Javascript: Automated Email Notifications

Automate email notifications in PHP to enhance user engagement. This guide covers integrating with SMTP servers, handling email delivery errors, and sending rich content emails.

This PHP snippet enables automated sending of email notifications to users for events like registration confirmations, password resets, and promotional offers.

The code integrates with SMTP servers to handle email delivery, ensuring high deliverability rates and support for complex email features like attachments and HTML content.

Error handling includes catching exceptions related to email sending failures, which allows developers to take corrective actions such as logging issues or retrying email delivery.

The snippet is designed to be modular and easy to integrate with existing user management systems or marketing platforms that require reliable communication channels.

This functionality is critical for maintaining user engagement and ensuring timely communication in web applications.

Snippet Code

<?php

use PHPMailer\PHPMailer\PHPMailer;

use PHPMailer\PHPMailer\Exception;

require 'vendor/autoload.php';

$mail = new PHPMailer(true);

try {

$mail->isSMTP();

$mail->Host = 'smtp.example.com';

$mail->SMTPAuth = true;

$mail->Username = 'user@example.com';

$mail->Password = 'password';

$mail->SMTPSecure = 'ssl';

$mail->Port = 465;

$mail->setFrom('noreply@example.com', 'Example App');

$mail->addAddress('recipient@example.com', 'Recipient Name');

$mail->isHTML(true);

$mail->Subject = 'Welcome to Example App!';

$mail->Body = '<h1>Thank you for registering with us!</h1><p>We hope you enjoy your experience.</p>';

$mail->AltBody = 'Thank you for registering with us! We hope you enjoy your experience.';

$mail->send();

echo 'Message has been sent';

} catch (Exception $e) {

echo 'Message could not be sent. Mailer Error: ', $mail->ErrorInfo;

}

PHP Version

8.1

Use Cases

user engagement
notifications
automated messaging