Send an Email on PHP Application

Send an email through PHP is just simple as same as you turn back your both hands.

haha...

In this post, I assumed that you already understand about basic of PHP and POST method.

Okay, first of all, you have to create a HTML form first with this code below :

Email

Subject

Message

Please type your message.

form.html

 <form method="post">  
    <fieldset>  
    <legend>Email</legend>  
    <br />  
    <div class="form-group">  
       <label class="col-lg-2 control-label">Subject</label>  
       <br />  
       <div class="col-lg-5">  
         <input class="form-control" id="inputSubject" name="subject" placeholder="Email Subject" type="text" />  
      </div>  
    </div>  
    <div class="form-group">  
       <label class="col-lg-2 control-label" for="textArea">Message</label>  
       <br />  
       <div class="col-lg-8">  
        <textarea class="form-control" id="msg" name="msg" rows="3"></textarea>  
        <span class="help-block">Please type your message.</span>  
       </div>  
    </div>  
    <div class="form-group">  
      <div class="col-lg-10 col-lg-offset-2">  
       <button type="button">Send</button>  
      </div>  
    </div>  
    </fieldset>  
 </form>  

send.php

             require_once "Mail.php";  
               $to = "destination@gmail.com";  
                 $from = "your_name@gmail.com";  
                 $host = "ssl://smtp.gmail.com";  
                 $port = "465";  
                 $username = "your_name@gmail.com";  
                 $password = "your_password";  
                $subject = $_POST['subject'];  
                $body = $_POST['msg'];  
                $headers['MIME-Version'] = '1.0';  
                $headers['Content-Type'] = 'text/html; charset="UTF-8';  
                $headers['Content-Transfer-Encoding'] = '7bit';  
                $headers['Date'] = date('r', $_SERVER['REQUEST_TIME']);  
                $headers['Message-ID'] = $_SERVER['REQUEST_TIME'] . md5($_SERVER['REQUEST_TIME']) . '@' . $_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'];  
                $headers['From'] = $from;  
                $headers['To']   = $to;  
                $headers['Subject'] = $subject;  
                $smtp = Mail::factory('smtp', array('host' => $host,  
                 'port' => $port, 'auth' => true,  
                 'username' => $username, 'password' => $password));  
                 $mail = $smtp -> send($to, $headers, $body);  
                if (PEAR::isError($mail)) {  
                echo("<script language='javascript'>alert('" . $mail -> getMessage() . "');history.back();</script>");  
                }else{  
                echo "<script language='javascript'>alert('Success!');history.back();</script>";  
                }  

Quite easy, huh?:D

You can add additional field in above form.

ex: Destination email address

Hope this will help you. :)