How to send e-mails with SMTP Auth? PHP example

PHP mail() does not usually allow you to use the external SMTP server and it does not support SMTP authentication — required by many a mail servers today, including ours.

To connect to our outgoing SMTP server from a PHP script using SMTP authentication and send an email:

unpack and upload to your server free package called PHPMailer, which can be downloaded here
create.php script that refers to the PHPMailerAutoload.php, included in the mentioned package
include and adjust the following settings accordingly in your script:

//This example shows making an SMTP connection with authentication.
//SMTP needs accurate times, and the PHP time zone MUST be set 
//This should be done in your php.ini, but this is how to do it if you don't have access to that date_default_timezone_set('Etc/UTC'); 
require 'PHPMailer/PHPMailerAutoload.php';

//Create a new PHPMailer instance 
$mail = new PHPMailer; 

//Tell PHPMailer to use SMTP 
$mail->isSMTP();

//Enable SMTP debugging
// 0 = off (for production use)
// 1 = client messages
// 2 = client and server messages
$mail->SMTPDebug = 2;

//Ask for HTML-friendly debug output
$mail->Debugoutput = 'html';

//Set the hostname of the mail server
$mail->Host = 'mail.web-solutions.dk';

//Set the SMTP port number - likely to be 25, 465 or 587
$mail->Port = 465;

//Whether to use SMTP authentication
$mail->SMTPSecure = 'ssl';
$mail->SMTPAuth = true;

//Username to use for SMTP authentication
$mail->Username = 'user@domain.tld';

//Password to use for SMTP authentication
$mail->Password = 'user-password';

//Set who the message is to be sent from
$mail->setFrom('email@from', 'Name');

//Set who the message is to be sent to
$mail->addAddress('email@to', 'Name');

//Set the subject line
$mail->Subject = 'Here is the subject';

//Message body
$mail->Body = 'This is the HTML message body in bold';

//Replace the plain text body with one created manually
$mail->AltBody = 'This is a plain-text message body';

//send the message, check for errors
if (!$mail->send()) {
	echo 'Mailer Error: ' . $mail->ErrorInfo;
} else {
	echo 'Message sent!';
}

You will need the following details set: