Uniform and PHPMailer works on localhost but not on server

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Hi,

I’m using Uniform and PHPMailer as it is explained here.

Everything is working fine on my localhost server (I use SMTP and everything, I receive emails as expected) but on my server, I got the following error after submitting the form :

There was an error sending the form: The email service is not available: phpmailer

I guess this is because Uniform can’t find the phpmailer service, but I don’t know why and how to fix this.

PHPMailer files are in site/plugins/PHPMailer-driver/.

My phpmailer-driver.php looks like that :

<?php
use PHPMailer\PHPMailer\PHPMailer;

email::$services['phpmailer'] = function($email) {
    require_once(__DIR__ . DS . 'PHPMailer.php');
    require_once(__DIR__ . DS . 'SMTP.php');

    $mail = new PHPMailer();

    //Tell PHPMailer to use SMTP
    $mail->isSMTP();
    //Enable SMTP debugging
    // 0 = off (for production use)
    // 1 = client messages
    // 2 = client and server messages
    $mail->SMTPDebug = 2;
    //Set the hostname of the mail server
    $mail->Host = 'ssl0.ovh.net';
    //Set the SMTP port number - likely to be 25, 465 or 587
    $mail->Port = 587;
    //Set the encryption system to use - ssl (deprecated) or tls
    $mail->SMTPSecure = 'tls';
    //Whether to use SMTP authentication
    $mail->SMTPAuth = true;
    //Username to use for SMTP authentication
    $mail->Username = 'myemail@email.com';
    //Password to use for SMTP authentication
    $mail->Password = 'mypassword';

    $mail->CharSet = 'UTF-8';
    $mail->setFrom($email->from);
    $mail->addReplyTo($email->replyTo);
    $mail->addAddress($email->to);


    $mail->isHTML(true);
    $mail->Subject = $email->subject;
    $mail->Body = $email->body;

    if (!$mail->send()) {
        throw new Error('PHPMailer error: ' . $mail->ErrorInfo);
    }
}
?>

and the action in my controller looks like that :

// ... 
if (r::is('POST')) {
        $form->emailAction([
            'to' => 'to@exemple.com',
            'from' => 'from@exemple.com',
            'service' => 'phpmailer',
            'snippet' => 'email-html'
        ]);
    }

Do you have an idea from where the error The email service is not available: phpmailer came from ? Why Uniform can find it on localhost but not on my server ?

Thank you ! :grin:

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One possible issue: use lower case characters in both your folder and file name.

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3

Thank you for your quick answer !

I guess that was it, because I have now an issue with PHPMailer not founding Exception (Kirby CMS Debugger tells me : Class 'PHPMailer\PHPMailer\Exception' not found, even though I added Exception.php to my folder and require it in my phpmailer-driver.php file ) ; but at least phpmailer service is found now !

I will try to debug it myself.

Thank you for your help.

4

You have to add the use directive as well

use PHPMailer\PHPMailer\PHPMailer;
use PHPMailer\PHPMailer\Exception;
5

Yes I did that, the beggining of my phpmailer-driver.php file looks like that :

<?php
use PHPMailer\PHPMailer\PHPMailer;
use PHPMailer\PHPMailer\Exception;

email::$services['phpmailer'] = function($email) {
    require_once(__DIR__ . DS . 'PHPMailer.php');
    require_once(__DIR__ . DS . 'SMTP.php');
    require_once(__DIR__ . DS . 'Exception.php');

    $mail = new PHPMailer();

// options...etc

but the error still happening (Exception.php file is on the server, I checked with Cyberduck, just to be sure)

exception-error
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6

Maybe you have to require the Exception class first.

7

It works now ! Thank you for your help, I know it was not a Kirby-related issue but it could help someone else to know that you need to name your folder with lowercase !

Have a nice day ! :grin:

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