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Product type Paperback

Published in Nov 2013

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781783280759

Length 376 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

PHP

Tools

WordPress

Concepts

Front End Web Development

Author (1):

Rakhitha Nimesh Ratnayake

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Table of Contents (13) Chapters

Preface

1. WordPress As a Web Application Framework

2. Implementing Membership Roles, Permissions, and Features FREE CHAPTER

3. Planning and Customizing the Core Database

4. The Building Blocks of Web Applications

5. Developing Pluggable Modules

6. Customizing the Dashboard for Powerful Backends

7. Adjusting Themes for Amazing Frontends

8. Enhancing the Power of Open Source Libraries and Plugins

9. Listening to Third-party Applications

10. Integrating and Finalizing the Portfolio Management Application

A. Configurations, Tools, and Resources

Index

Using PHPMailer for custom e-mail sending

In the previous section, we looked at the use of Backbone.js and Underscore.js to identify the usage of open source JavaScript libraries within the WordPress core. Now it's time to identify the use of open source PHP libraries within the WordPress core, so we are going to choose PHPMailer among a number of other open source libraries. PHPMailer is one of the most popular e-mail sending libraries, used inside many frameworks as a plugin or library. This library eases the complex tasks of creating advanced e-mails with attachments and third-party account authentications.

Note

PHPMailer has been added to GitHub for improving its development process. You can get more information about this library at:

https://github.com/PHPMailer/PHPMailer

WordPress has a copy of this library integrated into the core for all e-mail-related tasks. We can find the PHPMailer library inside the wp-includes folder within the file named class.phpmailer.php.