sending emails in php using PHPMailer and Gmail

[ This explains how to use gmail to send emails in php using PHPMailer]

1	Download PHPMailer from http://phpmailer.sourceforge.net
2	Extract to folder phpmailer
3	Create a file email.php
4	Paste this code and change the values in blue as you need (I modified the sample code given on the PHPMailer homepage) IsSMTP(); // send via SMTP $mail->SMTPAuth = true; // turn on SMTP authentication $mail->Username = "username@gmail.com"; // SMTP username $mail->Password = "password"; // SMTP password $webmaster_email = "username@doamin.com"; //Reply to this email ID $email="username@domain.com"; // Recipients email ID $name="name"; // Recipient's name $mail->From = $webmaster_email; $mail->FromName = "Webmaster"; $mail->AddAddress($email,$name); $mail->AddReplyTo($webmaster_email,"Webmaster"); $mail->WordWrap = 50; // set word wrap $mail->AddAttachment("/var/tmp/file.tar.gz"); // attachment $mail->AddAttachment("/tmp/image.jpg", "new.jpg"); // attachment $mail->IsHTML(true); // send as HTML $mail->Subject = "This is the subject"; $mail->Body = "Hi, This is the HTML BODY "; //HTML Body $mail->AltBody = "This is the body when user views in plain text format"; //Text Body if(!$mail->Send()) { echo "Mailer Error: " . $mail->ErrorInfo; } else { echo "Message has been sent"; } ?>
5	Open the file class.smtp.php in phpmailer directory
6	Paste this code $host = "ssl://smtp.gmail.com"; $port = 465; before the line 104 #connect to the smtp server Hint: Search for #connect
7	Open this page in browser and it will send the email using GMail.
	Hint: When you want to email the details from a form, set the variables using the form variables. eg. $mail->Username=$_POST['email']