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Programming and Scripting => Web Oriented Coding => : pllaybuoy October 28, 2012, 02:21:20 PM

: Whats the definition of php mail function ?
: pllaybuoy October 28, 2012, 02:21:20 PM

this
mail();
whats its DEFINITION ?
I mean seriously how can php be soo easy ? :/ you send an email just by a prebuilt function ? No messing with the tcp/ip protocols or pop3 ? How could this be ? I really need the definition to this function , gonna try to rewrite in c++

: Re: Whats the definition of php mail function ?
: Snayler October 28, 2012, 02:48:12 PM

Really? PHP mail function. (http://lmgtfy.com/?q=php+mail+function)

: Re: Whats the definition of php mail function ?
: pllaybuoy October 28, 2012, 03:13:06 PM

Yah , but any explanation that how does a simple function makes it ways thru the protocols  ?

: Re: Whats the definition of php mail function ?
: Stackprotector October 28, 2012, 03:16:38 PM

: pllaybuoy  October 28, 2012, 03:13:06 PM

Yah , but any explanation that how does a simple function makes it ways thru the protocols  ?

Using the default mail application on the server.

: Re: Whats the definition of php mail function ?
: pllaybuoy October 28, 2012, 04:07:55 PM

But it doesn't require you to LOGIN to an email account and just sends an email randomly

:

<?php
 $email = $_POST['email'];
 $content = nl2br($_POST['content']);
 $name = $_POST['name'];
 $sender = $_POST['sender'];
 $subject = $_POST['subject'];
 $headers = "From: $name "."<".$sender.">\r\n";
 //add boundary string and mime type specification
 //$headers .= 'MIME-Version: 1.0' . "\r\n";
 //$headers .= 'Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1' . "\r\n";
 //send the email
 mail($email, $subject, $content, $headers );
 ?>

: Re: Whats the definition of php mail function ?
: p_2001 October 28, 2012, 04:34:34 PM

: pllaybuoy  October 28, 2012, 04:07:55 PM

But it doesn't require you to LOGIN to an email account and just sends an email randomly

:

<?php
 $email = $_POST['email'];
 $content = nl2br($_POST['content']);
 $name = $_POST['name'];
 $sender = $_POST['sender'];
 $subject = $_POST['subject'];
 $headers = "From: $name "."<".$sender.">\r\n";
 //add boundary string and mime type specification
 //$headers .= 'MIME-Version: 1.0' . "\r\n";
 //$headers .= 'Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1' . "\r\n";
 //send the email
 mail($email, $subject, $content, $headers );
 ?>

Emails don't need a login account...
Read SMTP..
You can send email by  implementing the protocol.

: Re: Whats the definition of php mail function ?
: pllaybuoy October 28, 2012, 06:16:33 PM

@ p_2001  : Okay , I'll read about that , thanks :)

: Re: Whats the definition of php mail function ?
: kateus October 28, 2012, 07:45:41 PM

Yeah, if you have your own smtp server, and are sending mail from that server you don't need login info. If you want to send mail using a remote smtp server, like say google's, you generally have to send a username and password.