Bugs with SMTP and PHPMailer

[talk2tim]

Hello Folks. I want to first appreciate for all the help that i have received here. I am pretty new to PHP and im trying to use PHP mailer for my SMYP settings. With the settings below, i tried to send the mail, but after a long time of loading, it just stops with a blank page. I set up and error report, that would let me know whether the message was sent or not, but i got no error message, just blank screen. I think its the STMP settings. Im supposed to put my ISP's Username and Password here.

    $mail->IsSMTP();
    $mail->Host     = "mail.example.com";
    $mail->Port     = 25;
    $mail->SMTPAuth = false;
    $mail->Username = "yourname@example.com";
    $mail->Password = "yourpassword";

I originally put my Gmail username and password up there.

This is the Full Code

<?php
    

    require_once("../zoomie_files/includes/PHPmailer/PHPMailerAutoload.php");


    $to_name = "Test Mail";
    $to = "timothyazubuikeh@gmail.com";
    $subject = "Mail Test at ".strftime("%T", time());//Provides the time
    $message ="This is a Test. Ignore the inbox";
    $message = wordwrap($message, 70);
    $from_name = "Timothy Azubuikeh";
    $from = "admin@zoomie.com";


    //PHP SMTP version default
    $mail = new PHPMailer;

    $mail->IsSMTP();
    $mail->Host     = "gmail.com";
    $mail->Port     = 25;
    $mail->SMTPAuth = false;
    $mail->Username = "my_personal_email@gmail.com";
    $mail->Password = "my_password";

    $mail->FromName = $from_name;
    $mail->From     = $from;
    $mail->AddAddress($to, $to_name);
    $mail->Subject  = $subject;
    $mail->Body     = $message;


    if (!$mail->send())
        {
            echo "Mailer Error: " . $mail->ErrorInfo;
        }
    else 
        {
           echo "Message sent!";
        }

  
?>

Please i need help with the SMTP settings or whatever the issue with the code is. Thanks

[Luuk]

RTFM (read the fine manual)

it has:

$mail->SMTPAuth   = true;

it can be found here:

http://phpmailer.worxware.com/?pg=examplebgmail

oh, and use the toolbar to insert '[CODE/]' tags....

[talk2tim]

Thanks Luuk, before i try it out, do you mean that the email and password info i put there were correct?? Thanks.

[talk2tim]

Thanks Luuk. I change the false to true in

$mail->SMTPAuth   = true;

. It still did the same thing it did when SMTPAuth was false. (loaded for a long time and came up with a blank page).

What do you think is the problem???

[Luuk]

The problem should be noted somewhere in your logfiles.....

If I want to sent an email from PHP I would use:

http://php.net/manual/en/function.mail.php

And not a library which is more than 4 years old, meant to send mail by PHP, with a now-working sample form

But documentation is here:

http://www.worxware.com/kbn/?category_id=23

[talk2tim]

Thanks Luuk. The article you gave me is about just about the PHP mail() function.

When you talk about log files and 'library which is more than 4 years old', honestly, i dont really understand would be grateful if you explained better. Im a novice.


I ran this code

<?php 

$inis = Array('SMTP', 'smtp_port', 'sendmail_path');// from not important 
foreach($inis as $key=>$val){ 
  echo "\t<p>{$val}</p>\n<code>\n"; 
  var_dump(ini_get($val)); 
  echo "</code>\n"; 
};

And its output was

SMTP

string(9) "localhost"
smtp_port

string(2) "25"
sendmail_path

bool(false)

I also ran this code to test the STMP class to see whether a connection can be made to the server

date_default_timezone_set('Etc/UTC'); 

require ("../zoomie_files/includes/PHPmailer/PHPMailerAutoload.php"); 

//Create a new SMTP instance 
$smtp = new SMTP; 

//Enable connection-level debug output 
$smtp->do_debug = SMTP::DEBUG_CONNECTION; 

try { 
//Connect to an SMTP server 
    if ($smtp->connect('www.gmail.com', 25)) { 
        //Say hello 
        if ($smtp->hello('localhost')) { //Put your host name in here 
            //Authenticate 
            if ($smtp->authenticate('my_personal_email@gmail.com', 'my_pasword')) { 
                echo "Connected ok!"; 
            } else { 
                throw new Exception('Authentication failed: ' . $smtp->getLastReply()); 
            } 
        } else { 
            throw new Exception('HELO failed: '. $smtp->getLastReply()); 
        } 
    } else { 
        throw new Exception('Connect failed'); 
    } 
} catch (Exception $e) { 
    echo 'SMTP error: '. $e->getMessage(), "\n"; 
} 
//Whatever happened, close the connection. 
$smtp->quit(true);

And its output was this.

