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Sending email from my Website using PHP and PHPMailer ClassSending email from your website or online application can be achieved in a number of ways. PHP’s mail function can be used to send a quick and simple text email. The PHPMailer class can also be used to send far more complex emails, HTML emails and more. Below is a quick and easy method that can be use on any RSAWeb Linux Webhosting Server.
Mail Function in PHP
I would like to send, “Received your test message from RSAWeb’s Webhosting Servers” to *protected email* with the subject “Test Message from RSAWeb”. Feel free to modify this code to suite your requirements.
The code will look like:
<?php
$fromname = ‘RSAWeb Website’; // fromname
$from = 'fromtest@fromtest.com'; // from email address
$to = ‘*protected email*’; // enter your email or relevant email address here
$subject = ‘Test Message from RSAWeb’;
$message = ‘Received your test message from RSAWeb’s Webhosting Servers’;
$headers = "From: $fromname <$from> \r\n";
mail ($to, $subject, $message,$headers);
?>
If I wanted to use this in a contact form, for people trying to contact us from our website about our web hosting services, I would post a form with the information they capture on the form. We will use only one php page, it makes coding a bit more complicated but you can do more with it because you can insert error checking into the forms.
Contact.php – copy and paste the code in green below and call the file 'contact.php' - or whatever you choose.
<?php
/* Example copyright by RSAWeb 2005, it may be utilised by RSAWeb Webhosting clients on their hosting accounts. */
if ($action == ‘submit’) // has the form been submitted
{
$from = ‘RSAWeb Website’; // fromname
$to = ‘*protected email*’; // enter your email or relevant email address here
$subject = ‘Test Message from RSAWeb’;
$message = ‘Received a message from ‘ . $_POST[name] . ‘ about RSAWeb’s Webhosting Servers. You can contact them on ‘ . $_POST[cell] . ‘ or ‘ . $_POST[email];
mail ($from, $to, $subject, $message);
?>
<br><br>
<center>Thank you for your submission, we will be contacting you shortly</center>
<?
}
if (!$action) // if there is no value for the action variable, display the contact form
{
?> <form action=’<? echo PHP_SELF; ?>’ method=’POST’>
<? // Make a table with 2 columns, center it and apply some formatting ?>
<table align=’center’ width=’60%’>
<tr>
<td align=’right’>Name: </td>
<td><input type=’text’ name=’name’ value=’’></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align=’right’>Cell Number: </td>
<td><input type=’text’ name=’cell’ value=’’></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align=’right’>Email Address: </td>
<td><input type=’text’ name=’email’ value=’’></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan=’2’><input type=’submit’ value=’Submit’></td>
</tr>
</table>
<input type=’hidden’ name=’action’ value=’submit’>
</form>
<?
}
?>
Alternatively you could use the PHPMailer Class. The class is available for download here: http://phpmailer.sourceforge.net and the example code to access the class is below:
<?php
if ($action == "submit"){
include("class.phpmailer.php");
// THIS CALLS THE EMAIL CLASS TO SEND THE EMAIL
$mail = new phpmailer();
$mail->From = "$email";
$mail->FromName = "$name";
// HTML body
$body = "Hello RSAWeb Sales,<BR><BR>";
$body .= "$name is requesting sales contact via the RSAWeb Website<BR><BR>";
$body .= "<b>$name's Details</b><BR><BR>";
$body .= "<b>Mobile: </b> $cell<BR>";
$body .= "<b>Email Address: </b> $email<BR>";
$body .= "<b>Referrer: </b> " . $_SERVER[HTTP_REFERER] . "<BR>";
$body .= "<b>IP Address: </b> " . $_SERVER[REMOTE_ADDR] . "<BR>";
$body .= "<b>Details: </b> $questions<BR>";
// Plain text body (for mail clients that cannot read HTML)
$text_body = "Hi, $name has logged a sales request from your website. \n\n";
$text_body .= "Email: $email \n\n";
$text_body .= "Number: $cell \n\n";
$mail->Subject = "RSAWeb Web Hosting Sales/Info Request";
$mail->Body = $body; // HTML mail content
$mail->AltBody = $text_body; // Text-only mail content
$mail->AddAddress('test@test.com', 'Your name'); // Address to send email to (can repeat this line multiple times for multiple receipients)
// actually send it
$mail->Send();
}
?>
For more examples, please view the phpMailer website for a comprehensive list of options and also to download the class.
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