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Learn how to test your email sending functionality in PHP app with Pear Mail and Swift Mailer to ensure everything works perfectly.

CodeIgniter is an application development framework that helps PHP developers to create websites faster while avoiding a long time on configuration. It contains a rich set of libraries, including Codeigniter’s email Library, needed for frequent tasks such as an email sender. This article will demonstrate how to set up a CodeIgniter environment and develop a mailer by sending HTML emails, attachments and how to test it with Mailtrap.

Gmail is one of the most popular email services so far, and you will very probably want to use it as a mailbox for your web or mobile app. It is safe and credible, which is crucial to prevent your emails from going into the spam folder. That’s why we decided to flesh out how to send emails with Gmail API.

We explain how to build a contact form in PHP, step-by-step. Email validation, reCaptcha, saving inputs to a database, and, of course, ...

A detailed guide on PHP mail sending options with examples of using the built-in mail function(), PHPMailer, Pear mail, and Swift Mailer.