How to send mail with PHP and Use SMTP GMail

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This time I want to share about send email using PHP and without Framework,
for send email I'm using SMTP from gmail.

This is the steps for send email using php:

1. Download PHPMailer library on here
2. Save Library in same place with send_email.php
   
   A Simple Example for send_email.php
   
   <?php
   
   //SMTP needs accurate times, and the PHP time zone MUST be set
   //This should be done in your php.ini, but this is how to do it if you don't have access to that
   date_default_timezone_set('Etc/UTC');
   
   require 'PHPMailerAutoload.php';
   
   $mail = new PHPMailer();
   $mail->isSMTP();
   //Enable SMTP debugging
   // 0 = off (for production use)
   // 1 = client messages
   // 2 = client and server messages
   $mail->SMTPDebug = 2;
   $mail->Debugoutput = 'html';
   $mail->Host = 'smtp.gmail.com';
   $mail->Port = 587;
   $mail->SMTPSecure = 'tls';
   $mail->SMTPAuth = true;
   
   // Set to access your Gmail account
   $mail->Username = "youremail@gmail.com";
   $mail->Password = "yourgmailpassword";
   
   $mail->setFrom('user@example.com', 'first last'); //Set who the message is to be sent from
   $mail->addReplyTo('user@example.com', 'first last'); //Set an alternative reply-to address
   $mail->addAddress('email@example.com', 'first last'); //Set who the message is to be sent $mail->Subject = 'PHPMailer GMail SMTP test';
   $mail->Body = 'This is a plain-text message body';
   $mail->addAttachment('images/phpmailer_mini.gif'); //Attach an image file
   
   //send the message, check for errors
   if (!$mail->send()) {
       echo "Mailer Error: " . $mail->ErrorInfo;
   } else {
       echo "Message sent!";
   }
   ?>
3. Save file as send_email.php
4. Call file send_email.php ex: localhost/send_email.php
5. If success it will show "Message sent!" and if failed it will show "Mailer Error: error message"

 
Hope this useful for you guys!

Thanks

- AR