How to send mail to someones e-mail address?

PHP email wont send to specified address?

• on my simple site i have a button and a textbox next to it, i have an external email php script that sends an email to the specified address once the button has been clicked however i need to be able to email someone by putting in the textbox someones email address, the code so far is below. the problem im having is that it wont send to the specified email address in the textbox, please help thanks. PHP <?php $Email_Name = $_GET['emailinput']; $to = Email_Name; $subject = "Test mail"; $message = "Hello!"; $from = "Ryan"; $headers = "From:" . $from; mail($to,$subject,$message,$headers); ?> HTML below <form action="email.php" method="get"> <input type="text" name="emailinput" /> <input type="button" value="Click Me!" /> </form>

• Answer:

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