Example code for a blog entry about delivering email using PHP on arnorhs.com

example1.php

<?php
mail(
    '[email protected]', 
    'This is the subject', 
    'This is a message.'
);
?>

example2.php

<?php

// added a "from" address. Notice that headers are seperated by a CRLF (\r\n). \n will not work.
$headers = array(
    'From: [email protected]',
    'Reply-To: [email protected]'
);

$headers = implode("\r\n", $headers)."\r\n";

mail(
    '[email protected]', 
    'This is the subject', 
    'This is a message.', 
    $headers
);

?>

example3.php

<?php
/*
    you'll need to have already downloaded PHP mailer and copied the 
    files to the same location as your PHP script
*/
require_once('class.phpmailer.php');

// the parameter true specifies that errors will be thrown instead
// of functions returning false
$mail = new PHPMailer(true);

// Tell PHP Mailer that you'll be using an SMTP server:
$mail->IsSMTP();

/*
    Sometimes you can use SMTP servers without a user/password. That mostly
    when you are connecting within the same network as your SMTP server, but
    you'll probably not be doing that, so enable SMTP authentication.
*/
$mail->SMTPAuth   = true;

// set up authentication parameters:
$mail->Host       = "smtp.KVWNTV.com";
$mail->Port       = 25;
$mail->Username   = "[email protected]";
$mail->Password   = "iamsoawesome";

/*
    Now, you'll want to tell the recipient who sent the email - it might
    be some totally different address/username that you use for
    authentication on the SMTP server
*/
$mail->SetFrom('[email protected]', 'Ron Burgundy');

$mail->Subject    = "This is the subject";

$mail->AltBody    = "This is a text version of the message";
$mail->MsgHTML("This is the <b>HTML</b> version of the email");

$mail->AddAddress("[email protected]", "Veronica");

try {
    $mail->Send();
    echo "<h1>Message Sent OK</h1>";
} catch (phpmailerException $e) {
    // Pretty error messages from PHPMailer
    echo $e->errorMessage(); 
}

?>

example4.php

<?php

// Adding an attachment to your email. This is very hard if you do it
// yourself, manually with the mail() function:

$mail->AddAttachment('/path/to/your/file.zip');

?>

example5.php

<?php
require_once('class.phpmailer.php');
$mail = new PHPMailer(true);
$mail->IsSMTP();
$mail->SMTPAuth   = true;

// set up Sendgrid's SMTP settings (values may vary between accounts)
$mail->Host       = "smtp.sendgrid.net";
$mail->Port       = 25;
$mail->Username   = "[email protected]";
$mail->Password   = "iamstillsoawesome-2020";

$mail->SetFrom('[email protected]', 'Ron Burgundy');

$mail->Subject    = "This is the subject";
$mail->AltBody    = "This is a text version of the message";
$mail->MsgHTML("This is the <b>HTML</b> version of the email");

$mail->AddAddress("[email protected]", "Veronica");

try {
    $mail->Send();
    echo "<h1>Message Sent OK using sendgrid's servers</h1>";
} catch (phpmailerException $e) {
    // Pretty error messages from PHPMailer
    echo $e->errorMessage();
}

?>