PHPMailer is not working at all - php

Question

I'm trying to configure PHPMailer I've uploaded 1 file which is class.phpmailer.php and created another php file with this content:
<?php
require('class.phpmailer.php');
$mail = new PHPMailer(); // create a new object
$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 = "myemail#gmail.com";
$mail->Password = "mypassword";
$mail->SetFrom("the same email address");
$mail->Subject = "Test";
$mail->Body = "hello";
$mail->AddAddress("the same email address");
if(!$mail->Send())
{
echo "Mailer Error: " . $mail->ErrorInfo;
}
else
{
echo "Message has been sent";
}
?>
and i get nothing at all not a success message nor a failure message. http://www.mawk3y.net/mailtest/test.php

Answer 1

all answers are outdated now. Most current version (as of Feb 2018) does not have autoload anymore, and PHPMailer should be initialized as follows:
<?php
include_once(FCPATH.'PHPMailer/src/PHPMailer.php');
include_once(FCPATH.'PHPMailer/src/SMTP.php');
include_once(FCPATH.'PHPMailer/src/Exception.php');
$msj="My complete message";
$mail = new PHPMailer\PHPMailer\PHPMailer();
$mail->IsSMTP(); // enable SMTP
$mail->SMTPDebug = 1; // debugging: 1 = errors and messages, 2 = messages only
//authentication SMTP enabled
$mail->SMTPAuth = true;
$mail->SMTPSecure = 'ssl'; // secure transfer enabled REQUIRED for Gmail
$mail->Host = "smtp.gmail.com";
//indico el puerto que usa Gmail 465 or 587
$mail->Port = 465;
$mail->Username = "xxxxxx";
$mail->Password = "xxxx";
$mail->SetFrom("xxxxxx#xxxxx.com","Name");
$mail->AddReplyTo("xxx#xxx.com","Name Replay");
$mail->Subject = "Test";
$mail->MsgHTML($msj);
$mail->AddAddress("xxxxxx#xxxxx.com");
if(!$mail->Send()) {
echo "Mailer Error: " . $mail->ErrorInfo;
} else {
echo "Message has been sent";
}
?>

Answer 2

The problem is with the require method.
You first have to extract all file of phpMailer repository.
instead of writing
require('class.phpmailer.php');
you need to include path where your PHPMailerAutoload.php file extracted.so you can replace it with.
require('path-of-extracted-folder/PHPMailerAutoload.php');
for more reference you can visit it's GitHub link
https://github.com/PHPMailer/PHPMailer

Answer 3

I had same problem but I solved.This is the way I code
<?php
require 'PHPMailer-master/PHPMailerAutoload.php';
//Create a new PHPMailer instance
$mail = new PHPMailer;
// Set PHPMailer to use the sendmail transport
$mail->isSMTP();
$mail->Host = 'smtp.gmail.com'; // Specify main and backup SMTP servers
$mail->SMTPAuth = true; // Enable SMTP authentication
$mail->Username = 'abc#gmail.com'; // SMTP username
$mail->Password = 'abc'; // SMTP password
$mail->SMTPSecure = 'tls'; // Enable TLS encryption, `ssl` also accepted
$mail->Port = 587; // TCP port to connect to
//Set who the message is to be sent from
$mail->setFrom('abc1#gmail.com', 'First Last');
//Set an alternative reply-to address
//Set who the message is to be sent to
$mail->addAddress('abc#gmail.com', 'Shehan');
//Set the subject line
$mail->Subject = 'Test Mail';
$mail->Body = 'This is Test Mail';
//send the message, check for errors
if (!$mail->send()) {
echo "Mailer Error: " . $mail->ErrorInfo;
} else {
echo "Message sent!";
}
?>