Sending Email using PHPMailer

Sending Email using PHPMailer: Before starting, you need to do the following steps

• Download https://github.com/PHPMailer/PHPMailer
• PHP page with below code

Create email.php &  copy the downloaded PHPMailer source code into htdocs or in your project directory & in your project directory which will look like below.

edit email.php file and paste below code

<?php
require 'PHPMailer-master/PHPMailerAutoload.php';
 $email="test@domain.com";//
$mail = new PHPMailer();
$mail->SMTPDebug = 0; 
$mail->isSMTP();                                      // Set mailer to use SMTP
$mail->SMTPAuth = true;                               // Enable SMTP authentication
$mail->SMTPSecure = 'tls';          
//$mail->SMTPSecure = 'ssl';          
$mail->Host = 'smtp.mail.com';                  // Enable encryption, 'ssl' also accepted                      // Specify main and backup server
$mail->Port = 587;  //Set the SMTP port number - 587 for authenticated TLS
//$mail->Port = 465;
$mail->Username = 'sender email address';                   // SMTP username
$mail->Password = 'sender password';  
$mail->setFrom('Sender email', 'Set alias name');     //Set who the message is to be sent from
$mail->addAddress('to address email here', 'name is optional');  // Add a recipient
//$mail->addCC('cc@example.com');
$mail->addBCC('adding receipents in BCC ');
$mail->WordWrap = 50;                                 // Set word wrap to 50 characters
//$mail->addAttachment('adding attachment file path');         // Add attachments
$mail->isHTML(true);                                  // Set email format to HTML
 
$mail->Subject = "Test email";

$mail->Body    = "welcome test email body from PHP";
 
//Read an HTML message body from an external file, convert referenced images to embedded,
//convert HTML into a basic plain-text alternative body
$mail->msgHTML("creating html message");
if(!$mail->send()) {
   echo 'Message could not be sent.';
   exit;
}
 
echo "your email has sent successfully";
?></pre>

 
Save the file and try to access http://localhost:serverportnumber/email.php
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Sending Email using PHPMailer