PHP Tutorials - Herong's Tutorial Examples - v5.17, by Herong Yang
Sending Out Emails from PHP Scripts
This section provides a tutorial example on how to configure the PHP engine to use the local SMTP mail server and write a PHP script to send an email.
Once we have a SMTP mail server ready to use, we are ready to try to send out emails from PHP scripts.
First you need to verify the PHP initialization file, \php\php.ini, to make sure that the following settings are configured correctly:
SMTP = localhost smtp_port = 25
Then write and run the following PHP script, MailTest.php:
<?php # MailTest.php #- Copyright 2009 (c) HerongYang.com. All Rights Reserved. # mail("nobody","Testing","This is a test.","From: herong@localhost"); ?>
Go check to see the email is delivered or not in a command window:
>dir \inetpub\mailroot\drop ... d9765b3001c54a1200000001.eml >type \inetpub\mailroot\drop\d9765b3001c54a1200000001.eml x-sender: herong@localhost x-receiver: nobody@localhost Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost with Microsoft... Subject: Testing To: nobody From: herong@localhost Return-Path: herong@localhost ...... This is a test.
If you can follow me to here, you have successfully used the PHP engine to send out an email from a PHP sample script.
Table of Contents
Introduction and Installation of PHP
PHP Data Types and Data Literals
Variables, References, and Constants
Expressions, Operations and Type Conversions
Conditional Statements - "if" and "switch"
Loop Statements - "while", "for", and "do ... while"
Function Declaration, Arguments, and Return Values
Interface with Operating System
Introduction of Class and Object
Integrating PHP with Apache Web Server
Retrieving Information from HTTP Requests
Creating and Managing Sessions in PHP Scripts
Sending and Receiving Cookies in PHP Scripts
Controlling HTTP Response Header Lines in PHP Scripts
MySQL Server Connection and Access Functions
Functions to Manage Directories, Files and Images
SOAP Extension Function and Calling Web Services
SOAP Server Functions and Examples
Localization Overview of Web Applications
Using Non-ASCII Characters in HTML Documents
Using Non-ASCII Characters as PHP Script String Literals
Receiving Non-ASCII Characters from Input Forms
"mbstring" Extension and Non-ASCII Encoding Management
Managing Non-ASCII Character Strings with MySQL Servers
Parsing and Managing HTML Documents
►Configuring and Sending Out Emails
Using Local Windows System as a Mail Server
►Sending Out Emails from PHP Scripts
Sending Out Emails on Linux Systems
Install PHPMailer on CentOS Systems
Send Local Emails with PHPMailer
Send Remote Emails with PHPMailer
Use SMTPS Protocol with PHPMailer
Install PHPMailer from Source Code
Managing PHP Engine and Modules on macOS