1.This type of coding is working
<?php
$to = "recipient@example.com";
$subject = "Hi!";
$body = "Hi,\n\nHow are you?";
if (mail($to, $subject, $body)) {
echo("<p>Message successfully sent!</p>");
} else {
echo("<p>Message delivery failed...</p>");
}
?>
2. this type of coding is not working
test_mail.php
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta content="en-us" http-equiv="Content-Language" />
<meta content="text/html; charset=utf-8" http-equiv="Content-Type" />
<title>test MAIL</title>
</head>
<body>
<form id="test" name="test" method="post" action="sent.php">
<table style="width: 52%">
<tr>
<td>To:</td>
<td><input id="sendto" name="sendto" type="text" size="50" /> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Subject:</td>
<td><input name="subject" id="subject" type="text" size="75" /> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Body:</td>
<td><textarea name="body" id="body" rows="4" cols="30" onkeydown="limitText(this.form.body, this.form.countdown1, 144)" onkeyup="limitText(this.form.body, this.form.countdown1, 144)"></textarea> <br/>
<font size="1"> (Maximum characters)</font>
<input readonly type="text" name="countdown1" size="3" value="144" style="width: 35px" />
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> </td>
<td><input name="Submit1" type="submit" value="Send" /> </td>
</tr>
</table>
<script type="text/javascript">
function limitText(limitField, limitCount, limitNum)
{
if (limitField.value.length > limitNum)
{
limitField.value = limitField.value.substring(0, limitNum);
}
else
{
limitCount.value = limitNum - limitField.value.length;
}
}
</script>
</form>
</body>
</html>
sent.php
<?php
$to =$_POST['sendto'];
$subject =$_POST['subject'];
$body =$_POST['body'];
$frommail="SHIROTECHNOLOGY";
if(mail($to,$subject,$body))
{
echo "Mail Sent";
echo "<script> location.href='test_mail.php';</script>";
}
else
{
echo "Mail Not Sent";
}
?>
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