Send Email

[Dysan]

What's the best secure way to send an hard-coded email using PHP?
Also, how do you include the SMTP server details in the script? Can anybody give me an example to play around with?

[NogDog]

I'd recommend getting phpMailer and letting it do most of the "grunt work" for you.

[Dysan]

Could you give me an example anyway, so I can play?

[nr_shiva]

phpmailer comes with example.
you can play with it.

in class.phpmailer.php make the following configuration
$Mailer = 'smtp'
$Host = 'your host name'
$Port ='your server smtp port'
$Username = 'from email addredd'
$Password = 'password'

It also contains debug feature.
to use this enable it ($SMTPDebug = true)

example

include_once('../class.phpmailer.php');

$mail = new PHPMailer();

$body = eregi_replace("[]",'',$body);
$subject = eregi_replace("[]",'',$subject);

$mail->From = "from email address";
$mail->FromName = "First Last";

$mail->Subject = "subject";

$mail->AltBody = "body";
$mail->MsgHTML($body);

$mail->AddAddress("to email address");

if(!$mail->Send()) {
echo 'Failed to send mail';
} else {
echo 'Mail sent';
}

you can also send attachments using this.

[saidbakr]

To send using SMTP I recomend SMTP E-mail sending class from phpclasses.org. Don't forget to get the required classes for it specially Simple Authentication and Security Layer.