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?
It's possible using PHP's mail() function. Remember the mail function will not work on a local server.
<?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);
?>
Reference:
mail
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:
<?php
require 'PHPMailerAutoload.php';
$mail = new PHPMailer;
$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 = 'user#example.com'; // SMTP username
$mail->Password = 'secret'; // SMTP password
$mail->SMTPSecure = 'tls'; // Enable encryption, 'ssl' also accepted
$mail->From = 'from#example.com';
$mail->FromName = 'Mailer';
$mail->addAddress('joe#example.net', 'Joe User'); // Add a recipient
$mail->addAddress('ellen#example.com'); // Name is optional
$mail->addReplyTo('info#example.com', 'Information');
$mail->addCC('cc#example.com');
$mail->addBCC('bcc#example.com');
$mail->WordWrap = 50; // Set word wrap to 50 characters
$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';
}
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 = '
<html>
<head>
<title>Birthday Reminders for August</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>Here are the birthdays upcoming in August!</p>
<table>
<tr>
<th>Person</th><th>Day</th><th>Month</th><th>Year</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Joe</td><td>3rd</td><td>August</td><td>1970</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Sally</td><td>17th</td><td>August</td><td>1973</td>
</tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>
';
// 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 <mary#example.com>, Kelly <kelly#example.com>' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'From: Birthday Reminder <birthday#example.com>' . "\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.
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
<?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 =& Mail::factory("smtp", $smtpinfo);
$mail_object->send($recipients, $headers, $body);
?>
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';
$message = Swift_Message::newInstance()
// The subject of your email
->setSubject('Jane Doe sends you a message')
// The from address(es)
->setFrom(array('jane.doe#gmail.com' => 'Jane Doe'))
// The to address(es)
->setTo(array('frank.stevens#gmail.com' => 'Frank Stevens'))
// Here, you put the content of your email
->setBody('<h3>New message</h3><p>Here goes the rest of my message</p>', 'text/html');
if (Swift_Mailer::newInstance(Swift_MailTransport::newInstance())->send($message)) {
echo json_encode([
"status" => "OK",
"message" => 'Your message has been sent!'
], JSON_PRETTY_PRINT);
} else {
echo json_encode([
"status" => "error",
"message" => 'Oops! Something went wrong!'
], JSON_PRETTY_PRINT);
}
See the official documentation for more info on how to use Swift mailer.
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.
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)
<?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->isSMTP(); // using SMTP protocol
$mail->Host = 'smtp.gmail.com'; // SMTP host as gmail
$mail->SMTPAuth = true; // enable smtp authentication
$mail->Username = 'sender#gmail.com'; // sender gmail host
$mail->Password = 'password'; // sender gmail host password
$mail->SMTPSecure = 'tls'; // for encrypted connection
$mail->Port = 587; // port for SMTP
$mail->setFrom('sender#gmail.com', "Sender"); // sender's email and name
$mail->addAddress('receiver#gmail.com', "Receiver"); // receiver's email and name
$mail->Subject = 'Test subject';
$mail->Body = 'Test body';
$mail->send();
echo 'Message has been sent';
} catch (Exception $e) { // handle error.
echo 'Message could not be sent. Mailer Error: ', $mail->ErrorInfo;
}
?>
Try this:
<?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);
?>
this is very basic method to send plain text email using mail function.
<?php
$to = 'SomeOtherEmailAddress#Domain.com';
$subject = 'This is subject';
$message = 'This is body of email';
$from = "From: FirstName LastName <SomeEmailAddress#Domain.com>";
mail($to,$subject,$message,$from);
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->CharSet = 'UTF-8';
$mail->isSMTP(); // by SMTP
$mail->SMTPAuth = true; // user and password
$mail->Host = "localhost";
$mail->Port = 25;
$mail->Username = $from;
$mail->Password = "yourpassword";
$mail->SMTPSecure = ""; // options: 'ssl', 'tls' , ''
$mail->setFrom($from,$namefrom); // From (origin)
$mail->addCC($from,$namefrom); // There is also addBCC
$mail->Subject = $subject;
$mail->AltBody = $altmess;
$mail->Body = $message;
$mail->isHTML(); // Set HTML type
//$mail->addAttachment("attachment");
$mail->addAddress($to, $nameto);
return $mail->send();
}
It works like a charm
Full code example..