2015-04-07 20:34:50 Connection: opening to www.gmail.com:25, t=30, opt=array ( ) 2015-04-07 20:34:50 Connection: opened

But the script still does as before,(blank page). Hasnt a connection to a server been made? What do you think is the problem? Thanks Luuk for your help. Thanks.

[Luuk]

I cannot find the file you included on line#3 ("PHPMailerAuto load.php"), I does not exist in PHPMailer, at least not in the version I downloaded from: http://sourceforge.net/projects/phpmailer/

Do I have an old, or wrong, version?


What I mean about 'more than 4 years old' is the dates on the site: http://www.worxware.com/kbn/?category_id=23

Back to the topic, you seem to have the need to send email from PHP.
1) What kind of email do you want to send?
a) just text
b) HTML
c) text + attachment
d) HTML + attachment

The basic PHP mail function is able to do option a) very easy, and every next option is only slightly more complicated.

[talk2tim]

Thanks Luuk, been quite a while, i have been really busy. I opted against using PHPmailer because i heard that it is always meddled with complications. A friend suggested another third party email system. sendgrid.com . I signed up,looked up the documentation and looked at their integration with Open Source apps(PHP in this case). I worked with this code

require_once("../zoomie_files/includes/sendgrid/smtpapi-php.php");
 
 use Smtpapi\Header;
 
$transport = \Swift_SmtpTransport::newInstance('smtp.sendgrid.net', 587);
$transport->setUsername('sendgrid_username');
$transport->setPassword('sendgrid_password');
 
$mailer = \Swift_Mailer::newInstance($transport);
 
$message = new \Swift_Message();
$message->setTos(array('send_to@gmail.com'));
$message->setFrom('sent_from@gmail.com');
$message->setSubject('Hello');
$message->setBody('%how% are you doing?');
 
$header = new Header();
$header->addSubstitution('%how%', array('Owl'));
 
$message_headers = $message->getHeaders();
$message_headers->addTextHeader(HEADER::NAME, $header->jsonString());
 
try {
    $response = $mailer->send($message);
    print_r($response);
} catch(\Swift_TransportException $e) {
    print_r('Bad username / password');
}

It gave me some errors wherever the "\" appeared. That is not a filepath seperator ryt? For windows, its "/". Its triggering errors. Please what does the "\" mean?

This is the first error statement

"Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING, expecting T_CONSTANT_ENCA PSED_STRING or '(' in C:\wamp\www\btb _sandbox\sendem ail7.php on line 7"

In

use Smtpapi\Header; //There is actually a php file titled 'Header' in a folder named 'Smtpapi'.
//Is this an attempt to locate the file 'Header'?
These are other cases where the "\" appeared. 
*** $transport = \Swift_SmtpTransport::newInstance('smtp.sendgrid.net', 587);
**  $mailer = \Swift_Mailer::newInstance($transport);
*   $message = new \Swift_Message();

What do you think is wrong? What is the '\' sign for? Thanks for your help, i really appreciate. Thanks

[Luuk]

The '\' is for something with namespaces see:

http://php.net/manual/en/language.namespaces.fallback.php

My knowledge about that is limited too ;)
(but Google is my friend....)

You need PHP version >= 5.3.0 for this to work.

[talk2tim]

Thanks Luuk. I upgraded to 5.5 and its giving me this error.

Fatal error: Class 'Swift_SmtpTran sport' not found in C:\wamp\www\btb _sandbox\sendem ail8.php on line 8

What do you think is the problem this time around? Thanks Luuk, you have been helpful.