how to send email in drupal 7

Question

Does any can help with an example source code to send email in drupal 7. Can any one help with the contact_submit function to use drupal_mail(). I'm using custom module :

function contact_menu() {
  $items['contact'] = array(
    'title' => 'contact form',
    'page callback' => 'drupal_get_form',
    'page arguments' => array('contact_form'),
    'access arguments' => array('access content'),
  );

  return $items;
}

function contact_form() {
  $form['intro'] = array(
    '#markup' => t('Use this form to send a message to an e-mail address. No spamming!'),
  );
  $form['email'] = array(
    '#type' => 'textfield',
    '#title' => t('E-mail address'),
    '#required' => TRUE,
  );
  $form['message'] = array(
    '#type' => 'textarea',
    '#title' => t('Message'),
    '#required' => TRUE,
  );
  $form['submit'] = array(
    '#type' => 'submit',
    '#value' => t('Submit'),
  );

  return $form;
}

    function contact_validate($form, &$form_state) {
      if (!valid_email_address($form_state['values']['email'])) {
        form_set_error('email', t('That e-mail address is not valid.'));
      }
    }
function contact_form_submit($form, &$form_state) {
//What i should write here ???
}

Answer 1

You can use this code in a hook of your own choice within your custom module:

function yourmodulename_mail($from = 'default_from', $to, $subject, $message) {
        $my_module = 'yourmodulename';
        $my_mail_token = microtime();
        if ($from == 'default_from') {
            // Change this to your own default 'from' email address.
            $from = variable_get('system_mail', '[e-mail]');
        }
        $message = array(
            'id' => $my_module . '_' . $my_mail_token,
            'to' => $to,
            'subject' => $subject,
            'body' => array($message),
            'headers' => array(
                'From' => $from,
                'Sender' => $from,
                'Return-Path' => $from,
            ),
        );
        $system = drupal_mail_system($my_module, $my_mail_token);
        $message = $system->format($message);
        if ($system->mail($message)) {
            return TRUE;
        } else {
            return FALSE;
        }
    }

Then you can use the above function like this:

    $user = user_load($userid); // load a user using its uid
    $usermail = (string) $user->mail; // load user email to send a mail to it OR you can specify an email here to which the email will be sent 
    customdraw_mail('default_from', $usermail, 'You Have Won a Draw -- this is the subject',  'Congrats! You have won a draw --this is the body');

Answer 2

Put in contact_form_Submit function

$message = 'New signup email address'; // Body of your email here.
 $params = array(
           'body' => $message,
           'subject' => 'Website Information Request',
           'headers'=>'simple',
     );
     $to = "Your Email Address";
    drupal_mail('contactform', 'send_link', $to, language_default(), $params, '[e-mail]', TRUE);

and Create New function

function contact_mail($key,&$message,$params) 
{

       switch ($key) {
             case 'send_link':
                  $message['subject']=t($params['subject']);
                  $message['body'][]=$params['body'];
                  $message['headers']['Content-Type'] = 'text/html; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed';
       break;
          }
 }

Answer 3

refer to the email example of the example module. It has some really good examples for most of the core features

http://drupal.org/project/examples

Answer 4

Examples module contains number of examples to get started with, including emails. see it in api site here See drupal_mail() function to see function params and user examples as well as function use.

GIYF.

Answer 5

If you are new to drupal then you can use the built in php send mail without using drupal functions:

For example:

function contact_form_submit($form, &$form_state) {
to=$user->mail;    
$subject="";
$headers="mail-id";    
$message="your message here";
$sentmail = mail($to,$subject,$message,$headers);    
}