With having a large number of features, amazon become a popular hosting service provider. In this tutorial we will see how to send Email using AWS SES and PHPMailer with SMTP Configuration. We will see step by step this implementation.
Get SMTP Credentials from AWS SES:
To get SMTP Credentials from Amazon SES you need to do following simple things:
- Login to your amazon console account.To login click here Sign in to AWS Account.
- Go to the Simple Email Service Section(You can search it from search bar by typing Simple Email Service).
- Select SMTP Settings from left sidebar menu.
- Click on “Create My SMTP Credential” button to generate SMTP credentials.
- Copy username and password to use in your application.
Setting up AWS SES SMTP Credentials in PHPMailer:
To use SMTP in PHPMailer .
$mail->isSMTP();
$mail->setFrom('info@techalltype.com', 'Techalltype');
$mail->addAddress('any@techalltype.com', 'Recepient Name');
$mail->Username = 'Your AWS SMTP User Name';
$mail->Password = 'Your AWS SES SMTP Password';
$mail->addCustomHeader('X-SES-CONFIGURATION-SET', 'ConfigSet');
$mail->Host = 'email-smtp.us-east-1.amazonaws.com';
Setting up PHPMailer Class in Codeigniter Application:
After generating SMTP Credentials now we will see how to Configure PHPMailer Class with AWS SES SMTP Credentials in our Codeigniter Application. To install PHPMailer inside of Codeigniter Application we will use composer.Please find below the command to install PHPMailer using composer.
$ composer require phpmailer/phpmailer
After installing, you will get a vendor folder inside project root folder.
Setup Composer Autoload for PHPMailer Class:
You need to set vendor directory path inside application/config/config.php.
$config['composer_autoload'] = 'vendor/autoload.php';
Creating Controller(Amazon SES SMTP Setup) and Complete Code:
Create a controller named AwsSesSMTPController.php and use PHPMailer class inside controller.Please find below the complete code of controller.
<?php
defined('BASEPATH') OR exit('No direct script access allowed');
use PHPMailer\PHPMailer\PHPMailer;
class Welcome extends CI_Controller {
public function index()
{
$mail = new PHPMailer;
$mail->isSMTP();
$mail->setFrom('info@techalltype.com', 'Techalltype');
$mail->addAddress('any@techalltype.com', 'Recepient Name');
$mail->Username = 'Your AWS SMTP User Name';
$mail->Password = 'Your AWS SES SMTP Password';
$mail->addCustomHeader('X-SES-CONFIGURATION-SET', 'ConfigSet');
$mail->Host = 'email-smtp.us-east-1.amazonaws.com';
$mail->Subject = 'Amazon SES test using PHPMailer';
$mail->isHTML(true);
$mail->Body = '<h1>Email Test</h1> This email was sent through the Amazon SES SMTP interface using the PHPMailer class.';
$mail->SMTPAuth = true;
$mail->SMTPSecure = 'tls';
$mail->Port = 587;
/* The alternative email body; this is only displayed when a recipient
opens the email in a non-HTML email client. The \r\n represents a
line break.*/
$mail->AltBody = "Email Test\r\nThis email was sent through the Amazon SES SMTP interface using the PHPMailer class.";
if(!$mail->send()) {
echo "Email not sent. " , $mail->ErrorInfo , PHP_EOL;
} else {
echo "Email sent!" , PHP_EOL;
}
}
}
