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How to Send Email with PHP & Gmail | Send Mail from Localhost using XAMPP Server

Hello readers, Today in this blog you’ll learn how to Send Mail using XAMPP Server. Earlier I have shared a blog on How to configure XAMPP to send Mail from Localhost in PHP? If you haven’t still read that blog, I want to suggest you read that blog first.

Generally, in this program, on the webpage, there is a mail send the form with three inputs – email address, subject, and message. When you click on the send button without filling the form completely, there is a display of an alert labeled as  “All input fields are required!”. And when you filled up all inputs and click on the send button, your mail will be sent to a particular email address that you’ve provided in the recipient field and there is also display a success message labeled as “Your mail sent successfully to someone email”.

If somehow mail can’t be sent, there is a display of an alert labeled as “Sorry, failed while sending mail!”. If you’re feeling difficult to understand what I am saying. You can watch a full video tutorial on this program [How to Send Email with PHP & Gmail].

Video Tutorial of Send Mail using XAMPP Server

 
In the video, you have seen How to Send Email with PHP & Gmail and I hope you’ve understood the basic codes behind creating this form and sending mail. I used SMTP Server to send Mail/Email from Localhost using XAMPP. An SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol) server is an application that’s main purpose is to send and receive mail/email between email senders and receivers.

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How to Send Email with PHP & Gmail [Source Codes]

To create this program [How to Send Email with PHP & Gmail]. First, you need to create two Files one PHP File and another one is CSS File. After creating these files just paste the following codes in your file.

First, create a PHP file with the name of mail.html and paste the given codes in your PHP file. Remember, you’ve to create a file with .php extension.

<!DOCTYPE html>
<!-- Created By CodingNepal -->
<html lang="en">
   <head>
      <meta charset="UTF-8">
      <title>Send Mail From Localhost | CodingNepal</title>
      <link rel="stylesheet" href="style.css">
      <!-- bootstrap cdn link -->
      <link rel="stylesheet" href="https://stackpath.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/4.5.2/css/bootstrap.min.css">
   </head>
   <body>
      <div class="container">
         <div class="row">
            <div class="col-md-4 offset-md-4 mail-form">
               <h2 class="text-center">
                  Send Message
               </h2>
               <p class="text-center">
                  Send mail to anyone from localhost.
               </p>
               <!-- starting php code -->
               <?php
                  //first we leave this input field blank
                  $recipient = "";
                  //if user click the send button
                  if(isset($_POST['send'])){
                      //access user entered data
                     $recipient = $_POST['email'];
                     $subject = $_POST['subject'];
                     $message = $_POST['message'];
                     $sender = "From: shahiprem7890@gmail.com";
                     //if user leave empty field among one of them
                     if(empty($recipient) || empty($subject) || empty($message)){
                         ?>
               <!-- display an alert message if one of them field is empty -->
               <div class="alert alert-danger text-center">
                  <?php echo "All inputs are required!" ?>
               </div>
               <?php
                  }else{
                      // PHP function to send mail
                     if(mail($recipient, $subject, $message, $sender)){
                      ?>
               <!-- display a success message if once mail sent sucessfully -->
               <div class="alert alert-success text-center">
                  <?php echo "Your mail successfully sent to $recipient"?>
               </div>
               <?php
                  $recipient = "";
                  }else{
                   ?>
               <!-- display an alert message if somehow mail can't be sent -->
               <div class="alert alert-danger text-center">
                  <?php echo "Failed while sending your mail!" ?>
               </div>
               <?php
                  }
                  }
                  }
                  ?> <!-- end of php code -->
               <form action="mail.php" method="POST">
                  <div class="form-group">
                     <input class="form-control" name="email" type="email" placeholder="Recipients" value="<?php echo $recipient ?>">
                  </div>
                  <div class="form-group">
                     <input class="form-control" name="subject" type="text" placeholder="Subject">
                  </div>
                  <div class="form-group">
                     <!-- change this tag name into textarea to show textarea field. Due to more textarea I got an error, so I change the name of this field -->
                     <!-- <changeit cols="30" rows="5" class="form-control textarea" name="message" placeholder="Compose your message.."></changeit> -->
                  </div>
                  <div class="form-group">
                     <input class="form-control button btn-primary" type="submit" name="send" value="Send" placeholder="Subject">
                  </div>
               </form>
            </div>
         </div>
      </div>
   </body>
</html>

Second, create a CSS file with the name of style.css and paste the given codes in your CSS file. Remember, you’ve to create a file with .css extension.

