This is really useful if you don’t have an email server.
Using your Gmail account for sending emails is great 😉
Steps:
- Dowload the latest version of PHPmailer class
- Include it in your script
- Test with this code:
$mail = new PHPMailer();
$mail->IsSMTP();
//GMAIL config
$mail->SMTPAuth = true; // enable SMTP authentication
$mail->SMTPSecure = "ssl"; // sets the prefix to the server
$mail->Host = "smtp.gmail.com"; // sets GMAIL as the SMTP server
$mail->Port = 465; // set the SMTP port for the GMAIL server
$mail->Username = "gmailusername"; // GMAIL username
$mail->Password = "gmailpassword"; // GMAIL password
//End Gmail
$mail->From = "from@email.com";
$mail->FromName = "you name";
$mail->Subject = "some subject";
$mail->MsgHTML("the message");
//$mail->AddReplyTo("reply@email.com","reply name");//they answer here, optional
$mail->AddAddress("address@to.com","name to");
$mail->IsHTML(true); // send as HTML
if(!$mail->Send()) {//to see if we return a message or a value bolean
echo "Mailer Error: " . $mail->ErrorInfo;
} else echo "Message sent!";