use phpmailer nameclass in php class

Question

I would like to use phpmailer at a php class, where should I place the default phpmailer namespace lines at the class?

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

my class:

require('./phpmailer/vendor/autoload.php');

class Email {

public function sent(){

}
}

Thank you!

Answer 1

Usually before anything else in the file, like this:

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

require './phpmailer/vendor/autoload.php';

class Email {

    public function sent(){

    }
}

While I'm here, this is suspicious:

require('./phpmailer/vendor/autoload.php');

That looks like you're loading PHPMailer's own autoloader, which you shouldn't be going anywhere near. A typical project structure (e.g. all the examples provided with PHPMailer) would be something like:

/project
  /public
    index.php
  /app
    (app files go here)
  /vendor
    autoload.php
    /composer
    /phpmailer

Note that the autoloader is not in PHPMailer's own folder. In this kind of structure, the path to the autoloader from scripts in public or app folders will be:

require '../vendor/autoload.php';

It may be that I'm being thrown off here because you have called your own project phpmailer, but I thought I'd flag it as it looks strange.