Chapter 21Sending Emails with PHP

Email has been at the core of Internet communication for the last 20 years. Despite innovations in instant messaging technologies and other competitive forces, it remains the main method of sending notifications and confirmations online. This chapter explores the technologies and techniques of using email from within PHP as well as integrating and formatting FileMaker data into an email.

Anatomy of an Email

Most people have used email in the workplace, at home, and anywhere in between, but likely have no idea of how email actually works. An email is a long message delivered between two servers with a set of informational headers and the message body itself. The header section consists of individual header lines ...

Get FileMaker Web Publishing: A Complete Guide to Using the API for PHP now with the O’Reilly learning platform.

O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.