PHPMailer VS Faker

Then make a form and use PHPMailer.

PHPMailer, as the name suggests, is an email-sending tool for PHP. It offers a straightforward and reliable approach to sending email messages from PHP applications. Security remains a top priority for the PHPMailer creators. It is equipped with built-in support for SSL/TLS encryption, ensuring the protection of email messages against interception and tampering. Moreover, it implements safeguards against common email injection attacks, effectively countering header injection and body injection vulnerabilities.

Have you tried using PHPMailer? mail() really isn't great and ends up being a lot more difficult to use. Phpmailer uses (or can use) SMTP (like Outlook or whichever email app) and is better at HTML and attachments and all that.

I found I have good experiences with a real email address provided by my domain/web host, and then I use the PHPMailer Class to send the message with the appropriate headers and what not.

The easiest way to send e-mails (from a beginner POV) is PHPMailer connected to an existing and configured SMTP server. Does your school has one? If yes, you're all set.

Welcome to this tutorial on how to send emails using PHP! Communication is key, and emails are an essential part of keeping in touch with your users. In this article, we will walk through the process of sending emails using PHP and PHPMailer - a powerful library for sending emails in PHP. We'll also cover how to configure PHPMailer to use SMTP, which is the most common way of sending emails on the web.

Alternatively try using XOAUTH: https://github.com/PHPMailer/PHPMailer/blob/master/examples/gmail_xoauth.phps

In any case, I don't recommend using mail() anyway. It's a low level function, a PITA to work with and you need to understand some infrastructure stuff to make it reliable. A simple alternative is https://github.com/PHPMailer/PHPMailer.

2023-01-23 19:17:31 SERVER -> CLIENT: 334 UGFzc3dvcmQ6 2023-01-23 19:17:31 CLIENT -> SERVER: N1g5dTRfbVV4JEQsKz5BKw== 2023-01-23 19:17:31 SMTP -> get_lines(): $data is "" 2023-01-23 19:17:31 SMTP -> get_lines(): $str is "421 4.7.66 TLS 1.0 and 1.1 are not supported. Please upgrade/update your client to support TLS 1.2. Visit https://aka.ms/smtp_auth_tls. [BL1PR13CA0283.namprd13.prod.outlook.com 2023-01-23T19:17:31.200Z 08DAFCDB1FFF6313] " 2023-01-23 19:17:31 SERVER -> CLIENT: 421 4.7.66 TLS 1.0 and 1.1 are not supported. Please upgrade/update your client to support TLS 1.2. Visit https://aka.ms/smtp_auth_tls. [BL1PR13CA0283.namprd13.prod.outlook.com 2023-01-23T19:17:31.200Z 08DAFCDB1FFF6313] 2023-01-23 19:17:31 SMTP ERROR: Password command failed: 421 4.7.66 TLS 1.0 and 1.1 are not supported. Please upgrade/update your client to support TLS 1.2. Visit https://aka.ms/smtp_auth_tls. [BL1PR13CA0283.namprd13.prod.outlook.com 2023-01-23T19:17:31.200Z 08DAFCDB1FFF6313] 2023-01-23 19:17:31 SMTP Error: Could not authenticate. 2023-01-23 19:17:31 CLIENT -> SERVER: QUIT 2023-01-23 19:17:31 SERVER -> CLIENT: 2023-01-23 19:17:31 SMTP ERROR: QUIT command failed: 2023-01-23 19:17:31 Connection: closed 2023-01-23 19:17:31 SMTP connect() failed. https://github.com/PHPMailer/PHPMailer/wiki/Troubleshooting

Faker is a PHP project that allows you to generate data for various testing scenarios. It excels in multilingual support, capable of generating fake data in multiple languages and diverse formats. This feature allows testing multilingual applications and enriching databases with authentic-looking test data.

I've worked with PHP's Faker library and the seeder included with Laravel. I had been able to populate the database with fake data but now I'm working with Django.

Now let's generate fake data for our user's table using the Laravel package, Faker.

more infos on the documentation : https://github.com/fzaninotto/Faker

You can use the Faker library in your user factory file.

To learn elasticsearch, you need lots of data to make queries as you want. I searched a few places to get a valid dump. But I couldn't find any dump that I can go with. Also what I found online, I am not familiar with the types of data. So, I thought to make a generator of my own. I have already used Artisan Console and fzaninotto/Faker, that's why I thought to make a generator that anyone can use with their terminal and generate the dump the way they wish.

Model factories in Laravel allow you to generate dummy/fake data using the Faker PHP library. The Faker library allows generating random data by specifying various attributes. With factories you define fake data to be generated for each attribute/column of your model. This not only saves you time of manually inserting database records, but enables you to save thousands of records in your database within seconds.

The original has been archived due to the amount of effort it took to update and has been forked into https://github.com/FakerPHP/Faker/, which is what Laravel now uses.

👉 https://github.com/fzaninotto/Faker