Sending mail using php4

[maxsslade]

How can i send mail using php, for example a send feedback form from my website, i am working on a windows system.

Max Slade

[knickerlas]

Use the mail() function of course!
$to="[e-mail]";
$subj="a subject":
$msg="a message";
mail($to, $subj, $msg);

Nick

[peterluk]

It depends on what windows systems you're working on! If you're working on NT4 or 2000 in LAN environment and have MS Exhange server, sorry I have no advicce to offer. If you don't use Exhange server on LAN environment, you should get a SMTP server, Postcast server used to be my preference.
If you are working with 98 system, my advice is to obtain wSendmail from Jgaa (by the way, if interest I can dispatch my little scriplet to mimic mail() function in PHP).
Happy computing!!

[Anon]

Here's the syntax of mail();

mail(string to, string subject, string message, string addition_headers);

As explained in the second reply it's easy to send email, as for additional headers, you can add stuff like From: and Reply-To: like this:

mail($to, $subject, $message, "From:[e-mail]\r\nReplyto:[e-mail]");

That way the user can send feedback with their address and have it automatically set as the return address.