Try it once..
<?php
// Multiple recipients
$to = 'johny#example.com, sally#example.com'; // note the comma
// Subject
$subject = 'Birthday Reminders for August';
// Message
$message = '
<html>
<head>
<title>Birthday Reminders for August</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>Here are the birthdays upcoming in August!</p>
<table>
<tr>
<th>Person</th><th>Day</th><th>Month</th><th>Year</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Johny</td><td>10th</td><td>August</td><td>1970</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Sally</td><td>17th</td><td>August</td><td>1973</td>
</tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>
';
// 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 <mary#example.com>, Kelly <kelly#example.com>';
$headers[] = 'From: Birthday Reminder <birthday#example.com>';
$headers[] = 'Cc: birthdayarchive#example.com';
$headers[] = 'Bcc: birthdaycheck#example.com';
// Mail it
mail($to, $subject, $message, implode("\r\n", $headers));
?>
You can use a mail web service such as Postmark, Sendgrid etc.
Sendgrid vs Postmark vs Amazon SES and other email/SMTP API providers?
Edit: I just use the Google Gmail API now. I had trouble sending reminder email to my employer's organization due to strict filters. But Gmail works as long as you don't spam people.
Sent the Email with this script
<h2>Test Mail</h2>
<?php
if (!isset($_POST["submit"]))
{
?>
<form method="post" action="<?php echo $_SERVER["PHP_SELF"];?>">
From: <input type="text" name="from"><br>
Subject: <input type="text" name="subject"><br>
Message: <textarea rows="10" cols="40" name="message"></textarea><br>
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="Click To send mail">
</form>
<?php
}
else
{
if (isset($_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";
}
}
?>
Once you press the Send email button, the email will be sent to Test#example.com
<?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->email_id)){
$email_id = $params->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->IsSMTP();
$mail->SMTPAuth = true; // authentication enabled
$mail->IsHTML(true);
$mail->SMTPSecure = 'ssl';//turn on to send html email
// $mail->Host = "ssl://smtp.zoho.com";
$mail->Host = "p3plcpnl0749.prod.phx3.secureserver.net";//you can use gmail
$mail->Port = 465;
$mail->Username = "demousername#example.com";
$mail->Password = "demopassword";
$mail->SetFrom("demousername#example.com", "Any demo alert");
$mail->Subject = $subject;
$mail->Body = $messageBody;
$mail->AddAddress($to);
echo "yes";
if(!$mail->send()) {
echo "Mailer Error: " . $mail->ErrorInfo;
}
else {
echo "Message has been sent successfully";
}
}
}
else{
$response["valid"] = false;
$response["message"] = "Required field(s) missing";
echo json_encode($response);
}
?>
The above code is working for me.
Procedure for to send a user password via email using PHPMailer :
Step 1: First, Download PHPMailer Package from GitHub
You can just download the PHPMailer source files and include the required files manually.
You can download the ZIP file with the source code from the PHPMailer homepage[1],
clicking on the “Clone or download” green button (on the right) and then selecting “Download ZIP”.
Unzip the package inside the directory where you want to save the source files.
[1] https://github.com/PHPMailer/PHPMailer
Step 2: Then, open (From Gmail Address) Google Account and do the following steps:
Disable Two factor password verification in google account.
Turn on Less Security.
Allow third party app.
