When users sign up to join your website you may want to verify their email address by sending confirmation link to their email address. You'll learn how to do this in this tutorial.
PHP User Email Validation Script PHP / Emailing
Here is a simple script can valid a user's email address. This script works by sending a confirmation email to the user's email account. The user then must confirm their email address. This script is great for any user login system.
Quickly Validate An Email Address PHP / Emailing
This little function will split an e-mail address passed to it at the @ sign, and make sure that there is a valid e-mail server at the other end =)
Email validation with regular expression PHP / Regex
A short tutorial howto validate an email address during form processing. An example "copy & paste" html form code is included to demonstrate the functionality.
Protecting Email Addresses Using ASCII Codes PHP / Emailing
This can be used to protect email addresses, for instance. Because spammers are writing software to search for certain patterns (email adresses) on web pages, this might help keep spam low. The trick is to use HTML character codes for email addresses, making it much harder for spambots to find email data.
Building an Opt-in Email List PHP / Emailing
This helpful tutorial shows you how to build an opt-in email list in PHP. It covers validating email addresses, checking for duplicate email addresses, adding to a mailing list, and changing a strings case.
Send an Email Attachment with PHP PHP / Emailing
To send email attachments you need to make use of MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions) - a mechanism that allows email to go beyond a basic, limited character set. MIME has many uses but for the purposes of this tutorial we will send a multipart/mixed MIME email; this means we can send a text email and attach a PDF file to it (for information on attaching other file types please see the end of this tutorial). The MIME side of things will be exaplined as we go.
Contact Form PHP / Forms
I will explain to you how you can create a simple contact form. The form will collect data from the visitor and send it to any email address you please. The only requirement for this tutorial is for you to have .php enabled on your server.
Generate text with transparent background PHP / Dynamic Images
Use this ready function to create an image with text with a transparent background. Could be useful for showing your email address, without having to worry about spammers catching it.
How to make a simple form mailer with PHP PHP / Emailing
As you may be well aware, displaying your e-mail address on your website can lead to e-mail harvesters picking up your address and adding it to hundreds or even thousands of lists used by spammers. If you want to allow your website visitors to contact you, but do not want to publicly display your e-mail address, then a form mailer may be exactly what you are looking for.
PHP: Sending Email (Text/HTML/Attachments) PHP / Emailing
So, you want to send automated email messages from your PHP application. This can be in direct response to a user's action, such as signing up for your site, or a recurring event at a set time, such as a monthly newsletter. Sometimes email contains file attachments, both plain text and HTML portions, and so on. To understand how to send each variation that may exist on an email, we will start with the simple example and move to the more complicated.