Question

My apologies if I misstate something or use an incorrect term. But I was trying to figure out how to use an if statement on an object.

This works just fine and as I understand it, the @ suppresses errors.

if (@mail("$receiver_email", "$subject", "$message", "$headers")) { }

However If I do this it fails:

if (@$mail->send('[e-mail]', "$receiver_email", "$subject", "$message")) {}

The irony is that the email goes through but the IF fails. How can I fix the IF statement so it works properly?

Answer 1

First of all, don’t use @. It’s bad practice and better dealt with using error handling routines; see also: Error logging, in a smooth way

From your code I can only guess that your code is like this:

public function send($from, $to, $subject, $message)
{
    // your code here
}

If the function doesn’t have a return value, it defaults to null and that evaluates to false which is why the IF “fails”.

You should return a success value from your send() method.