how to send mail using php mailer code example

Example 1: core php mail function without phpmailer

<?php
ini_set('display_errors',1);
ini_set('display_startup_errors',1);
error_reporting(-1);

session_start();

$to = '[email protected]';
$subject = 'Subject xxxxx xxxxxx';

$headers = "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";
$headers .= "Content-Type: text/html; charset=charset=utf-8\r\n";
$headers .= "From: " . $_POST['email'] . "\r\n";
//$headers .= "Reply-To: ". $_POST['email'] . "\r\n";
$headers .= "CC: [email protected]\r\n";



$message = "<html><body>";

$message .= '<table style="border-color: #666; background: #eee; cellpadding="10">';
$message .= "<tr><td><strong>Name:</strong> </td><td>" . $_POST['username'] . "</td></tr>";
$message .= "<tr><td><strong>Email:</strong> </td><td>" . $_POST['email'] . "</td></tr>"; 


$message .= "</table>";
$message .= "</body></html>";


echo $message;
//echo $headers;



$response=mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);

if($response==1)
{
echo "<script language='javascript' type='text/javascript'>
        
       window.location = 'index.html';
    </script>";

}
else{
echo 
"<script language='javascript' type='text/javascript'>
        alert('mail send failed');
    </script>";
}



?>

Example 2: phpmailer

<?php
// Import PHPMailer classes into the global namespace
// These must be at the top of your script, not inside a function
use PHPMailer\PHPMailer\PHPMailer;
use PHPMailer\PHPMailer\SMTP;
use PHPMailer\PHPMailer\Exception;

// Load Composer's autoloader
require 'vendor/autoload.php';

// Instantiation and passing `true` enables exceptions
$mail = new PHPMailer(true);

try {
    //Server settings
    $mail->SMTPDebug = SMTP::DEBUG_SERVER;                      // Enable verbose debug output
    $mail->isSMTP();                                            // Send using SMTP
    $mail->Host       = 'smtp1.example.com';                    // Set the SMTP server to send through
    $mail->SMTPAuth   = true;                                   // Enable SMTP authentication
    $mail->Username   = '[email protected]';                     // SMTP username
    $mail->Password   = 'secret';                               // SMTP password
    $mail->SMTPSecure = PHPMailer::ENCRYPTION_STARTTLS;         // Enable TLS encryption; `PHPMailer::ENCRYPTION_SMTPS` encouraged
    $mail->Port       = 587;                                    // TCP port to connect to, use 465 for `PHPMailer::ENCRYPTION_SMTPS` above

    //Recipients
    $mail->setFrom('[email protected]', 'Mailer');
    $mail->addAddress('[email protected]', 'Joe User');     // Add a recipient
    $mail->addAddress('[email protected]');               // Name is optional
    $mail->addReplyTo('[email protected]', 'Information');
    $mail->addCC('[email protected]');
    $mail->addBCC('[email protected]');

    // Attachments
    $mail->addAttachment('/var/tmp/file.tar.gz');         // Add attachments
    $mail->addAttachment('/tmp/image.jpg', 'new.jpg');    // Optional name

    // Content
    $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';

    $mail->send();
    echo 'Message has been sent';
} catch (Exception $e) {
    echo "Message could not be sent. Mailer Error: {$mail->ErrorInfo}";
}

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