New PHPMailer required PHPMailerAutoload.php? - php

Question

I'm working on a project, And i need send email after enter email and password by user. They can activate them account click that send email. But i got error when i using PHPMailer. Error was that like
Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Class 'PHPMailer\PHPMailer' not found in
C:\xampp\htdocs\E-Commerce-New-2\registration.php:20 Stack trace: #0
{main} thrown in C:\xampp\htdocs\E-Commerce-New-2\registration.php on
line 20
In new PHPMailer version use PHPMailerAutoload.php file? I think answer is no.
I tried use that code $mail = new PHPMailer\PHPMailer(); and also this code $mail = new PHPMailer(); No one is worked yet. I put my file structure down below
And here i'm past my codes lines.
<?php
session_start();
include("includes/db.php");
include("functions/functions.php");
include('PHPMailer/PHPMailer.php');
?>
<?php
// If the values are posted, insert them into the database.
if (isset($_POST['email']) && isset($_POST['password'])){
$email = $_POST['email'];
$password = $_POST['password'];
$verification_key = md5($email);
$query = "INSERT INTO `customers` (customer_pass,customer_email,verification_key) VALUES ('$password', '$email','$verification_key')";
$result = mysqli_query($con, $query);
if($result){
$mail = new PHPMailer\PHPMailer();
$mail->setFrom('noreplay#clickshop.com');
$mail->addAddress($email,'test');
$mail->Subject = "Verify Your Account";
$mail->isHTML(true);
$mail->Body = ' Please verify your email address to activate your account by clicking on this link <br>
<a href="http://localhost/E-Commerce-New-2/verify.php?key="'. $verification_key.'>Click Here</a>';
if(!$mail->send()) {
$fmsg= 'Message could not be sent. Mailer Error: ' . $mail->ErrorInfo;
} else {
$smsg = 'User Registration successfull. Please Check your email to Activate Account!';
}
}else{
$fmsg = "User registration failed";
}
}
?>
Can anybody give me a suggestion?

Answer 1

In the new PHPMailer v6.0+, you will now need to import the PHPMailer classes into the global namespace at the very top of your PHP script.
use PHPMailer\PHPMailer\PHPMailer;
use PHPMailer\PHPMailer\Exception;
require 'path/to/PHPMailer/src/Exception.php';
require 'path/to/PHPMailer/src/PHPMailer.php';
require 'path/to/PHPMailer/src/SMTP.php';
$mail = new PHPMailer();
$mail->IsSMTP();
$mail->Host = "mail.example.com";
$mail->SetFrom("$from", "$from");
$mail->AddAddress("$to");
$mail->Subject = "$subject";
$mail->Body = "$message";
$mail->Send();