send email on localhost with PHP - php

Question

I want to send an email on localhost but don't really know how to do it.
I tried some different ways but it doesn't work.
I used PHPMailer https://github.com/PHPMailer/PHPMailer/tree/5.2-stable as the mailserver but I think thats maybe wrong implemented or so.
Don't know if it's important but I use MAMP.
This is what I currently have:
<?php
if (isset($_POST['submit'])) {
require("PHPMailer/PHPMailerAutoload.php");
ini_set("SMTP","ssl://smtp.gmail.com");
ini_set("smtp_port","465");
$mail = new PHPMailer();
$mail->SMTPAuth = true;
$mail->Host = "smtp.gmail.com";
$mail->SMTPSecure = "ssl";
$mail->SMTPAuth = true;
$mail->Username = "mail account";
$mail->Password = "password for account";
$mail->Port = "465";
$mail->setFrom('receiver mail', 'TEST');
$mail->addReplyTo('receiver mail', 'TEST');
$mail->addAddress('recipient mail');
$mail->Port = "465";
$mail->isHTML(true);
$mail->Subject = "test";
// get text from input fields
$email = $_POST['email'];
$name = $_POST['name'];
$address = $_POST['address'];
$city = $_POST['city'];
$number = $_POST['number'];
$textarea = $_POST['textarea'];
$bodyContent =
"<p>Name: " . $name . "</p>
<p>E-Mail: " . $email . "</p>
<p>Telefonnummer: " . $number . "</p>
<p>Adresse: " . $address . $city . "</p>
<p>Anliegen: " . $textarea . "</p>";
$mail->Body = $bodyContent;
if (!$mail->send()) {
echo 'Message could not be sent.';
echo 'Mailer Error' . $mail->ErrorInfo;
} else {
echo 'Message has been sent.';
}
}
?>

Answer 1

Comment out the following two lines :
// ini_set("SMTP","ssl://smtp.gmail.com");
// ini_set("smtp_port","465");
And add the following under the line with $mail = new PHPMailer();
$mail->isSMTP();
And it will work, I have tried it on my laptop on XAMPP.

Answer 2

Okay, i finally found the solution. I updated my code to this
<?php
if (isset($_POST['sendButton'])) {
require("PHPMailer/PHPMailerAutoload.php");
require 'PHPMailer/class.phpmailer.php';
$mail = new PHPMailer();
$mail->isSMTP();
$mail->SMTPAuth = true;
$mail->Host = "smtp.gmail.com";
$mail->SMTPSecure = "tls";
$mail->SMTPAuth = true;
$mail->Username = "secret";
$mail->Password = "secret";
$subject = utf8_decode('test');
$mail->setFrom('secret', $subject);
$mail->addReplyTo('secret', $subject);
$mail->addAddress('secret');
$mail->Subject = utf8_decode('test');
$mail->Port = "587";
$mail->isHTML(true);
$email = $_POST['email'];
$name = $_POST['name'];
$address = $_POST['address'];
$city = $_POST['city'];
$number = $_POST['number'];
$sendText = $_POST['sendText'];
$bodyContent =
"<p>Name: " . $name . "</p>
<p>E-Mail: " . $email . "</p>
<p>Telefonnummer: " . $number . "</p>
<p>Adresse: " . $address . ' ' . $city . "</p>
<p>Anliegen: " . $sendText . "</p>";
$mail->Body = $bodyContent;
}
?>
Besides I had to go to myaccount.google.com -> "Sign-in & security" -> "Apps with account access", and turn "Allow less secure apps" to "ON"
Now everything is fine.
Thank you for your help guys