Question

I am creating a class that will handle mails and I am using PHP. I know how to send mail using PHP’s native mail function. But i am trying to create an efficient mailing system within a class. I had come up with what all things i need to have in my class.

• Method to verify email address(using regular expressions)
• Method to filter email address(remove all unwanted characters and injected headers and other false data)
• Method to send plain text email
• Method to send html email
• Property to assign to address
• Property to assign from address
• Property to assign subject
• Property to assign body
• Mass mailing method

So how to make it in efficient way. I need ideas on what all things to take care of and other things. To validate email address i had seen a regex pattern that is a big one which is the standard. But if i use that it will be consuming more processing. Correct ?

And I do not want the email address to be considered as spam.
What do you use for the above said things ?

Answer 1

You might consider using swiftmailer, as it has mostly everthing you want and is used in many products and frameworks, so you can be sure it’s fairly stable. I use it for some time now, mostly within symfony1 and symfony2, and I think you’ll have a hard time creating something similar.