Laravel 5 and PHPMailer

Well there are multiple mistakes i think... This is a working example of sending mail with PhpMailer in Laravel 5. Just tested it.

        $mail = new \PHPMailer(true); // notice the \  you have to use root namespace here
    try {
        $mail->isSMTP(); // tell to use smtp
        $mail->CharSet = "utf-8"; // set charset to utf8
        $mail->SMTPAuth = true;  // use smpt auth
        $mail->SMTPSecure = "tls"; // or ssl
        $mail->Host = "yourmailhost";
        $mail->Port = 2525; // most likely something different for you. This is the mailtrap.io port i use for testing. 
        $mail->Username = "username";
        $mail->Password = "password";
        $mail->setFrom("[email protected]", "Firstname Lastname");
        $mail->Subject = "Test";
        $mail->MsgHTML("This is a test");
        $mail->addAddress("[email protected]", "Recipient Name");
        $mail->send();
    } catch (phpmailerException $e) {
        dd($e);
    } catch (Exception $e) {
        dd($e);
    }
    die('success');

And of course, you need to do a composer update after adding the depency to composer.json

However, i would prefer the laravel built in SwiftMailer. http://laravel.com/docs/5.0/mail

In Laravel 5.5 or Above, you need to do the following steps

Install the PHPMailer on your laravel Application.

composer require phpmailer/phpmailer

Then goto your controller where you want to use phpmailer.

<?php
namespace App\Http\Controllers;

use PHPMailer\PHPMailer;

class testPHPMailer extends Controller
{
    public function index()
    {
        $text             = 'Hello Mail';
        $mail             = new PHPMailer\PHPMailer(); // create a n
        $mail->SMTPDebug  = 1; // debugging: 1 = errors and messages, 2 = messages only
        $mail->SMTPAuth   = true; // authentication enabled
        $mail->SMTPSecure = 'ssl'; // secure transfer enabled REQUIRED for Gmail
        $mail->Host       = "smtp.gmail.com";
        $mail->Port       = 465; // or 587
        $mail->IsHTML(true);
        $mail->Username = "[email protected]";
        $mail->Password = "testpass";
        $mail->SetFrom("[email protected]", 'Sender Name');
        $mail->Subject = "Test Subject";
        $mail->Body    = $text;
        $mail->AddAddress("[email protected]", "Receiver Name");
        if ($mail->Send()) {
            return 'Email Sended Successfully';
        } else {
            return 'Failed to Send Email';
        }
    }
}