PHP: Email with Swift Mailer

Introduction

• Welcome
• What you should know before watching this course
• Using the exercise files

1. Getting Started

• What is Swift Mailer?
• Installing Swift Mailer with Composer
• Installing Swift Mailer from GitHub
• Loading Swift Mailer

2. Swift Mailer Basics

• Preparing a basic email
• Choosing a transport to send the email
• Sending the email by SMTP
• Using an encrypted SMTP connection
• Handing the email to the server's mail transport agent
• Using Swift Mailer with the PHP mail() function
• Using an aggregate transport
• Adding a Reply-To header
• Copying a message to other reciipients
• Setting additional headers

3. Sending Attachments

• Attaching a local file
• Attaching a dynamically generated file

4. Sending HTML Email

• HTML email basics
• Embedding images in HTML email

5. Advanced Features

• Sending individually addressed emails
• Personalizing bulk mail
• Using a custom class to personalize mail
• Limiting the rate of sending emails
• Using a logger plugin for debugging

6. Case Study: Registration Form

• Introducing the case study
• Checking required fields
• Building the message body
• Uploading and attaching a file
• Sending the email

Conclusion

• Goodbye