How to send email via controller with MVC - php

Question

I haven't sent email using MVC before and am getting a bit stuck.
In my app folder, I have a libraries folder which has Controller.php, Core.php, Database.php and I created Email.php
In Email.php I have a class:
use PHPMailer\PHPMailer\PHPMailer;
use PHPMailer\PHPMailer\Exception;
require '../vendor/autoload.php';
class Email {
public function sendMail()
{
$mail = new PHPMailer(true); // Passing `true` enables exceptions
try {
//Server settings
$mail->SMTPDebug = 2; // Enable verbose debug output
$mail->isSMTP(); // Set mailer to use SMTP
$mail->Host = 'mail.example.com'; // Specify main and backup SMTP servers
$mail->SMTPAuth = true; // Enable SMTP authentication
$mail->Username = 'mail#example.com'; // SMTP username
$mail->Password = 'secret'; // SMTP password
$mail->SMTPSecure = 'tls'; // Enable TLS encryption, `ssl` also accepted
$mail->Port = 587; // TCP port to connect to
//Recipients
$mail->setFrom('mail#example.com');
$mail->addAddress('someone#example.com'); // Add a recipient // Name is optional
$mail->addReplyTo('mail#example.com');
//Content
$mail->isHTML(true); // Set email format to HTML
$mail->Subject = 'Here is the subject';
$mail->Body = 'This is the HTML message body <b>in bold!</b>';
$mail->AltBody = 'This is the body in plain text for non-HTML mail clients';
$mail->send();
echo 'Message has been sent';
} catch (Exception $e) {
echo 'Message could not be sent.';
echo 'Mailer Error: ' . $mail->ErrorInfo;
}
}
}
I am now trying to trigger the sending of the email when I access the email view. However, I don't know what to put in the controller. The code below gives me an error.
public function email()
{
$this->sendMail();
$this->view('pages/email');
}
Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Call to undefined method Pages::sendMail()

Answer 1

You have to create an instance of the class Email:
$email = new Email();
$email->sendMail();