Send email with PHP | Create a Working Contact Form Using PHP

[@dave-hollingworth]

What other related topics would you like to see a video on?

[@abanwaraphael1526]

I would like to see sending SMS to individuals phone with PHP and also sending bulk email with PHP

[@abanwaraphael1526]

Thank you for this video Dave. I bought some of your courses on udemy and they have been really helpful

[@s2003katalin]

A similar video to this one but involving image attachments WITHOUT saving them on the server permanently. Maybe a part 2 ? Thank you

[@craigc5879]

Another great video, wouldnt mind seeing a updated video on php frameworks like code ignitor

[@alan-overthenet]

I was going to ask for Laravel, but Dev Henry beat me to it. I'm sure you have Udemy course on Laravel? From a selfish perspective, I would like to see the php way of taking several user input nuber values, carrying out a calculation, and then displaying the result. I've patched together a working JS version, but still not sorted out the validations (RegEx) for the fields.

[@StevieB86]

I only found this channel earlier today, but I love your delivery. Really easy to understand. I will have been coding for exactly one year tomorrow and I've just finished building my first full-stack project using JavaScript and PHP. Hope you produce more PHP videos for this channel. Thanks for sharing, Dave, subscribed!

[@getoverhere1225]

Is actually really frustrating that no one wants to do a tutorial a tutorial for a working email form that has the proper security features that are required by web host. That's mainly the whole reason why you would incorporate PHP into the email.

[@sampsonchinonso6058]

I never knew you could use an smtp with php…Thank you

[@tlb588]

Thanks Dave. You're still helping people.

[@Shashidhara_S_C]

I was struggling to send an email through php thanks Dave Hollingworth sir for the usefull video.💌

[@AnnabethChase-zp6ep]

I had never heard of classless css this is lifechanging😭😭

[@davidh7300]

Hi Dave! Finishing up the second Udemy MVC course man what a blessing. Gonna use this email technique with it. You taught us a lot of what I learned in college about Java in those two courses. Extremely valuable resource for up and coming developers. I am going to build a couple more frameworks using some textbooks I found and implement the best from all of them. Your framework is the baseline the router is awesome thank you! It acts like a sort of white list or catalog of pages a user can access on your site. Very cool piece of the puzzle as far as organization and access control.

[@alan-overthenet]

Great, Dave. This is helpful and very useful for me. Thanks for your efforts.

[@miaenderby5299]

Thank you so much for this video! I have been so stressed trying to do this for so long

[@cristian-paraschiv]

Great, Dave. Thanks for the video.

[@andreivlaicu51]

Easy and straight forward! Thank you

[@Alejandro00710]

Great channel, easy to understand and very complete, subscribed already.

[@marcoaureliodemesquita337]

Great video, congrats! I'm new here, and I will check out other videos on the channel. Two topics that interest me would be a video about superglobal variables in PHP and how to implement a "shopping cart" on PHP and MySQL.

[@ldeutscher3904]

Nice job of explaining this so it makes sense! Only I want to send through my own webhost mail server, so need to find out how to do that, but Thank you, as I understand more now then I did before watching this!

[@esasrl3384]

I have the same issue, did you manage to find answer on how to do it? I'd really appreciate if you could let me know

[@ldeutscher3904]

@@esasrl3384 Not one that would work with my webhost yet, they made more changes then usual for security reasons, and so far nothing I try works right. They advised me to take out a email form service, but most of those are based out of country, and I don't like that idea either.

[@tempMahad]

PHP is so underrated, whyyyyy

[@dave-hollingworth]

It gets a bad reputation as it's been around so long, and it's easy to write bad code with it; having said that, it's also very easy to pick up and is available everywhere

[@supernova1163]

Gmail doesn't do this smtp thing for security apparently, can I just use another free one easily or have to modify steps?

