How to send email in php?
Before sending an email, make sure the email body, sender, recipient, and subject are properly set.
(1) Body setting:
$emailBody = <<<EOD
Name: $name<br>
Contact Number: $contact<br>
Email: $email<br>
Message: Live Chat : $livechatMessage<br>
Website: <a href="$website">$website</a>
EOD;
(2) Sender, recipient and subject: (It is better set a parameter in backend and retrieve it to avoid hardcode)
$emailSubject = $params->get('email_subject');
$fromEmail = $params->get('from_email');
$fromEmailName = $params->get('from_email_name');
$toEmail = $params->get('to_email');
$cc = $params->get('cc_email');
(3) Check sender, recipient and subject exist before sending to avoid conflict
if (empty($toEmail) || empty($emailSubject) || empty($fromEmail)) {
die("Error: Required email parameters are missing.");
}
(4) Prepare email header (From email and from name)
$headers = 'Content-type:text/html;charset=UTF-8' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'From: "' . $fromEmailName . '" <' . $fromEmail . '>' . "\r\n";
(5) CC email if have
if (!empty($cc)) {
$headers .= 'Cc: ' . $cc . "\r\n";
}
(6) Now you can send your email via mail
$mailSent = mail($toEmail, $emailSubject, $emailBody, $headers);
(7) Last, echo response to check email send success or not
if ($mailSent) {
$response = [
"success" => true,
"message" => "Email sent successfully!"
];
} else {
$response = [
"success" => false,
"message" => "Error: Email could not be sent."
];
}
// Return JSON response
echo json_encode($response);
Summary:
It is better to build the email-sending function in a helper or plugin so that it can be called only when needed.
