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Sidney Sousa
Sidney Sousa

Reputation: 3594

how can I use PHPMailer to send emails with themosis/wordpress framework?

I have a site that uses a framwork called(documentation here). A WordPress framework based on laravel, but I don't quite understand how the emails work.

The direct question is: how can I use PHPMailer to send emails?

At the moment, and for testing purposes, I want an email to be sent as soon as a page loads, so my controller method looks like the following:

<?php

namespace Theme\Controllers;

use Themosis\Route\BaseController;
use Phpmailer\PHPMailer;

class OtherController extends BaseController {
    $mail = new PHPMailer;
    $mail->isSMTP();
    $mail->Host = 'smtp.gmail.com';
    $mail->Port = 587;
    $mail->SMTPSecure = 'tls';
    $mail->SMTPAuth = true;
    $mail->Username = "My username";
    $mail->Password = "mypassword";
    $mail->setFrom('[email protected]', 'The name');
    $mail->addReplyTo('[email protected]', 'The name');
    $mail->addAddress('[email protected]', 'Address');
    $mail->Subject = 'Contact us form sent';
    $mail->Body = 'This is a plain-text message body';        

    return "Email sent";
}

I installed PHPMailer using composer, as per their documentation here.

When I hit the url, I get the following error:

Fatal error: Uncaught Symfony\Component\Debug\Exception\FatalThrowableError: Class 
'Phpmailer\PHPMailer' not found in 
/var/www/html/htdocs/content/themes/amarula/resources/controllers/OtherController.php on line 
141

Though the error message, I assume that the problem is in how I am attempting to access the mailer class, which is sitting in the vendor folder.

From the root of my application until my controller, the structure looks like the one below:

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Ultimately, the PHPMailer class sits under the vendor folder, like in the structure below:

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How do I access that class and send the email through my controller?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 308

Answers (2)

Synchro
Synchro

Reputation: 37760

You have this import:

use Phpmailer\PHPMailer;

That's not correct; it should be:

use PHPMailer\PHPMailer\PHPMailer;

The reason for this "triple name" is that it represents the PHPMailer class in the PHPMailer package belonging to the PHPMailer organisation.

One other thing that's kind of important - you won't receive any messages because you're never calling $mail->send().

Upvotes: 1

Макс Ляпцев
Макс Ляпцев

Reputation: 19

Firstly - PHPmailer\PHPMailer instead of Phpmailer\PHPMailer (https://github.com/PHPMailer/PHPMailer/blob/master/src/PHPMailer.php)

Second, you trying to find PHPMailer reletavely in namespace of your code. controllers/OtherController/PHPMailer/PHPMailer.php And, of course, it doesn't exsits.

You should use \PHPMailer\PHPMailer to find class by absolute path

For more information, read about namespaces - https://www.php.net/manual/en/language.namespaces.rationale.php

Upvotes: 1

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