ecard delivery system.

[nvictor]

Dear coders,
I'm making an ecard website, and I use php for scripting.
I'm completely new to php, but useful scripts helped me a lot.

Now I want to know how to basically send an e-mail with php.
I was reading a tutorial, and it is said that as my site is not online
I must install my own smtp server.

Can anyone help a bit?
thanks

[sde]

PHP Code:

<?
mail("joecool@example.com", "My Subject", "Line 1\nLine 2\nLine 3");
?>

you will find various other examples here: http://us2.php.net/manual/en/function.mail.php

the php manual is an excellent place of reference.

[idx]

What OS?

Not sure the mail() function will work if you don't have a local smtp server... or sendmail to handle it.

If you know of a SMTP sever you can use to send mail,then specify it in the php.ini. (I believe it's just SMTP = smtp.mydomain.com )

-r

[nvictor]

I have read the manual section on mail(). But it requires me to configure an smtp server.

[idx]

Again, what OS? It only requires a local smtp server if you don't have a remote one to use. Got a ISP? Use theirs.

-r

[nvictor]

Thanks for reply, I have installed Postcard Server and this is working.