inc/phpmailer/README

   1 PHPMailer
   2 Full Featured Email Transfer Class for PHP
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   4
   5 http://phpmailer.sourceforge.net/
   6
   7 This software is licenced under the LGPL.  Please read LICENSE for information on the
   8 software availability and distribution.
   9
  10 Class Features:
  11 - Send emails with multiple TOs, CCs, BCCs and REPLY-TOs
  12 - Redundant SMTP servers
  13 - Multipart/alternative emails for mail clients that do not read HTML email
  14 - Support for 8bit, base64, binary, and quoted-printable encoding
  15 - Uses the same methods as the very popular AspEmail active server (COM) component
  16 - SMTP authentication
  17 - Native language support
  18 - Word wrap, and more!
  19
  20 Why you might need it:
  21
  22 Many PHP developers utilize email in their code.  The only PHP function
  23 that supports this is the mail() function.  However, it does not expose
  24 any of the popular features that many email clients use nowadays like
  25 HTML-based emails and attachments. There are two proprietary
  26 development tools out there that have all the functionality built into
  27 easy to use classes: AspEmail(tm) and AspMail.  Both of these
  28 programs are COM components only available on Windows.  They are also a
  29 little pricey for smaller projects.
  30
  31 Since I do Linux development I\92ve missed these tools for my PHP coding.
  32 So I built a version myself that implements the same methods (object
  33 calls) that the Windows-based components do. It is open source and the
  34 LGPL license allows you to place the class in your proprietary PHP
  35 projects.
  36
  37
  38 Installation:
  39
  40 Copy class.phpmailer.php into your php.ini include_path. If you are
  41 using the SMTP mailer then place class.smtp.php in your path as well.
  42 In the language directory you will find several files like
  43 phpmailer.lang-en.php.  If you look right before the .php extension
  44 that there are two letters.  These represent the language type of the
  45 translation file.  For instance "en" is the English file and "br" is
  46 the Portuguese file.  Chose the file that best fits with your language
  47 and place it in the PHP include path.  If your language is English
  48 then you have nothing more to do.  If it is a different language then
  49 you must point PHPMailer to the correct translation.  To do this, call
  50 the PHPMailer SetLanguage method like so:
  51
  52 // To load the Portuguese version
  53 $mail->SetLanguage("br", "/optional/path/to/language/directory");
  54
  55 That's it.  You should now be ready to use PHPMailer!
  56
  57
  58 A Simple Example:
  59
  60 <?php
  61 require("class.phpmailer.php");
  62
  63 $mail = new PHPMailer();
  64
  65 $mail->IsSMTP();                                      // set mailer to use SMTP
  66 $mail->Host = "smtp1.example.com;smtp2.example.com";  // specify main and backup server
  67 $mail->SMTPAuth = true     // turn on SMTP authentication
  68 $mail->Username = "jswan"  // SMTP username
  69 $mail->Password = "secret" // SMTP password
  70
  71 $mail->From = "from@example.com";
  72 $mail->FromName = "Mailer";
  73 $mail->AddAddress("josh@example.net", "Josh Adams");
  74 $mail->AddAddress("ellen@example.com");                  // name is optional
  75 $mail->AddReplyTo("info@example.com", "Information");
  76
  77 $mail->WordWrap = 50;                                 // set word wrap to 50 characters
  78 $mail->AddAttachment("/var/tmp/file.tar.gz");         // add attachments
  79 $mail->AddAttachment("/tmp/image.jpg", "new.jpg");    // optional name
  80 $mail->IsHTML(true);                                  // set email format to HTML
  81
  82 $mail->Subject = "Here is the subject";
  83 $mail->Body    = "This is the HTML message body <b>in bold!</b>";
  84 $mail->AltBody = "This is the body in plain text for non-HTML mail clients";
  85
  86 if(!$mail->Send())
  87 {
  88    echo "Message could not be sent. <p>";
  89    echo "Mailer Error: " . $mail->ErrorInfo;
  90    exit;
  91 }
  92
  93 echo "Message has been sent";
  94 ?>
  95
  96 CHANGELOG
  97
  98 See ChangeLog.txt
  99
 100 Download: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=26031
 101
 102 Brent R. Matzelle