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Send mail in PHP using PHPMailer
Code and description to send mail in PHP using the PHPMailer package.
<?php
//SEND EMAIL VIA PHPMAILER PACKAGE
// INSTALLATION - composer require phpmailer/phpmailer
use PHPMailer\PHPMailer\PHPMailer;
use PHPMailer\PHPMailer\SMTP;
use PHPMailer\PHPMailer\Exception;
// Load Composer's autoloader
require 'vendor/autoload.php';
// CREATE MAILER INSTANT and PASS `true` TO ENABLE EXCEPTIONS
$mail = new PHPMailer(true);
try {
//SERVER SETTINGS
$mail->SMTPDebug = SMTP::DEBUG_SERVER; // ENABLE DEBUG
$mail->isSMTP(); // SEND MAIL USING SMTP
$mail->Host = 'smtp.server.com'; // SMTP HOST NAME
$mail->SMTPAuth = true; // ENABLE SMTP AUTHENTICATION
$mail->Username = '[email protected]'; // SMTP USERNAME
$mail->Password = 'password'; // SMTP PASSOWRD
$mail->SMTPSecure = PHPMailer::ENCRYPTION_STARTTLS; // ENABLE TLS encryption;
$mail->Port = 587; // TCP PORT
//RECIPIENTS
$mail->setFrom('[email protected]');
$mail->addAddress('[email protected]', "name"); //NAME IS OPTIONAL
$mail->addReplyTo('[email protected]', 'Information');
$mail->addCC('[email protected]');
$mail->addBCC('[email protected]');
// ATTACHMENT
$mail->addAttachment('path/to/file.zip'); // Add attachments
$mail->addAttachment('path/to/file.zip', 'file_name.jpg'); // file_name is optional
// MAIL CONTENT
$mail->isHTML(true); // Set email format to HTML
$mail->Subject = 'Here is the subject';
$mail->Body = '<div>Your HTML message <b>body</b> will be here</div>';
$mail->AltBody = 'Place here plain text for no-HTML support mail clients';
$mail->send();
echo 'Mail sent successfully';
} catch (Exception $e) {
echo "Error while sending mail: {$mail->ErrorInfo}";
}
?>
Here we are using PHPMailer composer package to send mail in PHP. You can install PHPMailer package in your package by
Adding below line in composer.json file
"phpmailer/phpmailer": "~6.1"
or Running below command
composer require phpmailer/phpmailer
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