Step 3: Try to use below Code (Note: Here, I have provided only the functional code for to send a user password via email using PHP and MySQL)
<?php
session_start();
use PHPMailer\PHPMailer\PHPMailer; //add use in starting of the code
$db = mysqli_connect('localhost', 'root', '', '[Enter your Database Name]'); // connect to database
if (isset($_POST['forgot_btn'])) {
forgotpassword();
}
function forgotpassword(){
global $db;
$user_id = $_POST['user_id'];
$result = mysqli_query($db,"SELECT * FROM users where user_id='$user_id'");
$row = mysqli_fetch_assoc($result);
$fetch_user_id=$row['user_id'];
$name=$row['name'];
$email_id=$row['email_id'];
$password=$row['password'];
if($user_id==$fetch_user_id) {
require '../PHPMailer/vendor/autoload.php'; //Please correctly mention the PHPMailer installed directory (Don't follow my directory)
$mail = new PHPMailer(TRUE);
try{
$mail->setFrom('[Enter your From Email_Address]', '[Enter Sender Name]');
$mail->addAddress($email_id, $name); //[To Email Address and Name]
$mail->Subject = 'Regarding Forgot Password';
$mail->Body = 'Hi '.$name.',Your Login Password is:'.$password.'';
$mail->isSMTP();
$mail->Host = 'smtp.gmail.com';
$mail->SMTPAuth = TRUE;
$mail->SMTPSecure = 'tls';
$mail->Username = '[Enter your From Email_Address]';
$mail->Password = '[Enter your From Email_Address -> Password]';
$mail->Port = 587;
if($mail->send())
{
echo "<script>alert('Password Sent Successfully');</script>";
}
else
{
echo "<script>alert('Please Check Your Internet Connection or From Email Address/Password or Wrong To Email Address');</script>";
}
}
catch (Exception $e)
{
echo "<script>alert('Please Check Your Internet Connection or From Email Address/Password or Wrong To Email Address');</script>";
}
}
}
?>
Refer to these docs[1] for further information:
[1]. https://alexwebdevelop.com/phpmailer-tutorial/
You can do a TESTE IF you NEED it do it through tinker as the following code
# SSH into droplet
# go to project
$ php artisan tinker
$ Mail::send('errors.401', [], function ($message) { $message->to('emmanuelbarturen#gmail.com')->subject('this works!'); });
# check your mailbox
Email with plain text
<?php
$to = 'name#example.com';
$subject = 'Your email subject here';
$message = 'Your message here';
// Carriage return type (RFC).
$eol = "\r\n";
$headers = "Reply-To: Name <name#example.com>".$eol;
$headers .= "Return-Path: Name <name#example.com>".$eol;
$headers .= "From: Name <name#example.com>".$eol;
$headers .= "Organization: Hostinger".$eol;
$headers .= "MIME-Version: 1.0".$eol;
$headers .= "Content-type: text/plain; charset=utf-8".$eol;
$headers .= "X-Priority: 3".$eol;
$headers .= "X-Mailer: PHP".phpversion().$eol;
mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);
Email with html
<?php
$to = 'name#example.com';
$subject = 'Your email subject here';
$message = '
<html>
<head>
<title>Your '.$to.' as your contact email address</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>Hi, there!</p>
<p>It is a long established fact that '.$to.' reader will be distracted by the readable content of a page when looking at its layout</p>
</body>
</html>
';
// Carriage return type (RFC).
$eol = "\r\n";
$headers = "Reply-To: Name <name#example.com>".$eol;
$headers .= "Return-Path: Name <name#example.com>".$eol;
$headers .= "From: Name <name#example.com>".$eol;
$headers .= "Organization: Hostinger".$eol;
$headers .= "MIME-Version: 1.0".$eol;
$headers .= "Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1".$eol;
$headers .= "X-Priority: 3".$eol;
$headers .= "X-Mailer: PHP".phpversion().$eol;
mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);
Email with attachment
<?php
$url = "https://c.xkcd.com/random/comic/";
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, true);
// Must be set to true so that PHP follows any "Location:" header.
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
// $a will contain all headers.
$a = curl_exec($ch);
// This is what you need, it will return you the last effective URL.
$url = curl_getinfo($ch, CURLINFO_EFFECTIVE_URL);
$str = file_get_contents($url.'info.0.json');
$json = json_decode($str, true);
// Get file info.
