PHP SMTP Emails using SwiftMailer

SwiftMailer 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.

This post describe how to use swiftmailer to send an PHP SMTP Emails.

Download it

first of all we should download the swiftmailer lib. it is free, and we can download it from its website http://swiftmailer.org/

Requirements

We need four parameters to connect to SMTP service

Server or Host
Port
Username
Password

and this parameters is differ from one accout to another and from one server to another.

you can get your smtp information from your site cpanel
CPanel > E-Mail Accounts > (for every account there is a Configure Email Client)

Use it

include the lib into your code :



require_once 'path-to-swiftmailer-library/swift_required.php';

connect to SMTP server with your info (Host, Port, Email and Password)






$transport = Swift_SmtpTransport::newInstance("$host", $port) 
->setUsername("$email")
->setPassword("$password");
$mailer = Swift_Mailer::newInstance($transport);

Prepare the Message : (title, sender E-Mail, sender name, reciever E-Mail and message content)






$message = Swift_Message::newInstance("$title")
->setFrom(array("$sender_email" => "$sender_name"))
->setTo(array("$reciever_email"))
->setBody($message_content,'text/html');

finally, send the message :



$result = $mailer->send($message);

to check if the message was sent or failed :







if ($result) {
   echo 'Sent';
} else {
   echo 'Failed';
}

The Result (full code)

















require_once 'path-to-swiftmailer-library/swift_required.php';
$transport = Swift_SmtpTransport::newInstance("$host", $port) 
->setUsername("$email")
->setPassword("$password");
$mailer = Swift_Mailer::newInstance($transport);
$message = Swift_Message::newInstance("$title")
->setFrom(array("$sender_email" => "$sender_name"))
->setTo(array("$reciever_email"))
->setBody($message_content,'text/html');
$result = $mailer->send($message);
if ($result) {
   echo 'Sent';
} else {
   echo 'Failed';
}

The list of Variable used :

$host : the website or server used to send messages (mail.website.com or smtp.website.com)
$port : the port used for sending smtp messages (21, 26 ..)
$email : your email that you will send by (it must be in the same domain as Host) (admin@website.com)
$password : your email password

You can send using google mail service (Gmail) :