How to send an email using PHP

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I am using PHP on a website and I want to add emailing functionality   I have WAMPSERVER installed   How do I send an email using PHP

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Sent the Email with this script   lt h2 gt Test Mail lt  h2 gt   lt  php  if   isset   POST  submit             gt     lt form method  post  action   lt  php echo   SERVER  PHP SELF     gt   gt    From   lt input type  text  name  from  gt  lt br gt    Subject   lt input type  text  name  subject  gt  lt br gt    Message   lt textarea rows  10  cols  40  name  message  gt  lt  textarea gt  lt br gt     lt input type  submit  name  submit  value  Click To send mail  gt     lt  form gt     lt  php      else         if  isset   POST  from                from     POST  from       sender      subject     POST  subject         message     POST  message          message   wordwrap  message  70        mail  Test example com   subject  message  From   from n        echo  Thank you for sending an email               gt    Once you press the Send email button  the email will be sent to Test example com

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Full code example    Try it once     lt  php    Multiple recipients  to    johny example com  sally example com      note the comma     Subject  subject    Birthday Reminders for August       Message  message      lt html gt   lt head gt     lt title gt Birthday Reminders for August lt  title gt   lt  head gt   lt body gt     lt p gt Here are the birthdays upcoming in August  lt  p gt     lt table gt       lt tr gt         lt th gt Person lt  th gt  lt th gt Day lt  th gt  lt th gt Month lt  th gt  lt th gt Year lt  th gt       lt  tr gt       lt tr gt         lt td gt Johny lt  td gt  lt td gt 10th lt  td gt  lt td gt August lt  td gt  lt td gt 1970 lt  td gt       lt  tr gt       lt tr gt         lt td gt Sally lt  td gt  lt td gt 17th lt  td gt  lt td gt August lt  td gt  lt td gt 1973 lt  td gt       lt  tr gt     lt  table gt   lt  body gt   lt  html gt         To send HTML mail  the Content-type header must be set  headers      MIME-Version  1 0    headers      Content-type  text html  charset iso-8859-1       Additional headers  headers      To  Mary  lt mary example com gt   Kelly  lt kelly example com gt     headers      From  Birthday Reminder  lt birthday example com gt     headers      Cc  birthdayarchive example com    headers      Bcc  birthdaycheck example com       Mail it mail  to   subject   message  implode   r n    headers      gt

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The core way to send emails from PHP is to use its built in mail   function  but there are a couple of ready-to-use SDKs which can ease the integration    Swiftmailer PHPMailer Pepipost  works over HTTP hence SMTP port block issue can be avoided  Sendmail   P S  I am employed with Pepipost

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using PHP built in function mail   more info from   https   www php net manual en function mail php

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Try this    lt  php  to    somebody example com    subject    My subject    txt    Hello world     headers    From  webmaster example com      r n     CC  somebodyelse example com    mail  to  subject  txt  headers     gt

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lt  php include  db conn php    connection file require  PHPMailerAutoload php     it will be in PHPMailer require  class smtp php     it will be in PHPMailer require  class phpmailer php     it will be in PHPMailer    response   array     params   json decode file get contents  php   input      if  empty  params- gt email id          email id    params- gt email id       flag false      echo  something       if  filter var  email id  FILTER VALIDATE EMAIL                  response  ERROR    EMAIL address format error            echo json encode  response JSON UNESCAPED SLASHES           return             sql  SELECT   from sales where email id    email id           result   mysqli query  conn  sql        count   mysqli num rows  result         to    demo gmail com        subject    DEMO Subject        messageBody   demo message          if  count   0            response  valid     false           response  message      User is not registered yet           echo json encode  response           return             else             mail   new PHPMailer             mail- gt IsSMTP             mail- gt SMTPAuth   true     authentication enabled          mail- gt IsHTML true             mail- gt SMTPSecure    ssl    turn on to send html email             mail- gt Host    ssl   smtp zoho com            mail- gt Host    p3plcpnl0749 prod phx3 secureserver net    you can use gmail           mail- gt Port   465           mail- gt Username    demousername example com            mail- gt Password    demopassword            mail- gt SetFrom  demousername example com    Any demo alert             mail- gt Subject    subject            mail- gt Body    messageBody           mail- gt AddAddress  to           echo  yes            if   mail- gt send                 echo  Mailer Error       mail- gt ErrorInfo                   else              echo  Message has been sent successfully                    else       response  valid     false       response  message      Required field s  missing       echo json encode  response         gt    The above code is working for me