$imageTitle = $json['title'];
// Image url.
$imageUrl = $json['img'];
// Image alt text.
$imageAlt = $json['alt'];
// Image file.
$imageFile = file_get_contents($imageUrl);
$tokens = explode('/', $imageUrl);
// File name.
$fileName = $tokens[(count($tokens) - 1)];
// File extension.
$ext = explode(".", $fileName);
// File type.
$fileType = $ext[1];
// File size.
$header = get_headers($imageUrl, true);
$fileSize = $header['Content-Length'];
$to = 'name#example.com';
$subject = "Enjoy reading today's most interesting XKCD comics";
$message = '
<html>
<head>
<title>Your email '.$to.' is listed in our XKCD comics subscribers.</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>'.$imageTitle.'</h1>
<img src='.$imageUrl.' alt='.$imageAlt.'>
</body>
</html>';
// File.
$content = chunk_split(base64_encode($imageFile));
// A random hash will be necessary to send mixed content.
$semiRand = md5(time());
$mimeBoundary = '==Multipart_Boundary_x{$semiRand}x';
// Carriage return type (RFC).
$eol = "\r\n";
$headers = 'Reply-To: Name <name#example.com>'.$eol;
$headers .= 'Return-Path: Name <name#example.com>'.$eol;
$headers .= 'From: Name <name#example.com>'.$eol;
$headers .= 'Organization: Hostinger'.$eol;
$headers = 'MIME-Version: 1.0'.$eol;
$headers .= "Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary=\"{$mimeBoundary}\"".$eol;
$headers .= 'Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit'.$eol;
$headers .= 'X-Priority: 3'.$eol;
$headers .= 'X-Mailer: PHP'.phpversion().$eol;
// Message.
$body = '--'.$mimeBoundary.$eol;
$body .= "Content-Type: text/html; charset=\"UTF-8\"".$eol;
$body .= 'Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit'.$eol;
$body .= $message.$eol;
// Attachment.
$body .= '--'.$mimeBoundary.$eol;
$body .= "Content-Type:{$fileType}; name=\"{$fileName}\"".$eol;
$body .= 'Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64'.$eol;
$body .= "Content-disposition: attachment; filename=\"{$fileName}\"".$eol;
$body .= 'X-Attachment-Id: '.rand(1000, 99999).$eol;
$body .= $content.$eol;
$body .= '--'.$mimeBoundary.'--';
$success = mail($to, $subject, $body, $headers);
if ($success === false) {
echo '<h3>Failure</h3>';
echo '<p>Failed to send email to '.$to.'</p>';
} else {
echo '<p>Your email has been sent to '.$to.' successfully.</p>';
}
Email verification
<?php
function verifyLink() {
require 'db-connection.php';
$mysqli->select_db($dbname);
$sql = "SELECT `email`, `hash` FROM `Users` ORDER BY `active`";
$result = $mysqli->query($sql);
$row = $result->fetch_row();
if ($_SERVER['HTTPS'] !== '' && $_SERVER['HTTPS'] === 'on') {
return 'Verify contact email';
} else {
return 'Verify contact email';
}
$mysqli->close();
}
$to = 'name#example.com';
$subject = 'Verify your XKCD contact email address';
$message = '
<html>
<head>
<title>Verify '.$to.' as your contact email address</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>Hi, there!</p>
<p>Please verify that you want to use '.$to.' as the contact email address for your XKCD account</p>
<p>XKCD will use this email to tell you about interesting comics updates.</p>
<div>'.verifyLink().'</div>
<h3>Do not recognise this activity?</h3>
<p>If you did not add '.$to.' to your XKCD account, ignore this email and that address will not be added to your XKCD account. Someone may have made a mistake while typing their own email address.</p>
</body>
</html>
';
// Carriage return type (RFC).
