I’ve done some searching before this post and I still can’t seem to get this to work. I’m trying to setup a cron job with PHPMailer to send out an email every so often. The script below does work if I run it manually but does not work in the cron job scheduler.
For this example – I set it to run every minute. I’m thinking it has to do something with the “vendor/autoload.php” and it’s path not loading correctly? I didn’t add my SMTP credentials with api key for security reasons as well as recipients for this post.
Here is my cron job setup in Cpanel.
Here is my PHPMailer code:
// Import PHPMailer classes into the global namespace
// These must be at the top of your script, not inside a function
use PHPMailerPHPMailerPHPMailer;
use PHPMailerPHPMailerSMTP;
use PHPMailerPHPMailerException;
// Load Composer's autoloader
require 'vendor/autoload.php';
// Instantiation and passing `true` enables exceptions
$mail = new PHPMailer(true);
try {
// Server settings
// $mail->SMTPDebug = SMTP::DEBUG_SERVER; // Enable verbose debug output
$mail->isSMTP(); // Send using SMTP
$mail->Host = ''; // Set the SMTP server to send through
$mail->SMTPAuth = true; // Enable SMTP authentication
$mail->Username = ''; // SMTP username
$mail->Password = ''; // SMTP password
$mail->SMTPSecure = PHPMailer::ENCRYPTION_STARTTLS; // Enable TLS encryption; `PHPMailer::ENCRYPTION_SMTPS` also accepted
$mail->Port = 587; // TCP port to connect to
// Recipients
$mail->setFrom('[email protected]', '');
$mail->addAddress('[email protected]', ''); // Add a recipient
$mail->addReplyTo('[email protected]', '');
// $mail->addCC('[email protected]');
// $mail->addBCC('');
// Content
$mail->isHTML(true); // Set email format to HTML
$mail->Subject = 'PHPMailer email';
// $mail->Body = 'This is the HTML message body <b>in bold!</b>';
// $mail->AltBody = 'This is the body in plain text for non-HTML mail clients';
$mail->msgHTML(file_get_contents('email.html'), __DIR__); // Use this if not using the above code
// ********* PHP-MAILER ********* //
$mail->send();
echo 'Email sent!';
} catch (Exception $e) {
echo "Message could not be sent. Mailer Error: {$mail->ErrorInfo}";
}
If anyone could help me, I would really appreciate it!
2
Answers
Fixed!
I had to use (dirname(DIR) which is the directory of the file.
I Changed:
to:
Can you share you error-message with us? I assume this will help a lot to find the issue.
I’ve shared my insights how to enable logging in a different post on stack overflow (see link below). This will explain how you can display errors in your cron execution:
https://stackoverflow.com/a/60250715/12880865
Please let me know if this helps you. If you’ll get a proper error message, please share it with us so we can dig further into your question.