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POPHP Mailer works on localhost (MAMP), but not on live site
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copied!<p>I'm learning to make websites and I'm putting together a simple website for my parents business. I made a contact form and the message is just emailed to my parents' email. I just looked up a sample GMail PHP code to send mail and it works when I test it with MAMP, but when I upload it to the live site, I get this error:</p> <blockquote> <p>SMTP Error: Could not connect to SMTP host. Mailer Error: SMTP Error: Could not connect to SMTP host.</p> </blockquote> <p>Why doesn't it work on the live site, but it works when I test it on MAMP? Here's my code:</p> <pre><code>require("phpmailer/class.phpmailer.php"); $mail = new PHPMailer(); $mail->IsSMTP(); // send via SMTP $mail->Host = "myparentswebsite.com"; $mail->Mailer = "smtp"; $mail->Host = "ssl://smtp.gmail.com"; $mail->Port = 465; $mail->SMTPAuth = true; // turn on SMTP authentication $mail->Username = "parentswebsite@gmail.com"; // SMTP username $mail->Password = "paswsword"; // SMTP password $webmaster_email = "parentswebsite@gmail.com"; //Reply to this email ID $email= $_POST['email']; // Recipients email ID $name= $_POST['name']; // Recipient's name $mail->From = $webmaster_email; $mail->FromName = "parentswebsite"; $mail->AddAddress($email,$name); $mail->AddReplyTo($webmaster_email,"Webmaster"); $mail->WordWrap = 50; // set word wrap $mail->IsHTML(true); // send as HTML $mail->Subject = "Feedback from parentswebsite.com"; $mail->Body = $_POST['name']. " " .$_POST['email']. " ". $_POST['phone']. " ". $_POST['message'] ;//HTML Body echo "it works"; $mail->AltBody = "This is the body when user views in plain text format"; //Text Body if(!$mail->Send()) { echo "Mailer Error: " . $mail->ErrorInfo; } else { echo "We have received your message!"; } </code></pre>

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