PHPMailer is a PHP class for PHP that provides a package of functions to send email. It is an efficient way to send e-mail within PHP. The following are some features of PHPMailer:-
– Sending HTML email
– Sending email with attachments
– Sending email to multiple recepients via to, CC, BCC, etc
– Supports nearly all possiblities to send email: mail(), Sendmail, qmail & direct to SMTP server
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For PHP 4 | For PHP 5 and above
Sample Code Example
Note isMail() function in the code. This indicates that email is to be sent through mail() function of php.
Sending email using mail() function
require_once('phpmailer/class.phpmailer.php');
$mail = new PHPMailer(); // defaults to using php "mail()"
// this indicates that mail() function is to be used to send email
$mail->IsMail();
$body = "Test body message";
$mail->AddAddress("yourname@example.com", "John Doe");
$mail->Subject = "PHPMailer Test Subject via mail(), basic";
$mail->MsgHTML($body);
if(!$mail->Send()) {
echo "Mailer Error: " . $mail->ErrorInfo;
} else {
echo "Message sent!";
}
Sending email using SMTP
Along with using SMTP to send email, other functions are also being used. Like, adding reply-to address and from address. Also, notice that multiple reply-to address and multiple to-address are being added. Attachment function is also being included in the below code. You can add multiple attachment.
require_once('phpmailer/class.phpmailer.php');
$mail = new PHPMailer(); // defaults to using php "mail()"
$mail->IsSMTP();
$mail->Host = "smtp.example.com";
/**
* optional
* used only when SMTP requires authentication
* if no authentication required then
* you can set below as: SMTPAuth = false
*/
$mail->SMTPAuth = true;
$mail->Username = 'smtp_username';
$mail->Password = 'smtp_password';
$mail->AddReplyTo("name@yourdomain.com","First Last");
$mail->AddReplyTo("name2@yourdomain.com","First Last2");
$mail->SetFrom('name@yourdomain.com', 'First Last');
$body = "Test body message";
$mail->AddAddress("yourname@example.com", "John Doe");
$mail->AddAddress("yourname2@example.com", "John Doe2");
$mail->Subject = "PHPMailer Test Subject via mail(), basic";
$mail->MsgHTML($body);
$mail->AddAttachment("images/phpmailer.gif"); // attachment
$mail->AddAttachment("images/phpmailer_mini.gif"); // attachment
if(!$mail->Send()) {
echo "Mailer Error: " . $mail->ErrorInfo;
} else {
echo "Message sent!";
}
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For PHP 4 | For PHP 5 and above
Hope it helps. Thanks.