PHPMailer is an important and most useful library to send email easily, sometimes the PHP default mail() function does not work properly then there is a need of a PHPMailer. PHPMailer is used to send mail by localhost, it works very well on localhost.
Let’s see the following steps to use PHPMailer:
Step1: Download PHPMailer from GitHub, you can download the link below given the link:
https://github.com/PHPMailer/PHPMailer
Step2: After download extract the folder and put only the src folder in your project directory, src folder contains all the necessary classes file of PHPMailer.
Step3: create phpmailer.php file to check to send mail functionality of PHPMailer, write the following code:
<?php
use PHPMailer\PHPMailer\PHPMailer;
use PHPMailer\PHPMailer\Exception;
require 'phpmailer/src/Exception.php';
require 'phpmailer/src/PHPMailer.php';
require 'phpmailer/src/SMTP.php';
//require 'vendor/autoload.php';
$mail = new PHPMailer(true);
try {
$mail->SMTPDebug = 2;
$mail->isSMTP();
$mail->Host = 'smtp.gmail.com;';
$mail->SMTPAuth = true;
$mail->Username = 'your-gmail-id';
$mail->Password = 'your-gmail-id-password';
$mail->SMTPSecure = 'tls';
$mail->Port = 587;
$mail->setFrom('your-gmail-id', 'Name');
$mail->addAddress('client-gmail-id'); // where you want to send mail
$mail->isHTML(true);
$mail->Subject = 'Subject';
$mail->Body = 'HTML message body in <b>bold</b> ';
$mail->AltBody = 'Body in plain text for non-HTML mail clients';
$mail->send();
echo "Mail has been sent successfully!";
} catch (Exception $e) {
echo "Message could not be sent. Mailer Error: {$mail->ErrorInfo}";
}
?>
Note: There are some important points to keep in mind to use PHPMailer :
- Disable Gmail 2 Step Verification
- Turn on less secure apps form Gmail security