Autoload PHP mailer is not working

[Muhammad Shahzad]

Hi,

I'm facing "Fatal error: Class 'PHPMailer\PHPMailer\PHPMailer' not found", I have downloaded php mailer library from here:
https://github.com/PHPMailer/PHPMailer and put it into lib/vendor/phpmailer and when I want to create a object of PHPMailer class it show me error class not found.
Is something am I doing wrong?

In my index.php lib is included in autoloader like this:

    $f3->mset(array(
        ...
        "AUTOLOAD" => "app/;../fatfree/lib/vendor/",

and in test controller I'm creating object like this:

namespace Controller;

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

class Test extends \Controller {

   public function index($f3){

        $mail = new PHPMailer(true);
   }

}

[ved]

Don't really know the answer to that issue, but it's most likely an issue with paths and/or namespaces and/or some conflict with F3's autoloader.

I would suggest that you load F3 and all other external libs using Composer which will make that and pretty much all path and namespace issues obsolete.

[Rayne]

I don't understand why you would add third party code to Fat-Free's directory.

PHPMailer 6 is not compatible with F3's autoloader as it doesn't provide a 1:1 mapping of its namespace to a directory hierarchy. If you want to use F3's autoloader you have to create a PHPMailer/PHPMailer directory and copy the content of src to that new directory.

PHPMailer 5 (https://github.com/PHPMailer/PHPMailer/tree/5.2-stable) is also not compatible with F3's autoloader but it provides an own loader:

require_once "PHPMailerAutoload.php";

I would recommend to use the latest version (6) with Composer instead.

[Muhammad Shahzad]

Hi,

I want to use this because of its advance code and functionality but now I have decided to not use.

Thanks

[Roy H.G.]

The simplest is using composer to install,

The others you should check the format folder you store PHPMailer it should align with namespace and it's case sensitive.