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I'm trying to use phpmailer to work alongside a contact form I have made. I was originally using simple php coding for the form, but this would not work on the web company's server, so they asked me to use phpmailer instead. I have changed the coding a little bit to try and integrate it into the contact page that has the contact form.

<?php
require 'phpmailer/PHPMailerAutoload.php';

$mail = new PHPMailer;

//$mail->SMTPDebug = 3;                               // Enable verbose debug output

$mail->isSMTP();                                      // Set mailer to use SMTP
$mail->Host = 'smtp.live.com';                            // Specify main and backup SMTP servers
$mail->Username = "myemail@hotmail.com";
$mail->Password = "mypassword";
$mail->SMTPAuth = true;                               // Enable SMTP authentication
$mail->SMTPSecure = 'tls';                            // Enable TLS encryption, `ssl` also accepted
$mail->Port = 587;                                    // TCP port to connect to

$mail->addAddress('stacey_victoria@hotmail.com', 'Sender');     // Add a recipient

$mail->isHTML(true);                                  // Set email format to HTML

$mail->Subject = 'Message from Website';
$mail->Body    = $message; $name;
$mail->From    = $email;

if($_POST){
$feedback = 'Thanks for your message';

}

?>

The contact page appears as normal, and once the submit button has been pressed, the echo-feedback message is shown. However, no email is sent through.

I edited the "Simple Example" found here: https://github.com/PHPMailer/PHPMailer and uploaded the php file to the server and this worked fine so I know the smtp information I have used is correct and working.

Is it even possible to put phpmailer coding above the html coding?

If so, what am I doing wrong?

Stak
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  • you did not follow the 'Simple Example' ie `$mail->From = $email;` is not correct `$mail->setFrom('from@example.com', 'Mailer');` is. Go back and try again. – cmorrissey Feb 04 '16 at 17:00
  • Not true. You can set the `From` property directly, or via the `setFrom()` method. – Synchro Feb 04 '16 at 18:00

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You are not sending the email... Use : 

if($mail->Send())
Ianis
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