Comments on: SwiftMailer – Sending Mail in PHP With Ease http://www.justincarmony.com/blog/2009/09/21/swiftmailer-sending-mail-in-php-with-ease/ Web Designer & Software Engineer Tue, 07 Feb 2012 19:08:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Brady Kelly http://www.justincarmony.com/blog/2009/09/21/swiftmailer-sending-mail-in-php-with-ease/comment-page-1/#comment-49232 Brady Kelly Tue, 20 Dec 2011 17:15:49 +0000 http://www.justincarmony.com/blog/?p=472#comment-49232 Nice post, thanks. Nice colour theme as well. Is it public somewhere? Nice post, thanks. Nice colour theme as well. Is it public somewhere?

]]> By: Justin Carmony http://www.justincarmony.com/blog/2009/09/21/swiftmailer-sending-mail-in-php-with-ease/comment-page-1/#comment-28750 Justin Carmony Wed, 23 Sep 2009 06:17:09 +0000 http://www.justincarmony.com/blog/?p=472#comment-28750 @Lonnie, While I can kinda agree, for the very basic mail() works well, its when you start to leave the "basic" needs that I've fought mail(). I guess I've had enough battle wounds that I just prefer Swift now. @Doran I can understand your frustrations, and that is one of the "double edge sword" things about PHP, you have a LOT of choices, but it also can result in inconsistencies. When I do use a library like Swift, I tend to have a copy for each project, instead of having a dozen projects pointing to the same library. That can make upgrading a pain, but it saves me from upgrading Swift for one project, only to massively break the code on another project. @Lonnie,

While I can kinda agree, for the very basic mail() works well, its when you start to leave the “basic” needs that I’ve fought mail(). I guess I’ve had enough battle wounds that I just prefer Swift now.

@Doran

I can understand your frustrations, and that is one of the “double edge sword” things about PHP, you have a LOT of choices, but it also can result in inconsistencies.

When I do use a library like Swift, I tend to have a copy for each project, instead of having a dozen projects pointing to the same library. That can make upgrading a pain, but it saves me from upgrading Swift for one project, only to massively break the code on another project.

]]> By: Doran L. Barton http://www.justincarmony.com/blog/2009/09/21/swiftmailer-sending-mail-in-php-with-ease/comment-page-1/#comment-28683 Doran L. Barton Tue, 22 Sep 2009 05:43:27 +0000 http://www.justincarmony.com/blog/?p=472#comment-28683 I'm not a PHP developer (anymore. Stopped in 1997 and never looked back.), but I'm a sysadmin and I have to maintain a few PHP sites. Why are there so many blasted PHP mail alternatives? Our developers were fighting with mail() and I found PEAR-Mail which installed easily on a CentOS system because it was available as a package in a standard yum repository. Isn't PEAR supposed to be home of "community standard" packages? Why are so many devs still going out and installing third-party libraries like phpMailer and SwiftMailer? Better yet, why are they doing it on a per-project basis and not site-wide? Grrr. Sorry. A little venting here. I’m not a PHP developer (anymore. Stopped in 1997 and never looked back.), but I’m a sysadmin and I have to maintain a few PHP sites. Why are there so many blasted PHP mail alternatives?

Our developers were fighting with mail() and I found PEAR-Mail which installed easily on a CentOS system because it was available as a package in a standard yum repository.

Isn’t PEAR supposed to be home of “community standard” packages? Why are so many devs still going out and installing third-party libraries like phpMailer and SwiftMailer? Better yet, why are they doing it on a per-project basis and not site-wide? Grrr.

Sorry. A little venting here.

]]> By: Lonnie Olson http://www.justincarmony.com/blog/2009/09/21/swiftmailer-sending-mail-in-php-with-ease/comment-page-1/#comment-28666 Lonnie Olson Mon, 21 Sep 2009 23:32:36 +0000 http://www.justincarmony.com/blog/?p=472#comment-28666 How is that simple compared to: ini_set('SMTP','smtp.example.org'); $result = mail( 'receiver@domain.org, A name ', 'Wonderful Subject', 'Here is the message itself', 'From: John Doe '); Unless you need the advanced features like batch mailing using a heavy duty library with atrocious syntax, stick to mail(); How is that simple compared to:
ini_set(‘SMTP’,'smtp.example.org’);
$result = mail(
‘receiver@domain.org, A name ‘,
‘Wonderful Subject’,
‘Here is the message itself’,
‘From: John Doe ‘);

Unless you need the advanced features like batch mailing using a heavy duty library with atrocious syntax, stick to mail();

]]> By: Jonathan http://www.justincarmony.com/blog/2009/09/21/swiftmailer-sending-mail-in-php-with-ease/comment-page-1/#comment-28653 Jonathan Mon, 21 Sep 2009 19:20:12 +0000 http://www.justincarmony.com/blog/?p=472#comment-28653 Nice and easy. I like it. For non-CakePHP projects I will definitely consider it. Thanks. Nice and easy. I like it. For non-CakePHP projects I will definitely consider it. Thanks.

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