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Add sent emails to your own Sent mailbox

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Wednesday January 31 2024

A user contacted me asking for some help with using PHPMailer Pro in his unique circumstances. Using the latest version of PHPMailer Pro, he ran into a few issues.  Getting him some help was no problem at all. I responded to all inquiries within minutes of receiving the emails. The support...

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I am fully retired now

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Tuesday January 30 2024

I was placed on a medical leave in August of 2023. I stopped driving transit bus at that point, but returned to driving school bus part time in mid August. By mid September, I was unable to continue and resumed the medical leave. The medical leave expired at the end of December.  At that point, I...

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CMS / Blog project

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Monday January 8 2024

DCP Portal and ttCMS were two projects that I actively developed. Both shared #1 top prize in CMS/Portal shoot out for its day. I long ago abandoned both ... quite frankly, the feature bloat driving that segment was getting out of hand and I didn't want to participate.  Over the years, I...

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PHP Class documentor tool

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Sunday December 31 2023

Do a search on "PHP Documentation" and you'll get the top project documentation tools, likely the first one in the list will be PHP Documentor – definitely the leading package for creating documentation. Problem is that every tool available now go well beyond just PHP projects and require a...

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codeworxtech Coding Standards

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Sunday December 31 2023

Starting with releases in 2024, all codeworxtech projects will follow a simple coding standard: PHP Tags <?php (preferred) or <?= Character Encoding PHP code must use UTF-8 without BOM  PHP code lines use \n Unix style line endings Side-Effects Classes cause no side-effects (no executable...

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How to simplify using classes with namespaces

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Sunday December 31 2023

Using classes with namespaces can get a bit daunting ... at least confusing ... when the provider has multiple classes in varying categories. I'll use my own classes as an example, and show how to simplify the coding. My full list of classes and their namespaces: PHPMailer Pro namespace:...

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RFC date()

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Thursday December 28 2023

PHP documentation shows that  date("r"), and note that this is equivalent to date("d-M-Y H:i:s O") will provide an RFC 2822 / RFC 5322 formatted date (as in: Thu, 21 Dec 2000 16:01:07 +0200) ...  That is correct. However, keep in mind that may work when creating the header for an email. I...

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What Email Transports Are Available?

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Wednesday December 27 2023

The web server you use has, in essence, only one mail transport protocol. That is SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol). Sendmail and Qmail are applications with SMTP email sending capabilities and configuration. Sendmail is now pervasive and widely used. There are still a few servers with Qmail...

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Talk about changes in less than two weeks!

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Wednesday December 27 2023

In less than a two week period: PHPMailer2 is now PHPMailer Pro Form2Mail is now PHPMailer-FE Bounce Mail Handler is now PHPMailer-BMH https://phpmailer2.com is now https://phpmailer.pro What drove these changes? Really simple, I'm ticked. A few years back, the current admin of PHPMailer...

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