How to send AMP Emails with PHP?

Question

I am trying to create a PHP script to send AMP Emails with PHPMailer. When reading online tutorial I found that you can specify Mime types in PHPMailer as follows:

$mail->AltBody = "Hello, my friend! This message uses plain text !";

This should create alternative body in TEXT format and the message will automatically use the MIME type multipart/alternative. However, according to the AMP for Email official documentation, I need to set a completely new MIME type for AMP Emails: text/x-amp-html. I can’t seem to find a way to do that with PHPMailer. I am building this script so I later can re-create the code on Magento 2. For now I only found this plugin that should do exactly what I need. However, I believe this PHP script that I am trying to build, should be useful for the whole Stackoverflow community.

My last idea was to send AMP Email using native PHP mail() function, but I don’t know how. I think, I must pass AMP Email HTML in $message variable and set AMP headers in $headers. Please see below:

mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);

Any help appreciated!

This doesn't seem to be a plugin or tool request @Funk. He found a plugin, but he's trying to build one in mail(). It's perhaps a bit too broad, but I still think it's within the scope of SO. — Goodbye StackExchange

Nafisa Wahid Nafisa Wahid · Accepted Answer · 2019-08-29T02:12:16

The following script should add one additional mime type to your email. I have followed both of your links to understand what you need and built this snippet according to the documentation provided. But I didn't have time to test it. Hope it helps.

//specify the email address you are sending to, and the email subject
$email = '[email protected]';
$subject = 'Email Subject';

//create a boundary for the email. This 
$boundary = uniqid('np');

//headers - specify your from email address and name here
//and specify the boundary for the email
$headers = "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";
$headers .= "From: Your Name \r\n";
$headers .= "To: ".$email."\r\n";
$headers .= "Content-Type: multipart/alternative;boundary=" . $boundary . "\r\n";

//here is the content body
$message = "This is a MIME encoded message.";
$message .= "\r\n\r\n--" . $boundary . "\r\n";

$message .= "Content-type: text/plain;charset=utf-8\r\n\r\n"
//Plain text body
$message .= "Hello,\nThis is a text email, the text/plain version.
\n\nRegards,\nYour Name";
$message .= "\r\n\r\n--" . $boundary . "\r\n";
$message .= "Content-type: text/html;charset=utf-8\r\n\r\n";

//Html body
$message .= "
 Hello,
This is a text email, the html version.

Regards,
Your Name";
$message .= "\r\n\r\n--" . $boundary . "--";
$message .= "Content-type: text/x-amp-html;charset=utf-8\r\n\r\n"

//AMP Email body
$message .= ‘<!doctype html>
<html ⚡4email>
<head>
  <meta charset="utf-8">
  <style amp4email-boilerplate>body{visibility:hidden}</style>
  <script async src="https://cdn.ampproject.org/v0.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
Hello World in AMP!
</body>
</html>’;
$message .= "\r\n\r\n--" . $boundary . "\r\n";

//invoke the PHP mail function
mail('', $subject, $message, $headers);

How to send AMP Emails with PHP?

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