PHP-Email: Sending a Simple Email (Part 1)

This is a part of tutorial series about sending email in PHP. We know, many different type of email get sent. Email can contains file attachments, inline images, dual format (HTML/text), and so on. We begin with simple email. It use basic function, mail().
To understand how to send a simple email, you can look following code:

02	// Setting a timezone, mail() uses this.

03	date_default_timezone_set('America/New_York');

04

05	// Set email address destination and subject

06	$to = 'example@phpeveryday.com';

07	$subject = 'Test Text Email Only';

08

09	// Define the headers we want passed.

10	//Note that they are separated by \r\n

11	$headers = "From: me@mysite.com\r\nX-Mailer: Custom PHP Script";

12

13	// Your message here:

14	$body = "Hi.\n\nHello World!\n\nRegards,\n\nWiwit.";

15

16	// Finally, send the email

17	mail($to, $subject, $body, $headers);

18

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