PHP -Sending Email from Localhost (XAMPP) Using SendinBlue

 Enviroment

• Enviroment: Local
• Web Server: XAMP v3.3.0
• OS: Windows 7

1. Create account on sendinblue

https://app.sendinblue.com/account/login

2. SMTP Setting

Go to https://account.sendinblue.com/advanced/api and check your smtp settings

3. Xampp php.ini settings

Open xampp control panel, click on apache config button, a context menu will appear, click on php.ini. 

Find and set these settings

SMTP=smtp-relay.sendinblue.com

smtp_port=587

sendmail_from = youremail@gmail.com

sendmail_path = "\"C:\xampp\sendmail\sendmail.exe\" -t"

Now go to C:\xampp\sendmail\ and open sendmail.ini and set

smtp_server=smtp-relay.sendinblue.com

smtp_port=587

debug_logfile=debug.log

auth_username=sendinblue_login

auth_password=sendinblue_password

4. Write php code

<?php

// the message

$msg = "First line of text\nSecond line of text";

// use wordwrap() if lines are longer than 70 characters

$msg = wordwrap($msg,70);

$headers = "From: abc@gmail.com";

$success = mail("xyz@gmail.com","My subject",$msg, $headers);

if($success)

    {

        echo '

        <p>Your message has been sent!</p>

        ';

    } else {

        echo '

        <p>Something went wrong, go back and try again!</p>

        ';

    }

If you want to use phpmailer, follow these steps

https://github.com/PHPMailer/PHPMailer

You can simply download complete project from my github

https://github.com/mhabib555/PHP-Sending-Email-from-Localhost-XAMPP-Using-SendinBlue

or you can follow these

Step 1: Init composer if your project doesn't have compoer.json file (to learn how to install composer check Composer Tutorial)

composer init

Keep Pressing enter if you don't wanna change details

Step 2: Download phpmailer using composer command 

composer require phpmailer/phpmailer

Step 3: Write php code

<?php

require "./vendor/autoload.php";

use PHPMailer\PHPMailer\PHPMailer;

use PHPMailer\PHPMailer\Exception;

$mail = new PHPMailer;

$mail->From = "youremail@gmail.com";

$mail->FromName = "M Habib"; //To address and name

$mail->addAddress("xyz@gmail.com", "Recepient Name"); //Recipient name is optional

$mail->isHTML(true);

$mail->Subject = "Subject Text";

$mail->Body = "<i>Mail body in HTML</i>";

if (!$mail->send()) {

    echo "Mailer Error: " . $mail->ErrorInfo;

} else {

    echo "Message has been sent successfully";

}