[@dave-hollingworth]

You should be able to, yes, just search for free SMTP server. You should be able to use Google if you create an application for it inside your Google account settings

[@NoName-yw1pt]

7:10 I get the same error, but in my case it says line 2265 in PHPMailer.php file, which is: throw new Exception($this->lang('authenticate')); And the additional information from the debugging property says "Username and Password not accepted"

[@dave-hollingworth]

This would seem to suggest that the username and password you're using to authenticate with the SMTP server are incorrect

[@NoName-yw1pt]

@@dave-hollingworth I'm certain they are correct. Can it suggest something else?

[@dave-hollingworth]

@@NoName-yw1pt Perhaps a network issue, is the SMTP server host reachable from your server?

[@NoName-yw1pt]

@@dave-hollingworth Probably not, I don't know. How can I check?

[@dave-hollingworth]

@@NoName-yw1pt Try using the SMTP server from an email client (i.e. configure the email client to send emails using that SMTP server)

[@DocRamadani]

Hi Dave, thank you so much for the video. It really helped me to solve a small task very quickly! THANKS!!!!

[@comconet]

It worked beautifully. - Rolfe

[@GMCC88]

ok, if composer was unable to install PHPMailer correctly by running: C:\xampp\htdocs>composer require PHPMailer/PHPMailer and I DON'T have the autoload.php file that comes with installing using composer, how does this affect the .php file that contains the instructions for sending the email using SMTP? I was able to download the zip file from the PHPMailer github post and move the PHPMailer pkg to the htdocs/vendor/phpmailer folder however

[@jeremyharvard6057]

Thanks you very much for this video!

[@marcoantonini5569]

Hi there, if I run the debugging everything just seem to work properly (the echo email sent appears after all the details) but no e-mails arrive at the written address. Any suggestions? Thanks

[@dave-hollingworth]

If there are no error messages from the SMTP server, then the problem could be with the recipient account - check to see if the message is in the spam folder

[@dannyreg8405]

Finally, I got phpmailer in and working. It was done all with your help and thank you. Question: How can I send two different messages to two emails address?

[@ColeopalTunnel]

Thank you for this tutorial.

[@adeoyemuhdfawas]

Nice video.👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿 Thank you sir!

[@Skankhunt-cf6uh]

Great explaination, it also worked with my contactform. But how do i upload this to my online host to use from every mobile device for

[@dave-hollingworth]

Just upload the code you have locally, including the entire vendor folder

[@coolvibesreloaded7946]

@dave-hollingworth great video strait to the point unlike other videos out there :) quick question the sent.html send-email.php and form.html do we put those three files into phpmailer folder once it's downloaded????? please reply

[@dave-hollingworth]

No, those files go in your web root or project folder. The PHPMailer package goes into the same folder. (or the vendor folder if you're using Composer)

[@anandhuappu1458]

Can you make a tutorial for uploading file to server using php? A humble request.

[@ReynaldoUbas]

thanks that is awesome straight forward tutorial

[@maxscheel6083]

Would you say it's still worth it to learn PHP workwise? Thanks for easy understandable video :)

[@dave-hollingworth]

Absolutely, PHP is still very popular

[@conradjelinger2120]

So doggone helpful... clear and consise. Thank you Dave.

[@abanwaraphael1526]

Good day Dave. I have been trying to send mail on my production server using php but it keeps failing. However, I have tried to buy your course in PHP mailing for one two months now, and I've been successful

[@markcorrigan293]

Thanks Dave.

[@AbhishekBade1310]

how do i make a smtp server

[@chris7085]

04:06 what folder did u open to show this in your screen?

[@dave-hollingworth]

It's a command prompt / terminal window

[@seo-rupindersingh5148]

@@dave-hollingworth is it windows run cmd or what?

[@dave-hollingworth]

@@seo-rupindersingh5148 Yes, that's one way, or look for command prompt application

[@videolaulau2012]

Thank you, I'm going to try

[@yahayamoussamai-daboua9871]

Well done. Thanks a lot.

[@wildriftgames1931]

May I ask, how about if client send wrong gmail name intentionally or not, do that receive the message or not?? is there something that verify the gmail if exist or not before it receive or send to server?? thanks

[@dave-hollingworth]

There's a discussion about that here: moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=450884

[@manivakili95]

We have to write our app-specific password in $mail->password ? Or the regular password works ?

