PHPMailer used Gmail to send mail connection to smtp server error

The error message "smtperrorcouldnotconnecttosmtphost" is returned when PHPMailer is used to send emails to the smtp server! This is because ex

When PHPMailer is used to send emails to the smtp server, the following error occurs: smtp error cocould not connect to smtp host! This is because extension = php_openssl.dll is not enabled.

PHPMailer version: 5.2.1. The following is the code of test_gamil_basic.php in the example folder of PHPMailer. the code is as follows:

1. $ Mail = new PHPMailer ();
2. $ Body = file_get_contents('contents.html '); // $ body = $ _ POST ['body'];
3. $ Body = eregi_replace ("[]", '', $ body );
4. $ Mail-> IsSMTP (); // telling the class to use SMTP
5. $ Mail-> SMTPDebug = 2; // enables SMTP debug information (for testing)
6. // 1 = errors and messages
7. // 2 = messages only
8. $ Mail-> SMTPAuth = true; // enable SMTP authentication
9. $ Mail-> SMTPSecure = "ssl"; // sets the prefix to the servier
10. $ Mail-> Host = "smtp.gmail.com"; // sets GMAIL as the SMTP server or ssl: // smtp.gmail.com
11. $ Mail-> Port = 465; // set the SMTP port for the GMAIL server
12. $ Mail-> Username = "yourusername@gmail.com"; // GMAIL username
13. $ Mail-> Password = "yourpassword"; // GMAIL password
14. $ Mail-> SetFrom ('name @ yourdomain.com ', 'First LA ');
15. $ Mail-> AddReplyTo ("name@yourdomain.com", "First Last ");
16. $ Mail-> Subject = "PHPMailer Test Subject via smtp (Gmail), basic ";
17. $ Mail-> AltBody = "To view the message, please use an HTML compatible email viewer! "; // Optional, comment out and test
18. $ Mail-> MsgHTML ($ body );
19. $ Address = "whoto@otherdomain.com ";
20. $ Mail-> AddAddress ($ address, "John Doe ");
21. $ Mail-> AddAttachment ("images/phpmailer.gif"); // attachment
22. $ Mail-> AddAttachment ("images/phpmailer_mini.gif"); // attachment
23. If (! $ Mail-> Send ()){
24. Echo "Mailer Error:". $ mail-> ErrorInfo;
25. } Else {
26. Echo "Message sent! ";
27. }

According to the code shown in this example, I encountered the following error:

Smtp error cocould not connect to smtp host! Error message: google, found that the openssl extension of PHP needs to be enabled:

Extension = php_openssl.dll // remove the front semicolon and restart the apache or nginx server.

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