Sep 2, 2012

How to send Email using PHP


 


Method 1 – Using phpMailer() function



First you need to download phpMailer from the following link



http://code.google.com/a/apache-extras.org/p/phpmailer/downloads/list



Or you can copy the following code and set username and password fields with your own gmail account username and password.



<html>



<head>



<title>PHPMailer - SMTP (Gmail) basic test</title>



</head>



<body>



<?php



//error_reporting(E_ALL);



error_reporting(E_STRICT);



date_default_timezone_set('America/Toronto');



require_once('../class.phpmailer.php');




//include("class.smtp.php"); // optional, gets called from within class.phpmailer.php if not already loaded



$mail             = new PHPMailer();



$body             = file_get_contents('contents.html');



$body             = eregi_replace("[\]",'',$body);



$mail->IsSMTP(); // telling the class to use SMTP



$mail->Host       = "mail.yourdomain.com"; // SMTP server



$mail->SMTPDebug  = 2;                     // enables SMTP debug information (for testing)



                                           // 1 = errors and messages



                                           // 2 = messages only



$mail->SMTPAuth   = true;                  // enable SMTP authentication



$mail->SMTPSecure = "ssl";                 // sets the prefix to the servier



$mail->Host       = "smtp.gmail.com";      // sets GMAIL as the SMTP server



$mail->Port       = 465;                   // set the SMTP port for the GMAIL server



$mail->Username   = "yourusername@gmail.com";  // GMAIL username



$mail->Password   = "yourpassword";            // GMAIL password



 



$mail->SetFrom('name@yourdomain.com', 'First Last');



 



$mail->AddReplyTo("name@yourdomain.com","First Last");



 



$mail->Subject    = "PHPMailer Test Subject via smtp (Gmail), basic";



 



$mail->AltBody    = "To view the message, please use an HTML compatible email viewer!"; // optional, comment out and test



$mail->MsgHTML($body);



$address = "whoto@otherdomain.com";



$mail->AddAddress($address, "John Doe");



$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!";



}



?>



</body>



</html>






Method 2 – Using mail() function



The first argument to this function is the recipient; the second specifies the message's subject and the third one should contain the body. So to send a simple sample message, we could use:



<?php



 $to = "recipient@example.com";



 $subject = "Hi!";



 $body = "Hi,\n\nHow are you?";



 if (mail($to, $subject, $body)) {



   echo("<p>Message successfully sent!</p>");



  } else {



   echo("<p>Message delivery failed...</p>");



  }



 ?>




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