PHPMailer - sending email with a function

Question

I need to send emails when users do particular things like fill in a form, submit a request etc. These happen on different pages.

I know the default use of PHPMailer is as below:

<?php
require 'PHPMailerAutoload.php';
$mail = new PHPMailer;
$mail->setFrom('from@example.com', 'Your Name');
$mail->addAddress('myfriend@example.net', 'My Friend');
$mail->Subject  = 'First PHPMailer Message';
$mail->Body     = 'Hi! This is my first e-mail sent through PHPMailer.';
if(!$mail->send()) {
  echo 'Message was not sent.';
  echo 'Mailer error: ' . $mail->ErrorInfo;
} else {
  echo 'Message has been sent.';
}

Is it possible to use the mail() class without having to re-specify the username, password and message to the mail function each time??

Essentially could you have a fuction like:

sendMail($from, $to, $subject, $body);

Which then passes the variables given to an instance of PHPMailer?

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Answer 1

require 'vendor/autoload.php';
class MyMail extends PHPMailer
{
    private $_host = 'your stmp server name';
    private $_user = 'your smtp username';
    private $_password = 'your password';

    public function __construct($exceptions=true)
    {
        $this->Host = $this->_host;
        $this->Username = $this->_user;
        $this->Password = $this->_password;
        $this->Port = 465;
        $this->SMTPAuth = true;
        $this->SMTPSecure = 'ssl';
        $this->isSMTP();
        parent::__construct($exceptions);
   }

   public function sendMail($from, $to, $subject, $body)
   {
      $this->setFrom($from);
      $this->addAddress($to);
      $this->Subject = $subject;
      $this->Body = $body;

      return $this->send();
  }
}
$m = new MyMail();
$result = $m->sendMail('test@test.hu', 'youremail@yourdomain.com', 'Test from script', 'test message from script');