how can i send emails using a php script with my shared hosting plan?

Answer by: George Kaloyanov, Aplus.Net Knowledge Base Support

You can send emails off the shared hosting server using the built-in mail() function of PHP.

The required parameters of the mail() function are:

• The Recipient’s Email Address.
• The Email Subject.
• The Email Message Content.

We strongly recommend that you insert custom headers in order to define the Sender’s Email Address too. Although this is not required, it is always a good idea to define the real sender of the email. If you define the real sender, your recipients will be able to reply to your emails sent through the php script. Otherwise, the recipient will not be able to see the real sender, thus not able to reply to you.

Example: mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers)

Here is the whole php script example:

<?php

$to= 'recipient@example.com';

$subject='your subject';

$message='hello';

$headers='From: sender@yourdomain.com';

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

if (!$result){

die('Email Message Not Sent');

}

echo 'Email Message Sent';

?>

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