John Davidson

Message:

I am trying to this to work using the phpmailer. Unfortunately I keep getting errors. my password contains an ! so I added the \ to allow special characters. My code below.

<?php

//Import PHPMailer classes into the global namespace

//These must be at the top of your script, not inside a function

use PHPMailer\PHPMailer\PHPMailer;

use PHPMailer\PHPMailer\SMTP;

use PHPMailer\PHPMailer\Exception;



require_once 'phpmailer/Exception.php';

require_once 'phpmailer/PHPMailer.php';

require_once 'phpmailer/SMTP.php';



//Create an instance; passing `true` enables exceptions

$mail = new PHPMailer(true);

$mail->SMTPOptions = array(

                        'ssl' => array(

                        'verify_peer' => false,

                        'verify_peer_name' => false,

                        'allow_self_signed' => true

                        )

                        );

$alert = '';

if(isset($_POST['submit'])) {

$name = $_POST['name'];

$visitor_email = $_POST['email'];

$message = $_POST['message'];



Try {

    //Server settings

    $mail->isSMTP();

    $mail->CharSet = "UTF-8";

    $mail->Host      = gethostbyname('smtp.gmail.com');   //Set the SMTP server to send through

    //$mail->SMTPDebug = 2;

    $mail->SMTPAuth   = true;                                   //Enable SMTP authentication

    $mail->Username   = '[email protected]';                   //SMTP username

    $mail->Password   = 'password\!';                               //SMTP password

    $mail->SMTPSecure = PHPMailer::ENCRYPTION_STARTTLS;

    $mail->Port       = '587';





    $mail->setFrom('[email protected]');

    $mail->addAddress('[email protected]'); //Sent email from this

    $mail->isHTML(true);



    $mail->Subject = 'Material Request Form';

    $mail->Body    = '<h3>Name: $name <br>Email: $visitor_email <br>Message: $message </h3>';



    $mail->send();

    $alert = '<div class ="alert-success">

    <span>Message Sent! Thnk you for Contacting us.</span>

    </div>';

   }



   catch (Exception $e){

     $alert = '<div class ="alert-error">

     <span>'.$e->getMessage().'</span>

     </div>';

   }

 }



 ?>

I tried many things such as changing to ssl and changing ports, I also know about the secure apps. I have that turned on using Gmail.

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My Answer:
PHP is a server-side scripting language that is commonly used for web development. It can be embedded into HTML code and is often used to create dynamic web pages. PHP stands for Hypertext Preprocessor and is open source, meaning it is free to use and modify. It is a popular choice for building websites and web applications due to its ease of use and wide range of functionality.