In this tutorial, you will learn how to send an email from your localhost using PHP
You can test your code online on your server where already all the things are set up or you can test your code on localhost (on your local system or machine) .
Usually, developers use some servers to run server-side language on a local machine. I am using Wamp , Xampp server on my local machine. if you are using this type of server then you need to set up a few things or follow the few steps which I mentioned below.
What you Need for setup
You must have a server like I have Xampp on my local PC. I am using Gmail SMTP for setting up email from the server, so you must have any SMTP server or Gmail Account You must know the username (email) and password. You can edit the .ini smtp_sever : The SMTP Host server name like , smtp.gmail.comsmtp_port : The port number (Ex port: 465) auth_username : Your SMTP usernameauth_password : Your SMTP passwordStep# 1:
In the first step, you need to open the php.ini Wamp Xampp Lamp XAMPP S Derive OS
In PHP we can use the mail()
sendmail_from (Add your gamil email ID) sendmail_path (Give the path of your sendemail exe with -t In my case, the path of sendemail.exe is given below you must change the path with your directory structure.
[mail function]
; For Win32 only.
; http://php.net/smtp
SMTP=localhost
; http://php.net/smtp-port
smtp_port=25
; For Win32 only.
; http://php.net/sendmail-from
sendmail_from = [email protected]
; For Unix only. You may supply arguments as well (default: "sendmail -t -i").
; http://php.net/sendmail-path
sendmail_path = "\"D:\server1\sendmail.exe\" -t"
Path of sendemail.exe Step# 2:
In the second step, we have to update the sendemail.exe GMAIL SMTP settings. Click here to see the official SMTP details of GMAIL . Open this file and change the below parameters.
smtp_server smtp_port auth_username (I mentioned [email protected] this email not exist) auth_password force_sender (Optional) force_recipient (Optional) Step# 3:
After these changes restart the server and try the below code to send an email. Other posts related to send email are listed below.
Send an Email using PHP mail() function Validate Emails and send using PHPMailer and JQuery Ajax Free HTML email template
// To send HTML mail, the Content-type header must be set
$headers[] = 'MIME-Version: 1.0';
$headers[] = 'Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1';
// Additional headers
$headers[] = 'To: LearnCodeWeb <[email protected] >';
$headers[] = 'From: LearnCodeWeb <[email protected] >';
$headers[] = 'Cc: [email protected] ';
$headers[] = 'Bcc: [email protected] ';
mail('[email protected] ', 'I am testing Learncodeweb code', 'Thank you LCW to save my life', implode("\r\n", $headers));
Important Note:
If you are not able to get an email after testing the code you must set up a few things on your Gmail Account Less Secure App click here to check the settings . And if you have already enabled the two-step verification on your account then disable the two-step verification after that you will be able to ON/OFF the Less Secure App settings.