$eol = "\r\n";
$headers = "Reply-To: Name <name#example.com>".$eol;
$headers .= "Return-Path: Name <name#example.com>".$eol;
$headers .= "From: Name <name#example.com>".$eol;
$headers .= "Organization: Hostinger".$eol;
$headers .= "MIME-Version: 1.0".$eol;
$headers .= "Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1".$eol;
$headers .= "X-Priority: 3".$eol;
$headers .= "X-Mailer: PHP".phpversion().$eol;
mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);
I tried this in my fast time i had the same issues but after a proper resear i solved it. here is my approach. You have to download the PHPMailer source files and include the required files manually in your project.
You can download the ZIP file with the source code from the PHPMailer homepage1, clicking on the “Clone or download” green button (on the right) and then selecting “Download ZIP”. Unzip the package inside the directory where you want to save the source files.
1 from: GitHub.
Step 2: Then, open (From Gmail Address) Google Account and do the following steps:
Disable Two factor password verification in google account.
Turn on Less Security.
Allow third party app.
There you Go..
<?php
use PHPMailer\PHPMailer\PHPMailer;
use PHPMailer\PHPMailer\Exception;
require 'PHPMailer/src/Exception.php';
require 'PHPMailer/src/PHPMailer.php';
require 'PHPMailer/src/SMTP.php';
session_start();
if (isset($_POST['send'])) {
$email = $_POST['email'];
$subject = $_POST['subject'];
$message = "I am trying";
//Load composer's autoloader
$mail = new PHPMailer(true);
try {
//Server settings
$mail->isSMTP();
$mail->Host = 'smtp.gmail.com';
$mail->SMTPAuth = true;
$mail->Username = 'youremail#gmail.com';
$mail->Password = 'password';
$mail->SMTPOptions = array(
'ssl' => array(
'verify_peer' => false,
'verify_peer_name' => false,
'allow_self_signed' => true
)
);
$mail->SMTPSecure = 'ssl';
$mail->Port = 465;
//Send Email
$mail->setFrom('youremail#gmail.com');
//Recipients
$mail->addAddress($email);
$mail->addReplyTo('youremail#gmail.com');
//Content
$mail->isHTML(true);
$mail->Subject = $subject;
$mail->Body = $message;
$mail->send();
$_SESSION['result'] = 'Message has been sent';
$_SESSION['status'] = 'ok';
} catch (Exception $e) {
$_SESSION['result'] = 'Message could not be sent. Mailer Error: ' . $mail->ErrorInfo;
$_SESSION['status'] = 'error';
echo 'Message could not be sent. Mailer Error: ' . $mail->ErrorInfo;
}
}
header("location: forgotPassword.php");
I used this method in cPanel and everything worked fine:
<?php
$dest = "destination#domain.tld";
$fromaddy = "cpaneluser#domain.tld";
mail("<$dest>","Test from php mail","Test","From:<$fromaddy>","-f$fromaddy");
?>
$emailTextHtml='<h1>email sent from php use by phpmailer</h1>';
require 'PHPMailer/PHPMailerAutoload.php';
$mail = new PHPMailer(true); // Passing `true` enables exceptions
try {
//Server settings
//$mail->SMTPDebug = 2; // Enable verbose debug output
$mail->isSMTP(); // Set mailer to use SMTP
$mail->Host = 'smtp.gmail.com'; // Specify main and backup SMTP servers
$mail->SMTPAuth = true; // Enable SMTP authentication
$mail->Username = 'demo#gmail.com'; // SMTP username of gmail
$mail->Password = '2345678'; // SMTP password of gmail
$mail->SMTPSecure = 'tls'; // Enable TLS encryption, `ssl` also accepted
$mail->Port = 587; // TCP port to connect to
//Recipients
$mail->setFrom('anupam#gmail.com', 'study'); // provide your gmail username
$mail->addAddress('komal#gmail.com', 'study'); // Add a recipient
$mail->addReplyTo('anupamverma#gmail.com', 'Information');
//Content
$mail->isHTML(true); // Set email format to HTML
$mail->Subject = 'Register client details and total client details';
$mail->Body= "$emailTextHtml"; //write the html code
$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;
}
I am trying to make a plugin which lists all users from a database with for each user a button to send an email to them. So the only way I can get with their username their email adress is to use the $POST which is given after the button is clicked. With their username I can search the db table to retreive the email. The problem here is that the page will reload and the function wp_mail is called before the pluggable.php has loaded its functions.
