Phpmailer configure

Question

I have installed phpmailer for cpanel using composer successfully.

The location of PHPMailer is at

root\vendor\phpmailer\phpmailer

now I want to use PHPmailer in one of my files at

root\public_html

What changes do I have to make to the following lines ?

use PHPMailer\PHPMailer\PHPMailer;
use PHPMailer\PHPMailer\Exception; 
require 'vendor/autoload.php';

the code is not working with the above configuration.The rest of code is same as that given in the documentation (with correct values filled)

Answer 1

If your current working directory is root\public_html (I'm assuming you're on Windows since you're using \ in paths) and you want to load the composer autoloader from there when it's stored in root\vendor\autoload.php, you should load it from a relative path like this:

use PHPMailer\PHPMailer\PHPMailer;
use PHPMailer\PHPMailer\Exception; 
require '../vendor/autoload.php';

Note that the namespace aliases (the use lines) do not change.

While this should work, a better solution is to add your app's root folder (in this example root\, wherever that is as an absolute path) to your php.ini's include_path setting, and that way the original vendor/autoload.php will work.