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Headers are the parts seen at the top of emails. Typically :

The TO and SUBJECT filds have already been discussed as the first and second variables in the MAIL command. The extra headers seen above can be entered as a 4th variable in the MAIL command.

A way to send email using PHP is this :

mail("yourplace@somewhere.com","My email test.","Hello, how are you?","From: myplace@here.com\r\nReply-To: myplace2@here.com\r\nReturn-Path: myplace@here.com\r\nCC: sombodyelse@noplace.com\r\nBBC: hidden@special.com\r\n");

Now this looks kinda messy when it’s all in there without using variables. That above example has all of the extra headers being declared. You may specify all or some or none as you desire. There are 2 very important things to note here :

For better organization, these extra headers can be declared in a variable string like our previous examples.


$to = "yourplace@somewhere.com";
$subject = "My email test.";
$message = "Hello, how are you?";
$headers = "From: myplace@here.com\r\n";
$headers .= "Reply-To: myplace2@here.com\r\n";
$headers .= "Return-Path: myplace@here.com\r\n";
$headers .= "CC: sombodyelse@noplace.com\r\n";
$headers .= "BCC: hidden@special.com\r\n";
if ( mail($to,$subject,$message,$headers) ) {
   echo "The email has been sent!";
   } else {
   echo "The email has failed!";
   }
?>


[ C# ]

MailMessage mail = new MailMessage();
mail.To = "me@mycompany.com";
mail.From = "you@yourcompany.com";
mail.Subject = "this is a test email.";
mail.Body = "this is my test email body.";
mail.Headers.Add( "Reply-To", "alternate_email@mycompany.com" );
SmtpMail.SmtpServer = "localhost"; //your real server goes here SmtpMail.Send( mail );

[ VB.NET ]

Dim mail As New MailMessage()
mail.To = "me@mycompany.com"
mail.From = "you@yourcompany.com"
mail.Subject = "this is a test email."
mail.Body = "this is my test email body."
mail.Headers.Add("Reply-To", "alternate_email@mycompany.com")
SmtpMail.SmtpServer = "localhost"
SmtpMail.Send(mail)

Count is a PHP command that … counts all elements in an array, or properties in an object.
But when you need to use it in loops, first assign a new variable then use the variable in the loop. For example :

<?php
//size of $arr ~ 2000 elements
//WRONG variant (Time exec ~ 19 sec)
for($i=0;$i<count($arr);$i++) 
{
   //... loop code here ...
}

//RIGHT variant(Time exec ~ 0.2 sec)
$arr_size=count($arr);
for($i=0;$i<$arr_size;$i++)
{
   //... loop code here ...
} ?>

 Another example :

<?php

As you can see, the second method (which doesnt use count() directly in the loop) is faster than the first method (which uses count() directly in the loop).


• Day 1: Installation

• Day 2: Variables

• Day 3: Passing Values From Page to Page

• Day 4: Multiple Variables and the “foreach” Statement

• Day 5: Refactoring, Arrays, and Functions – Oh My!

• Day 6: Including Files

• Day 7: Regular Expressions

• Day 8: Strings

• Day 9: First-Time Visitors

• Day 10: Getting Started With MySql

• Day 11: SQL Insert Statements

• Day 12: The File System

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