Here is the post:
if ($_POST) {
sendEmail(current(array_keys($_POST)));
echo "<script type='text/javascript'>alert('Email is sent!')</script>";
}
And here is the function:
function sendEmail($username) {
global $wpdb;
$user = $wpdb->get_row("SELECT email, firstname from wp_site_users WHERE username ='" . $username ."'" , ARRAY_A);
$mail = $wpdb->get_row("SELECT * from wp_send_email WHERE id='1'", ARRAY_A);
$to = $user['email'];
$subject = 'Hello!';
$message = $mail['header'] . $user['firstname'] ."\n";
$message .= $mail['content'] . $username . "\n";
$message .= $mail['footer'];
$headers = 'From: '.'test#test.com'."\r\n";
echo $to . "<br>" . $subject . "<br>" . $message . "<br>" . $headers;
wp_mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);
}
I've tried to add add_action( 'plugins_loaded', 'sendEmail' ); at the header but that doesn't seem to work.
Any ideas?
You are calling wp_mail before it's loaded..
Just include wp-load.php and go ahead!
require('../../../wp-load.php');
or
require('wp-load.php');
Depending how your script are loaded.
Call wp_mail after all of the necessary files are loaded:
add_action( 'plugins_loaded', 'plugins_load' );
function plugins_load() {
require MY_PLUGIN_PATH . '/includes/main.php';
$headers = array('Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8');
wp_mail('youremail#gmail.com', 'Thank you', 'Message', $headers);
}
This script is driving me up the wall. It's a simple submission form. I click the "submit" button and the email with all the submitted information is generated perfectly fine.
But I can't get the button to then redirect me to the "Thank You" page.
I've tried PHP, I've tried Javascript, I've even tried good old fashioned Meta Redirect. Nothing works.
// create email headers
$headers = 'From: '.$email_from."\r\n".
'Reply-To: '.$email_from."\r\n" .
'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion();
mail($email_to, $email_subject, $email_message, $headers);
header("location:http://amvleague.vitaminh.info/thankyou.html")
}
die();
?>
I've tried putting the "header" part at the top of the document. I've tried changing it to:
echo '<script>document.location="page2.html"; </script>';
I've generated so many emails with this script that gmail is now sending them all to spam. And I can't get the damn thing to redirect.
If anyone can help before I claw my eyes out, it would be much obliged. ^_^;;
EDIT: I've tried everything you've all suggested. It's as if the script just flat-out refuses to execute anything that comes after the mail command. Could there be a reason for this?
EDIT 2: Still nothing's working.
Here's the entire script (with Rolen Koh's modifications). Is there something hidden in here that is preventing the script from accessing anything that comes after the mail tag?
