Error handling with PHPMailer

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I m trying to use PHPMailer for a small project  but I m a bit confused about error handling with this software  Hoping someone has experience with it  When I ve set up an email and I use    result    mail- gt Send     if   result           There was an error        Do some error handling things here   else       echo  Email successful       Which works fine  more or less  The problem is when there s an error  PHPMailer also seems to echo the error out  so if there s a problem  it just sends that info directly to the browser  essentially breaking any error handling I m trying to do   Is there a way to silence these messages  Its not throwing an exception  its just printing out the error  which in my test case is   invalid address   invalid email You must provide at least one recipient email address    Its meant to be an error  but it should be residing in  mail- ErrorInfo  not being echo d out by the software

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Even if you use exceptions  it still output errors You have to set  MailerDebug to False wich should look like this   mail   new PHPMailer     mail- gt MailerDebug   false

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Just had to fix this myself  The above answers don t seem to take into account the   mail- gt SMTPDebug   0  option  It may not have been available when the question was first asked   If you got your code from the PHPMail site  the default will be   mail- gt SMTPDebug   2     enables SMTP debug information  for testing   https   github com Synchro PHPMailer blob master examples test smtp gmail advanced php  Set the value to 0 to suppress the errors and edit the  catch  part of your code as explained above

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In PHPMailer php  there are lines as below   echo  e- gt getMessage     Just comment these lines and you will be good to go

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We wrote a wrapper class that captures the buffer and converts the printed output to an exception   this lets us upgrade the phpmailer file without having to remember to comment out the echo statements each time we upgrade   The wrapper class has methods something along the lines of   public function AddAddress  email   name   null        ob start        parent  AddAddress  email   name        error   ob get contents        ob end clean        if   empty  error              throw new Exception  error

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mail   new PHPMailer      mail- gt AddAddress  email     mail- gt From        from   mail- gt Subject     subject    mail- gt Body        body   if  mail- gt Send         echo  Email Successfully Sent     else      echo  Email Sending Failed        the simplest way to handle email sending successful or failed

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Please note     You must use the following format when instantiating PHPMailer    mail   new PHPMailer true     If you don t exceptions are ignored and the only thing you ll get is an echo from the routine   I know this is well after this was created but hopefully it will help someone

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This one works fine   use try   as above  use Catch as above but comment out the echo lines   catch  phpmailerException  e       echo  e- gt errorMessage      Pretty error messages from PHPMailer   catch  Exception  e         echo  e- gt getMessage      Boring error messages from anything else      Then add this  if   e      enter yor error message or redirect the user   else     do something else

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PHPMailer uses Exceptions  Try to adopt the following code  require once     class phpmailer php     mail   new PHPMailer true     defaults to using php  quot mail   quot   the true param means it will throw exceptions on errors  which we need to catch  try      mail- gt AddReplyTo  name yourdomain com    First Last       mail- gt AddAddress  whoto otherdomain com    John Doe       mail- gt SetFrom  name yourdomain com    First Last       mail- gt AddReplyTo  name yourdomain com    First Last       mail- gt Subject    PHPMailer Test Subject via mail    advanced      mail- gt AltBody    To view the message  please use an HTML compatible email viewer       optional - MsgHTML will create an alternate automatically    mail- gt MsgHTML file get contents  contents html        mail- gt AddAttachment  images phpmailer gif            attachment    mail- gt AddAttachment  images phpmailer mini gif       attachment    mail- gt Send      echo  quot Message Sent OK n quot     catch  phpmailerException  e      echo  e- gt errorMessage      Pretty error messages from PHPMailer   catch  Exception  e      echo  e- gt getMessage      Boring error messages from anything else

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You can get more info about the error with the method  mail- gt ErrorInfo  For example   if   mail- gt send          echo  Message could not be sent        echo  Mailer Error       mail- gt ErrorInfo    else       echo  Message has been sent       This is an alternative to the exception model that you need to active with new PHPMailer true   But if can use exception model  use it as  Phil Rykoff answer   This comes from the main page of PHPMailer on github https   github com PHPMailer PHPMailer

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