Question

I am using PHPMailer but I think it’s taking too many lines and feel I can make it more concise. Some of the parameters below are redundant because everything is gonna be sent from the same email address.

I’m actually asking if I can put the parameters that are always the same somewhere else (From, FromName, Username, Password, Host,Post,SMTPSecure, SMTPAuth)

How can I do it? Thanks in advance. Regards

My code is:

include("classes/phpmailer/class.phpmailer.php");
include("classes/phpmailer/class.smtp.php"); // note, this is optional 

$mail             = new PHPMailer();
$body             = 'This is the body';

$mail->IsSMTP();
$mail->SMTPAuth   = true;                  // enable SMTP authentication
$mail->SMTPSecure = "ssl";                 // sets the prefix to the servier
$mail->Host       = "smtp.gmail.com";      // sets GMAIL as the SMTP server
$mail->Port       = 465;                   // set the SMTP port

$mail->Username   = "[e-mail]";  // GMAIL username
$mail->Password   = "mypassword";            // GMAIL password

$mail->From       = "[e-mail]";
$mail->FromName   = "Admin";
$mail->Subject    = "Welcome";
$mail->AltBody    = 'This is the body'; //Text Body
$mail->WordWrap   = 100; // set word wrap

$mail->MsgHTML($body);
$mail->AddReplyTo("[e-mail]","Admin");
$mail->SMTPDebug = 1;
$mail->AddAddress($email,$firstname." ".$surname);

$mail->IsHTML(true); // send as HTML

if(!$mail->Send()) {
  echo "Mailer Error: " . $mail->ErrorInfo;
} else {
// nothing is displayed
}

Answer 1

function New_Mail($body, $subject, $altBody, $wordwrap)
{
    $mail             = new PHPMailer();

    $mail->IsSMTP();
    $mail->SMTPAuth   = true;                  // enable SMTP authentication
    $mail->SMTPSecure = "ssl";                 // sets the prefix to the servier
    $mail->Host       = "smtp.gmail.com";      // sets GMAIL as the SMTP server
    $mail->Port       = 465;                   // set the SMTP port

    $mail->Username   = "[e-mail]";  // GMAIL username
    $mail->Password   = "mypassword";            // GMAIL password

    $mail->From       = "[e-mail]";
    $mail->FromName   = "Admin";
    $mail->Subject    = $subject;
    $mail->AltBody    = $altBody; //Text Body
    $mail->WordWrap   = $wordwrap; // set word wrap

    $mail->MsgHTML($body);
    $mail->AddReplyTo("[e-mail]","Admin");
    $mail->SMTPDebug = 1;
    $mail->IsHTML(true); // send as HTML

    return $mail;
}

$mail = New_Mail("this is the body", "Welcome", "Another body", 100);
if(!$mail->Send()) {
    echo "Mailer Error: " . $mail->ErrorInfo;
} else {
// nothing is displayed
}

Now you reuse that function.