PHP mailer?

[mrrush101]

I have no trouble sending emails through my website hosted at home but I have a helpdesk ticket system which counts on the php.ini mail settings to run so i need to setup phpmailer

I have read a lot of articles on the phpmailer but none of them helped me out. Here is my situation. I run a web server from my house using Web developer controller it's like xamp server.

My php and apache run under my c:\www\ folder also my website is in that folder in c:\www\vhost\localhost.

The instruction say to Copy class.phpmailer.php into your php.ini include_path

The first question is where should I copy the files I downloaded for phpmailer? Should the folder with the files in it be copied under my localhost directory or maybe in the c:\www\php5\ directory?

The second question is the most important. I opened up my php.ini file but what exactly goes here?

; Windows: "\path1;\path2"
;include_path = ".;c:/php/includes/"
include_path = ????????? does this depend where i copied my class.phpmailer.php file to?

So if the class.phpmailer.php file is under my c:\www\vhost\localhost directory would it look like this.
include_path = ".;c:/www/vhost/localhost/"

I am wondering if i should keep the file class.phpmailer.php in the phpmailer folder instead of taking it out and placing it in the localhost directory? so it would look like this c:\www\vhost\localhost\phpmailer\

Do I need to change this or get rid of it for phpmailer to work
[mail function]
; For Win32 only.
SMTP = localhost
smtp_port = 25

The third question. Do I also add this to the php.ini file?

<?php
require("class.phpmailer.php");

$mail = new PHPMailer();

$mail->IsSMTP(); // set mailer to use SMTP
$mail->Host = "smtp1.example.com;smtp2.example.com"; // specify main and backup server
$mail->SMTPAuth = true; // turn on SMTP authentication
$mail->Username = "jswan"; // SMTP username
$mail->Password = "secret"; // SMTP password

$mail->From = "[e-mail]";
$mail->FromName = "Mailer";
$mail->AddAddress("[e-mail]", "Josh Adams");
$mail->AddAddress("[e-mail]"); // name is optional
$mail->AddReplyTo("[e-mail]", "Information");

$mail->WordWrap = 50; // set word wrap to 50 characters
$mail->AddAttachment("/var/tmp/file.tar.gz"); // add attachments
$mail->AddAttachment("/tmp/image.jpg", "new.jpg"); // optional name
$mail->IsHTML(true); // set email format to HTML

$mail->Subject = "Here is the subject";
$mail->Body = "This is the HTML message body <b>in bold!</b>";
$mail->AltBody = "This is the body in plain text for non-HTML mail clients";

if(!$mail->Send())
{
echo "Message could not be sent. <p>";
echo "Mailer Error: " . $mail->ErrorInfo;
exit;
}

echo "Message has been sent";
?>

Any help would be appreciated.

[NogDog]

You can pretty much put it wherever you want, as long as you either have your include_path setting point to that directory, or you can simply include it with a full/relative path and not worry about the include_path. For instance, if you put it in a folder called "phpmailer" which is directly under your localhost directory, you could just do:

<?php
require_once $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] . '/phpmailer/class.phpmailer.php';
$mail = new PHPMailer();

For the include_path option, you could set it in php.ini to:

include_path = ".;c:/www/vhost/localhost/phpmailer"

You should then be able to just do:

<?php
require_once 'class.phpmailer.php';
$mail = new PHPMailer();

[mrrush101]

I am now getting an Error parsing c:\www\php5\php.ini on line 1347

When i use rapid PHP to open the file line 1347 point to

1347 require("class.phpmailer.php");

the early post said require_once but it should have been require. I copied an older version example of phpmailer. The new one looks like this

<?php
require("class.phpmailer.php");

$mail = new PHPMailer();

My include path looks like this now

; UNIX: "/path1:/path2"
;include_path = ".:/php/includes"
; Windows: "\path1;\path2"
include_path = ".;c:/www/vhost/localhost/phpmailer"

and this

<?php
require("class.phpmailer.php");

$mail = new PHPMailer();

I am not sure if i have to have PEAR install for this to work but i don't see that mentioned in the documents.

[NogDog]

Since you are on Windows, I think you have to use "\" for the directory separator in your php.ini file:

include_path = ".;c:\www\vhost\localhost\phpmailer"

As far as require() or require_once(), either will probably work, but require_once() is safer in that it avoids trying to load the same include file twice, which in this case would cause a fatal error since it would try to define the same class twice.

PHPMailer does not use PEAR at all.

[mrrush101]

I have tried the foward and backward slash but it did not make a difference

The truth is am I even suppose to put the file below in my php.ini or am i suppose to save it as a php file and place it some directory?

If i am correct the class.phpmailer.php file should be located in the phpmailer directory which it is.

<?php
require("class.phpmailer.php");

$mail = new PHPMailer();

$mail->IsSMTP(); // set mailer to use SMTP
$mail->Host = "ssl://smtp.gmail.com.com"; // specify main and backup server
$mail->SMTPAuth = true; // turn on SMTP authentication
$mail->Username = "user"; // SMTP username
$mail->Password = "password"; // SMTP password

$mail->From = "[e-mail]";
$mail->FromName = "Bryan";
$mail->AddAddress("[e-mail]", "Josh Adams");
$mail->AddAddress("[e-mail]"); // name is optional
$mail->AddReplyTo("[e-mail]", "Information");

$mail->WordWrap = 50; // set word wrap to 50 characters
$mail->AddAttachment("/var/tmp/file.tar.gz"); // add attachments
$mail->AddAttachment("/tmp/image.jpg", "new.jpg"); // optional name
$mail->IsHTML(true); // set email format to HTML

$mail->Subject = "Help Desk Ticket";
$mail->Body = "This is the HTML message body <b>in bold!</b>";
$mail->AltBody = "This is the body in plain text for non-HTML mail clients";

if(!$mail->Send())
{
echo "Message could not be sent. <p>";
echo "Mailer Error: " . $mail->ErrorInfo;
exit;
}

echo "Message has been sent";

[mrrush101]

This is the instructions for phpmailer

Installation:

Copy class.phpmailer.php into your php.ini include_path. If you are
using the SMTP mailer then place class.smtp.php in your path as well.
In the language directory you will find several files like
phpmailer.lang-en.php. If you look right before the .php extension
that there are two letters. These represent the language type of the
translation file. For instance "en" is the English file and "br" is
the Portuguese file. Chose the file that best fits with your language
and place it in the PHP include path. If your language is English
then you have nothing more to do. If it is a different language then
you must point PHPMailer to the correct translation. To do this, call
the PHPMailer SetLanguage method like so:

// To load the Portuguese version
$mail->SetLanguage("br", "/optional/path/to/language/directory/");

That's it. You should now be ready to use PHPMailer!

[NogDog]

Note that if you change anything in the php.ini file, you normally have to restart the web server before it takes effect. You can see if the path is set correctly by running a little test script:

<?php
echo "include_path:<br />\n";
echo get_include_path();

If your changes are not showing up, then either you did not edit the correct file (in which case try a [man]phpinfo/man to see which php.ini file it says you are using), or you forgot to restart the web server after applying the change and saving the ini file.

Alternatively, you can explicitly set the include_path in your script:

<?php
$phpmailerPath = 'c:\path\to\phpmailer'; // use single quotes so backslashes work 
set_include_path($phpmailerPath . PATH_SEPARATOR . get_include_path());
require_once 'class.php.net';

PS: No PHP code belongs in your php.ini file. That sample code belongs in your actual PHP page script, modified as needed for your specific needs and settings.