[@dave-hollingworth]

The app-specific one

[@MissCarry-v4g]

Hi Dave, Thank you for making this video! It was super helpful as a beginner to PHP. When I submit the email, it sends to the correct address, but regardless of what email I type in on my form, it will always send from the email I access my SMTP server from. I am using the Google SMTP server, but I also tried this with the Outlook SMTP server and the same thing happened. Is this just a limitation from those SMTP servers?

[@dave-hollingworth]

This is a feature of how the SMTP server works, yes. You can't send an email from someone else's account, you can only send it from the account you're authenticating with. You can use a "reply-to" however if you want someone to reply to a different address that you're sending from.

[@AlekZkoo]

Hi, I just came by your tutorial and I'm wondering, if I make contact form using SMTP server on my website, from which email address would be an email sent? Can you even use SMTP server to make contact form since it displays only email address you're authenticanting with? Sry if this is a stupid question, but I just started with PHP. @@dave-hollingworth

[@NataschaGutenbergBjerning]

My problem is that the issue with setting all of this up, is that i don't know how to set up the gmail smtp server. All work behind setting that up, is no one showing... I can't get the Gmail smtp server to work, cause it wants me to use an admin mail account, and I don't have one.. I only have my regular 'i am a not important private person'-email. So how do I use the gmail smtp server then?

[@dave-hollingworth]

I'm not sure why it's asking you to use an admin account... are you using Gmail as part of an organisation perhaps? If so, you could use your personal Gmail, or alternatively just search for "free SMTP server", there are many available

[@Gracek.g]

for my code and the one provided in the description I get the HTML Error 405 when I run it in the VSCode Live Server. I changed the SMTP settings accordingly to my provider. The port is set to the correct one. I can't pinpoint what's causing the issue :/

[@dave-hollingworth]

I'm afraid I'm not familiar with the VSCode live server - are you able to run it using a different server to see if it's a VSCode issue?

[@Gracek.g]

@@dave-hollingworth I scavenged the internet and it seems it's the VScode's live server's fault. I ran the built in PHP local host server and it works. I mean, I still get the errors but they are connected with my poor understanding of the SMTP provider I chose and not your tutorial. Thank you for the upload!

[@dave-hollingworth]

@@Gracek.g Ah ok good to know - I'll keep that in mind in case anyone else has a similar issue. Thanks!

[@helloiamgeorgia]

I had the same issue. I got an HTML Error 405 when running index.html in the Live Server. Then I opened index.html in PHP Server and it successfully sent the message and loaded the "sent.html" page with no problem.

[@alifelongfriend]

Good video, Dave. I am wondering if the form is secured in any way? Could not someone view the source and thereby gain your username and password?

[@dave-hollingworth]

If they view the source in the browser, they'll just see the generated HTML. PHP code is executed on the server, before this is sent to the browser, so the source code is never sent to the client.

[@alifelongfriend]

@@dave-hollingworth is not the link to the PHP file in the action="-" (element field of the HTML file) and thereby susceptible to also being viewed? I am asking is there not a way to download and view the source of a file once the specified location is known/

[@dave-hollingworth]

@@alifelongfriend While you can see which file the form submits to as you say, you can't download this file to see the source code. If you request that file from the server by putting the URL in the browser's address bar (e.g. example.com/process-form.php) then you'll still get the result of the PHP code running before it gets to you. The web server always executes the PHP code before sending it to the browser, so there's no way to see the PHP code on the server in the browser.

[@lukas584]

Unfortunately I'm not able to install the composer file through the command line (I'm using Windows shell). I changed file directory to my htdocs where my project is located. I would appreciate a more detailed explanation. Thank you in advance. Appreciate your work Dave.

