PHPMailer not working on Web Hosting - php

Question

I have been able to send emails using xampp, but when I tried to use it in my online server it doesn't seem to work. I tried changing the values on what was written on my email account information. It doesn't seem work, I was hoping for any guidance or help for anyone who has encountered this problem.
This is the email account details
then this is my code for my mailer.php
<?php
use PHPMailer\PHPMailer\PHPMailer;
use PHPMailer\PHPMailer\Exception;
require 'vendor/autoload.php';
$mail = new PHPMailer(true);
try {
$mail->SMTPDebug = 2;
$mail->isSMTP();
$mail->Host = 'localhost';
$mail->Username = 'email';
$mail->Password = 'password';
$mail->SMTPSecure = 'ssl';
$mail->SMTPAuth = true;
$mail->Port = 465;
$mail->setFrom('email', 'Test Message');
$mail->addAddress("email");
$mail->isHTML(true);
$mail->Subject = 'This is the Subject';
$mail->Body = 'This has been sent';
$mail->AltBody = 'This has been sent';
$mail->send();
echo 'Message has been sent';
} catch (Exception $e) {
echo 'Message could not be sent. Mailer Error: <br>', $mail->ErrorInfo;
}
I get the error SMTP ERROR: Failed to connect to server: Connection refused (111)
SMTP connect() failed.
I am still kinda new to this, so sorry in advance for anything. I feel I am soo close to getting it work haha!
Thanks in advance for any help! :D

Answer 1

it's so simple... Use this code:
<?php
use PHPMailer\PHPMailer\PHPMailer;
use PHPMailer\PHPMailer\Exception;
require 'PHPMailer/src/Exception.php';
require 'PHPMailer/src/PHPMailer.php';
require 'PHPMailer/src/SMTP.php';
$mail = new PHPMailer(true);
$name = 'Name to be displayed!';
$message = 'Never Give Up!';
$subject = 'Test mail!';
$mail->isSMTP();
$mail->Host = 'smtp.gmail.com';
$mail->Port = 587;
$mail->SMTPAuth = true;
$mail->Username = 'yourmail#gmail.com';
$mail->Password = 'youpass';
$mail->SMTPSecure = 'tls';
$mail->addReplyTo($to, $name);
$mail->setFrom($to, $name);
$mail->addAddress($to);
$mail->Subject = $subject;
$mail->msgHtml($message);
$mail->send();
?>
Hope you added PHPMailer Library in Root Directory if not then please check the path also