using php mailer to send email in php
Step1:
- First download the php mail “PHPMailer_5.2.0.zip”
- After downloading the file, unzip it and extract it to our public_html.
- After unzipping the file, we have public_html/PHPMailer_5.2.0.
- Next we need to edit our web pages in order to use the PHPMailer code.
Step2 :
- Add the HTML form to your page
- Generally, our php setup will include a form being sent to a PHP script for processing.
- Considering this case, there is a basic HTML file that is contact_us.html, will makes up a feedback form.
- We need to set the action of our form to "email.php" for the PHP script in order to process.
- Below is the code which we need for the form in our page.
<form method="post" action="email.php">
Email: <input name="email" id="email" type="text" /><br />
Message:<br />
<textarea name="message" id="message" rows="15" cols="40"></textarea><br />
<input type="submit" value="Submit" />
</form>
Step3 :
- Add the PHP mail() function code
- Typically When the form is filled out, the information will be passed over to "email.php"', which currently uses the PHP's mail() function in order to send the message.
- Below is the PHP code which we have shown where it sends the email from the server.
<?php
$email = $_REQUEST['email'] ;
$message = $_REQUEST['message'] ;
// here we use the php mail function
// to send an email to:
// [email protected]
mail( "[email protected]", "Feedback Form Results",$message, "From: $email" );
?>
Step4 :
- Add the PHPMailer code to our site
- Because we are using the phpmailer instead of the generic php mail function, so update our modified "email.php" file.
- Then we will begin to update our "email.php" file.
- In our PHPMailer folder we will see a README file that includes sample PHP code.
- The sample PHP code will be like this format:
<?php
require("class.PHPMailer.php");
$mail = new PHPMailer();
$mail->IsSMTP(); // set mailer to use SMTP
$mail->Host = "smtp1.example.com;smtp2.example.com"; // specify main and backup server
$mail->SMTPAuth = true; // turn on SMTP authentication
$mail->Username = "jswan"; // SMTP username
$mail->Password = "secret"; // SMTP password
$mail->From = "[email protected]";
$mail->FromName = "Mailer";
$mail->AddAddress("[email protected]", "Josh Adams");
$mail->AddAddress("[email protected]"); // name is optional
$mail->AddReplyTo("[email protected]", "Information");
$mail->WordWrap = 50; // set word wrap to 50 characters
$mail->AddAttachment("/var/tmp/file.tar.gz"); // add attachments
$mail->AddAttachment("/tmp/image.jpg", "new.jpg"); // optional name
$mail->IsHTML(true); // set email format to HTML
$mail->Subject = "Here is the subject";
$mail->Body = "This is the HTML message body <b>in bold!</b>";
$mail->AltBody = "This is the body in plain text for non-HTML mail clients";
if(!$mail->Send()){
echo "Message could not be sent. <p>";
echo "Mailer Error: " . $mail->ErrorInfo;
exit;}
echo "Message has been sent";
?>
Step5 :
- Final Configuration of the PHPMailer code
- Now We have to updated the sample code to work with our initial html contact form.
- After updating the code to include additional comments, and the final code we use has been below code.
<?php
// $email and $message are the data that is being
// posted to this page from our html contact form
$email = $_REQUEST['email'] ;
$message = $_REQUEST['message'] ;
// When we unzipped PHPMailer, it unzipped to
// public_html/PHPMailer_5.2.0
require("lib/PHPMailer/PHPMailerAutoload.php");
$email = new PHPMailer();
// set mailer to use SMTP
$email->IsSMTP();
// As this email.php script lives on the same server as our email server
// we are setting the HOST to localhost
$email->Host = "localhost"; // specify main and backup server
$email->SMTPAuth = true; // turn on SMTP authentication
// When sending email using PHPMailer, you need to send from a valid email address
// In this case, we setup a test email account with the following credentials:
// email: [email protected]@wikitechy.com
// pass: password
$email->Username = "[email protected]@wikitechy.com"; // SMTP username
$email->Password = "password"; // SMTP password
// $email is the user's email address the specified
// on our contact us page. We set this variable at
// the top of this page with:
// $email = $_REQUEST['email'] ;
$email->From = $email;
// below we want to set the email address we will be sending our email to.
$email->AddAddress("venkat@wikitechy.com", "venkat");
// set word wrap to 50 characters
$email->WordWrap = 50;
// set email format to HTML
$email->IsHTML(true);
$email->Subject = "You have received feedback from your website!"
$email->Subject = "You have received feedback from your website!";
// $message is the user's message they typed in
// on our contact us page. We set this variable at
// the top of this page with:
// $message = $_REQUEST['message'] ;
$email->Body = $message;
$email->AltBody = $message;
if(!$mail->Send())
{
echo "Message could not be sent. <p>";
echo "Mailer Error: " . $mail->ErrorInfo;
exit;
}
echo "Message has been sent";
?>
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