[@dave-hollingworth]

The easiest way to install Composer on Windows is using the installer: getcomposer.org/doc/00-intro.md#installation-windows

[@lukas584]

@@dave-hollingworth Thanks, it worked. Now my problem is that I'm not allowed to activate messages from third party (less secured apps)? Any ideas how I could fix this?

[@dave-hollingworth]

@@lukas584 www.febooti.com/products/automation-workshop/tutorials/enable-google-app-passwords-for-smtp.html

[@lukas584]

​@@dave-hollingworth Thank you Dave, I followed the given instructions and it finally worked (so happy). The thing is that I do not see who is sending me the data from the form as the email does not appear in my gmail. It's like I would send an email to myself (receiver email and sender email is both the same. It's the email which I set up in the code). Very strange, maybe I messed up with the code but I have already checked your instruction given in the video several times. Probably it's the 2 step verification, using the generated password which does not allow to communicate with third party? What are your thoughts on this one?

[@dave-hollingworth]

@@lukas584 Not sure what you mean - but if you're not getting emails you send to yourself, Gmail has been known to block this - see some of the results here: www.google.co.uk/search?q=gmail+smtp+can%27t+send+to+yourself

[@Ritzel099]

omg it worked! GRACIAS!!!!! :D Es difícil encontrar tutoriales de esto en español ;-;

[@intransnews8282]

do we still need to use gmail smtp if we have cPanel (Hosting)? i want to use smtp email from my cPanel, is that possible?

[@dave-hollingworth]

Yes of course, you can use whatever SMTP server you have access to, all you need are the hostname and connection credentials

[@SBSIDUBAI]

PHP with Gmail is not working anymore,, I tried that many times

[@denisk256]

Please Dave, can I use my personal email address for which the form is to be submitted or it should be an email registered with the website domain?

[@denisk256]

Because I have tried making different forms and when I upload them and run them online, form is not submitted and all I keep seeing is the else part for failure. But I'm using a personal email address which is not connected to the domain, could that be the problem?

[@dave-hollingworth]

@@denisk256 I'm not sure what you mean - when submitting the form, you can put in whatever email address you like, this will be sent to the recipient. When you authenticate with the SMTP server, the username is usually the same as the email address that you use as the sender. You can't send email from anyone's email address, only the one you authenticate with.

[@denisk256]

Could you please help me and take me through how I can authenticate with SMTP

[@dave-hollingworth]

@@denisk256 You just need to provide the username, password and hostname of the SMTP server

[@denisk256]

Is it possible to be doe using a mobile phone, coz right now I'm away from my laptop

[@virtualdesigns4428]

Estou com problemas em enviar formulario de contato de um site hospedado na locaweb. Você poderia me ajudar?

[@shreelacounty9871]

IT WORKEED!!!!!! thank you

[@jamiemacdonald5972]

Thanks for this great tutorial! Beginner question probably - but I consistently get a 404 on form submission. I've got the form method as "post" and the action="send-email.php", and send-email.php is all spelled correctly, etc. But I'm sure I'm missing something obvious (code is copied and phpmailer is installed via composer in VScode). Thanks again for the video.

[@dave-hollingworth]

What URL is shown in the browser's address bar when you submit the form and get the 404?

[@jamiemacdonald5972]

@@dave-hollingworth Thanks, hadn't thought to actually look there. It's coming up as "send-email.php" in the address bar. I should specify that on the browser when I click "send" I actually get a 405 error, but in the VScode terminal it shows up as a 404 for send-email.php - not found. *edit - and I had turned on debugging mode, as per your instructions, but I still just get the same error*

[@dave-hollingworth]

@@jamiemacdonald5972 Are you developing in a subfolder of the root? E.g. localhost/subfolder/form.html If so, you need to include that subfolder (or don't start the action attribute of the form with a slash if you are doing) I'm afraid I don't use VSCode so I'm not familiar with its debugging tools

[@jamiemacdonald5972]

@@dave-hollingworth Yep, same folder, which is why it's strange getting the 404. Anyway thanks for the help and for the video, great intro to php concepts!

[@sorenchristenson3203]

@@dave-hollingworth thanks Dave, you are on to something with the sub folders. Great tut, thanks.

