How to configure PHPmailer to sendmail and Gmail for localhost? - php

Question

I've been looking for answer more than a week. Im stuck with this problem. I have downloaded sendmail folder and configure it. Yes it says true message sent but actually it doesnt went to the mail. So I decided to put PHPmailer as I have read at some websites. i downloaded PHPmailer and configure it also. and when I am running it there is an error. Fatal error: Class 'SMTP' not found in C:\wamp\www\Project\PHPMailer\class.phpmailer.php on line 1197.
And I have also read some solution that paste the code before the line 104 #connectto the smtp server. but my line 104 looks like this.
public $CRLF = "\r\n";
/**
* Debug output level.
* Options:
* * self::DEBUG_OFF (`0`) No debug output, default
* * self::DEBUG_CLIENT (`1`) Client commands
* * self::DEBUG_SERVER (`2`) Client commands and server responses
* * self::DEBUG_CONNECTION (`3`) As DEBUG_SERVER plus connection status
* * self::DEBUG_LOWLEVEL (`4`) Low-level data output, all messages
* #type integer
*/
public $do_debug = self::DEBUG_OFF;
Can you help me guys. Im stuck here.

Answer 1

Have you got the newest PHPMailer with the autoloader?
See https://github.com/PHPMailer/PHPMailer as the mailer no longer calls the SMTP class from within the PHPMailer class. This was a pain when I updated as calling the mailer directly produced this error.
Also turn on PHPMailers debugging feedback and see what it says.

Answer 2

Here is a sendMail() method that I use in a lot of projects. It uses PHPMailer.
function sendMail($toAddress, $subject, $body, $AttachmentFilePath) {
$mail = new PHPMailer();
$mail->IsSMTP ();
$mail->CharSet = 'UTF-8';
// nable SMTP debugging
// 0 = off (for production use)
// 1 = client messages
// 2 = client and server messages
$mail->SMTPDebug = 0; // To prevent any outpur
// Ask for HTML-friendly debug output
$mail->Debugoutput = 'html';
// Get the hostname of the mail server
$mail->Host = 'smtp.gmail.com';
// Get the SMTP port number - 587 for authenticated TLS, a.k.a. RFC4409 SMTP submission
$mail->Port = 587;
// Get the encryption system to use - ssl (deprecated) or tls
$mail->SMTPSecure = 'tls';
// Whether to use SMTP authentication
$mail->SMTPAuth = TRUE;
// Username to use for SMTP authentication - use full email address for gmail
$mail->Username = "your.email#gmail.com";
// Password to use for SMTP authentication. Specific to the Lead Qualifier Tool
$mail->Password = "YourPassWordHere";
// Set who the message is to be sent from
$mail->SetFrom ( 'your.email#gmail.com', 'Your Name' );
// To Address
$mail->AddAddress ( $toAddress, $toAddress );
$mail->Subject = $subject;
$mail->Body = $body;
$mail->AltBody = $body;
// Add attachment
if ($AttachmentFilePath != NULL)
$mail->AddAttachment ( $AttachmentFilePath );
if (! $mail->Send ()) {
echo "<br />Error while sending e-mail: " . $mail->ErrorInfo;
} else {
// echo "Message sent!";
}
}
Hope it helps! :-)
Also, since you are using GMail, make sure you create an ASP(Application Specific Password), and use it here, and not your real password.