PHP mail sending PHPMailer usage example

This article mainly introduces PHP mail sending PHPMailer usage, describes in detail the installation and configuration methods and function implementation code, which is very useful, for more information about PHPMailer in PHP mail sending, see the example in this article. Share it with you for your reference. The procedure is as follows:

1. install sendmail on the server

sudo apt-get install sendmail 

2. start sendmail

sudo /etc/init.d/sendmail start 

3. modify php. ini

[mail function] SMTP = localhost smtp_port = 25 sendmail_from = me@example.com 

4. Function sendMail Function:

<? Php/* call PHPMailer to send an email * @ param String $ receiver recipient * @ param String $ sender * @ param String $ sender_name if the sender name is null, use the sender address instead of * @ param string $ subject email subject * @ param String $ content email content * @ param boolean $ whether ishtml is an html email * @ param Array $ attachements attachment * @ return boolean */function sendMail ($ receiver, $ sender, $ sender_name, $ subject, $ content, $ ishtml = true, $ attachments = array () {include_once "cl Ass-phpmailer.php "; if (empty ($ receiver) | empty ($ sender) | empty ($ subject) | empty ($ content) {return false ;} $ mail = new PHPMailer (); // $ mail-> IsSMTP (); // sent by smtp // $ mail-> Host = "smtp.gmail.com "; // SMTP server // $ mail-> Port = 465; // SMTP Port // $ mail-> SMTPSecure = 'SSL '; // encryption method // $ mail-> SMTPAuth = true; // enable SMTP Authentication // $ mail-> Username = "username "; // username // $ mail-> Password = "password"; // Password $ Mail-> IsMail (); // using PHP mail () function may indicate that this component is not sent by the following user: $ mail-> From = $ sender; // sender $ mail-> FromName = $ sender_name; // sender alias $ mail-> AddReplyTo ($ sender); // Reply to $ mail-> AddAddress ($ sender er ); // recipient // send if ($ ishtml) {$ mail-> IsHTML (true);} // send the attachment if ($ attachments) in html format) {if (is_array ($ attachments) {$ send_attachments = array (); $ tmp_attachments = array_slice ($ attachments, 0, 1); if (! Is_array (array_pop ($ tmp_attachments) {if (isset ($ attachments ['path']) {array_push ($ send_attachments, $ attachments );} else {foreach ($ attachments as $ attachment) {array_push ($ send_attachments, array ('path' => $ attachment) ;}} else {$ send_attachments = $ attachments ;} foreach ($ send_attachments as $ attachment) {$ attachment ['name'] = isset ($ attachment ['name'])? $ Attachment ['name']: null; $ attachment ['encoding'] = isset ($ attachment ['encoding'])? $ Attachment ['encoding']: 'base64'; $ attachment ['type'] = isset ($ attachment ['type'])? $ Attachment ['type']: 'application/octet-stream'; if (isset ($ attachment ['path']) & file_exists ($ attachment ['path']) {$ mail-> AddAttachment ($ attachment ['path'], $ attachment ['name'], $ attachment ['encoding'], $ attachment ['type']) ;}} elseif (is_string ($ attachments) {if (file_exists ($ attachments )) {$ mail-> AddAttachment ($ attachments) ;}}$ mail-> Subject = $ subject; // mail Title $ mail-> Body = $ content; // mail Content return $ mail-> Send ();} // DEMO example: $ author ER = 'author er @ test.com '; $ sender = 'sender @ test.com '; $ sender_name = 'sender name'; $ subject = 'subjecct '; $ content = 'content'; // You Can $ attachments = 'attachment1.jpg' in all four formats '; $ attachments = array ('path' => 'attachment1.jpg ', 'name' => 'attachment 1.jpg'); $ attachments = done'); $ attachments = array ('path '=> 'Attachment1.jpg', 'name' => 'attachment 1.jpg '), array ('path' => 'attachment2.jpg', 'name' => 'attachment 2.jpg '), array ('path' => 'attachment3.jpg ', 'name' => 'attachment 3.jpg'),); $ flag = sendMail ($ sender er, $ sender, $ sender_name, $ subject, $ content, true, $ attachments); echo $ flag;?>

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