[@frankgp.python-php]

excellent tutorial

[@Drugvigil]

Hello bro I configured as by your tutorial. When I try to send email the form is not redirect to php. So I am not receiving email. What might be the issue?

[@dave-hollingworth]

Try adding the debugging code to show the SMTP debugging info

[@Drugvigil]

@@dave-hollingworth can you write me an example code here.

[@Drugvigil]

@@dave-hollingworth yes added but not showing any error. Locally

[@Drugvigil]

The message could not be sent. MAILER Error: invalid email address

[@Drugvigil]

I am having a error now as failed to connect to smtp host

[@sosdto7606]

Hi. Thanks for the video. I have a problem. I'm getting HTTP ERROR 405 when i try to sent email. Can someone help me?

[@dave-hollingworth]

Are you using the VSCode built-in webserver by any chance? Try using a separate server like Apache (you can get with XAMPP if you need it)

[@sosdto7606]

@@dave-hollingworth So i must transfer my project in htdocs folder in xampp, and then run it with apache?

[@dave-hollingworth]

@@sosdto7606 Yes, that's it

[@sosdto7606]

@@dave-hollingworth still have o problem. The following. Fatal error. SMTP error: data not accepted... I serach for it and find that the problem is that the mail->From is different with the $mail->addAddress...But what i actually want with this email form, is sending from my friend's mail for example, to my mail....If in the form, i put my email to the mail textarea, then it works..But if i put another mail , then it doesnt work..Do you have any solution..Thank you very much.

[@dave-hollingworth]

@@sosdto7606 When using an SMTP server, you can only send email from the account that you're authorising with, you can't send emails from anyone's account. You can add a reply-to value though if you want to suggest to the email client that a reply is sent to a different email.

[@andreasorourke4252]

I followed all of the steps and copied the PHP code, but when I hit the send button on my HTML page my browser simply displays my raw PHP code rather than sending the email. Any advice?

[@dave-hollingworth]

Please see this: kzbin.infol7ERVQd7Ti8?feature=share

[@abanwaraphael1526]

Please what could be the cause for "could not connect to SMTP host" .. it was working initially

[@dave-hollingworth]

Enable debugging as shown in the video to see if there are any more detailed messages shown in the debugging output. That message though suggests a network issue

[@burtcollymore7644]

Hi Dave...The intro video for the Udemy course PHP for Beginners Build a Content Management System from Scratch with PHP and MySQL says "Style using BOOTCAMP"...It should be, "style using BOOTSTRAP"...Cheers.

[@dave-hollingworth]

Really? Hadn't spotted that! Thank you for letting me know, I'll get that fixed :-)

[@anthonygeorges5828]

Thanks you so much !!!!!!!!

[@webdesigntom]

Why is this coming from my email to an the customer email instead the other way around. In the setFrom () I put $name and $email and expected this to be their name and email. Not my name and email. 🤔🤔🤔

[@dave-hollingworth]

You can only send email from the account you're authenticating on the SMTP server with; i.e. you can't send email from someone else arbitrarily

[@webdesigntom]

@@dave-hollingworth thanks so much. So how will I know the system is working before I put the site up?

[@dave-hollingworth]

@@webdesigntom Try it with another email address, you can always use a throwaway email address just to test it, or a service like mailtrap

[@webdesigntom]

@@dave-hollingworth ok thank you. That leads me in a direction. I was using another one of my emails. I am just confused because I have a field to allow potential customer to put in their email (I used an alternate one) and it was coming to that email instead of my email so I'll have to learn better how to make it work. But thanks again and you've been a big help. Got yourself a subscriber.

[@SNAKEx197]

Is it okay to add phpmailer and my new php file to github? since it shows the password and email for the smtp.

