PHP Learning Curves

Shared Hosting Server Experiences

10/26/2019

A few days ago, I was confused why I was not getting a "headers already sent" error when I should have been. Turns out there is something called output buffering of which I have now taken advantage.

10/15/2019

I was on a tech support call yesterday trying to use PHP - specifically, the PHPMailer framework - to send emails for contact forms, email verification, and forgot password emails. Nothing was working for the SMTP username and password and what not. They told me it was 'localhost:25' and then GoDaddy told me I could not use personal emails. Today, I used the cPanel email I have, [email protected], which was NOT purchased, but free. I got rid of all the username and password stuff and anything to do with SMTP and replaced it with isMail(). It worked.

function sendEmail($subject, $body, $email = '[email protected]', $aftermessage = '') {


// Load Composer's autoloader
require 'vendor/autoload.php';

// Instantiation and passing `true` enables exceptions
$mail = new PHPMailer(true);

try {
    //Server settings
    $mail->SMTPDebug = 4;                      // Enable verbose debug output
    $mail->isMail();                                            // Send using SMTP
    $mail->Port       = 25;                                    // TCP port to connect to

    //Recipients
    $mail->setFrom('[email protected]', 'Borum CEO Varun Singh');
    $mail->addAddress($email);     // Add a recipient

    // Content
    $mail->isHTML(true);                                  // Set email format to HTML
    $mail->Subject = $subject;
    $mail->Body    = $body;
    $mail->AltBody = strip_tags($body);
    $mail->send();
    echo $aftermessage;
} catch (Exception $e) {
    echo "Message could not be sent. A mailing error occured. ";
}