mail() is not working in php [duplicate] - php

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I am using mail() function to sent mails when an event happening. But it is not working as I expected. I tried to get the return of the function also. Some one please suggst what may be the issue.
$msg = "Your password has been changed.is'".$data['password']."'";
$to = $data['email'];
$subject = "password changed";
$headers = 'MIME-Version: 1.0' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'From: info#hia.com';
$send = mail($to, $subject, $msg, $headers);
if($send){
echo "successful";
}
else{
echo "error";
}

Answer 1

Problems arising from the php setting. Closing function for security by some service provider. You must send mail with SMTP.
Example several SMTP class on github;
hujuice/smtp - snipworks/php-smtp - PHPMailer/PHPMailer
Example code a PHPMailer according to your code;
<?php
require 'PHPMailerAutoload.php';
$mail = new PHPMailer;
//$mail->SMTPDebug = 3; // Enable verbose debug output
$mail->isSMTP(); // Set mailer to use SMTP
$mail->Host = 'smtp1.example.com'; // Specify main and backup SMTP servers
$mail->SMTPAuth = true; // Enable SMTP authentication
$mail->Username = 'info#hia.com'; // SMTP username
$mail->Password = 'yourmailpassword'; // SMTP password
$mail->SMTPSecure = 'tls'; // Enable TLS encryption, `ssl` also accepted
$mail->Port = 587; // TCP port to connect to
$mail->setFrom('info#hia.com', 'Mailer');
$mail->addAddress($data['email']); // Name is optional
$mail->addReplyTo('info#hia.com', 'Information');
$mail->addCC('cc#hia.com');
$mail->addBCC('bcc#hia.com');
$mail->CharSet = 'ISO-8859-1';
$mail->isHTML(true); // Set email format to HTML
$mail->Subject = 'password changed';
$mail->Body = 'Your password has been changed.is "'.$data['password'].'"';
if(!$mail->send()) {
echo 'error';
echo 'Mailer Error: ' . $mail->ErrorInfo;
} else {
echo 'successful';
}

Answer 2

Don't use simple mail(), i prefer for PHPmailer function.
Here is a Example.
First - download phpmailer in your project directory.
second - create send_mail.php in your directory(you can change you name).
send_mail.php file code.
require_once "PHPMailer/PHPMailerAutoload.php";
$mail = new PHPMailer(true);
if (!isset($_POST['send'])) {
//This page should not be accessed directly. Need to submit the form.
echo "error; you need to submit the enquiry form!";
die;
}
$to="abc#xyz.com";
$senderName = "xyz";
//send the mail
$fname = $_POST["fname"];
$lname = $_POST["lname"];
$zcode = $_POST["zcode"];
$email = $_POST["email"];
$phone = $_POST["phone"];
//Enable SMTP debugging.
$mail->SMTPDebug = 0;
//Set PHPMailer to use SMTP.
$mail->isSMTP();
//Set SMTP host name
$mail->Host = "smtp.gmail.com";
//Set this to true if SMTP host requires authentication to send email
$mail->SMTPAuth = true;
//Provide username and password
$mail->Username = "abc#xyz.com";
$mail->Password = "########";
//If SMTP requires TLS encryption then set it
$mail->SMTPSecure = "ssl";
//Set TCP port to connect to
$mail->Port = 465;
$mail->From = $to;
$mail->FromName = $senderName;
$mail->addAddress($to, $senderName);
$mail->addReplyTo($email, $name);
$mail->isHTML(true);
$mail->Subject = "bfuiebfiaif";
$mail->Body = "as per your needs";
if (!$mail->send()) {
echo "Mailer Error: " . $mail->ErrorInfo;
die;
}
header('Location: index.php');
die;