This article explains about sending a simple mail using PHP mail function.
if(count($_POST) > 0)
{
$sender_email = $_POST["sender_email"];
$receipent_email = $_POST["receipent_email"];
$email_subject = $_POST["email_subject"];
$message = $_POST["message"];
$result = mail($receipent_email, $email_subject, $message,"From: $sender_email\n");
if($result) {
echo "Mail has been send successfully.";
}
else {
echo "There was a problem in sending email.";
}
}
This is just a method of how to send a simple email using PHP. In above script there is no way of proper error checking and other advance email functionalities like sending of HTML email, custom headers.