MailForm is an open-source package for sending emails from your PHP application. In this tutorial, you will learn how to install MailForm on Windows 11.
To follow this tutorial, you will need the following:
Go to the MailForm GitHub repository, click on the green "Code" button and select "Download ZIP". Save the ZIP file on your computer.
Extract the downloaded ZIP file to a folder on your computer. For example, you can create a folder named "mailform" on your desktop and extract the ZIP file there.
Open a command prompt and navigate to the folder where you extracted MailForm. For example, if you extracted MailForm to a folder named "mailform" on your desktop, you can navigate to that folder by typing the following command:
cd C:\Users\your-username\Desktop\mailform
In the command prompt, type the following command to install MailForm using Composer:
composer install
This will download and install all the required dependencies for MailForm.
To test if MailForm is installed correctly, create a new PHP file in the MailForm folder and add the following code:
<?php
require_once __DIR__ . '/vendor/autoload.php';
use Feuerhamster\MailForm\MailForm;
$mailForm = new MailForm([
'to' => 'you@example.com',
'from' => 'me@example.com',
'subject' => 'Test email',
'body' => 'This is a test email'
]);
$mailForm->send();
Replace "you@example.com" and "me@example.com" with your own email addresses. Save the file as "test.php" in the MailForm folder.
Open a command prompt, navigate to the MailForm folder, and type the following command to run the test script:
php test.php
If MailForm is installed correctly, you should receive an email at the "to" email address with the subject "Test email" and body "This is a test email".
Congratulations! You have successfully installed MailForm on your Windows 11 computer.
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