Unable to send an email using php on windows 8 [duplicate] - php

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I have been trying to send email using php, I am able to send email when I try to run code on Linux but unable to run it on windows 8, I have XAMPP installed on my windows. Here is the code.
<?php
$msg = "Checking Email";
$msg = wordwrap($msg,70);
mail("myemailaddress","My subject",$msg);
?>
I look online and found out that I have to edit php.ini and sendmail.ini file. I am not sure though that this is the right solution. If it is, can anyone please tell me what exactly do I have to edit or change it, because I tried to edit those files but it still not working.
Thanks

Answer 1

If I were you I would try using PHPMailer. I prefer using it over PHPs built in system. I find it less of a hassle.
Here's some of what you can do with it:
<?php
require 'PHPMailerAutoload.php';
$mail = new PHPMailer;
$mail->isSMTP(); // Set mailer to use SMTP
$mail->Host = 'smtp1.example.com;smtp2.example.com'; // Specify main and backup SMTP servers
$mail->SMTPAuth = true; // Enable SMTP authentication
$mail->Username = 'user#example.com'; // SMTP username
$mail->Password = 'secret'; // SMTP password
$mail->SMTPSecure = 'tls'; // Enable encryption, 'ssl' also accepted
$mail->From = 'from#example.com';
$mail->FromName = 'Mailer';
$mail->addAddress('joe#example.net', 'Joe User'); // Add a recipient
$mail->addAddress('ellen#example.com'); // Name is optional
$mail->addReplyTo('info#example.com', 'Information');
$mail->addCC('cc#example.com');
$mail->addBCC('bcc#example.com');
$mail->WordWrap = 50; // Set word wrap to 50 characters
$mail->addAttachment('/var/tmp/file.tar.gz'); // Add attachments
$mail->addAttachment('/tmp/image.jpg', 'new.jpg'); // Optional name
$mail->isHTML(true); // Set email format to HTML
$mail->Subject = 'Here is the subject';
$mail->Body = 'This is the HTML message body <b>in bold!</b>';
$mail->AltBody = 'This is the body in plain text for non-HTML mail clients';
if(!$mail->send()) {
echo 'Message could not be sent.';
echo 'Mailer Error: ' . $mail->ErrorInfo;
} else {
echo 'Message has been sent';
}
There is more information on their github page. And there should be no trouble setting it up if you have access to a web server, with email credentials - you would need a host not just XAMPP or LAMP (assuming you intend to get that eventually).