PHPMailer is a third party class for sending emails, Full docs are available athttps://github.com/Synchro/PHPMailer

Make an alias:

use Helpers\PhpMailer\Mail;

To use PHPMailer create a new instance of it:

$mail = new Mail();

Once an instance has been created all the properties are available to you, a typical example:

$mail = new Mail();

$mail->setFrom('noreply@domain.com');

$mail->addAddress('user@domain.com');

$mail->subject('Important Email');

$mail->body("<h1>Hey</h1><p>I like this <b>Bold</b> Text!</p>");

$mail->send();

To use gmail use at your own risk!! You must enable an option in order to allow to send email through gmail goto https://myaccount.google.com/security#connectedapps login and enable Allow access to less secure apps.

The class has the ability to send via SMTP in order to do so edit Helpers/PhpMailer/Mail.php and enter your SMTP settings you can also set a default email from address so you don't have to supply it each time:

public $From     = 'noreply@domain.com';

public $FromName = SITETITLE;

public $Host     = 'smtp.gmail.com';

public $Mailer   = 'smtp';

public $SMTPAuth = true;

public $Username = 'email@domain.com';

public $Password = 'password';

public $SMTPSecure = 'tls';

public $WordWrap = 75;

You don't need to specify a plain text version of the email to be sent out, this is done automatically from the supplied body.