Question

I’m getting this error message trying to use PHP Mailer. Please let me know if you see what is wrong.

Fatal error: Cannot access empty property in /hsphere/local/home/c263430/quoralist.com/includes/phpmailer/phpmailer.inc.php on line 271

Line 271 of phpmailer.inc.php is

$header[] = sprintf("Content-Transfer-Encoding: %s\n", $this->$Encoding);

The code that called phpmailer.inc.php is

<?php

require_once("../includes/phpmailer/phpmailer.inc.php");
require_once("../includes/phpmailer/smtp.inc.php");
$to_name = "Junk Mail";
$to = "[e-mail]";
$subject = "Mail Test at ".strftime("%T", time());
$message = "This is a test.";
$message = wordwrap($message, 70);
$from_name = "Michael Mitchell";
$from = "[e-mail]";

//Php mail version (default)
$mail = new PHPMailer();

//$mail->IsSMTP();
//$mail->Host   = "host"
//$mail->Port       = 25;
//$mail->SMTPAuth   = false;
//$mail->Username   = "username";
//$mail->Password   = "password";


$mail->FromName = $from_name;
$mail->From     = $from;
$mail->AddAddress($to, $to_name);
$mail->Subject  = $subject;
$mail->Body     = $message;

$result = $mail->Send();

echo $result ? 'Sent' : 'Error';


?>

EDIT

following a suggestion in one of the answers, I tried $this->Encoding instead of $this->$Encoding. When I ran it I got a new error message, not sure if it’s related.

Fatal error: Cannot redeclare class SMTP in /hsphere/local/home/c263430/quoralist.com/includes/phpmailer/smtp.inc.php on line 26

The class at line 26 of smtp.inc.php is

class SMTP {
        var $SMTP_PORT = 25; # the default SMTP PORT
        var $CRLF = "\r\n";  # CRLF pair

        var $smtp_conn;      # the socket to the server
        var $error;          # error if any on the last call
        var $helo_rply;      # the reply the server sent to us for HELO

        var $do_debug;       # the level of debug to perform

Answer 1

The problem is this line:

$header[] = sprintf("Content-Transfer-Encoding: %s\n", $this->$Encoding);

Change it to this:

$header[] = sprintf("Content-Transfer-Encoding: %s\n", $this->Encoding);