Answers for "simple php mailer script"

php mail function

<?php
$to = $_POST['email'];
$subject = "Email Subject";

$message = 'Dear '.$_POST['name'].',<br>';
$message .= "We welcome you to be part of family<br><br>";
$message .= "Regards,<br>";

// Always set content-type when sending HTML email
$headers = "MIME-Version: 1.0" . "\r\n";
$headers .= "Content-type:text/html;charset=UTF-8" . "\r\n";

// More headers
$headers .= 'From: <[email protected]>' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'Cc: [email protected]' . "\r\n";

mail($to,$subject,$message,$headers);
?>

php mailer

<?php
require 'PHPMailerAutoload.php';

$mail = new PHPMailer;

//$mail->SMTPDebug = 3;                               // Enable verbose debug output

$mail->isSMTP();                                      // Set mailer to use SMTP
$mail->Host = 'smtp1.example.com;smtp2.example.com';  // Specify main and backup SMTP servers
$mail->SMTPAuth = true;                               // Enable SMTP authentication
$mail->Username = '[email protected]';                 // SMTP username
$mail->Password = 'secret';                           // SMTP password
$mail->SMTPSecure = 'tls';                            // Enable TLS encryption, `ssl` also accepted
$mail->Port = 587;                                    // TCP port to connect to

$mail->setFrom('[email protected]', 'Mailer');
$mail->addAddress('[email protected]', 'Joe User');     // Add a recipient
$mail->addAddress('[email protected]');               // Name is optional
$mail->addReplyTo('[email protected]', 'Information');
$mail->addCC('[email protected]');
$mail->addBCC('[email protected]');

$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.';
    echo 'Mailer Error: ' . $mail->ErrorInfo;
} else {
    echo 'Message has been sent';
}

PHPMailer

<?php
// Import PHPMailer classes into the global namespace
// These must be at the top of your script, not inside a function
use PHPMailer\PHPMailer\PHPMailer;
use PHPMailer\PHPMailer\SMTP;
use PHPMailer\PHPMailer\Exception;

// Load Composer's autoloader
require 'vendor/autoload.php';

// Instantiation and passing `true` enables exceptions
$mail = new PHPMailer(true);

try {
    //Server settings
    $mail->SMTPDebug = SMTP::DEBUG_SERVER;                      // Enable verbose debug output
    $mail->isSMTP();                                            // Send using SMTP
    $mail->Host       = 'smtp1.example.com';                    // Set the SMTP server to send through
    $mail->SMTPAuth   = true;                                   // Enable SMTP authentication
    $mail->Username   = '[email protected]';                     // SMTP username
    $mail->Password   = 'secret';                               // SMTP password
    $mail->SMTPSecure = PHPMailer::ENCRYPTION_STARTTLS;         // Enable TLS encryption; `PHPMailer::ENCRYPTION_SMTPS` encouraged
    $mail->Port       = 587;                                    // TCP port to connect to, use 465 for `PHPMailer::ENCRYPTION_SMTPS` above

    //Recipients
    $mail->setFrom('[email protected]', 'Mailer');
    $mail->addAddress('[email protected]', 'Joe User');     // Add a recipient
    $mail->addAddress('[email protected]');               // Name is optional
    $mail->addReplyTo('[email protected]', 'Information');
    $mail->addCC('[email protected]');
    $mail->addBCC('[email protected]');

    // Attachments
    $mail->addAttachment('/var/tmp/file.tar.gz');         // Add attachments
    $mail->addAttachment('/tmp/image.jpg', 'new.jpg');    // Optional name

    // Content
    $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';

    $mail->send();
    echo 'Message has been sent';
} catch (Exception $e) {
    echo "Message could not be sent. Mailer Error: {$mail->ErrorInfo}";
}

php mail function

<?php
	//Sending mail from contact form page.
  	// It works perfectly for me. 
  	//Edit it and make it your own.
  	
  	
    $to = "[email protected]";
    $from = $_POST['email'];
    $name = $_POST['name'];
    $subject = $_POST['subject'];
    $number = $_POST['number'];
    $cmessage = $_POST['message'];

    $headers = "From: $from";
	$headers = "From: " . $from . "\r\n";
	$headers .= "Reply-To: ". $from . "\r\n";
	$headers .= "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";
	$headers .= "Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1\r\n";

    $subject = "You have a message from your Bitmap Photography.";

    $logo = 'img/logo.png';
    $link = '#';

	$body = "<!DOCTYPE html><html lang='en'><head><meta charset='UTF-8'><title>Express Mail</title></head><body>";
	$body .= "<table style='width: 100%;'>";
	$body .= "<thead style='text-align: center;'><tr><td style='border:none;' colspan='2'>";
	$body .= "<a href='{$link}'><img src='{$logo}' alt=''></a><br><br>";
	$body .= "</td></tr></thead><tbody><tr>";
	$body .= "<td style='border:none;'><strong>Name:</strong> {$name}</td>";
	$body .= "<td style='border:none;'><strong>Email:</strong> {$from}</td>";
	$body .= "</tr>";
	$body .= "<tr><td style='border:none;'><strong>Subject:</strong> {$csubject}</td></tr>";
	$body .= "<tr><td></td></tr>";
	$body .= "<tr><td colspan='2' style='border:none;'>{$cmessage}</td></tr>";
	$body .= "</tbody></table>";
	$body .= "</body></html>";

    $send = mail($to, $subject, $body, $headers);

?>

require php mailer

composer require phpmailer/phpmailer

how to setup php mailer

<?php
    include "emails/PHPMailer/PHPMailerAutoload.php"; 
	//or just include the php mailer class 
    //Create a new PHPMailer instance
    $mail = new PHPMailer(); 

    $mail->IsSMTP(); 
    $mail->SMTPDebug = 1; 
    $mail->SMTPAuth = true; 
    $mail->SMTPSecure = 'ssl'; 
    $mail->Host = "smtp.gmail.com";
	/*
    
    you also need to set the `allow less secure app` = ON 
    in your gmail account which you want to use here 
    :) 
    on then you will be able to send the emails from your account
    using phpMailer
    
    */
    $mail->Port = 465; 
    $mail->IsHTML(true);
    //Username to use for SMTP authentication
    $mail->Username = "@gmail.com";
    $mail->Password = "";
    //Set who the message is to be sent from
    $mail->setFrom('[email protected]', 'Zubair Mushtaq');
    //Set an alternative reply-to address
    $mail->addReplyTo('[email protected]', 'Secure Developer');
    //Set who the message is to be sent to
    $mail->addAddress('[email protected]', 'Abulogicss');
    //Set the subject line
    $mail->Subject = 'PHPMailer SMTP test';
    //Read an HTML message body from an external file, convert referenced images to embedded,
    //convert HTML into a basic plain-text alternative body
    $mail->msgHTML("convert HTML into a basic plain-text alternative body");
    //Replace the plain text body with one created manually
    $mail->AltBody = 'This is a plain-text message body';

    //send the message, check for errors
    if (!$mail->send()) {
        echo "Mailer Error: " . $mail->ErrorInfo;
    } else {
        echo "Message sent!";
    }