<?php
if(isset($_POST['email'])) {
$email_to = "pathos#vitaminh.info";
$email_subject = "BelleCON 2014 - AMV League Submission";
function died($error) {
// your error code can go here
echo "We are very sorry, but there were error(s) found with the form you submitted. ";
echo "These errors appear below.<br /><br />";
echo $error."<br /><br />";
echo "Please go back and fix these errors.<br /><br />";
die();
}
// validation expected data exists
if(!isset($_POST['first_name']) ||
!isset($_POST['last_name']) ||
!isset($_POST['handle']) ||
!isset($_POST['amv_title']) ||
!isset($_POST['amv_song']) ||
!isset($_POST['amv_artist']) ||
!isset($_POST['amv_anime']) ||
!isset($_POST['amv_link']) ||
!isset($_POST['amv_category']) ||
!isset($_POST['email'])) {
died('We are sorry, but there appears to be a problem with the form you submitted.');
}
function IsChecked($chkname,$value)
{
if(!empty($_POST[$chkname]))
{
foreach($_POST[$chkname] as $chkval)
{
if($chkval == $value)
{
return true;
}
}
}
return false;
}
$first_name = $_POST['first_name']; // required
$last_name = $_POST['last_name']; // required
$handle = $_POST['handle']; // not required
$amv_title = $_POST['amv_title']; // required
$amv_song = $_POST['amv_song']; // required
$amv_artist = $_POST['amv_artist']; // required
$amv_anime = $_POST['amv_anime']; // required
$amv_link = $_POST['amv_link']; // required
$amv_category = $_POST['amv_category']; // required
$email_from = $_POST['email']; // required
$error_message = "";
$email_exp = '/^[A-Za-z0-9._%-]+#[A-Za-z0-9.-]+\.[A-Za-z]{2,4}$/';
if(!preg_match($email_exp,$email_from)) {
$error_message .= 'The Email Address you entered does not appear to be valid.<br />';
}
$string_exp = "/^[A-Za-z .-]+$/";
if(!preg_match($string_exp,$first_name)) {
$error_message .= 'The First Name you entered does not appear to be valid.<br />';
}
if(!preg_match($string_exp,$last_name)) {
$error_message .= 'The Last Name you entered does not appear to be valid.<br />';
}
if(strlen($error_message) > 0) {
died($error_message);
}
$email_message = "Form details below.\n\n";
function clean_string($string) {
$bad = array("content-type","bcc:","to:","cc:","href");
return str_replace($bad,"",$string);
}
$email_message .= "Name: ".clean_string($first_name).clean_string($last_name)."\n";
$email_message .= "Handle: ".clean_string($handle)."\n";
$email_message .= "Email: ".clean_string($email_from)."\n";
$email_message .= "Title of AMV: ".clean_string($amv_title)."\n";
$email_message .= "Category: ".clean_string($amv_category)."\n";
$email_message .= "Song: ".clean_string($amv_song)." by ".clean_string($amv_artist)."\n";
$email_message .= "Anime Used: ".clean_string($amv_anime)."\n\n";
$email_message .= clean_string($amv_link)."\n";
// create email headers
$headers = 'From: '.$email_from."\r\n".
'Reply-To: '.$email_from."\r\n" .
'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion();
$mail = mail($email_to, $email_subject, $email_message, $headers);
if($mail)
{
header("location:http://amvleague.vitaminh.info/thankyou.html");
}
}
}
?>
You can use the header() function to send a new HTTP header, but this must be sent to the browser before any HTML or text (so before the <!DOCTYPE ...> declaration, for example).
try this,this is what I am using
function redirect($url){
if (headers_sent()){
die('<script type="text/javascript">window.location.href="' . $url . '";</script>');
}else{
header('Location: ' . $url);
die();
}
}
Try this:
$mail = mail($email_to, $email_subject, $email_message, $headers);
if($mail)
{
header("location:http://amvleague.vitaminh.info/thankyou.html");
}
Also semi-colon is missing in your header("location:http://amvleague.vitaminh.info/thankyou.html") line but i guess it is typo error.
use location.href
echo '<script>window.location.href="page2.html"; </script>';
The window.location object can be written without the window prefix.
The line
header("location:http://amvleague.vitaminh.info/thankyou.html")
Needs to be
header("Location: http://amvleague.vitaminh.info/thankyou.html");
Note the capital "L", the space after the colon, and the semicolon at the end.
If this does not resolve your issue, then you have an issue in some other piece of code. To find it, you might try looking at the php error log. If you have access to the server, you can find this by using any of the following resources for your particular server.
http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/error_log-defines-file-where-script-errors-logged/
Where does PHP store the error log? (php5, apache, fastcgi, cpanel)
Where can I find error log files?
If you are on a shared host, they might have some non-standard location for this file, in which case, it might be easiest to contact them and ask where their standard location of the php error log is.