PHPMailer Problems - php

Question

Okay, so I've downloaded PHP Mailer's class, required it using require_once then make a function for sending mail:
public function sendMail($to, $subject, $body) {
$mail = new phpmailer;
$mail->IsSMTP(); // set mailer to use SMTP
$mail->SMTPAuth = true;
$mail->Username = 'USERNAME';
$mail->Password = 'PASSWORD';
$mail->Port = 465;
$mail->SMTPSecure = 'SSL';
$mail->From = "EMAIL";
$mail->FromName = "FROM NAME";
$mail->Host = "smtp.gmail.com;"; // specify main and backup server
if(is_array($to)) {
foreach($to as $x) {
$mail->AddAddress($x);
}
} else {
$mail->AddAddress($to);
}
$mail->AddReplyTo("REPLY EMAIL", "REPLY NAME");
$mail->WordWrap = 50; // set word wrap
$mail->IsHTML(true); // set email format to HTML
$mail->Subject = $subject;
$mail->Body = $body;
if(!$mail->Send()){
return false;
}
}
And when I go to do (it's in the class $core)
if($core->sendMail('MYEMAIL#gmail.com', 'Something', 'Some body')) {
echo 'Mail sent';
} else {
echo 'Fail';
}
It returns fail. The code in the script holds the correct information, I've just used placeholders for posting it here.

Answer 1

$mail contains the error message, do the following:
if (!$mail->Send()) {
throw new Exception($mail->ErrorInfo);
}
instead of just returning "false".

Answer 2

if(!$mail->Send()){
return false;
}
should be
if(!$mail->Send()){
return false;
} else {
return true;
}
because functions by default return false, when the return value is not specified inside the function.
You can also go with the cleaner version:
return $mail->Send();