How to use PHP and PHPMAILER to customize email templates?

How to use PHP and PHPMailer to customize email templates?

With the popularity and widespread use of email, customized email templates have become a very important need. By using PHP and PHPMailer, we can easily customize email templates and flexibly respond to different email sending needs. This article will introduce how to use PHP and PHPMailer to design and send customized email templates, and provide corresponding code examples.

Step 1: Install and configure PHPMailer
First of all, before using PHPMailer, you need to make sure that PHPMailer has been installed and configured correctly. You can install PHPMailer through Composer and run the following command:

composer require phpmailer/phpmailer

Next, create a PHP file, such as "send_email.php", and introduce PHPMailer's automatic Load files and related configurations. The code example is as follows:

require 'vendor/autoload.php';

use PHPMailerPHPMailerPHPMailer;
use PHPMailerPHPMailerException;

// SMTP configuration
$mail = new PHPMailer(true);
$mail->isSMTP();
$mail->Host = 'smtp.example.com'; // Mail server address
$mail->SMTPAuth = true;
$mail->Username = '[email protected]'; // Sender's email address
$mail->Password = 'your_password'; // Email password
$mail->SMTPSecure = 'tls';
$mail->Port = 587;

// Sender and recipient
$mail->setFrom('[email protected]', 'Your Name');
$mail->addAddress('[email protected]', 'Recipient Name');

// Email content
$mail->isHTML(true); // Email content is in HTML format

?>

Step 2: Create email template
Before sending the email, we need to create an email template to dynamically fill in different content. Email templates can be designed using HTML and CSS, while PHP code can be embedded to insert dynamic content. Here is an example of a simple email template: