Using php mailer

Hi friends,

i tried to send a mail using phpmailer class, but it throws an error "Mailer Error: Could not instantiate mail function."
so i thought to use mail() function of php but i got a blank page. so what is the actual problem?

this is code i used:
<?php
require("classes/class.phpmailer.php");

$mail = new PHPMailer(); // defaults to using php "mail()"

//$body = file_get_contents('contents.html');
//$body = eregi_replace("[\]",'',$body);
$body="its working hio!";

$mail->AddReplyTo("look4guna@hiox.com","First Last");

$mail->SetFrom('look4guna@hiox.com', 'First Last');

$mail->AddReplyTo("look4guna@hiox.com","First Last");

$address = "guna@hiox.com";
$mail->AddAddress($address, "GunaVK");

$mail->Subject = "PHPMailer Test Subject via mail(), basic";

//$mail->AltBody = "To view the message, please use an HTML compatible email viewer!"; // optional, comment out and test

$mail->MsgHTML($body);

//$mail->AddAttachment("images/phpmailer.gif"); // attachment
//$mail->AddAttachment("images/phpmailer_mini.gif"); // attachment

if(!$mail->Send()) {
echo "Mailer Error: " . $mail->ErrorInfo;
} else {
echo "Message sent!";
}

?>

can anybody get me out of this problem? Thanks

 

Are you running it locally or on a server ?
Locally it doesn't work for me either , because it can't deliver the email using mail()... Thats why it throws that error.

Here's my code.

<?php
    require("classes/class.phpmailer.php");
    $mail = new PHPMailer();
    
    $bodyHTML = "<h1>Its working hio!</h1>";
    $bodyTXT = "Its working hio!";
    
    $mail->SetFrom('look4guna@hiox.com', 'First Last',1);
    $mail->AddAddress("guna@hiox.com", "GunaVK");
    $mail->Subject = "PHPMailer Test Subject via mail(), basic";
    $mail->Body = $bodyHTML;
    $mail->AltBody = $bodyTXT;
    $mail->isHTML(true);
    
    if(!$mail->Send()) {
        echo "Mailer Error: " . $mail->ErrorInfo;
    } else {
        echo "Message sent!";
    }
?>

PHP:

 

I think you're right tvoodoo. I tried to run it locally. I didn't that much about mail related concepts, so the same will run if we put it into a server ah? do we need any permissions from the hosting company to send mails?

 

No need for any special permissions

 

What server bein run on?

 

it is apache..