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PHPMailer() isn't working - help?

Posted on January 12, 2015

I am trying to send outgoing emails from my PHP app. Here is the error I get:

“Fatal error: Class ‘PHPMailer’ not found in /usr/share/nginx/templates/webapp.php”

And here is my PHP code for sending the mail, with the require commented out:

//require ( ‘class.phpmailer.php’); $mail = new PHPMailer();
$mail->IsSMTP(); // telling the class to use SMTP $mail->Host = “mail.yourdomain.com”; // SMTP server $mail->SMTPDebug = 0; // enables SMTP debug information (for testing) $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 <etc…> $mail -> isHTML(true); // ALLOWS HTML EMAIL FORMATTING $mail-> Subject = $emailsubject ; $mail -> Body = $emailbody ; if ($mail->Send() == false ) { die($mail->ErrInfo) ; }

When I include the ‘require’ statement, I get the following error:

Warning: require(class.phpmailer.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /usr/share/nginx/templates/webapp.php

Help? Thanks!!



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Ok, when you uncomment the require function it looks for the file class.phpmailer.php so you either need to put that file in the same directory as webapp.php or you need to specify where the php script is. You can modify your require function to point to the script so it would look somethikng like this

require ('path/to/file/class.phpmailer.php');

Hope this helps.

Good Luck!

try with the latest PHPMailer example in here >> https://github.com/PHPMailer/PHPMailer

and you can check whether MTA is working on your machine(linux) by sending a test email by following command

echo "this is email body"|mail -s "This is email subject"  youremail@emailhost.com

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