Fast way to setup a form with PHPMailer and Ajax
October 1, 2017
Programming, Scripting, Tech and IT
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PHPMailer is a popular library for sending emails as the project of the title suggest. In the GitHub, readme file has a nice example of a basic setup, but today I’ll give you a similar simple example using jQuery, Swal( Sweet alert ).
So first this is the PHP script that should respond to an ajax request ( I named the filename smail.php):
<?php
error_reporting(0);
// Import PHPMailer classes into the global namespace
// These must be at the top of your script, not inside a function
use PHPMailer\PHPMailer\PHPMailer;
use PHPMailer\PHPMailer\Exception;
//Load composer's autoloader
require 'vendor/autoload.php';
function isValidEmail($email){
return filter_var($email, FILTER_VALIDATE_EMAIL) !== false;
}
$name = htmlspecialchars($_POST["name"]);
$email = htmlspecialchars($_POST["email"]);
$msg = htmlspecialchars($_POST["message"]);
$recap = htmlspecialchars($_POST["g-recaptcha-response"]);
$gcapSecret = 'YOUR RECAPTCHA2 SECRET';
if( !empty($name ) &&
!empty( $email) &&
!empty( $msg )
){
if( empty( $recap ) ) exit( json_encode(['send'=>'error', 'msg'=>'Please complete the captcha.' ]));
if(!isValidEmail($email)) exit( json_encode(['send'=>'error', 'msg'=>'Invalid Email.' ]));
$response=file_get_contents("https://www.google.com/recaptcha/api/siteverify?secret=".$gcapSecret."&response=".$recap."&remoteip=".$_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']);
$obj = json_decode($response);
if($obj->success != true) exit( json_encode(['send'=>'error', 'msg'=>'Google ReCaptcha V2 not passed.' ]));
$mail = new … 
