John Davidson

Message:

I am trying to implement phpmailer in my codeigniter 3 project so I required it in my composer.json and it created a phpmailer folder in the application/vendor folder. I then set my composer autoload in config.php as follows:

$config['composer_autoload'] = 'vendor/autoload.php';

After that I created a Phpmailer_library.php file inside the libraries folder:

<?php

defined('BASEPATH') OR exit('No direct script access allowed');



class Phpmailer_library

{

    public function __construct()

    {

        log_message('Debug', 'PHPMailer class is loaded.');

    }



    public function load()

    {

        require_once(APPPATH.'vendor/phpmailer/phpmailer/src/PHPMailer.php');

        require_once(APPPATH.'vendor/phpmailer/phpmailer/src/SMTP.php');



        $objMail = new PHPMailer\PHPMailer\PHPMailer();

        return $objMail;

    }

}

Inside my SendEmail.php model I loaded the phplibrary in the constructor:

public function __construct(){  

        $this->load->library('Phpmailer_library');

}

But when it tries to send an email an error occurs:

So I tried to trace line 107 inside of my SendEmail.php model and this is the code snippet:

$mail = $this->Phpmailer_library->load();

I don't know why Call to a member function load() on null is occurring. Is there a mistake that i missed in my code? this error has been bugging my day.

I also try to follow the approved answer here but still did not work.
How to integrate PHPMailer with Codeigniter 3

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My Answer:
defined('BASEPATH') OR exit('No direct script access allowed');

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

require FCPATH.'vendor/autoload.php';

class Phpmailer_library {

public function __construct() {
$this->mail = new PHPMailer(true);
}

public function send_email($to, $subject, $message) {
try {
$this->mail->setFrom('your_email@example.com', 'Your Name');
$this->mail->addAddress($to);
$this->mail->Subject = $subject;
$this->mail->Body = $message;

$this->mail->isSMTP();
$this->mail->Host = 'smtp.example.com';
$this->mail->SMTPAuth = true;
$this->mail->Username = 'your_smtp_username';
$this->mail->Password = 'your_smtp_password';
$this->mail->SMTPSecure = 'tls';
$this->mail->Port = 587;

$this->mail->send();
return true;
} catch (Exception $e) {
return false;
}
}
}
?>

Now you can load the Phpmailer_library in your controller and use the send_email method to send emails. Make sure to replace the placeholders with your actual email and SMTP details.