How to send mail using PHP?

Question

I\'m using Windows Vista OS. PHP, MySQL as the database and Apache web server.

I want to send notification to those who want to join in my site. But the problem is w

Answer 1

Use the Pear "Mail" class, which requires access to a separate SMTP server listening on port 25.

Sample code follows:

function sendmail($from, $to, $subject, $message, $headers)
{
    if (is_array($to)) {
            $recipients = implode(', ', $to);
    } else {
        $recipients = $to;
    }

    $errorlevel = error_reporting();
    $headers["From"] = $from;
    $headers["To"] = $to;
    $headers["Subject"] = $subject;

    $params = array();
    $params["host"] = "localhost";
    $params["port"] = "25";
    $params["auth"] = false;

    error_reporting($errorlevel & ~E_WARNING);

    $mail_object =& Mail::factory("smtp", $params);
    $res = $mail_object->send($recipients, $headers, $message);

    error_reporting($errorlevel);

    return $res;
}

nb: this is old code - I don't recall now why I had to mask out E_WARNING