Don Alexander Eckford's code for standard email:

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CODE FOLLOWS

<?php

    include('includes/header.php');

    error_reporting(E_ALL);
    ini_set('display_errors', 1);

    echo("<h1>Don Alexander Eckford's code for standard email:</h1>");

    use PHPMailer\PHPMailer\PHPMailer;
    use PHPMailer\PHPMailer\Exception;
    use PHPMailer\PHPMailer\SMTP;

    // Include PHPMailer files
    require '../phpmailer/Exception.php';
    require '../phpmailer/PHPMailer.php';
    require '../phpmailer/SMTP.php';

    // Manually parse .env file
    $envFile = __DIR__ . '../.env';
    if (file_exists($envFile)) {
        $lines = file($envFile, FILE_IGNORE_NEW_LINES | FILE_SKIP_EMPTY_LINES);
        foreach ($lines as $line) {
            list($key, $value) = explode('=', $line, 2);
            $_ENV[trim($key)] = trim($value);
        }
    }

    try {
        // Create a new PHPMailer instance
        $mail = new PHPMailer(true);

        // SMTP Configuration
        $mail->isSMTP();
        $mail->Host = $_ENV['SMTP_HOST']; // SMTP server
        $mail->SMTPAuth = true;
        $mail->Username = $_ENV['SMTP_USER']; // SMTP username
        $mail->Password = $_ENV['SMTP_PASS']; // SMTP password
        $mail->SMTPSecure = PHPMailer::ENCRYPTION_STARTTLS; // Encryption protocol
        $mail->Port = $_ENV['SMTP_PORT']; // SMTP port

        // Sender and recipient information
        $mail->setFrom($_ENV['EMAIL_FROM'], $_ENV['EMAIL_FROM_NAME']); // From email and name
        $mail->addAddress($_ENV['EMAIL_TO']); // Recipient email

        // Email content
        $mail->Subject = 'Manually Downloaded PHPMailer Example';
        $mail->isHTML(true); // Set email format to HTML
        $mail->Body = '<h1>Email sent using manually downloaded PHPMailer!</h1><p>Enjoy your email.</p>';
        $mail->AltBody = 'This is the plain text version of the email content.'; // Plain-text version

        // Send the email
        $mail->send();
        echo "Email sent successfully!";
    } catch (Exception $e) {
        // Handle errors
        echo "Email sending failed: {$mail->ErrorInfo}";
    }

    include('includes/footer.php');
?>




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