How to send mail in PHP with attachments

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I am using PHP for sending mail with attachmentusing below code. i work fine but didnot get any mail in EMail ID

What I have tried:

<?php
   if(isset($_FILES['image'])){
      $errors= array();
      $file_name = $_FILES['image']['name'];
      $file_size = $_FILES['image']['size'];
      $file_tmp = $_FILES['image']['tmp_name'];
      $file_type = $_FILES['image']['type'];
     // $file_ext=strtolower(end(explode('.',$_FILES['image']['name'])));
	  $array = explode('.', $file_name);
       $file_ext = end( $array); 
      
      $expensions= array("jpeg","jpg","png","pdf");
      
      if(in_array($file_ext,$expensions)=== false){
         $errors[]="extension not allowed, please choose a PDF, JPEG or PNG file.";
      }
      
      if($file_size > 2097152) {
         $errors[]='File size must be excately 2 MB';
      }
      
      if(empty($errors)==true) {
        //move_uploaded_file($file_tmp,"uploads/".$file_name); //The folder where you would like your file to be saved

         echo "Success";
      }else{
         print_r($errors);
      }
   }

// PHPMailer script below

$email = $_REQUEST['email'] ;
$name = $_REQUEST['name'] ;
$phone = $_REQUEST['phone'] ;
$message = $_REQUEST['message'] ;

if (!class_exists("phpmailer")) {
require_once('PHPMailer_5.2.0/class.phpmailer.php');
}
$mail = new PHPMailer(true);
$mail->IsSMTP();
$mail->Host = "smtp.gmail.com";
$mail->SMTPAuth = true; 


$mail->Username = "MY EMail  ID"; // SMTP username
$mail->Password = "******"; // SMTP password
//$mail->addAttachment("uploads/".$file_name);
$mail->AddAttachment($file_tmp, $file_name);
$mail->From = $email;
$mail->SMTPSecure = 'ssl'; 
$mail->Port = 25; //SMTP port
$mail->addAddress("xyz@gmail.com", "Name");
$mail->Subject = "You have an email from a website visitor!";
$mail->Body ="
Name: $name<br>
Email: $email<br>
Telephone: $phone<br><br><br>
Comments: $message";
$mail->AltBody = $message;

if(!$mail->Send())
{
echo "Message could not be sent. <p>";
echo "Mailer Error: " . $mail->ErrorInfo;
exit;
}

echo "<script>alert('Message has been sent')</script>";
?>

Posted 5-Nov-17 18:06pm

ADI@345

Updated 5-Nov-17 21:11pm

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Jochen Arndt · Answer 1 · 2017-11-05T21:11:00

See the PHP mailer documentation (GitHub - PHPMailer/PHPMailer: The classic email sending library for PHP[^] and Tutorial · PHPMailer/PHPMailer Wiki · GitHub[^] ).

I see at least two problems:

You are sending an HTML mail by setting $mail->Body but did not set $mail->isHTML(true)
You are trying to send to a GMail address with wrong settings

GMail requires different settings (e.g. port 587, see PHPMailer/gmail.phps at master · PHPMailer/PHPMailer · GitHub[^]). Note also that you must allow less secure apps to send mail (see Allow less secure apps to access accounts - G Suite Administrator Help[^]).

I would expect that you get some kind of error message because with your settings the mail will be not accepted by the GMail SMTP server.

I suggest to send a simple mail first. If that works you can add additional content like attachments.

Member 16147099 · Answer 2 · 2023-11-23T06:11:00

PHP

try {
    $mail = new PHPMailer();
    $mail->SMTPDebug = SMTP::DEBUG_SERVER;
    $mail->isSMTP();
    $mail->Host = 'amtp.gmail.com';
    $mail->SMTPAuth = true;
    $mail->Username = 'ali@gmail.com'; //Your email address
    $mail->Password = '*************'; //Password of your email address
    $mail->SMTPSecure = PHPMailer::ENCRYPTION_STARTTLS;
    $mail->Port = 587;

    $mail->setFrom('ali@gmail.com');
    $mail->addAddress('recipient@gmail.com'); //Recipient email address

    $mail->isHTML(true);
    $mail->Subject = 'Subject';
    $mail->Body = 'This is the HTML message body';
    if ($mail->send()) {
        echo 'Message has been sent.';
    } else {
        echo 'Message could not be sent. Mailer Error: ' . $mail->ErrorInfo;
    }
} catch (Exception $e) {
    echo "Message could not be sent. Mailer Error: {$mail->ErrorInfo}";
}

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