How to use PHPMailer (localhost+gmail) in a custom MVC framework - php

Question

I'm trying to send emails using the PHPMailer library and gmail in my MVC project. Here's what I did in my project. My project and files:
myproject
-app
-controllers
-AccountController.php
-core
-PHPMailer
-PHPMailer.php
-SMTP.php
-Exception.php
-MyCustomMailer.php
My AccountController.php has following code:
namespace App\Controllers;
use Core\PHPMailer\MyCustomMailer;
...
class AccountController extends Controller {
...
public function sendSecurityCode(){
$user_email = "example#gmail.com";
$name = "John Doe";
$code = "ranD0m"
$mailer = new MyCustomMailer(true);
$send = $mailer->sendSecurityCodeEmail($user_email, $name, $code);
if($send) die("Sent.");
else die("Not sent.");
}
}
And MyCustomMailer.php is somthing like this:
namespace Core\PHPMailer;
use PHPMailer\PHPMailer\PHPMailer;
use PHPMailer\PHPMailer\SMTP;
use PHPMailer\PHPMailer\Exception;
require_once('PHPMailer.php');
require_once('SMTP.php');
class MyCustomMailer extends PHPMailer
{
private $_host = 'smtp.gmail.com';
private $_user = ''userJohnDoe#gmail.com';';
private $_password = 'paSsW0rd';
public function __construct($exceptions=true)
{
$this->isSMTP();
$this->SMTPDebug = 1;
$this->Host = $this->_host;
$this->Port = 587;
$this->Username = $this->_user;
$this->Password = $this->_password;
$this->SMTPAuth = true;
$this->SMTPSecure = 'tls';
parent::__construct($exceptions);
}
// send security code email
public function sendSecurityCodeEmail( $email, $name, $code){
$mail_subject = "Security code account";
$html_body = "";
$mail_body = " Hey here is a test email and security code is: ". $code;
$email_sent = self::sendEmail($email, $name, $mail_subject, $html_body, $mail_body);
return $email_sent;
}
public static function sendEmail($to_email, $to_name, $subject, $html_body, $email_body){
$mail_sent = false;
try{
$mail = new PHPMailer;
$mail->setFrom("noreply#example.com", "Example");
$mail->addAddress($to_email,$to_name);
$mail->Subject = $subject;
if(!empty($html_body)) {
$mail->isHTML(true);
$mail->AltBody = $email_body;
$mail->Body = $html_body;
} else{
$mail->Body = $email_body;
}
if($mail->send()) $mail_sent = true;
}
catch (Exception $e) {
echo "Message could not be sent. Mailer Error: {$mail->ErrorInfo}";
}
return $mail_sent;
}
}
Getting errors Uncaught Error: Class 'PHPMailer\PHPMailer\Exception' not found. What is right way to implement it in my MVC project??

Answer 1

Incase someone having similar issues or looking for a MVC implementation: I made it work by adding the missing Exception.php in MyCustomMailer.php. Now it looks like this :
...
require_once(__DIR__.'/PHPMailer.php');
require_once(__DIR__.'/SMTP.php');
require_once(__DIR__.'/Exception.php');
...
It solved the PHPMailer\PHPMailer\Exception' not found problem. Then got another error Could not connect to SMTP host and solved it by updating the sendEmail function in MyCustomMailer.php. Here is the new sendEmail function:
public static function sendEmail($to_email, $to_name, $subject, $html_body, $email_body){
$mail_sent = false;
try{
$mail = new PHPMailer;
$mail->setFrom("noreply#example.com", "Example");
$mail->addAddress($to_email,$to_name);
$mail->Subject = $subject;
if(!empty($html_body)) {
$mail->isHTML(true);
$mail->AltBody = $email_body;
$mail->Body = $html_body;
} else{
$mail->Body = $email_body;
}
// added Gmail hack
$mail->SMTPOptions = array(
'ssl' => array(
'verify_peer' => false,
'verify_peer_name' => false,
'allow_self_signed' => true
)
);
if($mail->send()) $mail_sent = true;
}
catch (Exception $e) {
echo "Message could not be sent. Mailer Error: {$mail->ErrorInfo}";
}
return $mail_sent;
}
set the smtp username and password correctly and It's working just fine :) .