Problem with PHPMailer: require(): Failed opening required

Question

I have a problem with setting up PHPMailer. It was working before, but now all of a sudden it stopped and this is the error I'm getting: PHP Fatal error: require(): Failed opening required '../src/PHPMailer.php' (include_path='.:/opt/cpanel/ea-php53/root/usr/share/pear:/opt/cpanel/ea-php53/root/usr/share/php') in /home/pandatra/site.com/contacts_form/contact_form.php on line 9

Here is the code in contact_form.php:

<?php

    include 'config.php';

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

    require ''.$d['include_path'].'PHPMailer/src/Exception.php';
    require ''.$d['include_path'].'PHPMailer/src/PHPMailer.php';
    require ''.$d['include_path'].'PHPMailer/src/SMTP.php';
    
    $mail = new PHPMailer(true);

  if (isset($_POST['Send'])) {

How to fix this? Any ideas? I downloaded version 6.1.7 of PHPMailer.

Answer 1

The error you mentioned is that, the path in your require is getting Wrong. To avoid this type of problem , you should always use absolute path

e.g.

    require __DIR__.'/PHPMailer/src/Exception.php';
    require __DIR__.'/PHPMailer/src/PHPMailer.php';
    require __DIR__.'/PHPMailer/src/SMTP.php';

   # use "use" after include or require

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

__DIR__ is the absolute path of running file's directory.