[@dave-hollingworth]

No - you would typically store the password in a separate file, e.g. an .env file and put this in your .gitignore file so it isn't uploaded to your repo

[@SNAKEx197]

@@dave-hollingworth ah, so it's fine to have my "mail.php" (the PHP file you created) & install phpmailer in the same environment as my work folder? ex. project-folder/ ls: index.html contact.html mail.php vendor/ How do I go about moving the username & password to a .env file.(first time hearing about .env) Will the PHP file work the same? Thank you Dave for the answer back, I'm new to PHP so I'm still learning atm.

[@tv44-alternative23]

What program are you using to open and editing files also dos this program comes with a command-line terminal?

[@tv44-alternative23]

i found out already, thank you.

[@eazyxpressshippingservices5797]

thanks very much. I learn a lot from you!

[@zmOe1]

The send form only works if I enter my own email address in the email input field. If I enter another email it does not work.

[@dave-hollingworth]

Are you using a service like Mailgun where you can only send emails to one verified email address (for the free tier anyway)?

[@AshenBandara-c9y]

Message could not be sent. Mailer Error: SMTP Error: Could not connect to SMTP host. Connection failed. stream_socket_enable_crypto(): SSL operation failed with code 1. OpenSSL Error messages: error:1416F086:SSL routines:tls_process_server_certificate:certificate verify failedSMTP server error: QUIT command failed i got this

[@dave-hollingworth]

If this is just a local error, there's a solution here: stackoverflow.com/questions/30556773/how-to-fix-stream-socket-enable-crypto-ssl-operation-failed-with-code-1

[@scholarway]

I think it's not secure to openly share our email username and password, right? Is there a method to only provide our email address instead?

[@dave-hollingworth]

You're right that wouldn't be secure, but you're not openly sharing your password - this is only used to authenticate with the SMTP server, and is only on the server in the PHP code.

[@gangaghosh4726]

Thank you soo much i got it

[@deelinspiring9796]

I'm a junior developer and I want to ask you if this will work if I want to publish my website? Or is it only when my site is local?

[@dave-hollingworth]

Absolutely, as long as your live server has access to the SMTP server over the network (which is most likely)

[@deelinspiring9796]

@@dave-hollingworth Thank u so much 🙏🏽🤍

[@nethmiyuganjana2353]

There is no option to turn on access to less secure apps in my gmail, (google says no longer we cannot use that facility) what can i do about that?

[@dave-hollingworth]

It looks like you need to use an App password now: www.febooti.com/products/automation-workshop/tutorials/enable-google-app-passwords-for-smtp.html

[@girojudo]

Hey there, thank you for your mail, can we keep the you@example and the password or do we need to change them?

[@dave-hollingworth]

You need to change them, they're just examples

[@girojudo]

@@dave-hollingworth Thank you for your answer, I managed to fix this issue indeed. How come the function header is not working? Like I just get the PHP debug page but the HTML page is not appearing.

[@dave-hollingworth]

@@girojudo Could be many reasons - do you get a detailed error message? That should tell you where the error has occurred, in what script and on what line

[@girojudo]

@@dave-hollingworth not really a detailed error, whenever I press on the send error, i just get a white page and that's it, the mail does indeed get sent but i am not able to head on another pages (as the header itself should do)

[@dave-hollingworth]

@@girojudo A blank white page usually means an error has occurred but PHP isn't configured to display it - try adding these lines to the top of your code: ini_set('display_errors', '1'); ini_set('display_startup_errors', '1'); error_reporting(E_ALL);

[@khancross]

After submitting the form, error occur: This page isn’t working DOMAIN is currently unable to handle this request. HTTP ERROR 500

[@dave-hollingworth]

A 500 error is an error on the server, most likely an error in the code - try adding these lines to the top of your PHP: ini_set('display_errors', '1'); ini_set('display_startup_errors', '1'); error_reporting(E_ALL); This will show the error detail instead of the 500 error. Alternatively, look in the web server's error log to see the error detail.

[@khancross]

@@dave-hollingworth I think your example PHP file is faulty. Check the file at the lower bottom where the HTML part starts.

[@dave-hollingworth]

@@khancross Please can you be more specific? Which file and which line do you think is faulty?

