I followed this tutorial and got the code to run successfully. But I can't get my program to send the actual email.

I am using XAMPP which I believe has a PHP interpreter and would be enough to make it send through.
Can anyone tell me why this isnt working.

if you're developing locally, you need a working smtp server to send emails. some isps dont allow anything coming out of email sending ports. use gmail's smtp server or use a fake smtp server (google 'fake smtp server') for dev stuff..