Question

I have created a PHP page, whereby having the page to send automatically to user, i tried using PHPMailer but it only says “SMTP ERROR: cannot access host or somthing like that “

here’s my code:

PHPMailer x = new PHPMailer();
x->isSMTP();
x->Host = myhost;
x->Port = myport;
x->AddAddress(recipientAddress);
x->From = myEmail;
x->Username = username;
x->Password = password;
x.Send();

Answer 1

here is quick fix of your code

$mail = new PHPMailer();
$mail->IsMail();
$mail->setCharset = "UTF-8";
$mail->Host = "localhost";
//    $mail->Port = "587"; you don't need it now 
    $mail->AddAddress("recipientAddress");
    $mail->setFrom = "myEmail";
    $mail->Subject = "Subject";
    $mail->Username = "username";
    $mail->Password = "password";
    $mail->SMTPDebug  = 2; // enables SMTP debug information (for testing)
                           // 1 = errors and messages
                           // 2 = messages only
    
    $mail->Send();

so now you would get more debug messages and track your errors and fix them 🙂

update : okay that is easy :

The function $mail->IsMail(); indicates that the letter must be sent using mail() function. Other methods are:

IsSendmail – via sendmail command.

IsQmail – directly via qMail MTA.

IsSMTP – via SMTP server.