Sending and Reciving email with php...confused

[strujillo]

Ok so i created a social networking program for my school. Its coded in php and using the MySQL database. In this teachers and students can communicate through an internal emailing system (Kind of like what myspace and facebook do)...well my teachers said it would be alot better if they could just get the emails sent straight to them and not have check the social network all the time. So do you know how i would do this? Also how would they reply? i mean, how would the user get the message. thats where im stuck.

 

1. Send mail from students to teachers email (mail(); i think)

2. HOW do i receive mail and distribute it to the correct students

 

Anything on this subject would be helpful.

[gbunny]

The from and reply to settings are set in the header parameter of the mail function.

The following example is from php.net

<?php
$to      = 'nobody@example.com';
$subject = 'the subject';
$message = 'hello';
$headers = 'From: webmaster@example.com' . "\r\n" .
    'Reply-To: webmaster@example.com' . "\r\n" .
    'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion();

mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);
?>

 

The full function details are here http://us2.php.net/manual/en/function.mail.php

 

Hope this helps

[kenrbnsn]

That shows how to send mail. To receive email, either you have to use the IMAP functions or pipe email directly to a php script which parses it.

 

Ken