How to implement mail() function in PHP?

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I am beginner to php.I am trying to implement mail() in PHP.Code looks correct but the mail sending is failed.Here is my code.

XML

<!DOCTYPE html>
<head>
<title>Form submission</title>
</head>
<body>
<form method="post" action="mail.php">
  Email: <input name="email" type="text" /><br />
  Subject: <input name="subject" type="text" /><br />
  Message:<br />
  <textarea name="comment" rows="15" cols="40"></textarea><br />
  <input type="submit" value="Submit" />
  </form>
  </body>
  </html>

PHP

<?php
//if "email" variable is filled out, send email

  //Email information
  $admin_email = "jsathish1989@gmail.com";
  $email = $_REQUEST['email'];
  $subject = $_REQUEST['subject'];
  $comment = $_REQUEST['comment'];

  //send email
  $mail=mail($admin_email, "$subject", $comment, "From:" . $email);
  if($mail){
  echo "Thank you for using our mail form";
}else{
  echo "Mail sending failed.";
}

?>

If I need to do anything with php.ini file, then what exactly I should do in that file?

CSS

[mail function]
; For Win32 only.
; http://php.net/smtp
SMTP = localhost
; http://php.net/smtp-port
smtp_port = 25

; For Win32 only.
; http://php.net/sendmail-from
;sendmail_from = me@example.com

; For Unix only.  You may supply arguments as well (default: "sendmail -t -i").
; http://php.net/sendmail-path
;sendmail_path =

Posted 29-Oct-14 23:48pm

Janardhanam Julapalli

Updated 30-Oct-14 1:31am

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Adrian Fatol 30-Oct-14 6:39am

do you have the smtp server setup on your localhost?

Janardhanam Julapalli 30-Oct-14 6:41am

no

Janardhanam Julapalli 30-Oct-14 6:41am

how can i do that

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Adrian Fatol · Accepted Answer · 2014-10-30T00:51:00

As you don't have a smtp server on your localhost, I suggest to use the gmail smtp for start. PHPMailer[^] is a great library that you can use and here you can find an example about how to use it with gmail: https://github.com/PHPMailer/PHPMailer/blob/master/examples/gmail.phps[^].

If you use the PHPMailer, then you should change your mail.php to something like:

PHP

<?php

  //Email information
  $admin_email = "jsathish1989@gmail.com";
  $email = $_REQUEST['email'];
  $subject = $_REQUEST['subject'];
  $comment = $_REQUEST['comment'];

//SMTP needs accurate times, and the PHP time zone MUST be set
//This should be done in your php.ini, but this is how to do it if you don't have access to that
date_default_timezone_set('Etc/UTC');

require 'path_to_mailer/PHPMailerAutoload.php';

$mail = new PHPMailer(); // create a new object
$mail->IsSMTP(); // enable SMTP
$mail->SMTPDebug = 1; // debugging: 1 = errors and messages, 2 = messages only
$mail->SMTPAuth = true; // authentication enabled
$mail->SMTPSecure = 'ssl'; // secure transfer enabled REQUIRED for GMail
$mail->Host = "smtp.gmail.com";
$mail->Port = 465; // or 587
$mail->IsHTML(true);
$mail->Username = "YOUR_GMAIL_USER@gmail.com";
$mail->Password = "YOUR_GMAIL_PASSW";
$mail->SetFrom($email);
$mail->Subject = $subject;
$mail->Body = $comment;
$mail->AddAddress($admin_email);
 if(!$mail->Send())
 {
    echo "Mailer Error: " . $mail->ErrorInfo;
 }
    else
 {
    echo "Message has been sent";
 }
?>