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Also look into the PEAR mail package Pear Mail Page  It seems to be a little more robust than the standard mail   function that is built in  if the standard function isn t adequate    Here is an excerpt from this page showing how it is used   PEAR Mail send   usage   lt  php     include  Mail php          recipients    joe example com         headers  From         richard example com        headers  To           joe example com        headers  Subject      Test message         body    Test message         smtpinfo  host      smtp server com        smtpinfo  port      25        smtpinfo  auth     true       smtpinfo  username      smtp user        smtpinfo  password      smtp password            Create the mail object using the Mail  factory method      mail object   amp  Mail  factory  smtp    smtpinfo          mail object- gt send  recipients   headers   body     gt

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You can use a mail web service such as Postmark  Sendgrid etc   Sendgrid vs Postmark vs Amazon SES and other email SMTP API providers   Edit  I just use the Google Gmail API now  I had trouble sending reminder email to my employer s organization due to strict filters  But Gmail works as long as you don t spam people

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For future readers  Try this if other answers don t work  As was the case with me    1   Download PHPMailer  open the zip file and extract the folder to your project directory   3   Rename the extracted directory to PHPMailer and write the below code inside of your php script  the script must be outside of the PHPMailer folder    lt  php    PHPMailer classes into the global namespace use PHPMailer PHPMailer PHPMailer   use PHPMailer PHPMailer Exception     Base files  require  PHPMailer src Exception php   require  PHPMailer src PHPMailer php   require  PHPMailer src SMTP php      create object of PHPMailer class with boolean parameter which sets unsets exception   mail   new PHPMailer true                                 try        mail- gt isSMTP       using SMTP protocol                                           mail- gt Host    smtp gmail com      SMTP host as gmail       mail- gt SMTPAuth   true      enable smtp authentication                                   mail- gt Username    sender gmail com       sender gmail host                    mail- gt Password    password      sender gmail host password                                mail- gt SMTPSecure    tls       for encrypted connection                                 mail- gt Port   587       port for SMTP            mail- gt setFrom  sender gmail com    Sender       sender s email and name      mail- gt addAddress  receiver gmail com    Receiver        receiver s email and name       mail- gt Subject    Test subject        mail- gt Body       Test body         mail- gt send        echo  Message has been sent     catch  Exception  e       handle error      echo  Message could not be sent  Mailer Error      mail- gt ErrorInfo      gt

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The native PHP function mail   does not work for me  It issues the message      503 This mail server requires authentication when attempting to send   to a non-local e-mail address   So  I usually use PHPMailer package  I ve downloaded the version 5 2 23 from  GitHub   I ve just picked 2 files and put them in my source PHP root      class phpmailer php     class smtp php   In PHP  the file needs to be added   require once  class smtp php    require once  class phpmailer php      After this  it s just code   require once  class smtp php    require once  class phpmailer php           ----------------------------------------------    Send an e-mail  Returns true if successful           to - destination       nameto - destination name       subject - e-mail subject       message - HTML e-mail body      altmess - text alternative for HTML    ---------------------------------------------- function sendmail  to  nameto  subject  message  altmess         from     yourcontact yourdomain com      namefrom    yourname      mail   new PHPMailer         mail- gt CharSet    UTF-8      mail- gt isSMTP         by SMTP    mail- gt SMTPAuth     true       user and password    mail- gt Host          localhost      mail- gt Port         25     mail- gt Username      from       mail- gt Password      yourpassword      mail- gt SMTPSecure             options   ssl    tls            mail- gt setFrom  from  namefrom        From  origin     mail- gt addCC  from  namefrom           There is also addBCC    mail- gt Subject     subject     mail- gt AltBody     altmess     mail- gt Body    message     mail- gt isHTML         Set HTML type    mail- gt addAttachment  attachment         mail- gt addAddress  to   nameto     return  mail- gt send        It works like a charm

