Setting Up PHPMailer On Linux

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Setup:

navigate to /var/www/html folder then run this

Code:

cd /var/www/html

type:

Code:

composer require phpmailer/phpmailer

then goto correct folder

Code:

cd /var/www/html/vendor/phpmailer/phpmailer

type:

Code:

composer require league/oauth2-google

Now to use the script correctly


Usage Notes:
make sure the 2 firsts lines are at the top of document!!

Code:

use PHPMailer\PHPMailer\PHPMailer;
require("../../vendor/autoload.php");

Basic Script

Code:

<?php
ini_set("display_errors", "0");
error_reporting(E_ALL);

use PHPMailer\PHPMailer\PHPMailer;
require("../../vendor/autoload.php"); //Needs to be correct relative to the autoload.php file!
$mail=new PHPMailer;
$mail->isSMTP();
$mail->SMTPDebug=0; // 2 is default
$mail->Host='smtp.gmail.com';
$mail->Port=587;
$mail->SMTPAuth=true;
$mail->Username='email@domain.com';
$mail->Password='password';
$mail->setFrom('email@domain.com', 'JNET');
$mail->addReplyTo('email@domain.com', 'JNET');
$mail->addAddress('email@domain.com', 'Jay');
$mail->Subject='Testing PHPMailer';
//$mail->msgHTML(file_get_contents('message.html'), __DIR__);
$mail->Body='This is a plain text message body';
//$mail->addAttachment('test.txt');
if (!$mail->send()) {
    echo 'Mailer Error: ' . $mail->ErrorInfo;
} else {
    echo 'The email message was sent.';
}
?>


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