PHP - Send Email via SMTP Server using PHPMailer
Hi! In this post, let's see how to use PHPMailer to send email from PHP . PHPMailer is an amazing php library to send emails quickly. We all know the generic PHP's mail() function helps you send emails. But on the downside, it requires local mail server to send them. And also the setup and configuration is not that easy. But that's not the case with PHPMailer. The library supports SMTP protocol and allows easy authentication over SSL and TSL. It allows you to display error messages in more than 40 languages in case there is an error when sending emails. PHPMailer uses the real valid email address to send mails. Hence you have to setup one if you don't have it. Here, let's see how to use Gmail SMTP to send email via PHPMailer. Sending Email via Gmail SMTP using PHPMailer: SMTP is basically a mail protocol that sends a request to the mail server and after verification sends it to the mail server of the recipient. To send an email via smtp, you need the authenti...