[@khancross]

@@dave-hollingworth send-email.php file is faulty. Check last lines in the document

[@khancross]

Sorry I made a mistake. However where is the autoload.php?

[@rosaprint8676]

super, outstanding

[@livesports4522]

Hi, thanks for sharing such an informative video. could you please help me how to send a pdf file through html form to email using the same process?

[@dave-hollingworth]

Check out my video on how to upload a file, then you can use PHPMailer to attach a file to an email (details in the PHPMailer documentation)

[@devhenry9054]

Please make laravel course

[@DetectiveSquarepants]

Composer asks for a PHP.exe file during the installation process. What am I supposed to provide it exactly?

[@dave-hollingworth]

You need to have PHP already installed, so if you do you'll have a php.exe file installed somewhere on your system. I recommend XAMPP for Windows if you haven't got one already

[@DetectiveSquarepants]

@@dave-hollingworth Thanks, I'll look into this 👍🏻

[@AmulyaPatel29]

why iam getting this page isn't working

[@Chriggi-w1t]

why not writing an exclamation mark ! at the beginning in vs code and press enter? result: Document

[@dave-hollingworth]

I try to avoid coding assistants when doing a tutorial as it detracts from the lesson, but you're right, it's a good idea when coding to use things like this

[@aijiexi]

My vendor folder did not show up even though I activated it in my command line. any guesses why??

[@dave-hollingworth]

You need to run the command line commands from your project folder

[@seo-rupindersingh5148]

@@dave-hollingworth and how to run this??

[@adityajadhav879]

Thankyou So much

[@nubianking7097]

it didn't work. I am testing this code on a server not my own local wamp install and i am having trouble. i thought this tutorial would help but it did not

[@dave-hollingworth]

In what way didn't it work?

[@nubianking7097]

@@dave-hollingworth First of all thank you very much for your tutorials, it really is great information and delivered in a clear and concise manner. Secondly thank you for such a rapid response, wow! unfortunately all i can tell you at this point is the first time i ran your code it did not send the email, i checked my syntax and tried again to no avail. I originally made this comment hoping to learn why it did not work, but I have since gotten successful results using completely different code. so again thank you for your response

[@thestorytellerpk]

I have tried all but no success, it not working, how to share my code with you?

[@dave-hollingworth]

You can put a link to Pastebin, GitHub etc. here

[@manasnikte]

i did exact same thing what you did, I am using hostinger web hosting and used that detail for smtp but send-email.php on browser it shows This page isn’t working localhost is currently unable to handle this request.

[@manasnikte]

also tried hosting the files on web server but still didnt work

[@dave-hollingworth]

If you get a generic error message like that, there should be more error detail available in the error log - you should have access to this in the hostinger web panel. This should tell us exactly what the error is and where it's occurring

[@rudyredline]

Thank you but why does the script need a password to send an email?

[@dave-hollingworth]

To authenticate with the SMTP server.

[@increment-]

Can users also upload their files with this form?

[@dave-hollingworth]

Yes, you could modify the form to have a file attachment, and attach files using PHPMailer

[@increment-]

@@dave-hollingworth Thank you so much! Great video 👍

[@lanyiming]

Hello sir I watched your video and tried to install PHPMailer successfully. PHPMailer can work normally on the website set up by XAMPP on the local computer, but PHPMailer cannot work normally when the webpage is uploaded to the PHP website environment on synology , have you ever encountered this problem?

[@dave-hollingworth]

I'm afraid not, I haven't used Synology - it sounds like it's a permissions or network problem if the code works locally - I would suggest contacting their technical support

[@maxwell1007]

How can i use this to a webhost not localhost?

[@dave-hollingworth]

You can upload the code to a webhost and it will work in the same way

[@21-abhikhillare8]

Bro package is not downloading

[@kostaspapadopoulos3767]

Thanks for this great vid! Is this approach safe from scammer bots accessing my login data?

[@dave-hollingworth]

As far as I know, yes - I'm not sure how a bot could get your login data from this, unless your server was compromised and they had access to your source code with your credentials in it.

