John Davidson

Message:

I am working on a project that doesn't use any framework and I would like to use Symfony Mailer component to handle sending emails.

The installation part (composer require) was well handled and everything is included in my code without any error. However, I still have a problem : the documentation of the component seems to be written only for using it with the symfony framework.
Indeed, it is refering to autoloaded config files that o
bviously don't exist in my app.

This implementation seems to be very tricky and I was wondering if any of you guys already faced the same problem and what solution you came up with?

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My Answer:
One way to use the Symfony Mailer component without the Symfony framework is to manually configure the mailer in your code. Here is an example of how you can do this:

php
use Symfony\Component\Mailer\Mailer;
use Symfony\Component\Mailer\Transport;
use Symfony\Component\Mailer\Transport\Dsn;
use Symfony\Component\Mailer\Transport\Smtp\EsmtpTransport;

// Create a DSN object with your mail server settings
$dsn = Dsn::fromString('smtp://username:password@mail.example.com');

// Create a transport object based on the DSN
$transport = new EsmtpTransport($dsn);

// Create a Mailer object with the transport
$mailer = new Mailer($transport);

// Create a message object
$message = (new Email())
->from('from@example.com')
->to('to@example.com')
->subject('Hello!')
->text('This is the message body.');

// Send the message
$mailer->send($message);


In this example, we manually create a transport object based on the DSN (mail server settings), create a Mailer object with the transport, create a message object, and send the message using the Mailer object.

This way, you can use the Symfony Mailer component without the Symfony framework by manually configuring the mailer in your code.