Yii, PHPMailer Cannot be loaded - php

Question

im trying for days many ways to send email from a local server using gmail.. i once made it with a yii extension but after a while, its not working, i tried to add the whole PHPMailer and make the mailing with the proper way.
this is my code:
static function gmail($email)
{
$mail = new phpmailer();
$mail->IsSMTP();
$mail->Host = "smtp.gmail.com";
$mail->SMTPAuth = true;
$mail->SMTPSecure = "tls";
$mail->Port = 587;
$mail->Username = "mail#gmail.com";
$mail->Password = "password"; //best to keep this in your config file
$mail->Subject = 'subject';
$mail->Body = 'message';
$mail->addAddress($email);
$mail->send();
}
i downloaded the PHPMailer library from Github and extracted all to components folder.
The way how i added to config file is like this:
'import'=>array(
'application.models.*',
'application.components.*',
'application.components.PHPMailer.*'
),
on the first try i get this error include(phpmailer.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory
Update: i forgot to say, the way how i access this function is this way Mailer::gmail('$this->email'); where Mailer.php has the gmail function.

Answer 1

Double check your php.ini file to make sure phpmailer is located in the include_path because other than that based on the code you provided everything looks good.
(Sorry, would have put this in the comments but I am still unable to comment just yet.)

Answer 2

I'm not quite sure, I am using Yiis phpmailer extension for several month and it always worked very well.
However, try this with the Github thing:
require_once <PATH TO PHPMAILER> . 'class.phpmailer.php';
$mail = new PHPMailer();
[...] Rest of your code here
Replace with the absulute path to your class.phpmailer.php

Answer 3

i was able to send the mail by checking on gmail history security, it was showing that someone was trying to access my account with invalid authorization, i ended up by using YiiMailer, its a bit confusing about gmail.
the code was like this:
$mail = new YiiMailer();
//$mail->clearLayout();//if layout is already set in config
$mail->IsSMTP(); // enable SMTP
$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 = "account#gmail.com";
$mail->Password = "password";
$mail->setFrom('no-reply#strandedgrounds.sr', 'Stranded Grounds');
$mail->setSubject('Recuperacion de contraseña');
$mail->AddAddress("mail#hotmail.com");
$mail->send();