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Send email with PHP (code to accompany https://youtu.be/fIYyemqKR58)
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form.html
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Contact</title>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/water.css@2/out/water.css">
</head>
<body>
<h1>Contact</h1>
<form method="post" action="send-email.php">
<label for="name">Name</label>
<input type="text" name="name" id="name" required>
<label for="email">email</label>
<input type="email" name="email" id="email" required>
<label for="subject">Subject</label>
<input type="text" name="subject" id="subject" required>
<label for="message">Message</label>
<textarea name="message" id="message" required></textarea>
<br>
<button>Send</button>
</form>
</body>
</html>
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send-email.php
<?php
$name = $_POST["name"];
$email = $_POST["email"];
$subject = $_POST["subject"];
$message = $_POST["message"];
require "vendor/autoload.php";
use PHPMailer\PHPMailer\PHPMailer;
use PHPMailer\PHPMailer\SMTP;
$mail = new PHPMailer(true);
// $mail->SMTPDebug = SMTP::DEBUG_SERVER;
$mail->isSMTP();
$mail->SMTPAuth = true;
$mail->Host = "smtp.example.com";
$mail->SMTPSecure = PHPMailer::ENCRYPTION_STARTTLS;
$mail->Port = 587;
$mail->Username = "you@example.com";
$mail->Password = "password";
$mail->setFrom($email, $name);
$mail->addAddress("dave@example.com", "Dave");
$mail->Subject = $subject;
$mail->Body = $message;
$mail->send();
header("Location: sent.html");
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sent.html
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Contact</title>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/water.css@2/out/water.css">
</head>
<body>
<h1>Contact</h1>
<p>Thank you for your message.</p>
</body>
</html>
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daveh commented Mar 8, 2024

@GuyCos I'm afraid I can't see the screenshots. The composer.lock file (along with the composer.json file) is generated automatically when you run the composer install command. It will be in the same place the vendor folder was.

I suggest you run the composer install command again from your public_html folder, so that all the files are in the correct place.

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GuyCos commented Mar 8, 2024 via email

@jcdynasteel
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When I try to send an email with my personal website and I click "Send", it just downloads a send-email.php file which is exactly just the code. Any help with this?

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daveh commented Apr 5, 2024

@jcdynasteel Sounds like you're opening form.html as a file, not from a web server - if so the web address will be something like file:///path/to/form.html instead of http://example.com/form.html.
If it's not that, please share a screenshot of what happens.

@Shafeeqvv
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hey Daveh can we do this work without hosting the site? i did this work on sublime text

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daveh commented Apr 23, 2024

@Shafeeqvv You need to be able to run PHP - the simplest way to do this is to install something like XAMPP and put the scripts in the root folder, then load them from there.

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can u give me your personal mail ?
for asking a doubt regarding your SMTP video ??

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