How to Send mail with PHPmailer class

PHP has in-build function for mailing i.e mail() but directly mailing from mail() function may lead to spamming. To resolve this problem we use a different class for mailing one of which is PHPmailer class.

You can download the class from Here

phpmailer.worxware.com

Its a very simple and easy to implement.

Set the class in your project and include

require_once('PHPMailer/PHPMailerAutoload.php');// Mailer Class included

$subject = 'YOUR MAIL SUBJECT';

$from = "FROM NAME";

$mailBodycontent= 'here is mail body content';

//Now initiate the class

$mail = new PHPMailer;

$mail->SMTPDebug = 3;                               // Enable verbose debug output

$mail->isSMTP(true);                                      // Set mailer to use SMTP

$mail->Host = 'ssl://your-smtp-url';  // Specify main and backup SMTP servers

$mail->SMTPAuth = true;                               // Enable SMTP authentication

$mail->Username = 'USERNAME';                 // SMTP username

$mail->Password = 'PASSWORD';                           // SMTP password

$mail->SMTPSecure = 'ssl';                            // Enable TLS encryption, `ssl` also accepted

$mail->Port = 465;   

$mail->setFrom($from, $name);

$mail->addAddress('EMAIL-TO-SEND');     // Add a recipient

$mail->addCC('EMAIL-TO-CC');

$mail->addReplyTo($from, 'FROM NAME');

$mail->isHTML(true);  // Set email format to HTML

$mail->Subject = $subject ;

$mail->Body    = $mailBodycontent;

if(!$mail->send()) {

      echo  'Mailer Error: ' . $mail->ErrorInfo;

} else {

       header('REDIRECT');

}

Simple!!!!

NOW little Modification in code and will be able to send  mail with attachment.

Here are changes

Define a upload directory

$upload_dir = 'uploads/';

Now upload the file

$upload_file=move_uploaded_file($_FILES["file"]["tmp_name"],$upload_dir.basename($_FILES["file"]["name"]));

JUST add these line before send()

$file_to_attach = $output_dir.basename($_FILES["file"]["name"]);
$mail->addAttachment($file_to_attach);

Note: Be Careful tha you define and send the accurate path of attachment.!!

Thanks