In codeigniter, working with phpMailer, I am trying to use EasyPeasyICS to help build an email with an ics file and this is a portion of my code:
$invite = new EasyPeasyICS();
$invite->addEvent(strtotime($appointment_data['start_datetime']),strtotime($appointment_data['end_datetime']),
$service_data['name'],$message." ".$appointment_link,$appointment_link);
$mail = new PHPMailer();
$mail->From = $company_settings['company_email'];
$mail->FromName = $company_settings['company_name'];
$mail->AddAddress($receiver_address); // "Name" argument crushes the phpmailer class.
$mail->IsHTML(true);
$mail->CharSet = 'UTF-8';
$mail->Subject = $title;
$mail->Body = $email_html;
$mail->Ical = $invite->render(false);
if (!$mail->Send()) {
throw new Exception('Email could not been sent. Mailer Error (Line '
. __LINE__ . '): ' . $mail->ErrorInfo);
}
return TRUE;
}
So, what I get is my HTML email and no ICS file. If I modify $mail->Ical = $invite->render(true) then the ics file downloads to me and I see the ICS file wrapped around my HTML as it is supposed to be and it looks great. Why is it not sending out with the email?
Even with the latest version (5.2.22), you must set AltBody if you want to parse Ical. Because alternative (alt) message type is required to Ical to be loaded.
But if you specify Ical, your email WILL BE an event, and will be considered as it by email clients.
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I have a problem sending multiple email addresses functions. If I send a single email address, I can work. If I send multiple emails to the receiver, they cannot receive my message. I am using the PHPMailer function to do the email function with XAMPP. I am using the PHP array function to put the receiver's address in the array and use the while function to loop the receiver address to send it.
Below is my coding:
$address = array('st9overfindsolution#gmail','st7overfindsolution#gmail');
require 'class/class.phpmailer.php';
$mail = new PHPMailer(true);
$mail->IsSMTP();
$mail->Host = 'smtp.gmail.com';
// $mail->SMTPDebug = 1;
$mail->Port = 465;
$mail->SMTPAuth = true;
$mail->Username = 'example#gmail.com';
$mail->Password = '1233aqqq';
$mail->SMTPSecure = 'ssl';
$mail->From = $_POST["email"];
$mail->FromName = $_POST["name"];
$mail->AddCC($_POST["email"], $_POST["name"]);
$mail->WordWrap = 50;
$mail->IsHTML(true);
$mail->Subject = $_POST["subject"];
$mail->Body = $_POST["message"];
while(list ($key, $val) = each($address)){
$mail->AddAddress($val);
}
What I've tried?
1.I put all receiver email addresses in the array $address = array('st9overfindsolution#gmail','st7overfindsolution#gmail'); and use below while function code, but cannot work.
2.If send single email address without using while function, just can work, like below coding:
Hope someone can guide me on how to solve this problem. Thanks.
i have created new function named "sendmyemail" and inserted the code inside this function, so you can sent multiple emails by calling this function with email address.
<?php
/**
* This example shows sending a message using a local sendmail binary.
*/
//Import the PHPMailer class into the global namespace
use PHPMailer\PHPMailer\PHPMailer;
require '../vendor/autoload.php';
function sendmyemail($whotoEmail){
//Create a new PHPMailer instance
$mail = new PHPMailer();
//Set PHPMailer to use the sendmail transport
$mail->isSendmail();
//Set who the message is to be sent from
$mail->setFrom('from#example.com', 'First Last');
//Set who the message is to be sent to
$mail->addAddress($whotoEmail);
//Set the subject line
$mail->Subject = 'PHPMailer sendmail test';
//Read an HTML message body from an external file, convert referenced images to
embedded,
//convert HTML into a basic plain-text alternative body
$mail->msgHTML(file_get_contents('contents.html'), __DIR__);
//Replace the plain text body with one created manually
$mail->AltBody = 'This is a plain-text message body';
//Attach an image file
$mail->addAttachment('images/phpmailer_mini.png');
//send the message, check for errors
if (!$mail->send()) {
echo 'Mailer Error: ' . $mail->ErrorInfo;
} else {
echo 'Message sent to '.$whotoEmail.'!';
}
}
sendmyemail('abcduser#gmail.com');
sendmyemail('efguser#gmail.com');
sendmyemail('hijkuser#gmail.com');
sendmyemail('lmnouser#gmail.com');
I am using https://github.com/google/google-api-php-client and I want to send a test email with a user's authorized gmail account.
