HTML Mime Mail for PHP

Introduction

This is a PHP class which allows you to easily send email from your PHP scripts with attachments, HTML and embedded images.

Features

• Can send email with To,Cc, Bcc and Reply-To recipients
• Can send email using the PHP mail() function, piping direct to Sendmail, Postfix, Exim and also via SMTP
• Multipart email, with HTML and plain text for clients that don't support HTML
• All encoding types supported: 7bit, 8bit, Base64 and Quoted-Printable
• Easy to use API
• Supports SMTP authentication
• Works with Windows and Unix/Linux
• Allows any headers to be set, including your own custom headers
• Allows email priorities to be set
• Allows the character set to be set for headers and the email body, giving non-English support
• Add attachments or embed images from files, or PHP strings (eg for images/files held in databases)
• Allows Return-Path to be set (for controlling where bounces are sent to)
• Can return the resulting email instead of sending, to allow attaching of emails to other emails
• Full API list
• Five Comprehensive example scripts

Versions

27^th November 2005 update: Version 2.5.2 is now available of the PHP4 version, this fixes reference issues when the class is used with PHP 4.4, and also fixes a header encoding problem.

For PHP5: Latest update is version 5, which works only with PHP5. See this article to find out all about it. The class is very stable.

For PHP4: Version 2.5.2 is a major revamp of the API and works with PHP4. All the method names have changed with a couple now gone. The new API should be far easier to use and make switching between SMTP/mail() sending methods pretty much seamless.

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Articles/Tutorials mentioning HTML Mime Mail

• Zend.com Tutorial
• http://ghostwire.com/archives/phpobject/000051.html
• Article at Netmag.co.uk
• Article at developer.com

Projects/Sites using HTML Mime Mail

• osCommerce
• Gallery (Online Photo Galleries)
• W-Agora (Open Source Forum)
• Cerberus Helpdesk (Commercial Helpdesk)
• Lovefilm.com (UK Online DVD rentals)
• Kayako (Support Software)
• TikiWiki

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