While developing web applications on localhost you must have always missed the functionality to send mails. As localhost does not support email service, so it has always been a bottleneck for email testing on localhost. But I have found a simple way to test emails on localhost using PHP. I have overridden the default mail() function of PHP to create a text/html file based on the email format. If the email is in html format, an HTML file is created otherwise a text file is created. You can see in this file what exactly is the content sent in your mail. See how does it work.
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Overriding the mail() function
To override the PHP mail() function, we need to create our namespace and then define the function in that namespace.#Create your own namespace
namespace localMail;
#Override the default mail function
function mail( $to, $subject, $message, $additional_headers='', $additional_parameters='' ) {
if (empty($to) || empty($subject) || empty($message)) {
return false;
}
#Check if email is sent as HTML or plaintext
if (isHTML($additional_headers)) {
$ext = 'html';
}else{
$ext = 'txt';
}
#Write the file
$myFile = "mail_".time().".".$ext;
$fh = fopen($myFile, 'w') or die("can't open file");
fwrite($fh, $message);
fclose($fh);
}
#Function to detect HTML headers
function isHTML($isithtml) {
if (strpos($isithtml, 'html')) {
return true;
} else {
return false;
}
}
Usage
<html>
<head>
<title>Test Emails on localhost ! WebSpeaks.in</title>
</head>
<body>
<form method="post" action="send_mail.php">
<table align="center">
<tr>
<td>
Type your message<br />
<textarea name="message" cols="50" rows="5"><div style="color:#c3c;">This <i>email</i> is <u>sent</u> through <a href="#">localhost</a>.</div></textarea>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="2" align="right">
<input type="submit" class="button" name="send_text" value="Send as Plain Text" />
<input type="submit" class="button" name="send_html" value="Send as HTML" />
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</form>
</body>
</html>
send_mail.php
<?php
namespace localMail;
#Override the default mail function
function mail( $to, $subject, $message, $additional_headers='', $additional_parameters='' ) {
if (empty($to) || empty($subject) || empty($message)) {
return false;
}
#Check if email is sent as HTML or plaintext
if (isHTML($additional_headers)) {
$ext = 'html';
}else{
$ext = 'txt';
}
#Write the file
$myFile = "mail_".time().".".$ext;
$fh = fopen($myFile, 'w') or die("can't open file");
fwrite($fh, $message);
fclose($fh);
header('Content-disposition: attachment; filename='.$myFile);
if (isHTML($additional_headers)) {
header('Content-type: application/html');
} else {
header('Content-type: application/text');
}
readfile($myFile);
unlink($myFile);
die();
}
#Function to detect HTML headers
function isHTML($isithtml) {
if (strpos($isithtml, 'html')) {
return true;
} else {
return false;
}
}
if (isset($_POST) && !empty($_POST)) {
$to="bhardwajs.on.height@gmail.com";
$subject="Test Local Mail on WebSpeaks";
$message = $_POST['message'];
if (isset($_POST['send_text']) && !empty($_POST['send_text'])) {
mail($to, $subject, $message);
} else {
$headers = 'MIME-Version: 1.0' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1' . "\r\n";
mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);
}
}
?>
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