This is what I have so far:
$msg = new Google_Service_Gmail_Message();
$msg->setRaw('gp1');
$service->users_messages->send('me', $msg);
This results in a bounce email because I have no clue how to set the raw message. I see the bounce in the inbox of my authenticated user. I want to learn how to set values for 'To', 'Cc', 'Bcc', 'Subject', and 'Body' of the email. I believe I will need to do a 64 encoding on that raw data as well. And I might want to use some html in the body of my email.
Please help to provide a working example of sending an email using the gmail-api and the google-api-php-client.
Here is the bounced email in the inbox:
Bounce -nobody#gmail.com- 12:58 PM (7 minutes ago)
to me
An error occurred. Your message was not sent.
‚ Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2014 10:58:30 -0700 Message-Id: CABbXiyXhRBzzuaY82i9iODEiwxEJWO1=jCcDM_TH-
I asked a more specific question which has led me to an answer. I am now using PHPMailer to build the message. I then extract the raw message from the PHPMailer object. Example:
require_once 'class.phpmailer.php';
$mail = new PHPMailer();
$mail->CharSet = "UTF-8";
$subject = "my subject";
$msg = "hey there!";
$from = "myemail#gmail.com";
$fname = "my name";
$mail->From = $from;
$mail->FromName = $fname;
$mail->AddAddress("tosomeone#somedomain.com");
$mail->AddReplyTo($from,$fname);
$mail->Subject = $subject;
$mail->Body = $msg;
$mail->preSend();
$mime = $mail->getSentMIMEMessage();
$m = new Google_Service_Gmail_Message();
$data = base64_encode($mime);
$data = str_replace(array('+','/','='),array('-','_',''),$data); // url safe
$m->setRaw($data);
$service->users_messages->send('me', $m);
I've used this solution as well, worked fine with a few tweaks:
When creating the PHPMailer object, the default encoding is set to '8bit'.
So I had to overrule that with:
$mail->Encoding = 'base64';
The other thing i had to do was tweaking the MIME a little to make it POST ready for the Google API, I've used the solution by ewein:
Invalid value for ByteString error when calling gmail send API with base64 encoded < or >
Anyway, this is how I've solved your problem:
//prepare the mail with PHPMailer
$mail = new PHPMailer();
$mail->CharSet = "UTF-8";
$mail->Encoding = "base64";
//supply with your header info, body etc...
$mail->Subject = "You've got mail!";
...
//create the MIME Message
$mail->preSend();
$mime = $mail->getSentMIMEMessage();
$mime = rtrim(strtr(base64_encode($mime), '+/', '-_'), '=');
//create the Gmail Message
$message = new Google_Service_Gmail_Message();
$message->setRaw($mime);
$message = $service->users_messages->send('me',$message);
Perhaps this is a bit beyond the original question, but at least in my case that "test email" progressed to regularly sending automated welcome emails "from" various accounts. Though I've found much that is helpful here, I've had to cobble things together from various sources.
In the hope of helping others navigate this process, here's a distilled version of what I came up with.
A few notes on the following code:
This assumes that you've jumped through the hoops to create and download the JSON for a Google Service Account (under credentials in the developer dashboard it's the bottom section.)
For clarity, I've grouped all the bits you should need to set in the "Replace this with your own data" section.
That me in the send() method is a key word that means something like "send this email with the current account."
// This block is only needed if you're working outside the global namespace
use \Google_Client as Google_Client;
use \Google_Service_Gmail as Google_Service_Gmail;
use \Google_Service_Gmail_Message as Google_Service_Gmail_Message;
// Prep things for PHPMailer
use PHPMailer\PHPMailer\Exception;
use PHPMailer\PHPMailer\PHPMailer;
// Grab the needed files
require_once 'path/to/google-api/vendor/autoload.php';
require_once 'path/to/php-mailer/Exception.php';
require_once 'path/to/php-mailer/PHPMailer.php';
// Replace this with your own data
$pathToServiceAccountCredentialsJSON = "/path/to/service/account/credentials.json";
$emailUser = "sender#yourdomain.com"; // the user who is "sending" the email...
