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Sending emails via Gmail SMTP with PHPmailer

Had to use PHPMailer to send emails via Gmail SMTP and the PHPMailer version I was using was old skool but with a download of the latest code everything was good :-)

Below is a quick snippet of the code and the SMTPSecure property was key: 

<?php
require_once('./system/classes/phpmailer/class.phpmailer.php');

$mail = new PHPMailer();
$mail->IsSMTP();                // send via SMTP
$mail->SMTPDebug  = 0;   //use 2 for full on report
$mail->Host     = "smtp.gmail.com"; // SMTP servers
$mail->SMTPSecure = "ssl";          // sets the prefix to the server
$mail->SMTPAuth = true;     // turn on SMTP authentication
$mail->Username = "raj.gorsia[at]gmail.com"; // SMTP username
$mail->Password = "enter_here"; // SMTP password
$mail->Port = 456; // SMTP port

        $mail->From     = "raj.gorsia[at]phpology.co.uk";
$mail->FromName = "PHPology";
$mail->AddAddress("raj.gorsia[at]phpology.co.uk");
$mail->AddReplyTo("raj.gorsia[at]phpology.co.uk");
$mail->IsHTML(true);     // send as HTML

$mail->Subject  =  $subject;
$mail->Body     =  $message;

$mail->SetLanguage("en", './system/classes/phpmailer/language/');

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

 

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