[@ethe662]

hi, i am struggling with 405 error assistance please

[@dave-hollingworth]

Try using a web server instead of VSCode's built-in web server

[@ethe662]

@@dave-hollingworth Yes, I have been looking at countless videos on this 405 and I haven't gotten any head way

[@shafeeqsharafi3731]

Sir can i do this work without hosting?

[@dave-hollingworth]

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.

[@shafeeqsharafi3731]

@@dave-hollingworth it works sir thank you...but i hosted the website in cpanel it not works why?

[@shafeeqsharafi3731]

Message could not be sent. Mailer Error: SMTP Error: Could not authenticate.

[@dave-hollingworth]

@@shafeeqsharafi3731 In what way doesn't it work? Do you get any error messages?

[@shafeeqsharafi3731]

@@dave-hollingworth Message could not be sent. Mailer Error: SMTP Error: Could not authenticate.

[@rahmandarmaji7469]

Hi Dave, could you made course laravel on udemy? Thanks in advance...

[@loopymomy2532]

what you have failed to mention in this video is that the "from" portion in the email will use your email to send rather than the person's email to show up making the email portion useless. What you need to put in this video is how to have the "from" portion show up as the person's email. I can see that you are using a third party system to make this work.

[@dave-hollingworth]

You can't send an email from someone else's account. The email is sent from the account that's authorised on the server. What you can do though is add a "reply-to" address, which is what the email client will use as the recipient email address if you click "reply". Not all email clients support this though. For example: $mail->addReplyTo('[e-mail]', 'Information');

[@loopymomy2532]

@@dave-hollingworth I did a different smtp to get the result. It works fine now. I noticed you were using a sandbox to make it work, I used sendinblue or smth like that

[@anthonygeorges5828]

@@loopymomy2532 How did you do that ?

[@loopymomy2532]

@@anthonygeorges5828 use a different stmp don't use Gmail.

[@abanwaraphael1526]

Please I have been trying to get your course on udemy on Sending Email with PHP. I've not been able to make purchase. I have been debited twice for that same course , yet is has not been successful. Write to udemy. I have also written to them I may not the only one having the challenge

[@dave-hollingworth]

Ok I will mention it to instructor support, thank you for letting me know

[@abanwaraphael1526]

@@dave-hollingworth please do and inform me here on what the problem could be..

[@dave-hollingworth]

@@abanwaraphael1526 They won't be able to give me any details of an individual customer, you'll have to contact Udemy support directly yourself with regards to specific purchasing issues: support.udemy.com/

[@jimohumarfaruq767]

Please how can I get the password for my Gmail. I used my Gmail password and is not working

[@dave-hollingworth]

Please check the Google documentation for how to use their SMTP servers from a program

[@ilya_123__]

thank you

[@thomaslucas2371]

where is a composer

[@PoshYoshii62]

how can i make a google admin account?

[@dave-hollingworth]

support.google.com/a/answer/172176?hl=en

[@PoshYoshii62]

@@dave-hollingworth got it thanks

[@PoshYoshii62]

@@dave-hollingworth actually tho do i need to have a company to log in

[@harmonymwase3644]

less secure is not available

[@BalkanLeaksArchive]

how to send php mail without php mailer in plain php

[@dave-hollingworth]

Use the mail function: www.php.net/manual/en/function.mail.php

[@BalkanLeaksArchive]

@@dave-hollingworth would that works on free web hostings

[@dave-hollingworth]

@@BalkanLeaksArchive Depends on the hosting, you'd have to check their documentation

[@BalkanLeaksArchive]

@@dave-hollingworth i think they dont support mail send. Can i use some free smpt server and implemnt in my script

[@dave-hollingworth]

@@BalkanLeaksArchive Yes, you can use any free SMTP server. I would strongly suggest you use PHPMailer, it's just plain PHP code but wrapped up in a library. There's no reason it shouldn't work on your hosting, and it's so much easier than the mail() function.

[@abanwaraphael1526]

SMS with php