Send Email in HTML with PHPMailer

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∟PHPMailer - PHP Package for Sending Emails

∟Send Email in HTML with PHPMailer

This section provides a tutorial example on how to send email messages in HTML format with the PHPMailer package.

By default, PHPMailer will send email messages in plain text. If you want to send email messages in HTML format, you need to call isHTML(true) method to set the message content type to be "text/html".

Here is a PHP script example that sends an email message in HTML format.

<?php
#  PHPMailer-Send-Email-in-HTML.php
#- Copyright (c) 2019-2023 HerongYang.com. All Rights Reserved.

use PHPMailer\PHPMailer\PHPMailer;
use PHPMailer\PHPMailer\SMTP;
use PHPMailer\PHPMailer\Exception;

$srcDir = "/home/herong/local/php/vendor/phpmailer/phpmailer/src/";
require "$srcDir/PHPMailer.php";
require "$srcDir/SMTP.php";
require "$srcDir/Exception.php";

$mail = new PHPMailer(true);
$mail->SMTPDebug = 4;
$mail->isSMTP();
$mail->SMTPAutoTLS = false; # default is on
$mail->Host = "127.0.0.1";

try {
   $mail->setFrom('joe@herongyang.com', 'Joe Doe');
   $mail->addAddress('herong@herongyang.com', 'Herong Yang');
   $mail->Subject = 'PHPMailer Test - HTML Content';

   $mail->isHTML(true);
   $mail->Body = '<p>Herong, Happy New Year! --<i>Joe</i></p>';

   $mail->send();
} catch (Exception $e) {
   # PHPMailer exceptions
   echo $e->errorMessage();
} catch (\Exception $e) {
   # PHP exceptions
   echo $e->getMessage();
}
?>