Sending a message to a recipient

Sending messages in Swift is extremely simple. You call the send() method, which only has 3 parameters. One is the message, one is the recipient, and the other is the sender.

$swift =& new Swift(new Swift_Connection_SMTP("host.tld"));
 
$message =& new Swift_Message("My subject", "My body");
 
$sent = $swift->send($message, "recipient@address.tld", "sender@address.tld");
echo "Sent to $sent recipients";

send() returns the number of recipients it delivered to message to successfully.

In the above example we used strings for the email addresses, however, using the Swift_Address class we have a little more flexibility over the format of the address. We can have a personal name in the address like so: Foo foo@bar.com.

$swift =& new Swift(new Swift_Connection_SMTP("host.tld"));
 
$message =& new Swift_Message("My subject", "My body");
 
$sent = $swift->send($message, new Swift_Address("recipient@address.tld", "Recipient"), "sender@address.tld");
echo "Sent to $sent recipients";

We can also use the Swift_Address class for the sender parameter:

$swift =& new Swift(new Swift_Connection_SMTP("host.tld"));
 
$message =& new Swift_Message("My subject", "My body");
 
 
$sent = $swift->send(
    $message, new Swift_Address("recipient@address.tld", "Recipient Name"),
    new Swift_Address("sender@address.tld", "My Name"));
echo "Sent to $sent recipients";

Simple right? :)