How to send an email in PHP reliably?

Question

i am learning how to send an email.i have installed appserver and in files php.ini-dist and php.ini-recommended i did the following changes

SMTP=localhost

send         


        

Answer 1

As jhominal points out, the php.ini files you've modified are just examples. You'll have to find out where the php.ini is for your distribution and modify it.

As mentioned by others, you can set a custom from header. However, if you don't set sendmail_from in php.ini you'll have to remember to always set it.

At any rate, here is a pretty good article/tutorial on sending email with PHP's mail() function:

http://articles.sitepoint.com/article/advanced-email-php