What are the advantages of using Mailer classes like PHPMailer or Swift Mailer over the standard "mail" function in PHP?

Using Mailer classes like PHPMailer or Swift Mailer over the standard "mail" function in PHP provides several advantages such as better support for attachments, HTML emails, SMTP authentication, and easier handling of email headers. These classes also offer more robust error handling and are generally easier to use for sending emails in PHP. 

// Example PHP code using PHPMailer to send an email
require 'vendor/autoload.php'; // Include PHPMailer autoload file

// Create a new PHPMailer instance
$mail = new PHPMailer\PHPMailer\PHPMailer();

// Set up the SMTP settings
$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;

// Set the sender and recipient
$mail->setFrom('from@example.com', 'Your Name');
$mail->addAddress('recipient@example.com', 'Recipient Name');

// Set email content
$mail->isHTML(true);
$mail->Subject = 'Subject of the email';
$mail->Body = 'This is the HTML message body';

// Send the email
if($mail->send()) {
    echo 'Email sent successfully';
} else {
    echo 'Error sending email: ' . $mail->ErrorInfo;
}

Keywords

PHPMailer Swift Mailer mail function advantages comparison

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