Call to a member function MsgHTML() on a non-object in php - php

Question

I have been created simple mail sending from localhost using php,
Her is the code:
HTML:
<form method="post" action="email.php">
Email: <input name="email" id="email" type="text" /><br />
Message:<br />
<textarea name="message" id="message" rows="15" cols="40"></textarea><br />
<input type="submit" value="Submit" />
</form>
EMAIL.PHP:
<?php
require_once('class.phpmailer.php');
$mail->MsgHTML($body);
$body ='A sample email';
$mailer->IsSMTP();
$mailer->SMTPDebug = 0;
$mailer->SMTPAuth = true;
$mailer->SMTPSecure = 'ssl';
$mailer->Port = 465;//587;
$mailer->Host = 'smtp.gmail.com';
$mailer->Username = 'YYYYYYYYYY#gmail.com';
$mailer->Password = 'XXXXXXXXX';
?>
when run this code,
following error displayed,
Fatal error: Call to a member function MsgHTML() on a non-object online 6
note: where is got phpmailer.php source code from this link
I m new to php, but i want to know, particular this section.
Can anyone help me to fix this,
Thanks in advance,

Answer 1

Perhaps $mail is not instantiated, and spelled wrong (did you mean $mailer?). Also, you should set $body before MsgHTML($body). From your link, you may want to add this
$mailer = new PHPMailer;
and make changes like so:
$mailer = new PHPMailer;
$body ='A sample email';
//$mail->MsgHTML($body);
$mailer->MsgHTML($body);
$mailer->IsSMTP();
...
Here is an example of an HTML-form and PHPMailer:
HTML
<form method="post" action="email.php">
Email: <input name="email" id="email" type="text" /><br />
Message:<br />
<textarea name="message" id="message" rows="15" cols="40"></textarea><br />
<input type="submit" value="Submit" />
</form>
mail.php
<?php
// $email and $message are the data that is being
// posted to this page from our html contact form
$email = $_REQUEST['email'] ;
$message = $_REQUEST['message'] ;
require_once('class.phpmailer.php');
$mail = new PHPMailer();
// set mailer to use SMTP
$mail->IsSMTP();
// As this email.php script lives on the same server as our email server
// we are setting the HOST to localhost
$mail->Host = "localhost"; // specify main and backup server
$mail->SMTPAuth = true; // turn on SMTP authentication
// When sending email using PHPMailer, you need to send from a valid email address
// In this case, we setup a test email account with the following credentials:
// email: send_from_PHPMailer#bradm.inmotiontesting.com
// pass: password
$mail->Username = "send_from_PHPMailer#bradm.inmotiontesting.com"; // SMTP username
$mail->Password = "password"; // SMTP password
// $email is the user's email address the specified
// on our contact us page. We set this variable at
// the top of this page with:
// $email = $_REQUEST['email'] ;
$mail->From = $email;
// below we want to set the email address we will be sending our email to.
$mail->AddAddress("bradm#inmotiontesting.com", "Brad Markle");
// set word wrap to 50 characters
$mail->WordWrap = 50;
// set email format to HTML
$mail->IsHTML(true);
$mail->Subject = "You have received feedback from your website!";
// $message is the user's message they typed in
// on our contact us page. We set this variable at
// the top of this page with:
// $message = $_REQUEST['message'] ;
$mail->Body = $message;
$mail->AltBody = $message;
if(!$mail->Send())
{
echo "Message could not be sent. <p>";
echo "Mailer Error: " . $mail->ErrorInfo;
exit;
}
echo "Message has been sent";
?>