Examples using PHPMailer
1. Advanced Example
This demonstrates sending multiple email messages with binary attachments
from a MySQL database using multipart/alternative messages.
require 'PHPMailerAutoload.php'; $mail = new PHPMailer(); $mail->setFrom('list@example.com', 'List manager'); $mail->Host = 'smtp1.example.com;smtp2.example.com'; $mail->Mailer = 'smtp'; @mysqli_connect('localhost','root','password'); @mysqli_select_db("my_company"); $query = "SELECT full_name, email, photo FROM employee"; $result = @mysqli_query($query); while ($row = mysqli_fetch_assoc($result)) { // HTML body $body = "Hello <font size="4">" . $row['full_name'] . "</font>, <p>"; $body .= "<i>Your</i> personal photograph to this message.<p>"; $body .= "Sincerely, <br>"; $body .= "phpmailer List manager"; // Plain text body (for mail clients that cannot read HTML) $text_body = 'Hello ' . $row['full_name'] . ", nn"; $text_body .= "Your personal photograph to this message.nn"; $text_body .= "Sincerely, n"; $text_body .= 'phpmailer List manager'; $mail->Body = $body; $mail->AltBody = $text_body; $mail->addAddress($row['email'], $row['full_name']); $mail->addStringAttachment($row['photo'], 'YourPhoto.jpg'); if(!$mail->send()) echo "There has been a mail error sending to " . $row['email'] . "<br>"; // Clear all addresses and attachments for next loop $mail->clearAddresses(); $mail->clearAttachments(); }
2. Extending PHPMailer
Extending classes with inheritance is one of the most
powerful features of object-oriented programming. It allows you to make changes to the
original class for your own personal use without hacking the original
classes, and it’s very easy to do:
Here’s a class that extends the phpmailer class and sets the defaults
for the particular site:
PHP include file: my_phpmailer.php
require 'PHPMailerAutoload.php'; class my_phpmailer extends PHPMailer { // Set default variables for all new objects public $From = 'from@example.com'; public $FromName = 'Mailer'; public $Host = 'smtp1.example.com;smtp2.example.com'; public $Mailer = 'smtp'; // Alternative to isSMTP() public $WordWrap = 75; // Replace the default debug output function protected function edebug($msg) { print('My Site Error'); print('Description:'); printf('%s', $msg); exit; } //Extend the send function public function send() { $this->Subject = '[Yay for me!] '.$this->Subject; return parent::send() } // Create an additional function public function do_something($something) { // Place your new code here } }
Now here’s a normal PHP page in the site, which will have all the defaults set above:
require 'my_phpmailer.php'; // Instantiate your new class $mail = new my_phpmailer; // Now you only need to add the necessary stuff $mail->addAddress('josh@example.com', 'Josh Adams'); $mail->Subject = 'Here is the subject'; $mail->Body = 'This is the message body'; $mail->addAttachment('c:/temp/11-10-00.zip', 'new_name.zip'); // optional name if(!$mail->send()) { echo 'There was an error sending the message'; exit; } echo 'Message was sent successfully';