Not getting emails from form with PHPmailer - php

Question

I am trying to make a registration page with an email activation form using the php mailer library. After filling out the form and submitting the page I receive I don't receive any errors. I've checked my email multiple times and I don't seem to be receiving any emails. Since there are no errors, I'm not sure what else to look for. Has anyone ever had a similar problem before? Could it be an issue from gmail?
Heres my Send_mail.php
<?php
function Send_Mail($to,$subject,$body)
{
require 'PHPMailerAutoload.php';
$mail = new PHPMailer;
$from = "batoosay#gmail.com";
$mail = new PHPMailer();
$mail->IsSMTP(true); // use SMTP
$mail->IsHTML(true);
$mail->SMTPAuth = true; // enable SMTP authentication
$mail->Host = "tls://smtp.gmail.com"; // SMTP host
$mail->Port = 465; // set the SMTP port
$mail->Username = "batoosay#gmail.com"; // SMTP username
$mail->Password = "password"; // SMTP password
$mail->SetFrom($from, 'From Name');
$mail->AddReplyTo($from,'From Name');
$mail->Subject = $subject;
$mail->MsgHTML($body);
$address = $to;
$mail->AddAddress($address, $to);
$mail->Send();
}
?>
And here is my index.php
<?php
include 'db.php';
$msg='';
if(!empty($_POST['email']) && isset($_POST['email']) && !empty($_POST['password']) && isset($_POST['password']) )
{
// username and password sent from form
$email=mysqli_real_escape_string($connection,$_POST['email']);
$password=mysqli_real_escape_string($connection,$_POST['password']);
// regular expression for email check
$regex = '/^[_a-z0-9-]+(\.[_a-z0-9-]+)*#[a-z0-9-]+(\.[a-z0-9-]+)*(\.[a-z]{2,4})$/';
if(preg_match($regex, $email))
{
$password=md5($password); // encrypted password
$activation=md5($email.time()); // encrypted email+timestamp
$count=mysqli_query($connection,"SELECT uid FROM users WHERE email='$email'");
// email check
if(mysqli_num_rows($count) < 1)
{
mysqli_query($connection,"INSERT INTO users(email,password,activation) VALUES('$email','$password','$activation')");
// sending email
include 'Send_Mail.php';
$to=$email;
$subject="Email verification";
$body='Hi, <br/> <br/> We need to make sure you are human. Please verify your email and get started using your Website account. <br/> <br/> '.$base_url.'activation/'.$activation.'';
Send_Mail($to,$subject,$body);
$msg= "Registration successful, please activate email.";
}
else
{
$msg= 'The email is already taken, please try new.';
}
}
else
{
$msg = 'The email you have entered is invalid, please try again.';
}
}
// HTML Part
?>
BTW it loads for a very long time.

Answer 1

Please base your code on the gmail example provided with PHPMailer, as it is supplied with correct settings.
The syntax you've used in the Host property is fine (though not as common as setting SMTPSecure = 'tls'), but you're using the wrong port to use STARTTLS (which is what it uses when you specify tls) - you need to use Port = 587. This is probably what is causing your delay. If that doesn't work, read the troubleshooting guide.