Crewow | Free Web Development Tutorials: Mail

This tutorial is about sending email in PHP using Swift Mailer which is flexible and elegant object-oriented approach to send emails with a multitude of features. You can also attach files as Attachments. Enjoy it.

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Swift Mailer integrates into any web app written in PHP 5, offering a flexible and elegant object-oriented approach to sending emails with a multitude of features.

Send emails using SMTP, sendmail, postfix or a custom Transport implementation of your own.
Support servers that require username & password and/or encryption
Protect from header injection attacks without stripping request data content
Send MIME compliant HTML/multipart emails
Use event-driven plugins to customize the library
Handle large attachments and inline/embedded images with low memory use

We will include swift mailer using below code.

// Swift Mailer library will be required. lib folder is available in source code.
require_once 'lib/swift_required.php';

Now we will include our connection configuration file like this if we want to include dynamic data from MySQL.

// For Dynamic contents we will add our config File
include("configPDO.php");

You will give SMTP Transport method here and provide details using below code for authentication.

// Create the Transport. we can put ip instead of smtp.example.org if we are on intranet.
$transport = Swift_SmtpTransport::newInstance('smtp.example.org', 25)
  ->setUsername('your username')
  ->setPassword('your password')
  ;

You could alternatively use a different transport such as Sendmail or Mail if required.

// Sendmail
$transport = Swift_SendmailTransport::newInstance('/usr/sbin/sendmail -bs');
// Mail
$transport = Swift_MailTransport::newInstance();

Now we will create the Mailer using created trasnport. please see below code, It will use later for sending message.

// Create the Mailer using your created Transport
$mailer = Swift_Mailer::newInstance($transport);

Now we will start creating our message. first we will choose our mesage subject.

// Subject of the Message
$message = Swift_Message::newInstance('Subject is Crewow Free Web Tutorials');

Sender Address will be written like this.

// Address of Sender will be written in setFrom Function
$message->setFrom(array('info@crewow.com' => 'Furqan Aziz'));

Receiver emails will be written like this.

// Address of the recipients will be written in setTo 
$message->setTo(array('receiver@domain.org', 'other@domain.org' => 'A name'));

We can add CC and BCC for this message like the below code.

// You can add CC like this.
$message->addCc('info@crewow.com');
// You can add BCC like this.
$message->addbCc('someone@crewow.com');

For Dynamic data we can either use query or variables which can be set.

// For Dynamic contents you will add your config File
include("configPDO.php");

Here is sample for just one variable which we will use in body of the message.

// Define $field1 and $field2 for named placeholders
$field1= "Center"; 
$field2="Active"; 
We can use query to get results from MySQL Database using prepared query with PDO. Here its for $CToday only
$STM = $dbh->prepare("SELECT SrNo FROM YourTable WHERE field1 = :field1 AND field2 = :field2");
// bind paramenters, Named paramenters alaways start with colon(:)
$STM->bindParam(':field1', $field1);
$STM->bindParam(':field2', $field2);
// For Executing prepared statement we will use below function
$STM->execute();
// Count no. of records
$CToday = $STM->rowCount();

We can set all variables manually or get them using POST method from some form.

// We can set variables like this
$NToday = 200;  //North Today
$CToday = 300;  //Central Today
$SToday = 400;  //South Today
$TotalToday = $NToday + $CToday + $SToday;  //Total Today

Here is example of setting body for simplest message

// For Simple message we do like this
$message->setBody('Here is the message itself');

We can use HTML and CSS Style to make it attactive and cool

// For HTML/PHP message you can do it like this
$message->setBody(
'<html>' .
' <head><style type=text/css>
* { margin: 0; padding: 0; }
body { font: 14px Georgia, serif; }

#page-wrap { width: 1024px; margin: 0 auto; }

table { border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%; }
td, th { border: 1px solid #0099FF; padding: 10px; }

.slim { width: 88px; background-color: #eee;  }
.hover { background-color: #eee; }
</style></head>' .
' <body>' .
' <label>Dear Crewow Team,</label><br />
<br />
Here is our new Tutorial. please check below link after the table<br />
<br /> <table>

 <tr>
 <td class=slim align=center ><strong>Region</strong></td>
    <td class=slim align=center ><strong>Today</strong></td>
 </tr>
 
     <tr>
    <td align=center>North</td>
 <td align=center>'.$NToday.'</td>
 </tr>
  
  <tr>
    <td align=center>Central</td>
 <td align=center>'.$CToday.'</td>
 </tr>
 
    <tr>
    <td align=center>South</td>
 <td align=center>'.$SToday.'</td>
 </tr>
    <tr>
    <td align=center><strong>Grand Total</strong></td>
 <td align=center><strong>'.$TotalToday.'</strong></td>
 </tr>
</table>
<br />
<span style=color:#9966FF:><b><a href=http://crewow.com/>Crewo Website</a></b></span>
<br /> 
Best Regards<br />
<hr>
CreWow Network | www.crewow.com <br />

<br />' .
' </body>' .
'</html>',
  'text/html' //Mark the content-type as HTML
);

We can attach files using below code. please read swift mailer documentation for more details.

//Below code can be used to attached excel. you can attach any file you want like pdf zip or any other. 
$message->attach(Swift_Attachment::fromPath('Excel/SampeFile.xls'));

Finally we will send email message via created mailer like this.

// Send the message
$result = $mailer->send($message);

You can use Swift mailer for sending emails. For any query/suggestions please post a comment on our Facebook Page.

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