PHP - Use PHPMailer in Custom Class

Question

I'm trying to use PHPMail in a class but I get an error at the line indicated below.

Can anybody see why?

    class SendMail {

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

    public function __construct()
    {
        $this->debug();
        $this->includes();
    }

    public function send_mail()
    {
        $mail = new PHPMailer(true); // ERROR
    }

    private function includes()
    {
        require __DIR__ . '/../config.php';
        require '/var/composer/phpmailer/vendor/autoload.php';
    }

    private function debug()
    {
        ini_set('display_errors', 0); // 0 = Only Warnings, 1 = All Notifications
        ini_set('display_startup_errors', 1);
        error_reporting(E_ALL);
    }
    }

I've tried moving the "new" declaration into the constructor but that didn't make any difference.

I get a 500 error and the VSCode debugger shows:

Answer 1

You are misusing the Traits .

I believe that PHPMailer is not a traits.

you need to use it as a namespace not as a trait.

<?php
namespace \XYZ;

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

class SendMail {
    // ....
}

note that you are need to use autoloader.