PHP MAILER - EMAIL SENDING - php

Question

I want to send a confirmation mail to an user who is trying to register. Iam using PHP Mailer for sending mails. Here is my code:
require_once("PHPMailer/class.phpmailer.php");
$mail = new PHPMailer();
$mail->IsSMTP();
$mail->Host = "localhost";
$mail->SMTPAuth = true;// turn on SMTP authentication
$mail->Username = "root";// SMTP username
$mail->Password = "";// SMTP password
$mail->SetLanguage("en","PHPMailer/language");
//compose mail
$mail->From = "admin#localhost.com";
$mail->FromName = "Cinema Admin";
$mail->AddAddress($_POST['email']);
$mail->AddReplyTo("admin#localhost.com", "Cinema Admin");
$mail->Subject = 'Your confirmation link here';
$mail->Body = "Your confirmation link\r\n";
$mail->Body .= "Click on this link to activate your sccount\r\n";
$mail->Body .= "http://localhost/user.login_plugin/confirm.php?passkey=$confirm_code";
//send mail
if (!$mail->Send())
{
echo "Message was not sent <p>";
echo "Mailer Error: " . $mail->ErrorInfo;
exit;
}
echo "Message has been sent";
When I execute the file,it says
Message was not sent
Mailer Error: SMTP connect() failed.
Could anyone suggest me for sending mails from localhost to the registered user's emailid.
I had searched with few titles regarding "ending emails" in stack overflow, but couldn't find any solution from any posts.
Thank You in advance

Answer 1

Could you try remove the smtp part? From your comment , you do not have mail server setup.
$mail = new PHPMailer();
$mail->SetLanguage("en","PHPMailer/language"); // remove smtp things

Answer 2

You must need a SMTP details in order to send an email using SMTP, For example if you want to setup SMTP using gmail,
$mail->IsSMTP(); // telling the class to use SMTP
$mail->SMTPAuth = true; // enable SMTP authentication
$mail->SMTPSecure = "tls"; // sets the prefix to the servier
$mail->Host = "smtp.gmail.com"; // sets GMAIL as the SMTP server
$mail->Port = 587; // set the SMTP port for the GMAIL server
$mail->Username = "yourusername#gmail.com"; // GMAIL username
$mail->Password = "yourpassword"; // GMAIL password
If you don't want use SMTP, you can called default mail function
$mail->IsMail(); //Sets Mailer to send message using PHP mail() function.