PHPMailer?

[Margate]

Hello everyone,

I am trying to set up PHPmailer but this is the first time and I basically have no idea what I am doing! I have read the online tutorials and even watched videos on youtube but still do not understand how to get it working at all. I have added the phpmailer file into my site and put the require 'class.phpmailer.php; into the very start of my page that has the form on it that I want to email. Now when I open up my page it is completely blank? I also do not understand what to put in the settings? Any help is really appreciated.

Here is the code I have put into the start of my page:

[code]<?php
require ‘class.phpmailer.php’;

$mail = new PHPMailer;

$mail->IsSMTP(); // Set mailer to use SMTP
$mail->Host = ‘smtp1.example.com’; // Specify main and backup server
$mail->SMTPAuth = true; // Enable SMTP authentication
$mail->Username = ‘jswan’; // SMTP username
$mail->Password = ‘secret’; // SMTP password
$mail->SMTPSecure = ‘tls’; // Enable encryption, ‘ssl’ also accepted
$mail->IsHTML(true); // Set email format to HTML

$mail->From = ‘[email protected]’;
$mail->FromName = ‘Mailer’;
$mail->AddAddress(‘[email protected]’, ‘Josh Adams’); // Add a recipient

$mail->Subject = ‘Here is the subject’;
$mail->Body = ‘This is the HTML message body in bold!’;
$mail->AltBody = ‘This is the body in plain text for non-HTML mail clients’;

if(!$mail->Send()) {
echo ‘Message could not be sent.’;
echo 'Mailer Error: ’ . $mail->ErrorInfo;
exit;
}

echo ‘Message has been sent’;
?>[/code]

[jay7981]

right off the start you need to set up your smtp if that is how you are going to send the mail

also are you having a form? eg. will a user be filling out a form and once they hit submit you receive an email? if so you will have to wrap this inside an “if isset $_POST(submit)” statement and set the vars for the message.

Here is an example of what i mean

$mail->Host = 'smtp1.example.com'; // Specify main and backup server $mail->SMTPAuth = true; // Enable SMTP authentication $mail->Username = 'jswan'; // SMTP username $mail->Password = 'secret';

if you dont have an smtp server setup you can use GMAILs free smtp service

[php]<?php

$mail = new PHPMailer(true);

//Send mail using gmail
if($send_using_gmail){
$mail->IsSMTP(); // telling the class to use SMTP
$mail->SMTPAuth = true; // enable SMTP authentication
$mail->SMTPSecure = “ssl”; // sets the prefix to the servier
$mail->Host = “smtp.gmail.com”; // sets GMAIL as the SMTP server
$mail->Port = 465; // set the SMTP port for the GMAIL server
$mail->Username = "[email protected]"; // GMAIL username
$mail->Password = “your-gmail-password”; // GMAIL password
}

//Typical mail data
$mail->AddAddress($email, $name);
$mail->SetFrom($email_from, $name_from);
$mail->Subject = “My Subject”;
$mail->Body = “Mail contents”;

try{
$mail->Send();
echo “Success!”;
} catch(Exception $e){
//Something went bad
echo "Fail - " . $mail->ErrorInfo;
}

?>[/php]

also here is a good tutorial for phpmailer

[JimL]

right off the start you need to set up your smtp if that is how you are going to send the mail

You can also use sendmail by doing something like $mail->isSendmail()

[Redscouse]

All done