Sending Mail From PHP
PHP provide mail() function to sent mail from PHP scripts. Unlike many other programming languages, sending mail from PHP is very easy.
First Mail Script
day_12_ex_1.php
In following script, edit the variable $toEmail and put your email address.
You can also change $subject and $body variables.
PHP Code:
<?php
$toEmail = 'PUT YOUR EMAIL ADDR HERE';
$subject = 'WRITE SUBJECT HERE';
$body = '
Hi,
This is my test email body.
Thanks,
Day 12 Mailer
';
mail($toEmail, $subject, $body);
echo 'Mail sent to ' . $toEmail;
Once you run the script, you will get message saying Mail sent.
Since we don't provide FROM email address, it will use servers hostname.
Adding FROM Address
day_12_ex_2.php
PHP Code:
<?php
$toEmail = 'PUT YOUR EMAIL ADDR HERE';
$fromEmail = '[email protected]';
$subject = 'WRITE SUBJECT HERE';
$body = '
Hi,
This is my test email body.
Thanks,
Day 12 Mailer
';
$headers = 'From: ' . $fromEmail;
mail($toEmail, $subject, $body, $headers);
echo 'Mail sent to ' . $toEmail;
Creating A Contact Us Form
For most web sites, we will need a contact us Form to sent mail to webmaster. This will hide real email address from public. To create a contact us form, we need 2 web pages, one will show the contact us HTML form page, other will sent mail. Both can be combined into one single PHP script, but lets make 2 files, so it will be less complicated.
day_12_ex_3.html
PHP Code:
<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<title>Contact Us</title>
</head>
<body>
<form action="day_12_ex_3.php" method="POST">
Email<br>
<input type="text" name="fromEmail"><br>
Message<br>
<textarea name="body" cols="30" rows="10"></textarea>
<br>
<button type="submit" name="submit" value="submit">Send Mail</button>
</form>
</body>
</html>
day_12_ex_3.php
This script will handle data submitted by FORM page day_12_ex_3.htrml and sent mail to site owner. You don't have to directly access this page. If you access, script will die with out doing anything.
PHP Code:
<?php
if (isset($_POST['submit'])) {
$fromEmail = $POST['fromEmail'];
$body = $_POST['body'];
mail('[email protected]','Message from web site', $body, 'From: ' . $fromEmail . "\n\r");
echo 'Thank you for contacting us.';
} else {
die('Why are you here ? Want to hack my Script ?');
}
Exercise
Try to combine the HTML page and PHP page in example 3 into one single PHP page, this can be done by showing the HTML form page code instead of
PHP Code:
die('Why are you here ? Want to hack my Script ?');
in day_12_ex_3.php script.
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