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How do I send email using PHP with phpMailer class

Mark — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 09:27:28 GMT

Here's a sample for using SMTP. Our server setting REQUIRES all customers to use SMTP authorization in order to send out email. You can acquire a copy of phpmailer class from http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=26031. You should upload the file "class.phpmailer.php" to same folder for your script.

IMPORTANT: From email address and your authorization email address MUST be same.

<?php
require("class.phpmailer.php");
$mail = new PHPMailer();
$mail->CharSet ="utf-8"; // You can adjust the Charset according to your language
$mail->IsSMTP();
$mail->Host = "mail.Yourdomain.com";
$mail->From="youremail@yourdomain.com"; //REMEMBER, this MUST be same as your authorization email address above.
$mail->FromName="My site's mailer";
$mail->SMTPAuth = true;
$mail->Username = "youremail@yourdomain.com";
$mail->Password = "yourpassword";

$mail->AddAddress("sendTOemail");
$mail->Subject = "Test 1";
$mail->Body = "Test 1 of PHPMailer.";

if(!$mail->Send())
{
echo "Error sending: " . $mail->ErrorInfo;;
}
else
{
echo "Letter is sent";
}?>

To add information about sender, use following functions:

$mail->Sender="mailer@example.com"; // indicates ReturnPath header
$mail->AddReplyTo("replies@example.com", "Replies for my site"); // indicates ReplyTo headers

For specifying various types of recepients use these:

$mail->AddAddress("mail1@domain.com", "Recepient 1");
$mail->AddCC("mail1@domain.com", "Recepient 1");
$mail->AddBCC("mail1@domain.com", "Recepient 1");

Why cannot upload file through my web site?

Mark — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 05:22:57 GMT

When upload file through web site, web site user need to have write permission for the folder which used to store file.
Please click <here> for instruction of how to set permission.

Windows Account :
For ASP.NET application, web user is "Network Service" (for win2003 & win2008) and "ASPNET" (for win2000)
For other applications, web user is "IUSR_memberID"

Linux Account:
Please change folder permission to 777

*For security reason, please only grant write permission for the folder(s) which need it.

How do I send email using PHP with ASPemail

Mark — Tue, 19 May 2009 09:51:26 GMT

NOTE: This article is for Window Hosting Only. For Linux Hosting, please refer to here.

You need to:
1. use your email server as the smtp, this is usually mail.yourdomain.com
2. authenticate to the smtp server
3. make sure your "From" address is exactly the same as your login address in NetworkCredential class

Sample php code using aspemail COM+. (aspemail COM+ is supported by our hosting)

<?php
$mailer = new COM("Persits.MailSender") or die("Unable to instantiate aspemail");
echo $mailer->version;
$smtp = "mail.sender.com";
$from = "info@sender.com";
$login = "info@sender.com";
$pwd = "password";
$to = "tom@recipient.com";
$subject = "Subject";
$body = "This is message body";

$mailer->Host = $smtp;
$mailer->Username = $login;
$mailer->Password = $pwd;
$mailer->From = $from; // From address
$mailer->AddAddress($to);

$mailer->Subject = $subject;
$mailer->Body = $body;

$mailer->Send() or die("failed");
unset($mailer);
?>

If the above sample code does not work you can try the pure php variant from http://phpmailer.sourceforge.net/. Sample code can be found here.

What is my physical path?

Mark — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 16:59:56 GMT

You can see your physical path by logging into your Hosting Control Panel -> Account. You should see your physical path under "Base Directory:" section

I am getting "Warning: Cannot modify header information..." error for my phpbb page?

Mark — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 06:14:02 GMT

If you are getting the following error for your phpbb application:

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at ......\member\mymemberID\phpBB\config.php:18) in ......\member\mymemberID\phpBB\
cludes\sessions.php on line 182

Check to see if there is one extra line or space after the closing php script tag at the page specified (config.php in this case). Delete the extra space and it should fix the error.

I cannot use file(), fopen(), include() to open a URL with PHP

Mark — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 10:33:15 GMT

Check whether you are specifying non standard http/https ports in your url. If it's standard port 80 or 443 already, check whether your server is running php 4.4.2.

php 4.4.2 introduced a blocker problem with fopen() and related functions (http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=36017)

In that case you can use sockets for file open.

Example. If you had

$viart_xml = fopen("http://www.viart.com/viart_shop.xml", "r");

Change it to

$viart_xml = fsockopen("www.viart.com", 80, $errno, $errstr, 12);

fputs($viart_xml, "GET /viart_shop.xml HTTP/1.0\r
");

fputs($viart_xml, "Host: www.viart.com\r
");

fputs($viart_xml, "Referer: http://www.viart.com\r
");

fputs($viart_xml, "User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)\r
\r
");

If you are not sufficient with the coding. You can change your PHP version with Control Panel or contact our support for help.

How do I turn on certain PHP flags?

Mark — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 16:43:28 GMT

You can do that by putting the flag in your .htaccess under your domain mapping root

Ex:

php_flag magic_quotes_gpc on