How to install phpMailer in shared hosting environment? - phpmailer

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How to install phpMailer in a shared hosting environment?
Seen this How to install phpMailer in a shared hosting environment? but I don't understand what does "include the main file with this line:" means and the next part too "After that, you will need an external SMTP account, like gmail.com for example. Here is a working example of PHPMailer with GMAIL:"
Thanks in advance
Athlios
This is the send_form.php
<?php
$formid = $_POST['contactform'];
$email_to = "info#a-wd.eu";
$fullname = $_POST['fullname']; // required
$email_from = $_POST['email']; // required
$subject = $_POST['subject']; // required
//$subjectselect = $_POST('subject').value();
$message = $_POST['message']; // required
echo($email_from);
$email_message = "Submission details below.\n\n";
$email_message .= "Fullname: ".clean_string($fullname)."\n";
$email_message .= "Email: ".clean_string($email_from)."\n";
$email_message .= "Whats this about: ".clean_string($subject)."\n";
$email_message .= "Message: ".clean_string($message)."\n";
$email_message = wordwrap($email_message, 70, "\r\n");
$headers = 'From: '.$email_from."\r\n".
'Reply-To: '.$email_from."\r\n" .
'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion();
mail($email_to, $email_subject, $email_message,$headers) or die("Error!");
echo "Thank you for contacting us. We will be in touch with you very soon. \r\n";
?>
This is the page
<div class="container-fluid">
<div class="row">
<div class="col-12">
<div class="container contact-form-container">
<div class="row">
<div class="col-md-12">
<form action="send_form.php" id="contactform" name="contactform" method="post" data-parsley-validate>
<div class="row">
<!-- <span class="required-key">Fields marked with a <span class="label-required">*</span> are required.</span> -->
<div class="form-group col-lg-12 col-12">
<label for="fullname">Name <span>(Required)</span>:</label>
<input type="text" name="fullname" data-parsley-trigger="focusin focusout" required data-parsley-required="true" data-parsley-errors-messages-disabled />
</div>
<div class="form-group col-lg-12 col-12">
<label for="email">Email <span>(Required)</span>:</label>
<input type="email" data-parsley-type="email" name="email" data-parsley-trigger="focusin focusout" required data-parsley-required="true" data-parsley-errors-messages-disabled />
</div>
<div class="form-group col-lg-12 col-12">
<label for="subject">Subject <span>(Required)</span>:</label>
<select name="subject" required data-parsley-required="true" data-parsley-errors-messages-disabled>
<option value="question">General Question</option>
<option value="quote">Request a Quote</option>
<option value="sponsorship">Sponsorship</option>
<option value="other">Other</option>
</select>
</div>
<div class="form-group col-lg-12 col-12">
<label for="message">Message <span>(Required)</span>:</label>
<textarea name="message" data-parsley-trigger="focusin focusout" data-parsley-minlength="20" data-parsley-maxlength="1000" data-parsley-validation-threshold="10" data-parsley-minlength-message="Minimum message length is 20 characters" data-parsley-maxlength-message="Maximum message length is 1000 characters" data-parsley-required="true"></textarea>
</div>
<div class="form-group col-lg-12 col-12">
<label for="message">Captcha <span>(Required)</span>:</label>
<script src='https://www.google.com/recaptcha/api.js'></script>
<div class="g-recaptcha" data-sitekey="6LeAAUkUAAAAAJeW7fjroLKFkYtETHvXGgflK49u"></div>
</div>
<div class="form-group col-lg-12 col-12">
<button class="btn-contact" name="send" type="submit">Send Message <i class="fa fa-paper-plane" aria-hidden="true"></i></button>
</div>
</form>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>

Answer 1

Go to the PHPMailer github, click the green "Clone or Download" button, and click "Download ZIP". On your local computer, unarchive the ZIP file and upload the PHPMailer-master folder to your shared server's public_html directory.
Now, wherever you want to use PHPMailer, include the parts you need:
<?php
require '/path/to/PHPMailer-master/src/PHPMailer.php'; // Only file you REALLY need
require '/path/to/PHPMailer-master/src/Exception.php'; // If you want to debug
?>
You don't need an external SMTP account for this to work, as noted in the PHPMailer documentation. So in a script where you're sending out an email, your code should look something like this:
<?php
use PHPMailer\PHPMailer\PHPMailer;
use PHPMailer\PHPMailer\Exception;
require 'PHPMailer-master/src/PHPMailer.php'; // Only file you REALLY need
require 'PHPMailer-master/src/Exception.php'; // If you want to debug
$mail = new PHPMailer(true); // Passing `true` enables exceptions
try {
//Recipients
$mail->setFrom('from#example.com', 'Mailer');
$mail->addAddress('joe#example.net', 'Joe User'); // Add a recipient
$mail->addAddress('ellen#example.com'); // Name is optional
$mail->addReplyTo('info#example.com', 'Information');
$mail->addCC('cc#example.com');
$mail->addBCC('bcc#example.com');
//Attachments
$mail->addAttachment('/var/tmp/file.tar.gz'); // Add attachments
$mail->addAttachment('/tmp/image.jpg', 'new.jpg'); // Optional name
//Content
$mail->isHTML(true); // Set email format to HTML
$mail->Subject = 'Here is the subject';
$mail->Body = 'This is the HTML message body <b>in bold!</b>';
$mail->AltBody = 'This is the body in plain text for non-HTML mail clients';
$mail->send();
echo 'Message has been sent';
} catch (Exception $e) {
echo 'Message could not be sent. Mailer Error: ', $mail->ErrorInfo;
}
?>
This should be all you need to get started using PHPMailer on a shared server. Check out the project's README and look at some examples for a better understanding of all the awesomeness you get with this library.
Update for OP's code
Put the include code at the top of send_post.php:
<?php
use PHPMailer\PHPMailer\PHPMailer;
use PHPMailer\PHPMailer\Exception;
require 'PHPMailer-master/src/PHPMailer.php'; // Only file you REALLY need
require 'PHPMailer-master/src/Exception.php'; // If you want to debug
// Form details
$formid = $_POST['contactform'];
$email_to = "info#a-wd.eu";
$fullname = $_POST['fullname']; // required
$email_from = $_POST['email']; // required
$subject = $_POST['subject']; // required
$message = $_POST['message']; // required
$email_message = "Submission details below.\n\n";
$email_message .= "Fullname: ".clean_string($fullname)."\n";
$email_message .= "Email: ".clean_string($email_from)."\n";
$email_message .= "Whats this about: ".clean_string($subject)."\n";
$email_message .= "Message: ".clean_string($message)."\n";
$email_message = wordwrap($email_message, 70, "\r\n");
// No need to set headers here
// Replace the mail() function with PHPMailer
$mail = new PHPMailer(true); // Passing `true` enables exceptions
try {
//Recipients
$mail->setFrom($email_from, 'From Name');
$mail->addAddress($email_to, $fullname); // Add the recipient
//Content
$mail->isHTML(true); // Set email format to HTML
$mail->Subject = $subject;
$mail->Body = $email_message;
$mail->send();
echo "Thank you for contacting us. We will be in touch with you very soon. \r\n";
} catch (Exception $e) {
echo 'Message could not be sent. Mailer Error: ', $mail->ErrorInfo;
}