Examples using PHPMailer

1. Advanced Example

This demonstrates sending multiple email messages with binary attachments from a MySQL database using multipart/alternative messages.

require 'PHPMailerAutoload.php';



$mail = new PHPMailer();



$mail->setFrom('[email protected]', 'List manager');

$mail->Host   = 'smtp1.example.com;smtp2.example.com';

$mail->Mailer = 'smtp';



@mysqli_connect('localhost','root','password');

@mysqli_select_db("my_company");

$query = "SELECT full_name, email, photo FROM employee";

$result = @mysqli_query($query);



while ($row = mysqli_fetch_assoc($result))

{

    // HTML body

    $body  = "Hello <font size=\"4\">" . $row['full_name'] . "</font>, <p>";

    $body .= "<i>Your</i> personal photograph to this message.<p>";

    $body .= "Sincerely, <br>";

    $body .= "phpmailer List manager";



    // Plain text body (for mail clients that cannot read HTML)

    $text_body  = 'Hello ' . $row['full_name'] . ", \n\n";

    $text_body .= "Your personal photograph to this message.\n\n";

    $text_body .= "Sincerely, \n";

    $text_body .= 'phpmailer List manager';



    $mail->Body    = $body;

    $mail->AltBody = $text_body;

    $mail->addAddress($row['email'], $row['full_name']);

    $mail->addStringAttachment($row['photo'], 'YourPhoto.jpg');



    if(!$mail->send())

        echo "There has been a mail error sending to " . $row['email'] . "<br>";



    // Clear all addresses and attachments for next loop

    $mail->clearAddresses();

    $mail->clearAttachments();

}

2. Extending PHPMailer

Extending classes with inheritance is one of the most powerful features of object-oriented programming. It allows you to make changes to the original class for your own personal use without hacking the original classes, and it's very easy to do:

Here's a class that extends the phpmailer class and sets the defaults for the particular site:
PHP include file: my_phpmailer.php

require 'PHPMailerAutoload.php';



class my_phpmailer extends PHPMailer {

    // Set default variables for all new objects

    public $From     = '[email protected]';

    public $FromName = 'Mailer';

    public $Host     = 'smtp1.example.com;smtp2.example.com';

    public $Mailer   = 'smtp';                         // Alternative to isSMTP()

    public $WordWrap = 75;



    // Replace the default debug output function

    protected function edebug($msg) {

        print('My Site Error');

        print('Description:');

        printf('%s', $msg);

        exit;

    }



    //Extend the send function

    public function send() {

        $this->Subject = '[Yay for me!] '.$this->Subject;

        return parent::send()

    }



    // Create an additional function

    public function do_something($something) {

        // Place your new code here

    }

}

require 'my_phpmailer.php';



// Instantiate your new class

$mail = new my_phpmailer;



// Now you only need to add the necessary stuff

$mail->addAddress('[email protected]', 'Josh Adams');

$mail->Subject = 'Here is the subject';

$mail->Body    = 'This is the message body';

$mail->addAttachment('c:/temp/11-10-00.zip', 'new_name.zip');  // optional name



if(!$mail->send())

{

   echo 'There was an error sending the message';

   exit;

}



echo 'Message was sent successfully';