification to those who want to join in my site. But the problem is when I click submit. It doesn't send anything to the email address of the user.

What to do you think is the best solution for this?

<?php
$to = "recipient@example.com";
$subject = "Hi!";
$body = "Hi,

How are you?";
if (mail($to, $subject, $body)) {
  echo("<p>Message successfully sent!</p>");
 } else {
  echo("<p>Message delivery failed...</p>");
 }
?>

Answer 1

You have several options:

• there's built in mail function, but it requires that some MTA is running on the machine, doesn't support authentication, and you'll need to work hard to send attachments
• there's Pear Mail package, if you like to use Pear stuff
• there's a good PHPMailer class which I used in past few years and it works really great. It like it because it is very simple and easy to include in your project (just a simple include call), yet powerful