A minimal example showing how to use the Inky email framework from PHP via the FFI bindings.

Requires Inky v2. See installation instructions.

Prerequisites

• PHP >= 8.1 with FFI extension enabled
• The libinky shared library (build from source: cargo build -p inky-ffi --release)

Quick Start

composer install
php build.php

File Structure

src/emails/welcome.inky    Source template
data/welcome.json           Sample merge data
dist/                       Built output (generated)
build.php                   Build script
send.php                    Email sending example

Building

php build.php transforms the Inky template, generates a merged version with sample data, and creates a plain text version.

Sending

Edit send.php with your SMTP credentials, then:

The example uses PHPMailer. Install it with composer require phpmailer/phpmailer.

Documentation

• Getting Started
• Component Reference
• Language Bindings