What is the difference between the function calls “mail()” and “@mail()”?

Question

I am writing a PHP mail function and some examples have @mail(…) and others have just mail(…) .

What is the difference and which one is best to use?

Cheers

Answer 1

@ supresses all warnings/errors, which mail() function may throw.

It is not good practice to use "@", because you never know if something doesn't work and also it hits the performance of you PHP application too!

Answer 2

It's the same function but with error suppression

PHP: Error Control Operators - Manual

Answer 3

@mail意味着您正在抑制尝试发送电子邮件时可能发生的任何错误，请参阅此SO问题以获取更多信息： 在PHP中使用@运算符抑制错误

Answer 4

Error suppression is resource-consuming operation. It is recommended to call functions without @ and use exceptions/error handling