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Smart Mailer PHP

“Quick and easy, great looking HTML Mails in PHP!”

You can offer your clients the ability to send HTML mails based on a template (either on your machine or at a URL), each personalized with the recipient's name. You can add attachments to everyone, or a group of people, there's progress bars while you're sending them - all this in an external PHP include file, so just a couple of lines on your page.

Take a look at the ASP version of the Smart Mailer PHP.

 

Overview

Validate a form and send it via e-mail
With this movie we will show you how to use Universal Form Validator PHP in order to validate a form that sends an e-mail using Smart Mailer PHP.

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Major Features of the Smart Mailer Extension:

  • Generates fully MHTML compatible mails with the images included or linked to the web
    You can send mail with the images included in the mail so the mail can be read offline, or create links to the images where the image reside on the internet somewhere.

  • Send to single or multiple users
    You can easily choose to send a mail to one person, send CC's or BCC's, or multiple recipients from a recordset.



  • Use cool real-time Flash progress bars when sending bulk mail
    When sending mail to multiple recipients you can choose to show a real time progress bar that follows the progress of the mail being send.


  • Fully personalize your mails so that they include personal information
    You can include dynamic data to personalize the mail, form variables for example.

  • Use any URL as template for the mail body!
    This way you can send for example
    personalized invoices and still have them available on the web as well!



  • Send fully customized HTML mails based on a Template
    Imagine sending a newsletter just like the one from DMXzone

  • Add attachments in any way you want - one by one, full folder or via recordset!



  • Support for lots of standard mail components for mail processing
    The following mail components are supported: SendMail and SMTP.

  • Extended error checking
    The extension includes a error checking function that you can turn on or off. If you turn it on and something goes wrong with sending the mail you will get an error message.



  • Generates just a few lines of code on your page
    Your page size stays small with the code for the Smart Mailer extension in a separate include file.

Showcases


Sliding Site Showcase

In this showcase we've combined all the extensions included in the bundle. The site is designed in Sliding Panels with a Universal CSS Navigation Menu. The products open in a stylish Lightbox window and the Contact form is validated with the help of Universal Form Validator PHP. The submission is sent to an email via Smart Mailer PHP.

Videos


Requirements

Type: Server Behavior
Product: Dreamweaver MX, Dreamweaver MX 2004, Dreamweaver 8, Dreamweaver CS3, Dreamweaver CS4, Dreamweaver CS5/CS5.5 and CS6
Server Model: PHP MySQL


History

Version 1.0.9

Version 1.0.8

  • Support for different port number in template
  • Updated mail progress bar

Version 1.0.7

  • PHP 5.3 Compatibility
  • linked to online help
  • Updated CS5 installer

Version 1.0.3

  • Fixed error when using multiple instances on the page
  • Improved support for PHP5

Update Procedure

Here are five easy steps to update all your pages;

  1. Install the latest version of Smart Mailer PHP
  2. Open your Smart Mailer PHP page
  3. Select the existing Smart Mailer PHP Server Behaviour from the server behaviors palette
  4. Click on the ok button to re-apply the server behaviours
  5. An alert will be sure that your files are replaces, make sure you upload the files to your server

This process updates the PHP file in the general ScriptLibrary folder so a single page update is enough.

George Petrov

George PetrovGeorge Petrov is a renowned software writer and developer whose extensive skills brought numerous extensions, articles and knowledge to the DMXzone- the online community for professional Adobe Dreamweaver users. His expertise in countless languages and technologies gives inspiration and teach valuable lessons on his website – DMXzone.com, which is visited daily by more than 30.000 people and is most popular for its over high-quality Dreamweaver extensions and templates.

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Reviews

It's a pity

It's a pity that this extension hasn't been developed further. There is so much more that could be done to make this extension more useable.

RE: Smart Mailer PHP

I like the extention but it doesn't work for multipul emails thru a record set, also it should get the file attachment from the form file field instead of just a record set or at least the option for either.

Smart Mailer PHP

Thanks George, the extension works great.  I really appreciate your help (working out my misstakes).

Great product - Keep writing Code!!