PHP and MySQL

16.2    Sending Mails with PHP

To anticipate one thing, sending e-mails with PHP is a very trivial matter in principle because there is only one function that is responsible for this:

bool mail ( string to, string subject, string message [, string additional_   headers [, string additional_params]])  

The five parameters, of which only the first three are mandatory, represent the following information:

• Receiver

• Subject

• Mail message

• Additional mail headers (e.g., "X-Sender: PHP")

• Additional parameters for the mail program (Unix/Linux only; e.g., setting the sender address with -f, which is sometimes prevented for security reasons)

Tip

The use of named function arguments is a logical choice here.

16.2.1    Standard Mails

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