Joomla! Documentation™

Description

Function to send an e-mail

Syntax

sendMail($from, $fromName, $recipient, $subject, $body, $mode=0, $cc=null, $bcc=null, $attachment=null, $replyTo=null, $replyToName=null)

Parameter Name	Default Value	Description
$from		$from From e-mail address
$fromName		$fromName From name
$recipient		$recipient Recipient e-mail address(es)
$subject		$subject E-mail subject
$body		$body Message body
$mode	0	$mode false = plain text, true = HTML
$cc	null	$cc CC e-mail address(es)
$bcc	null	$bcc BCC e-mail address(es)
$attachment	null	$attachment Attachment file name(s)
$replyTo	null	$replyto Reply to email address(es)
$replyToName	null	$replytoname Reply to name(s)

Returns

boolean True on success

Defined in

libraries/joomla/mail/mail.php

Importing

jimport( 'joomla.mail.mail' );

Source Body

public function sendMail($from, $fromName, $recipient, $subject, $body, $mode=0,
        $cc=null, $bcc=null, $attachment=null, $replyTo=null, $replyToName=null)
{
        $this->setSender(array($from, $fromName));
        $this->setSubject($subject);
        $this->setBody($body);

        // Are we sending the email as HTML?
        if ($mode) {
                $this->IsHTML(true);
        }

        $this->addRecipient($recipient);
        $this->addCC($cc);
        $this->addBCC($bcc);
        $this->addAttachment($attachment);

        // Take care of reply email addresses
        if (is_array($replyTo)) {
                $numReplyTo = count($replyTo);
                for ($i=0; $i < $numReplyTo; $i++){
                        $this->addReplyTo(array($replyTo[$i], $replyToName[$i]));
                }
        } elseif (isset($replyTo)) {
                $this->addReplyTo(array($replyTo, $replyToName));
        }

        return  $this->Send();
}