Hello Reader! On using the PHP from your local host on XAMPP you can do several other things also and we will learn how to configure mail from localhost using its sendmail package ,

The mail function is called sendmail, It's inbuild package of XAMPP. Below are are steps to configure mail in XAMPP

Step 1: Open the location, C:\xampp\php\php.ini find extension=php_openssl.dll and you just have to remove the semicolon at the starting of that line to make SSL working for gmail for localhost.

Step 2: Open file php.ini file find [mail function] and now you have to make some changes on it

SMTP=smtp.gmail.com
smtp_port=587
sendmail_from = youremail@gmail.com
sendmail_path = "\"C:\xampp\sendmail\sendmail.exe\" -t"

Step 3: Open th sendmail.ini, you can find this on location:- C:\xampp\sendmail\sendmail.ini. You have to overright the exiting code with the code below

[sendmail]
smtp_server=smtp.gmail.com
smtp_port=587
error_logfile=error.log
debug_logfile=debug.log
auth_username=youremail@gmail.com
auth_password= emailpassword
force_sender=youremail@gmail.com

Now you just have done all the configuration, you can execute any mail function and mails will work!