Send PHP mail using SMTP

admin — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 13:43:33 +0000

Hello Friends !! TOday I found that how PHP mail() function works with SMTP.

Actually when your site is hosted on windows server, then there is SMTP used for sending mail. With simple mail() function ,you can’t send mail in SMTP.

You have to authenticate PHP and SMTP. In short, I explain you that how to send PHP mail using SMTP ?

For sending mail in PHP using SMTP, first of all you have to download phpMailer. phpMailer is a class which used to send mails using SMTP.

You can download phpMailer from here.

//this is a path to PHP mailer class you have dowloaded

include(“class.phpmailer.php”);

$mail = new PHPMailer();

$mail->IsSMTP(); // set mailer to use SMTP

$mail->Host = “SMTP server name “; // specify main and backup server

$mail->SMTPAuth = true; // turn on SMTP authentication

$mail->Username = “SMTP username “; // SMTP username

$mail->Password = “SMTP password”; // SMTP password

$mail->From = “frm Email “; //do NOT fake header.

$mail->FromName = “MailMan”;

$mail->AddAddress(“to email ID “); // Email on which you want to send mail

$mail->AddReplyTo(“Reply to Email “, “Support and Help”); //optional

$mail->IsHTML(true);

$mail->Subject = “Just a Test”;

$mail->Body = “Hello. I am testing PHP Mailer.”;

if(!$mail->Send())

{

echo $mail->ErrorInfo;

}else{

echo “email was sent”;

}

Please save above code as testmail.php or whatever name you want but make it php.

Please make sure that above script is stored in the folder in whu\ich you store class.phpmailer.php and class.smtp.php. These both class files are required for sending mail.

Thats it !! Now you can send PHP mails using SMTP. Feel free to comment on this post. Your feddback is importand to us.

URL Rewriting with PHP and IIS 7

admin — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 07:31:04 +0000

Hello friends !! Few days ago, I faced a URL rewriting problem on windows server. After checking the server configuration, I found that there is an II7 installed. After long research about this, I found that II7 is not support .HTACCESS. If youwant to male your site SEO URL friendly, then you have to use web.config file for URL rewriting instead of .HTACCESS. Now the question is how to make web.config file from .HTACCESS ?

IIS 7 uses a file called Web.config to hold settings for integration with applications. The Web.config file contains information that control module loading, security configuration, session state configuration, and application language and compilation settings. Web.config files can also contain application-specific items such as database connection strings.
Today in this post, I will explain you how to make it ? This post contains most common uses of the .htaccess file by PHP applications, and shows how to use the Web.config file for these same functions in IIS.
Now First Here are the sample files of .HTACCESS and Web.config.

.HTACCESS Sample code

#
# Apache/PHP/Application settings:
#

# Protect files and directories from prying eyes.

Order allow,deny

# Don’t show directory listings for URLs which map to a directory.
Options -Indexes

# Follow symbolic links in this directory.
Options +FollowSymLinks

# Make Application handle any 404 errors.
ErrorDocument 404 /index.php

# Force simple error message for requests for non-existent favicon.ico.

ErrorDocument 404 “The requested file favicon.ico was not found.

# Set the default handler.
DirectoryIndex index.php

# Override PHP settings. More in sites/default/settings.php
# but the following cannot be changed at runtime.

# PHP 4, Apache 1.

php_value magic_quotes_gpc 0
php_value register_globals 0
php_value session.auto_start 0
php_value mbstring.http_input pass
php_value mbstring.http_output pass
php_value mbstring.encoding_translation 0

# PHP 4, Apache 2.

# PHP 5, Apache 1 and 2.

# Requires mod_expires to be enabled.

# Enable expirations.
ExpiresActive On

# Cache all files for 2 weeks after access (A).
ExpiresDefault A1209600

# Do not cache dynamically generated pages.
ExpiresByType text/html A1

# Various rewrite rules.

RewriteEngine on

# If your site can be accessed both with and without the ‘www.’ prefix, you
# can use one of the following settings to redirect users to your preferred
# URL, either WITH or WITHOUT the ‘www.’ prefix. Choose ONLY one option:
#
# To redirect all users to access the site WITH the ‘www.’ prefix,
# (http://example.com/… will be redirected to http://www.example.com/…)
# adapt and uncomment the following:
# RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^example\.com$ [NC]
# RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.example.com/$1 [L,R=301]
#
# To redirect all users to access the site WITHOUT the ‘www.’ prefix,
# (http://www.example.com/… will be redirected to http://example.com/…)
# uncomment and adapt the following:
# RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.example\.com$ [NC]
# RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://example.com/$1 [L,R=301]

# Modify the RewriteBase if you are using Application in a subdirectory or in a
# VirtualDocumentRoot and the rewrite rules are not working properly.
# For example if your site is at http://example.com/application uncomment and
# modify the following line:
# RewriteBase /application
#
# If your site is running in a VirtualDocumentRoot at http://example.com/,
# uncomment the following line:
# RewriteBase /

# Rewrite URLs of the form ‘x’ to the form ‘index.php?q=x’.
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !=/favicon.ico
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?q=$1 [L,QSA]

# $Id: .htaccess,v 1.90.2.1 2008/07/08 09:33:14 goba Exp $

Web.config Sample Code

installation to secure the installation. –>

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statusReason=”The requested file favicon.ico was not found”
statusDescription=”The requested file favicon.ico was not found” />

feature has been delegated as “Read/Write” at the Web Server level.

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Default Document

In the .htaccess file for the sample application, the DirectoryIndex directive tells the Web server which file to load if no filename is included with the URL.

# Set the default handler. DirectoryIndex index.php

For IIS 7, the default document should be set up as high in the Web site hierarchy as the Module Handler. For example, with PHP, the Module Handler is usually set at the Web server level. The default document should be set at that level also, rather than locally within a Web site’s context. The following code within your Web.config file can ensure this:

Error Page Redirects / Handling using .HTACCESS and Web.config

Some applications handle standard errors within the scope of the application. The ErrorDocument directive in the .htaccess file of the sample application tells the Web server to load the home page for any 404 or “File Not Found” errors.

# Make Application handle any 404 errors.

ErrorDocument 404 /index.php

IIS uses the httpErrors directive for this functionality. However, because the capability to set this at the application level is turned off by default for IIS, this section should be commented out.

feature has been delegated as “Read/Write” at the Web Server level.

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URL Rewriting using .HTACCESS and Web.config

IIS 7 includes the URL Rewrite module. You can use this extension to provide rules for IIS to rewrite incoming URL requests. The most common use of URL Rewriting is to provide shorter, easy-to-remember URLs.

Many PHP applications currently ship with rewrite rules as part of their .htaccess file. These rules tell Apache’s mod_rewrite how and when to rewrite incoming requests. The IIS 7 URL Rewrite module can read these rules and translate them into URL Rewrite rules.

For the sample application codes, the relevant mod_rewrite rules in the .htaccess file are:

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^example\.com$ [NC]

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.example.com/$1 [L,R=301]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !=/favicon.ico

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?q=$1 [L,QSA]

The IIS URL Rewriter module can read these rules and translate them. The translated URL Rewriter rules are:

I think this post become very helpful to those peoples who wants to use URL rewriting (SEO friendly URL) in IIS whcih are using PHP.

Feel free to post comment on this post. Thanks You …