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For most projects  I use Swift mailer these days  It s a very flexible and elegant object-oriented approach to sending emails  created by the same people who gave us the popular Symfony framework and Twig template engine   Basic usage   require  mail swift required php     message   Swift Message  newInstance          The subject of your email     - gt setSubject  Jane Doe sends you a message          The from address es      - gt setFrom array  jane doe gmail com    gt   Jane Doe           The to address es      - gt setTo array  frank stevens gmail com    gt   Frank Stevens           Here  you put the content of your email     - gt setBody   lt h3 gt New message lt  h3 gt  lt p gt Here goes the rest of my message lt  p gt     text html     if  Swift Mailer  newInstance Swift MailTransport  newInstance   - gt send  message         echo json encode            quot status quot    gt   quot OK quot            quot message quot    gt   Your message has been sent          JSON PRETTY PRINT     else       echo json encode            quot status quot    gt   quot error quot            quot message quot    gt   Oops  Something went wrong          JSON PRETTY PRINT      See the official documentation for more info on how to use Swift mailer

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Using PHP s mail   function it s possible  Remember mail function will not work on a Local server    lt  php  to         nobody example com    subject    the subject    message    hello    headers    From  webmaster example com      r n         Reply-To  webmaster example com      r n         X-Mailer  PHP     phpversion     mail  to   subject   message   headers     gt     Reference    http   php net manual en function mail php

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this is very basic method to send plain text email using mail function    lt  php  to    SomeOtherEmailAddress Domain com    subject    This is subject    message    This is body of email    from    From  FirstName LastName  lt SomeEmailAddress Domain com gt    mail  to  subject  message  from

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You could also use PHPMailer class at https   github com PHPMailer PHPMailer    It allows you to use the mail function or use an smtp server transparently  It also handles HTML based emails and attachments so you don t have to write your own implementation   The class is stable and it is used by many other projects like Drupal  SugarCRM  Yii  and Joomla   Here is an example from the page above    lt  php require  PHPMailerAutoload php     mail   new PHPMailer    mail- gt isSMTP                                            Set mailer to use SMTP  mail- gt Host    smtp1 example com smtp2 example com       Specify main and backup SMTP servers  mail- gt SMTPAuth   true                                   Enable SMTP authentication  mail- gt Username    user example com                      SMTP username  mail- gt Password    secret                                SMTP password  mail- gt SMTPSecure    tls                                 Enable encryption   ssl  also accepted   mail- gt From    from example com    mail- gt FromName    Mailer    mail- gt addAddress  joe example net    Joe User           Add a recipient  mail- gt addAddress  ellen example com                     Name is optional  mail- gt addReplyTo  info example com    Information     mail- gt addCC  cc example com     mail- gt addBCC  bcc example com      mail- gt WordWrap   50                                     Set word wrap to 50 characters  mail- gt addAttachment   var tmp file tar gz               Add attachments  mail- gt addAttachment   tmp image jpg    new jpg          Optional name  mail- gt isHTML true                                       Set email format to HTML   mail- gt Subject    Here is the subject    mail- gt Body       This is the HTML message body  lt b gt in bold  lt  b gt     mail- gt AltBody    This is the body in plain text for non-HTML mail clients    if   mail- gt send          echo  Message could not be sent        echo  Mailer Error       mail- gt ErrorInfo    else       echo  Message has been sent

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If you are interested in html formatted email  make sure to pass Content-type  text html  in the header  Example      multiple recipients  to     aidan example com             note the comma  to     wez example com       subject  subject    Birthday Reminders for August       message  message      lt html gt   lt head gt     lt title gt Birthday Reminders for August lt  title gt   lt  head gt   lt body gt     lt p gt Here are the birthdays upcoming in August  lt  p gt     lt table gt       lt tr gt         lt th gt Person lt  th gt  lt th gt Day lt  th gt  lt th gt Month lt  th gt  lt th gt Year lt  th gt       lt  tr gt       lt tr gt         lt td gt Joe lt  td gt  lt td gt 3rd lt  td gt  lt td gt August lt  td gt  lt td gt 1970 lt  td gt       lt  tr gt       lt tr gt         lt td gt Sally lt  td gt  lt td gt 17th lt  td gt  lt td gt August lt  td gt  lt td gt 1973 lt  td gt       lt  tr gt     lt  table gt   lt  body gt   lt  html gt         To send HTML mail  the Content-type header must be set  headers     MIME-Version  1 0      r n    headers     Content-type  text html  charset iso-8859-1      r n       Additional headers  headers     To  Mary  lt mary example com gt   Kelly  lt kelly example com gt       r n    headers     From  Birthday Reminder  lt birthday example com gt       r n    headers     Cc  birthdayarchive example com      r n    headers     Bcc  birthdaycheck example com      r n       Mail it mail  to   subject   message   headers     For more details  check php mail function

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