How can a PHP script be used to send an HTML Email message?

PHP
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I am told that PHP mail(0) function can allow me to send an HTML Email message to any valid email address. The script below is my latest attempt.

I have no idea what email address I should use as the From address. Below I wrote

$headers .= ‘From: <info@globalfreeenterprise.com>’ . "\r
";

but I don’t see how to launch a PHP script as an email message from my webmail account.

How should I attempt to send this HTML Email message?

Thank you for your help.

Jim Adrian
jamesadrian@globalfreeenterprise.com

<?php
$to = “jamesadrian@globalfreeenterprise.com, jim@globalfreeenterprise.com”;
$subject = “HTML email”;

$message = "
<html>
<head>
<title>HTML email</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>This email contains HTML Tags!</p>
<table>
<tr>
<th>Firstname</th>
<th>Lastname</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>John</td>
<td>Doe</td>
</tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>
";

// Always set content-type when sending HTML email
$headers = “MIME-Version: 1.0” . "\r
";
$headers .= “Content-type:text/html;charset=iso-8859-1” . "\r
";

// More headers
$headers .= ‘From: <info@globalfreeenterprise.com>’ . "\r
";
$headers .= ‘Cc: admin@globalfreeenterprise.com’ . "\r
";
$headers .= ‘Bcc: info@globalfreeenterprise.org’ . "\r
";

mail($to,$subject,$message,$headers);

// $to = ‘aidan@example.com’ . ', '; // note the comma
// $to .= ‘wez@example.com’;

?>

2

You need to run the PHP script.

You could install PHP on your computer and use the command line.
Or upload it to a webserver and open it in a browser.

3

@Mr. Radical:
If your server allows to open outgoing ports but has disabled mail functions (mail, sendmail, qmail, smpt) on the server, you can configure PHPMailer to use third party email accounts, like Gmail/TLS or external SMTP server of your ISP.

You can send emails to multiple recipients.

@barbara1712
Append the users into the BCC. And send the email to your own as primary recipient. This sends emails to multiple users at a time. But if your are doing a real mass mailing, consider looping and generate emails for each users.

4

In general concept and what I am aware of this feature in PHPMailer so far, you have to loop through the users to send the different messages in the body. You can check swiftmailer once this has more features than PHPMailer.

5

Hi,

I want to do the same thing for my e-mail form. I discovered that some hosting providers limit the mail function by allowing the message to be send to one receiver only.

6

Hi rajug,

yes. I am also using the PHPMailer class. But what I want is it possible to send the mail to multiple users at the same time.
For e.g. I want to send the mail to 2 users and in the message body there names should be displayed.
then do I need to use the loop for this?

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Though it is pretty straight forward if you write your own PHP script, but I would recommend you to go through PHPMailer class which is really good and easy to use. I am using this since years.

Or read this article in SP.