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- PHPMailer
- Full Featured Email Transfer Class for PHP
- ==========================================
-
- http://phpmailer.sourceforge.net/
-
- This software is licenced under the LGPL. Please read LICENSE for information on the
- software availability and distribution.
-
- Class Features:
- - Send emails with multiple TOs, CCs, BCCs and REPLY-TOs
- - Redundant SMTP servers
- - Multipart/alternative emails for mail clients that do not read HTML email
- - Support for 8bit, base64, binary, and quoted-printable encoding
- - Uses the same methods as the very popular AspEmail active server (COM) component
- - SMTP authentication
- - Native language support
- - Word wrap, and more!
-
- Why you might need it:
-
- Many PHP developers utilize email in their code. The only PHP function
- that supports this is the mail() function. However, it does not expose
- any of the popular features that many email clients use nowadays like
- HTML-based emails and attachments. There are two proprietary
- development tools out there that have all the functionality built into
- easy to use classes: AspEmail(tm) and AspMail. Both of these
- programs are COM components only available on Windows. They are also a
- little pricey for smaller projects.
-
- Since I do Linux development IÆve missed these tools for my PHP coding.
- So I built a version myself that implements the same methods (object
- calls) that the Windows-based components do. It is open source and the
- LGPL license allows you to place the class in your proprietary PHP
- projects.
-
-
- Installation:
-
- Copy class.phpmailer.php into your php.ini include_path. If you are
- using the SMTP mailer then place class.smtp.php in your path as well.
- In the language directory you will find several files like
- phpmailer.lang-en.php. If you look right before the .php extension
- that there are two letters. These represent the language type of the
- translation file. For instance "en" is the English file and "br" is
- the Portuguese file. Chose the file that best fits with your language
- and place it in the PHP include path. If your language is English
- then you have nothing more to do. If it is a different language then
- you must point PHPMailer to the correct translation. To do this, call
- the PHPMailer SetLanguage method like so:
-
- // To load the Portuguese version
- $mail->SetLanguage("br", "/optional/path/to/language/directory");
-
- That's it. You should now be ready to use PHPMailer!
-
-
- A Simple Example:
-
- <?php
- require("class.phpmailer.php");
-
- $mail = new PHPMailer();
-
- $mail->IsSMTP(); // set mailer to use SMTP
- $mail->Host = "smtp1.example.com;smtp2.example.com"; // specify main and backup server
- $mail->SMTPAuth = true // turn on SMTP authentication
- $mail->Username = "jswan" // SMTP username
- $mail->Password = "secret" // SMTP password
-
- $mail->From = "from@example.com";
- $mail->FromName = "Mailer";
- $mail->AddAddress("josh@example.net", "Josh Adams");
- $mail->AddAddress("ellen@example.com"); // name is optional
- $mail->AddReplyTo("info@example.com", "Information");
-
- $mail->WordWrap = 50; // set word wrap to 50 characters
- $mail->AddAttachment("/var/tmp/file.tar.gz"); // add attachments
- $mail->AddAttachment("/tmp/image.jpg", "new.jpg"); // optional name
- $mail->IsHTML(true); // set email format to HTML
-
- $mail->Subject = "Here is the subject";
- $mail->Body = "This is the HTML message body <b>in bold!</b>";
- $mail->AltBody = "This is the body in plain text for non-HTML mail clients";
-
- if(!$mail->Send())
- {
- echo "Message could not be sent. <p>";
- echo "Mailer Error: " . $mail->ErrorInfo;
- exit;
- }
-
- echo "Message has been sent";
- ?>
-
- CHANGELOG
-
- See ChangeLog.txt
-
- Download: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=26031
-
- Brent R. Matzelle
-