sending email from php

[shripal]

hello i am new to php.

i want to email to client from my website.

but i am not able to send email .

it all time executes statement

"Mail send failure - message not sent"

as per my code given below.

please help me to solve this problem or alternatively please provide some sample code .

following is my sample code for sending email.

[code=php]
<?php
$to = 'example@yahoo. com';
$subject = 'the subject';
$from = 'example@yahoo. com';
$message = 'hello';

if(mail($to, $subject, $message, "From: $from"))
echo "Mail sent";
else
echo "Mail send failure - message not sent";
?>
[/code]

[Markus]

Read this about your php error messages.

Try it out, n see if any errors are shown.

Cheers.