$emailUserName = "Sending User's Name"; // ... and their name
$emailSubjectLine = "My Email's Subject Line";
$recipientEmail = "recipient#somdomain.com";
$recipientName = "Recipient's Name";
$bodyHTML = "<p>Paragraph one.</p><p>Paragraph two!</p>";
$bodyText = "Paragraph one.\n\nParagraph two!";
// Set up credentials and client
putenv("GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS={$pathToServiceAccountCredentialsJSON}");
$client = new Google_Client();
$client->useApplicationDefaultCredentials();
// We're only sending, so this works fine
$client->addScope(Google_Service_Gmail::GMAIL_SEND);
// Set the user we're going to pretend to be (Subject is confusing here as an email also has a "Subject"
$client->setSubject($emailUser);
// Set up the service
$mailService = new Google_Service_Gmail($client);
// We'll use PHPMailer to build the raw email (since Google's API doesn't do that) so prep it
$mailBuilder = new PHPMailer();
$mailBuilder->CharSet = "UTF-8";
$mailBuilder->Encoding = "base64";
// Not set up the email you want to send
$mailBuilder->Subject = $emailSubjectLine;
$mailBuilder->From = $emailUser;
$mailBuilder->FromName = $emailUserName;
try {
$mailBuilder->addAddress($recipientEmail, $recipientName);
} catch (Exception $e) {
// Handle any problems adding the email address here
}
// Add additional recipients, CC, BCC, ReplyTo, if desired
// Then add the main body of the email...
$mailBuilder->isHTML(true);
$mailBuilder->Body = $bodyHTML;
$mailBuilder->AltBody = $bodyText;
// Prep things so we have a nice, raw message ready to send via Google's API
try {
$mailBuilder->preSend();
$rawMessage = base64_encode($mailBuilder->getSentMIMEMessage());
$rawMessage = str_replace(['+', '/', '='], ['-', '_', ''], $rawMessage); // url safe
$gMessage = new Google_Service_Gmail_Message();
$gMessage->setRaw($rawMessage);
// Send it!
$result = $mailService->users_messages->send('me', $gMessage);
} catch (Exception $e) {
// Handle any problems building or sending the email here
}
if ($result->labelIds[0] == "SENT") echo "Message sent!";
else echo "Something went wrong...";
Create the mail with phpmailer works fine for me in a local enviroment. On production I get this error:
Invalid value for ByteString
To solve this, remove the line:
$mail->Encoding = 'base64';
because the mail is two times encoded.
Also, on other questions/issues I found the next:
use
strtr(base64_encode($val), '+/=', '-_*')
instead of
strtr(base64_encode($val), '+/=', '-_,')
I Used https://developers.google.com/gmail/api/v1/reference/users/messages/send
and able to send email successfully.
Edit: I forgot I'd created the SendMail(); function myself, which is why the explanation doesn't mention at first what it does.
I'm having some trouble with PHPMailer (https://github.com/PHPMailer/PHPMailer) when attempting to send two emails, one directly after the other.
The script is almost completely 'out of the box', with only a few modifications such as a foreach loop to allow for multiple addresses, and everything still works perfectly.
However, if I attempt to call more than one instance of SendMail(); I get the error message:
Fatal error: Cannot override final method Exception::__clone() in .... online 0
Previously I was using the in-built mail(); function, which allowed me to use it as many times as I liked in quick succession , but it doesn't appear to be that simple with PHPmailer:
$to = me#me.com;
$to2 = me2#me2.com';
$headers = 'php headers etc';
$subject = 'generic subject';
$message = 'generic message';
mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);
mail($to2, $subject, $message, $headers);
The above would result in two identical emails being sent to different people, however I can't easily replicate this functionality with PHPmailer.
Is there a way of stacking these requests so that I can send successive emails without it failing? Forcing the script to wait until the first email has been sent would also be acceptable, although not preferential.
