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PHPMailer help
Posted: Sat Apr 20, 2024 2:39 am
by jdd99
Hello again. I turn to you guys for help again. I want to use forms with emails (Signup, Contact,etc). I'm unclear on a couple of things and I'm wondering if there is discussions, documentation or tutorials on using PHPMailer. I searched around but could not find anything like that.
I find that regardless of what Email Engine I pick in my form options (Default, PHPMailer Mail, PHPMailer SMTP, etc), the generated code remains identical (code for builtin PHP Mail). So I'm trying to figure out the difference between these mail options and why is the resulting code identical in all cases?
Thanks for pointing me to any help I should be looking at.
Re: PHPMailer help
Posted: Sat Apr 20, 2024 6:06 am
by Pablo
In some cases, PHP mailer settings are forced because the selected functionality requires it.
For example, if you set the message format to richtext, then PHP Mailer is always used.
If you need further assistance then please share a DEMO project so we can see what you have done.
Re: PHPMailer help
Posted: Sat Apr 20, 2024 5:06 pm
by jdd99
Running only on my local server but the issue is easy to replicate. To make sure nothing interfered, I created a new blank project, added 2 two blank pages. I inserted a Signup up form on each page. One form, I enabled Email Verification with the Default Email engine. The 2nd, I enabled Email Verification with the PHPMailer Mail Email engine (I also tried all the other PHPMailer choices). I converted both Signups to forms and compared the email code generated for each one. They are identical (see the code generated below). So the question remains that it doesn't seem to matter what Email engine I select, the code does not change. I effectively cannot use any PHPMailer options. What am I missing?
Thanks.
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if (empty($error_message))
{
$file = fopen($database, 'a');
fwrite($file, $newusername);
fwrite($file, '|');
fwrite($file, md5($newpassword));
fwrite($file, '|');
fwrite($file, $newemail);
fwrite($file, '|');
fwrite($file, $newfullname);
fwrite($file, '|0|');
fwrite($file, $code);
fwrite($file, "\r\n");
fclose($file);
$subject = 'Your new account';
$message = 'A new account has been setup.';
$message .= "\r\nUsername: ";
$message .= $newusername;
$message .= "\r\nPassword: ";
$message .= $newpassword;
$message .= "\r\n";
$message .= "\r\nhttp://".$website.$script."?user=".$newusername."&code=$code";
$header = "From: webmaster@yourwebsite.com"."\r\n";
$header .= "Reply-To: webmaster@yourwebsite.com"."\r\n";
$header .= "MIME-Version: 1.0"."\r\n";
$header .= "Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8"."\r\n";
$header .= "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit"."\r\n";
$header .= "X-Mailer: PHP v".phpversion();
mail($newemail, $subject, $message, $header);
header('Location: '.$success_page);
exit;
Re: PHPMailer help
Posted: Sat Apr 20, 2024 8:20 pm
by Pablo
The first choice uses standard PHP mailer.
All other options use PHP Mailer.
If you need further help then please share a DEMO project so I can see all your settings.
Re: PHPMailer help
Posted: Sun Apr 21, 2024 6:38 am
by jdd99
I attach the wbs file of a test site (not my project but it shows the issue). Page 1 signup was created with Std PHP Mail option while Page 2 is using PHP Mailer option but you'll see the generated code is identical in both cases (PHP's built-in mail() function). Trying to figure out why I can't seem to get PHP Mailer option to work.
Thx.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1i8M3cZ ... drive_link
Re: PHPMailer help
Posted: Sun Apr 21, 2024 10:18 am
by Pablo
You have convert the signup form to a standard form, so in this case the script will now always be the same. You are suppose to edit this yourself. That is the whole point of the 'Convert to form' option.
Re: PHPMailer help
Posted: Sun Apr 21, 2024 5:13 pm
by jdd99
Lightbulb. I watched a video tutorial and it recommended to use "Convert to Form" so I followed that recommendation, not knowing it would revert to PHP Builtin Mail code. Can I make a suggestion? WWB clearly has the ability to generate PHPMailer code so if I selected PHPMailer as my engine, why does the "Convert to Form" choose to ignore my preference? Why not generate PHP Mailer code when I "Convert to form"? It is not intuitive to force code that I did not select.
Thanks, Pablo.
Re: PHPMailer help
Posted: Sun Apr 21, 2024 7:14 pm
by Pablo
If you do not want to make changes to the PHP script then please do not use 'convert to form'.
Re: PHPMailer help
Posted: Mon Apr 22, 2024 8:45 am
by wwonderfull
Before converting any form always keep a backup and if you do convert, I would say you can do it much better and more professionally if you know what you are doing that you converted and went to custom code. The signup form and login I had made did change but as I converted the form there is no way going back to the windowed options which we get in wwb.
You see it is a complex way to work for example if new features get added to the login tools how will the custom code now know which new features got added. So, as it is told it is an advanced tool only those who know what changes are done what needs to be changed use it or else stick to the features provided as is before converting the form in that way even new features won't have a problem as it will stay updated because it has not been converted yet or keep a backup of the non-converted version and make a converted version then you can easily compare or even copy paste it easily. It is a personal tip from my workflow which works perfectly.