In what ways can hosting providers impact the functionality of PHP scripts and lead to issues like the one described in the forum thread?

Issue: The hosting provider may have disabled certain PHP functions or set restrictions that impact the functionality of PHP scripts. This can lead to errors like the one described in the forum thread where the `mail()` function is not working properly. Solution: To solve this issue, you can try using a third-party email service like SMTP to send emails from your PHP script instead of relying on the `mail()` function. 

// Using PHPMailer library to send emails via SMTP
use PHPMailer\PHPMailer\PHPMailer;
use PHPMailer\PHPMailer\Exception;

require 'vendor/autoload.php'; // Path to PHPMailer autoload file

$mail = new PHPMailer(true);

try {
    //Server settings
    $mail->isSMTP();
    $mail->Host = 'smtp.example.com';
    $mail->SMTPAuth = true;
    $mail->Username = 'your@example.com';
    $mail->Password = 'yourpassword';
    $mail->SMTPSecure = 'ssl';
    $mail->Port = 465;

    //Recipients
    $mail->setFrom('from@example.com', 'Your Name');
    $mail->addAddress('recipient@example.com', 'Recipient Name');

    //Content
    $mail->isHTML(true);
    $mail->Subject = 'Subject';
    $mail->Body    = 'Email body';

    $mail->send();
    echo 'Email has been sent';
} catch (Exception $e) {
    echo 'Message could not be sent. Mailer Error: ', $mail->ErrorInfo;
}

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