I am new to php and in my project I have used php mail function, but while sending mail from database it shows an error like:
Failed to connect to mailserver at "localhost" port 25, verify your "SMTP" By searching on stackoverflow and google, I come to know that XAMPP does not provide SMTP server and I will have to install a SMTP server.
I am really confused.So, Which SMTP server I should install?
For this example, I will use PHPMailer.
So first, you have to download the source code of PHPMailer. Only 3 files are necessary :
Put these 3 files in the same folder. Then create the main script (I called it 'index.php').
Content of index.php :
'XXXXXXXX@gmail.com', //Your GMail adress 'password' => 'XXXXXXXX' //Your GMail password ); /* SPECIFIC TO GMAIL SMTP */ $smtp = array( 'host' => 'smtp.gmail.com', 'port' => 587, 'username' => $crendentials['email'], 'password' => $crendentials['password'], 'secure' => 'tls' //SSL or TLS ); /* TO, SUBJECT, CONTENT */ $to = ''; //The 'To' field $subject = 'This is a test email sent with PHPMailer'; $content = 'This is the HTML message body in bold!'; $mailer = new PHPMailer(); //SMTP Configuration $mailer->isSMTP(); $mailer->SMTPAuth = true; //We need to authenticate $mailer->Host = $smtp['host']; $mailer->Port = $smtp['port']; $mailer->Username = $smtp['username']; $mailer->Password = $smtp['password']; $mailer->SMTPSecure = $smtp['secure']; //Now, send mail : //From - To : $mailer->From = $crendentials['email']; $mailer->FromName = 'Your Name'; //Optional $mailer->addAddress($to); // Add a recipient //Subject - Body : $mailer->Subject = $subject; $mailer->Body = $content; $mailer->isHTML(true); //Mail body contains HTML tags //Check if mail is sent : if(!$mailer->send()) { echo 'Error sending mail : ' . $mailer->ErrorInfo; } else { echo 'Message sent !'; } You can also add 'CC', 'BCC' fields etc...
Examples and documentation can be found on Github.
If you need to use another SMTP server, you can modify the values in $smtp.
Note : you may have a problem sending the mail, like 'Warning: stream_socket_enable_crypto(): this stream does not support SSL/crypto'.
In such case, you must enable the OpenSSL extension. Check your phpinfo(), look for the value of 'Loaded Configuration File' (in my case : E:\Program Files\wamp\bin\apache\apache2.4.2\bin\php.ini) and in this file, uncomment the line extension=php_openssl.dll. Then, restart your XAMPP server.