How does PHPMailer work in terms of sending emails through SMTP and handling attachments?

PHPMailer allows you to send emails using SMTP, which is a protocol for sending emails securely through a server. It also provides functionality for attaching files to your emails. To send an email with attachments using PHPMailer, you need to set the attachment file path and name before sending the email. 

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

require 'vendor/autoload.php';

$mail = new PHPMailer(true);

try {
    $mail->isSMTP();
    $mail->Host = 'smtp.example.com';
    $mail->SMTPAuth = true;
    $mail->Username = 'your@example.com';
    $mail->Password = 'your_password';
    $mail->SMTPSecure = 'tls';
    $mail->Port = 587;

    $mail->setFrom('your@example.com', 'Your Name');
    $mail->addAddress('recipient@example.com', 'Recipient Name');
    $mail->addAttachment('/path/to/file.pdf', 'file.pdf');

    $mail->isHTML(true);
    $mail->Subject = 'Subject';
    $mail->Body = 'Email body content';

    $mail->send();
    echo 'Email sent successfully';
} catch (Exception $e) {
    echo 'Message could not be sent. Mailer Error: ', $mail->ErrorInfo;
}

Keywords

PHPMailer SMTP attachments email sending handling

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