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Michael Collin
Michael Collin

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Why phpMailer gives me the error : can't use function return value in write context

I've installed phpMailer 6.5.1 under PHP 7.3.21 (Wampserver). I've used the example given on their site to send a simple mail and it works correctly.

When I copy both phpMailer and my script on production under PHP 5.4.20, I have the error "can't use function return value in write context in src/PHPMailer on line 1700".

That error appear just after including that file.

Thank you for your ideas!

    use PHPMailer\PHPMailer\PHPMailer;
    use PHPMailer\PHPMailer\SMTP;
    use PHPMailer\PHPMailer\Exception;

    require 'librairies/vendor/phpmailer/phpmailer/src/Exception.php';
    require 'librairies/vendor/phpmailer/phpmailer/src/PHPMailer.php'; **error here**
    require 'librairies/vendor/phpmailer/phpmailer/src/SMTP.php';
    
    require 'librairies/vendor/autoload.php'; 
$mail = new PHPMailer();
    $mail->SMTPDebug = SMTP::DEBUG_CONNECTION; 
    $mail->IsSMTP();
    $mail->Host = 'host';               //Adresse IP ou DNS du serveur SMTP
    $mail->Port = 587;                          //Port TCP du serveur SMTP
    $mail->SMTPAuth = true;                        //Utiliser l'identification

    if($mail->SMTPAuth){
       // $mail->SMTPSecure = PHPMailer::ENCRYPTION_SMTPS;    //Protocole de sécurisation des échanges avec le SMTP
       $mail->Username   =  'user';   //Adresse email à utiliser
       $mail->Password   =  'pass';         //Mot de passe de l'adresse email à utiliser
    }
    
    $mail->CharSet = 'UTF-8'; //Format d'encodage à utiliser pour les caractères
    
    $mail->smtpConnect();```

Upvotes: 0

Views: 675

Answers (1)

Nathan
Nathan

Reputation: 398

PhpMailer 6.5.1 is not compatible with your server-side PHP version (5.4.2). Either you upgrade the PHP on your server to at least 5.5 or you use a legacy version of PHMailer. See PHPMailer installation notes below.

PHPMailer 5.2 (which is compatible with PHP 5.0 — 7.0) is no longer supported, even for security updates. You will find the latest version of 5.2 in the 5.2-stable branch. If you're using PHP 5.5 or later (which you should be), switch to the 6.x releases.

https://github.com/PHPMailer/PHPMailer#legacy-versions

Upvotes: 1

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