Send email through PHP Mailer and Gmail SMPT.
PHPMailer is a PHP class for PHP (www.php.net) that provides a package of functions to send email. The two primary features are sending HTML Email and e-mails with attachments. PHPMailer supports nearly all possiblities to send email: mail(), Sendmail, qmail & direct to SMTP server. You can use any feature of SMTP-based e-mail, multiple recepients via to, CC, BCC, etc. In short: PHPMailer is an efficient way to send e-mail within PHP. http://phpmailer.worxware.com/?pg=tutorial
Download a recent version of PHPMailer Here. Current version 5.2.
You can use gmail smtp or your smtp server settings. change gmail variable value (True or False)
<?php
//SMTP needs accurate times, and the PHP time zone MUST be set
//This should be done in your php.ini, but this is how to do it if you don't have access to that
date_default_timezone_set('Etc/UTC');
require_once 'PHPMailer/PHPMailerAutoload.php';
require_once 'PHPMailer/class.phpmailer.php';
class MailSender{
private $_mailer;
private $_result='';
private $_state=false;
private $_recipient;
private $_subject;
private $_message;
private $_BCC;//$this->_mailer->addBCC($this->_BCC);
private $_gmail=true;
public function __construct(){
$this->_mailer = new PHPMailer;
$this->_mailer->IsSMTP();// Set mailer to use SMTP
$this->_mailer->SMTPAuth = true; // Set mailer to use SMTP
if ($this->_gmail) {
$this->_mailer->Host = 'smtp.gmail.com'; // Gmail smtp
$this->_mailer->Port = 465; // TCP port to connect to (Defaut 25)
$this->_mailer->SMTPSecure = true;
$this->_mailer->SMTPSecure = "ssl";// Enable TLS encryption, `ssl` also accepted /secure transfer enabled REQUIRED for Gmail
}else{
$this->_mailer->Host = '<your_smtp_server>'; // Specify main and backup server //stmp entrant sortant
}
$this->_mailer->SMTPDebug = 0; // Enable SMTP authentication
$this->_mailer->Username = 'example@gmail.com'; // SMTP username
$this->_mailer->Password = '<your_smtp_password>'; // SMTP password
$this->_mailer->addReplyTo("name@example.com", "Recepient Name");
$this->_mailer->From = 'name@example.com';
$this->_mailer->FromName = 'INFO MAILER';
}
public function sendMail(){
// Add a recipient
$this->_mailer->addAddress($this->_recipient);
$this->_mailer->addBCC($this->_BCC);
$this->_mailer->isHTML(true); // Set email format to HTML
$this->_mailer->Subject = $this->_subject;
// HTML email body
$body = "<html><body>";
$body .= "<table width='100%' bgcolor='#e0e0e0' cellpadding='0' cellspacing='0' border='0'>";
$body .= "<tr><td>";
$body .= "<table align='center' width='100%' border='0' cellpadding='0' cellspacing='0' style='max-width:650px; background-color:#fff; font-family:Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;'>";
$body .= "<thead>
<tr height='80'>
<th colspan='4' style='background-color:#f5f5f5; border-bottom:solid 1px #bdbdbd; font-family:Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; color:#333; font-size:34px;'>PHP SEND MAIL</th>
</tr>
</thead>";
$body .= "<tbody>
<tr align='center' height='50' style='font-family:Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;background-color:#00a2d1;'>
<td colspan='4' align='center' style='background-color:#f5f5f5; border-top:dashed #00a2d1 2px; font-size:24px; '>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan='4' style='padding:15px;'>
<p style='font-size:20px;'>Hello ,</p>
<p style='font-size:13px; font-family:Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; text-justify: auto'>". $this->_message.".</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr height='80'>
<td colspan='4' align='center' style='background-color:#f5f5f5; border-top:dashed #00a2d1 2px; font-size:24px; '>
<p style='font-size:10px; font-family:Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; text-align:center'>Please do not reply to this email This is an automatic email. If you answer, it can not be read. This message has been sent to .$this->_recipient.'</p>
<label>
Find us on :
<a href='#' target='_blank'><img style='vertical-align:middle' src='https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/webicons/2.0.0/webicons/webicon-facebook-m.png' /></a>
<a href='#' target='_blank'><img style='vertical-align:middle' src='https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/webicons/2.0.0/webicons/webicon-twitter-m.png' /></a>
<a href='#' target='_blank'><img style='vertical-align:middle' src='https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/webicons/2.0.0/webicons/webicon-googleplus-m.png' /></a>
<a href='#' target='_blank'><img style='vertical-align:middle' src='https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/webicons/2.0.0/webicons/webicon-rss-m.png' /></a>
</label>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>";
$body .= "</table>";
$body .= "</td></tr>";
$body .= "</table>";
$body .= "</body></html>";
// HTML email body
$this->_mailer->AltBody = $this->_message;
$this->_mailer->MsgHTML($body);
if(!$this->_mailer->send()) {
$this->_result = '<p> Mail error:' .$this->_mailer->ErrorInfo;
$this->_state=false;
}else{
$this->_result = '<p> Message sent!</p>';
$this->_state=true;
}
}
public function getresult(){
return $this->_result;
}
public function setrecipient($value){
$this->_recipient=$value;
}
public function setsubject($value){
$this->_subject=$value;
}
public function setMessage($value){
$this->_message=$value;
}
public function setBBC($value){
$this->_BCC=$value;
}
public function setstate($state)
{
$this->_state = $state;
}
public function getstate()
{
return $this->_state;
}
}<?php
require_once 'MailSender.php';
$mailSender = new MailSender();
$mailSender->setsubject("PHPMailer Test Subject via Sendmail, basic");
$mess='This is the plain text version of the email content';
$mailSender->setMessage($mess);
$mailSender->setrecipient("<email_recipient>");
$mailSender->sendMail();
echo $mailSender->getresult();