Handling AngularJS array in PHPMailer

Question

I am building up an application using AngularJS and PHPMailer. I need to pass an array from my Angular application to PHPMailer and then retrieve the array in PHPMailer and mail the data to the client.

$scope.data = {};
var link = 'http://uvw.com/mail.php';
          $http.post(link, {order:$scope.listItems}).then(function (res){
                    $scope.response = res.data;
                    console.log($scope.response);
          });

Here, $scope.listItems is an array which consists of head fields like customer name, customer email, customer phone etc and lots of data under each head. So it boils down to like $scope.listItems.customerName, $scope.listItems.customerPhone etc. I retrieve the data in Angular very easily using angular forEach.

i have been successful in passing the data to PHPMailer, but i have got no idea of how to retrieve the data in PHPMailer and mail it forward.

UPDATE

PHPMailer Code

    if (isset($_SERVER['HTTP_ORIGIN'])) {
        header("Access-Control-Allow-Origin: {$_SERVER['HTTP_ORIGIN']}");
        header('Access-Control-Allow-Credentials: true');
        header('Access-Control-Max-Age: 86400');    
    }


    if ($_SERVER['REQUEST_METHOD'] == 'OPTIONS') {

        if (isset($_SERVER['HTTP_ACCESS_CONTROL_REQUEST_METHOD']))
            header("Access-Control-Allow-Methods: GET, POST, OPTIONS");         

        if (isset($_SERVER['HTTP_ACCESS_CONTROL_REQUEST_HEADERS']))
            header("Access-Control-Allow-Headers:        
            {$_SERVER['HTTP_ACCESS_CONTROL_REQUEST_HEADERS']}");

        exit(0);
    }

    $postdata = file_get_contents("php://input");
    if (isset($postdata)) {
        $request = json_decode($postdata);
        foreach ($order as $value) {
            $body=$order;
        }
        require("PHPMailer/class.phpmailer.php");
        $mail = new PHPMailer();
        $mail->IsSMTP();               
        $mail->Host = "localhost"; 
        $mail->SMTPAuth = true; 
        $mail->Username = "[email protected]"; 
        $mail->Password = "support@123";
        $mail->From = "[email protected]";
        $mail->FromName = "uvw";
        $mail->AddAddress("[email protected]", "Orders");
        $mail->WordWrap = 50;
        $mail->IsHTML(true);                         
        $mail->Subject = "New Customer";
        $mail->Body    = $body;
        $mail->AltBody = "Alternate Body";
        if(!$mail->Send())
        {
            echo "Message could not be sent. <p>";
            echo "Mailer Error: " . $mail->ErrorInfo;
            exit;
        }
        echo "Message has been sent";
    }

    else {
        echo "Could not Mail";
    }

$scope.listItems datastructue

$scope.listItems.customerName,
$scope.listItems.customerEmail,
$scope.listItems.customerPhone,
$scope.listItems.customerAddress

Answer 1

Working Demo

The demo will allow you to test the php script using a real email server.

Changes

• You had a foreach loop that was intended to add the your $body variable, but instead it was overwriting the variable during each loop cycle. To add to a php variable use .= instead of =.
• I like to access my php data using $_POST.

To access your php data using $_POST you will need to change your Angular Javascript to use transformRequest (similar to this SO Answer) like this:

Javascript

$http({
    method: "post",
    url: 'http://wordpress.adriancarriger.com/stack-overflow-example-33591804/',
    timeout: 20001,
    transformRequest: function(obj) {
        var str = [];
        for (var p in obj)
        str.push(encodeURIComponent(p) + "=" + encodeURIComponent(obj[p]));
        return str.join("&");
    },
    data: $scope.listItems,
    headers: {
        'Content-Type': 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded'
    }
}).then(function(res) {
    $scope.test.response = res.data;
    console.log(res);
});

New PHP

$root = $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'];
require $root.'/vendor/autoload.php'; // I'm using composer (optional => you can remove this if you're not using composer)

if (isset($_SERVER['HTTP_ORIGIN'])) {
    header("Access-Control-Allow-Origin: {$_SERVER['HTTP_ORIGIN']}");
    header('Access-Control-Allow-Credentials: true');
    header('Access-Control-Max-Age: 86400');    
}
if ($_SERVER['REQUEST_METHOD'] == 'OPTIONS') {
    if (isset($_SERVER['HTTP_ACCESS_CONTROL_REQUEST_METHOD']))
        header("Access-Control-Allow-Methods: GET, POST, OPTIONS");         

    if (isset($_SERVER['HTTP_ACCESS_CONTROL_REQUEST_HEADERS']))
        header("Access-Control-Allow-Headers: {$_SERVER['HTTP_ACCESS_CONTROL_REQUEST_HEADERS']}");
    exit(0);
}
$list_items = $_POST;
$test_email = $list_items['testEmail'];
unset($list_items['testEmail']);
if (isset($list_items)) {
    foreach ($list_items as $key => $item) {
        $body .= '<br>'.$key.': '.$item;
    }
    //require("PHPMailer/class.phpmailer.php"); // you can uncomment this line if you're not using composer
    $mail = new PHPMailer();
    $mail->IsSMTP();               
    $mail->Host = "<host on server>"; 
    $mail->SMTPAuth = true; 
    $mail->Username = "[email protected]"; 
    $mail->Password = "<password on server>";
    $mail->From = "[email protected]";
    $mail->FromName = "Adrian Carriger";
    $mail->AddAddress($test_email, "Test Email");
    $mail->WordWrap = 50;
    $mail->IsHTML(true);                         
    $mail->Subject = "New Customer";
    $mail->Body    = $body;
    $mail->AltBody = "Alternate Body";
    if(!$mail->Send()) {
        echo "Message could not be sent. <p>";
        echo "Mailer Error: " . $mail->ErrorInfo;
        exit;
    }
    echo "Message has been sent";
}
else {
    echo "Could not Mail";
}