As I mentioned I know it works when only one instance is called, but I don't seem to be able to re-use the function.
I haven't included the source code, although it is all available on the link provided above.
Thanks in advance
Edit as requested
// First Email
$to = array(
'test#test.com',
'test2#test.com',);
$subject = "Subject";
$message = $message_start.$message_ONE.$message_end;
sendMail();
// Second Email
$to = array(
'test#test.com',
'test2#test.com',);
$subject = "Subject";
$message = $message_start.$message_TWO.$message_end;
sendMail();
The above is how I want this to work, as it would work with mail();. The first email will work fine, the second will not.
SendMail() code
This is from the PHPmailer website, and is what is defined as SendMail();. The only difference from the example is the loop for AddAddress, and the inclusion of $to as a global variable.
$mail = new PHPMailer();
$mail->IsSMTP(); // set mailer to use SMTP
$mail->Host = "smtp1.example.com;smtp2.example.com"; // specify main and backup server
$mail->SMTPAuth = true; // turn on SMTP authentication
$mail->Username = "jswan"; // SMTP username
$mail->Password = "secret"; // SMTP password
$mail->From = "from#example.com";
$mail->FromName = "Mailer";
foreach($to as $to_add){
$mail->AddAddress($to_add); // name is optional
}
$mail->AddReplyTo("info#example.com", "Information");
$mail->WordWrap = 50; // set word wrap to 50 characters
$mail->AddAttachment("/var/tmp/file.tar.gz"); // add attachments
$mail->AddAttachment("/tmp/image.jpg", "new.jpg"); // optional name
$mail->IsHTML(true); // set email format to HTML
$mail->Subject = "Here is the subject";
$mail->Body = "This is the HTML message body <b>in bold!</b>";
$mail->AltBody = "This is the body in plain text for non-HTML mail clients";
if(!$mail->Send())
{
echo "Message could not be sent. <p>";
echo "Mailer Error: " . $mail->ErrorInfo;
exit;
}
echo "Message has been sent";
You haven't posted this code that lets me make this a complete conclusion, but from the Exception and the way you've defined an overriding class inside a function, you probably have class.phpmailer.php loading every time like this:
require('class.phpmailer.php');
or
include('class.phpmailer.php');
You should change that line to
require_once('class.phpmailer.php');
The reason you need to change it to require_once is so that PHP will not load the class file the second time when you try to create the new/second PHPMailer class. Otherwise, the line class PHPMailer throws the __clone() exception.
Added an example below:
<?php
/**
* This example shows how to send a message to a whole list of recipients efficiently.
*/
//Import the PHPMailer class into the global namespace
use PHPMailer\PHPMailer\PHPMailer;
use PHPMailer\PHPMailer\Exception;
error_reporting(E_STRICT | E_ALL);
date_default_timezone_set('Etc/UTC');
require '../vendor/autoload.php';
//Passing `true` enables PHPMailer exceptions
$mail = new PHPMailer(true);
$body = file_get_contents('contents.html');
$mail->isSMTP();
$mail->Host = 'smtp.example.com';
$mail->SMTPAuth = true;
$mail->SMTPKeepAlive = true; // SMTP connection will not close after each email sent, reduces SMTP overhead
$mail->Port = 25;
$mail->Username = 'yourname#example.com';
$mail->Password = 'yourpassword';
$mail->setFrom('list#example.com', 'List manager');
$mail->addReplyTo('list#example.com', 'List manager');
$mail->Subject = 'PHPMailer Simple database mailing list test';
//Same body for all messages, so set this before the sending loop
//If you generate a different body for each recipient (e.g. you're using a templating system),
//set it inside the loop
$mail->msgHTML($body);
//msgHTML also sets AltBody, but if you want a custom one, set it afterwards
$mail->AltBody = 'To view the message, please use an HTML compatible email viewer!';
//Connect to the database and select the recipients from your mailing list that have not yet been sent to
//You'll need to alter this to match your database
$mysql = mysqli_connect('localhost', 'username', 'password');
mysqli_select_db($mysql, 'mydb');
$result = mysqli_query($mysql, 'SELECT full_name, email, photo FROM mailinglist WHERE sent = FALSE');
foreach ($result as $row) {
try {
$mail->addAddress($row['email'], $row['full_name']);
} catch (Exception $e) {
echo 'Invalid address skipped: ' . htmlspecialchars($row['email']) . '<br>';
continue;
}
if (!empty($row['photo'])) {
//Assumes the image data is stored in the DB
$mail->addStringAttachment($row['photo'], 'YourPhoto.jpg');
}
try {
$mail->send();
echo 'Message sent to :' . htmlspecialchars($row['full_name']) . ' (' . htmlspecialchars($row['email']) . ')<br>';
//Mark it as sent in the DB
mysqli_query(
$mysql,
"UPDATE mailinglist SET sent = TRUE WHERE email = '" .