/* custom css styling */
@import url('https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Poppins:400,500,600,700&display=swap');
html,body{
    background: #007bff;
}
::selection{
    color: #fff;
    background: #007bff;
}
.container{
    position: absolute;
    top: 50%;
    left: 50%;
    transform: translate(-50%, -50%);
    font-family: 'Poppins', sans-serif;
}
.container .mail-form{
    background: #fff;
    padding: 25px 35px;
    border-radius: 5px;
    box-shadow: 0 4px 8px 0 rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2), 
                0 6px 20px 0 rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.19);
}
.container form .form-control{
    height: 43px;
    font-size: 15px;
}
.container .mail-form form .form-group .button{
    font-size: 17px!important;
}
.container form .textarea{
    height: 100px;
    resize: none;
}
.container .mail-form h2{
    font-size: 30px;
    font-weight: 600;
}
.container .mail-form p{
    font-size: 14px;
}

That’s all, now you’ve successfully created a How to Send Mail using XAMPP Server with PHP. If your code doesn’t work or you’ve faced any errors/problems then please download the source code files from the given download button. It’s free and a .zip file will be downloaded and you’ve extracted it.

 

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Hello friends, today in this blog you’ll learn How to configure XAMPP to Send Mail from Localhost in PHP. If you don’t know, XAMPP is an abbreviation for cross-platform, Apache, MySQL, PHP, and Perl. Using XAMPP we can work on our local server and test our local copies or projects of websites using PHP code and MySQL databases.

As a part of the experiment, developers need to send emails and we all know that sending mail from localhost using PHP can be much more painful if we don’t know how to properly configure XAMPP for it.

Before starting this blog, if you want to send an email in node.js applications, then you can see this blog How to Send Email in Node.js using Nodemailer & Gmail.

To send mail from localhost using XAMPP, we’ve to configure XAMPP after installing it. To configure the XAMPP server to send mail from the local host, we have to make some changes in two files one is PHP and another one is Sendmail.

First, go to the XAMPP installation directory and open the XAMPP folder and follow the below steps same: I’ve installed XAMPP in the C directory.

1. Go to the (C:xampp\php) and open the PHP configuration setting file then find the [mail function] by scrolling down or simply press ctrl+f to search it directly then find the following lines and pass these values. Remember, there may be a semicolon ; at the start of each line, simply remove the semicolon from each line which is given below.

[mail function]
For Win32 only.
http://php.net/smtp
SMTP=smtp.gmail.com
http://php.net/smtp-port
smtp_port=587
sendmail_from = your_email_address_here
sendmail_path = "\"C:\xampp\sendmail\sendmail.exe\" -t"

That’s all for this file, press ctrl+s to save this file and then close it.

2. Now, go the (C:\xampp\sendmail) and open the sendmail configuration setting file then find sendmail by scrolling down or press ctrl+f to search it directly then find the following lines and pass these values. Remember, there may be a semicolon ; at the start of each line, simply remove the semicolon from each line which is given below.

smtp_server=smtp.gmail.com
smtp_port=587
error_logfile=error.log
debug_logfile=debug.log
auth_username=your_email_address_here
auth_password=your_password_here
force_sender=your_email_address_here (it's optional)

That’s all for this file, press ctrl+s to save this file and then close it. After all changes in the two files, don’t forget to restart your apache server.

Now, you’re done with the required changes in these files. To check the changes you’ve made are correct or not. First, create a PHP file with the .php extension and paste the following codes into your PHP file. After pasting the codes, put your details into the given variables – In the $receiver variable put the receiver email address, in the $subject variable put the email subject and do respectively.

<?php
$receiver = "receiver email address here";
$subject = "Email Test via PHP using Localhost";
$body = "Hi, there...This is a test email send from Localhost.";
$sender = "From:sender email address here";

if(mail($receiver, $subject, $body, $sender)){
    echo "Email sent successfully to $receiver";
}else{
    echo "Sorry, failed while sending mail!";
}
?>

After completing these steps, just open this PHP file on your browser. If your mail is sent successfully then there is appears a success message “Email sent successfully to …..” and in the case your mail not sent then there is appears “Sorry, failed while sending mail!”.

If mail is sent then check whether the receiver has got your email or not. If yes, then great you did all changes perfectly. If not, check all the changes that you have done earlier are correct or not.

Note: Google removed the “Less secure apps” feature on May 30, 2022. So you need to do some extra steps and make changes in the files to send mail from localhost using Gmail.

Instead of using your Google account password as auth_password in sendmail configuration file, you need to use an App password which is 16 characters long.

To create an app password, go to manage your google account > Click Security > Under “Signing in to Google,” select App passwords > Select App & Device, and then you’ll get a 16-character code and this is your password. For more details about creating App Passwords, read the Official Google Article.

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