PHP 7.0, getting “Cannot Redeclare class PHPMailer”

  • nihonnik

    (@nihonnik)


    9 years, 1 month ago

    basically as explained in the title. I get the following error:
    Fatal error: Cannot declare class PHPMailer, because the name is already in use in /var/www/html/wp-includes/class-phpmailer.php on line 28

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  • Thread Starter nihonnik

    (@nihonnik)

    9 years, 1 month ago

    Looks like you are re-declaring the existing class. I did a diff on the two version, and I couldn’t find any significant changes

    Thread Starter nihonnik

    (@nihonnik)

    9 years, 1 month ago

    I tracked this down to an error with the theme having a phpmailer as well. The theme also declare PHPmailer. Do you have a way to not re-declare PHP mailer?

    Thread Starter nihonnik

    (@nihonnik)

    9 years, 1 month ago

    The only way I could get this to work (I’m no PHP / WP expert) was to take your PHPMailer class and rename it PHPMailer2, then adjust all places that were extending PHPMailer to PHPMailer2. I then commented out the phpmailerException deceleration. Not sure if this will actually allow me to use the plugin, though. So far it doesn’t crash my website which is good

    • This reply was modified 9 years, 1 month ago by nihonnik.
    colthreepv

    (@colthreepv)

    9 years, 1 month ago

    Same problem, there is already a class-phpmailer.php in standard wordpress 4.7.4, so I am not even sure it’s needed to have PHP included in this plugin.

    Plugin Author Noor Alam

    (@naa986)

    9 years, 1 month ago

    Hi, WordPress includes a customized version of PHPMailer that doesn’t support OAuth2. That’s why the plugin needs to include the full PHPMailer library to support the OAuth2 feature.

    I have another SMTP plugin that doesn’t include the PHPMailer library. However, It uses username/password authentication instead of Oauth2.

    https://ww.wp.xz.cn/plugins/smtp-mailer/

    pierre4my

    (@pierre4my)

    8 years, 11 months ago

    Hello ,

    And what is the solution if we want to use OAuth2 feature ?

    Regards,

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