Comparison of E-mail API used in PHP

Runner_Mail() PHPMailer() PHP Mail()
SMTP, user name, password, port, etc. are set inside the PHPRunner UI

 PHPMailer() is called by Runner_Mail()

SMTP is set inside the PHP code itself

 SMTP is set in “PHP.ini”
<?php

require_once(“include/dbcommon.php”);

 

$email = “t1@mobitek.my”;

$msg = “”;

$subject = “New data record”;

 

$msg.= “Message: [Message]\r\n”;

$msg.= “Recipient: Recipient\r\n”;

$msg.= “Date/Time: DateTimeQueue\r\n”;

runner_mail(array(‘to’ => ‘$email’, ‘subject’ => $subject, ‘body’ => $msg));

?>

 <?php
include_once(‘libs/phpmailer/class.phpmailer.php’);
include_once(‘libs/phpmailer/class.smtp.php’);$mail = new PHPMailer( true );
// Mail settings
$mail->isSMTP();   //Send using SMTP
$mail->Host = ‘mail.sweetco.com.my’;   //Set the SMTP server to send through
$mail->SMTPAuth = true;   //Enable SMTP authentication
$mail->Username = ‘factory@sweetco.com.my‘;   //SMTP username
$mail->Password = ‘2022@Beranang@Factory’;   //SMTP password
//$mail->SMTPSecure = PHPMailer::ENCRYPTION_SMTPS;        //Enable implicit TLS encryption
$mail->Port = 587;   //TCP port to connect to; use 587 if you have set `SMTPSecure = PHPMailer::ENCRYPTION_STARTTLS`
$mail->setFrom(‘support@mobitek.my‘, ‘MOBITEK Support’);
$mail->isHTML(false);$mail->To = “t1@mobitek.my”;
$mail->Subject = “This is Subject”;
$mail->Body = “This the body”;
$mail->Send();?>		 Open “php.ini” and search for “smtp” (there are no entries for no username and password)

 

[mail function]
; For Win32 only.
; http://php.net/smtp
SMTP = localhost
; http://php.net/smtp-port
smtp_port = 25

; For Win32 only.
; http://php.net/sendmail-from
sendmail_from =“admin@wampserver.invalid”

; For Unix only.  You may supply arguments as well (default: “sendmail -t -i”).
; http://php.net/sendmail-path
;sendmail_path =

; Force the addition of the specified parameters to be passed as extra parameters
; to the sendmail binary. These parameters will always replace the value of
; the 5th parameter to mail().
;mail.force_extra_parameters =

; Add X-PHP-Originating-Script: that will include uid of the script followed by the filename
mail.add_x_header = On

; The path to a log file that will log all mail() calls. Log entries include
; the full path of the script, line number, To address and headers.
;mail.log =
; Log mail to syslog (Event Log on Windows).
;mail.log = syslog