[Resolved] sending email

NoBullMan

Hi,
I want to send a confirmation email to the user once s/he is finished with an online ordering.
I am not quite sure what method to use and would appreciate it if someone could point me in the right direction, possibly with an example.
What I would be emailing is going to be a list of items ordered and sender's info (no payment info.) I want to be able to send the email in html and text formats (in case the user's email client only accepts plain text emails)
I looked at Pear's Mail package but did not know which one to use (IMAP, MIME, ...) or how to set it up in my program, or if it is the right way of doing it. I am assuming my hosting company supports Pear.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

piersk

Well, for starters, you don't want IMAP cos thats a type of mail server. MIME would be good tho

NoBullMan

Should I use Pear's email function or the "mail()" function? If my email contains html tags, would it matter which one I use? PHP manual does not explain these very well, is there anywhere I can be directed to to get somemore info or code samples?

Thanx.

jannoy

<?
$mail_to="your@yourdomain.com";
$mail_subject="test email ";
$headers = "Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\r\n";
$headers .= "From:youremail@yourdomain.com\r\n";
$mail_body='<html><p>This is just a content text</p>';
$mail_body=$mail_body.'<table width="200" border="1" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">';
$mail_body=$mail_body. '<tr><td> heheheh </td>';

$mail_body=$mail_body.'</tr>';
$mail_body=$mail_body.'</table></html>';
if (mail($mail_to,$mail_subject,$mail_body,$headers)){
echo "success";}
else {
echo "failed";
}
?>