mysqli_real_escape_string($mysql, $row['email']) . "'"
);
} catch (Exception $e) {
echo 'Mailer Error (' . htmlspecialchars($row['email']) . ') ' . $mail->ErrorInfo . '<br>';
//Reset the connection to abort sending this message
//The loop will continue trying to send to the rest of the list
$mail->getSMTPInstance()->reset();
}
//Clear all addresses and attachments for the next iteration
$mail->clearAddresses();
$mail->clearAttachments();
}
In addition to #Amr most excellent code.
In order to use this in a cron fasion, two adds are useful.
$mail-> SMTPDebug = true;
$mail-> Debugoutput = function( $str, $level ) {_log($str);};
The function _log is up to you. Writing to a file, to a database or wherever. I personally have reduced this to
$mail-> Debugoutput = function( $str, $level ) {if( $level===3 ) {_log( $str ); } };
to only write the more juicier messages
the solution is to reset recipients data like this:
$Mailer->clearAddresses()
use your own variable as an instance of PHPMailer (instead of $Mailer)
$Mailer->clearAddresses()
This is the solution to avoid multiple msj to be send to the same recipient.
I am looking for a way to save my template file which I use as a certificate snf sttsch it to my my.
Below is the code to replace fields in my template with one I have queried.
require("class.phpmailer.php");
//placeholders array
$pholders = array('replace_name', 'replace_number', 'replace_title');
//Certificate replace values array
$failedValues = array($FullName, $TestNo, $Title);
$mail_body = file_get_contents("failed.html");
$mail_body = str_replace($pholders,$failedValues,$mail_body);
//mailer
$mail = new phpmailer;
$mail->IsSMTP(); // set mailer to use SMTP
$mail->IsHTML(true); // set email format to HTML
$mail->Subject = "Results";
$mail->Body = $mail_body;
$mail->AddAttachment("cpd.html");
I have omitted code for the smtp setting. The file cpd.html has to be generated and attached. I am looking for a way on how to generate it and save it for attaching it to the mail.
I am tying to send an email with an attachment using phpmailer.
include_once('/home/site/PHPMailer/class.phpmailer.php');
$mail = new PHPMailer();
$body = $mail->getFile('contents.html');
$body = eregi_replace("[\]",'',$body);
$mail->IsSMTP(); // telling the class to use SMTP
$mail->Host = "smtp.free.fr"; // SMTP server
$mail->IsSendmail(); // telling the class to use SendMail transport
$mail->From = "name#sub.fr";
$mail->FromName = "name";
$mail->Subject = "subject";
$mail->AltBody = "To view the message, please use an HTML compatible email viewer!"; // optional, comment out and test
$mail->MsgHTML($body);
$mail->AddAddress("sub#sub.net", "name");
$mail->AddAttachment("mylist.csv"); // attachment
if(!$mail->Send()) {
echo "Mailer Error: " . $mail->ErrorInfo;
} else {
echo "Message sent!";
}
I receive a "Message sent !" on execution, but no email is ever received.
It is very possible the user you sent the email to did not recieve it due to the fact a lot of mail providers such as AOL and Yahoo block massive amounts of Ip addresses related to email spam. So if the server you are running this php script from is on their blacklist the user will not even receive it to the spam folder.
Check your php email logs.
http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/smallbusiness/webhosting/php/php-03.html
Also, if this is not the case, try making sure the file your trying to include exists, and you are passing the correct path to the file. Like #Waygood said, try seeing if it sends without the attachment.