Laravel 5 and PHPMailer - php

Question

Does anybody have a working example how I can work with PHPMailer in Laravel 5? In Laravel 4 it was quiet simple to use but the same method doesn't work in L5. Here it is what I did in L4:
Added in composer.json:
"phpmailer/phpmailer": "dev-master",
And in the controller I've used it like this:
$mail = new PHPMailer(true);
try {
$mail->SMTPAuth(...);
$mail->SMTPSecure(...);
$mail->Host(...);
$mail->port(...);
.
.
.
$mail->MsgHTML($body);
$mail->Send();
} catch (phpmailerException $e) {
.
.
} catch (Exception $e) {
.
.
}
But it doesn't work in L5. Any idea? Thanks!

Answer 1

Well there are multiple mistakes i think...
This is a working example of sending mail with PhpMailer in Laravel 5. Just tested it.
$mail = new \PHPMailer(true); // notice the \ you have to use root namespace here
try {
$mail->isSMTP(); // tell to use smtp
$mail->CharSet = "utf-8"; // set charset to utf8
$mail->SMTPAuth = true; // use smpt auth
$mail->SMTPSecure = "tls"; // or ssl
$mail->Host = "yourmailhost";
$mail->Port = 2525; // most likely something different for you. This is the mailtrap.io port i use for testing.
$mail->Username = "username";
$mail->Password = "password";
$mail->setFrom("youremail#yourdomain.de", "Firstname Lastname");
$mail->Subject = "Test";
$mail->MsgHTML("This is a test");
$mail->addAddress("recipient#anotherdomain.de", "Recipient Name");
$mail->send();
} catch (phpmailerException $e) {
dd($e);
} catch (Exception $e) {
dd($e);
}
die('success');
And of course, you need to do a composer update after adding the depency to composer.json
However, i would prefer the laravel built in SwiftMailer.
http://laravel.com/docs/5.0/mail

Answer 2

In Laravel 5.5 or Above, you need to do the following steps
Install the PHPMailer on your laravel Application.
composer require phpmailer/phpmailer
Then goto your controller where you want to use phpmailer.
<?php
namespace App\Http\Controllers;
use PHPMailer\PHPMailer;
class testPHPMailer extends Controller
{
public function index()
{
$text = 'Hello Mail';
$mail = new PHPMailer\PHPMailer(); // create a n
$mail->SMTPDebug = 1; // debugging: 1 = errors and messages, 2 = messages only
$mail->SMTPAuth = true; // authentication enabled
$mail->SMTPSecure = 'ssl'; // secure transfer enabled REQUIRED for Gmail
$mail->Host = "smtp.gmail.com";
$mail->Port = 465; // or 587
$mail->IsHTML(true);
$mail->Username = "testmail#gmail.com";
$mail->Password = "testpass";
$mail->SetFrom("testmail#gmail.com", 'Sender Name');
$mail->Subject = "Test Subject";
$mail->Body = $text;
$mail->AddAddress("testreciver#gmail.com", "Receiver Name");
if ($mail->Send()) {
return 'Email Sended Successfully';
} else {
return 'Failed to Send Email';
}
}
}