Cannot declare class PHPMailer\PHPMailer\Exceptions, because the name is already in use in C:\Directory\PHPMailer\src\Exception.php on line 23

[SohaibKhaliq]

Please check these things before submitting your issue:

• Read the error message you're seeing - it often tells you what is wrong, and may contain useful links & instructions
• Make sure you're using the latest version of PHPMailer
• Check that your problem is not dealt with in the troubleshooting guide, especially if you're having problems connecting to Gmail or GoDaddy
• Include sufficient code to reproduce your problem
• If you're having an SMTP issue, include the debug output generated with SMTPDebug = 2 set
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Problem description

Code to reproduce

Debug output

[SohaibKhaliq]

I have developed a secure php oop based login system. For procedural php, it is working fine, but when i started developing using oop it is struck there. Fix it please!!

[Synchro]

Your comment makes no sense. PHPMailer is a class, and you can't really use it in any way that's not "OOP". From the error message, it looks like you've made a mistake related to namespaces, but I can't tell because you have not shown your code, and you're demanding I fix a problem that you created, and have not provided sufficient information about.

[XL-2000]

@SohaibKhaliq there is no code to look at, so no way to find out what you are doing here...
The "problem" of redeclaration is not a PHPMailer problem; it is your own implementation that is redeclaring stuff.
So in general, this is not a problem caused by PHPMailer nor fixed.

With no code to go by; I am totally shooting in the dark in what might be wrong on your end...
I would put money on either or all of these:

• You are not using composer
• You are requiring or including or loading classes yourself
• You are doing odd things with namespaces / USE
• Anything else on your end causing this collision

Maybe providing some code might help here....

[lindiii]

When i check for the errors i have this:

ParseError

Message

syntax error, unexpected 'public' (T_PUBLIC), expecting case (T_CASE) or default (T_DEFAULT) or '}'

Error at

app/lib/vendor/phpmailer/phpmailer/src/PHPMailer.php, line: 2850

Backtrace

File:	app/lib/vendor/composer/ClassLoader.php
Line:	344
Function:	Composer\Autoload\includeFile
File:	app/Tygh/Mailer/Transports/PhpMailerTransport.php
Line:	33
Function:	loadClass
File:	app/lib/vendor/composer/ClassLoader.php
Line:	476
Function:	include
File:	app/lib/vendor/composer/ClassLoader.php
Line:	344
Function:	Composer\Autoload\includeFile
File:	app/Tygh/Providers/MailerProvider.php
Line:	64
Function:	loadClass
File:	app/Tygh/Mailer/TransportFactory.php
Line:	74
Function:	Tygh\Providers{closure}
File:	app/Tygh/Mailer/Mailer.php
Line:	142
Function:	createTransport
File:	app/Tygh/Mailer/Mailer.php
Line:	74
Function:	getTransport
File:	app/Tygh/Providers/MailerProvider.php
Line:	54
Function:	__construct
File:	app/lib/vendor/pimple/pimple/src/Pimple/Container.php
Line:	118
Function:	Tygh\Providers{closure}
File:	app/Tygh/Application.php
Line:	135
Function:	offsetGet
File:	app/Tygh/Providers/EventDispatcherProvider.php
Line:	224
Function:	offsetGet
File:	app/lib/vendor/pimple/pimple/src/Pimple/Container.php
Line:	118
Function:	Tygh\Providers{closure}
File:	app/Tygh/Application.php
Line:	135
Function:	offsetGet
File:	app/Tygh/Notifications/Transports/TransportFactory.php
Line:	43
Function:	offsetGet
File:	app/Tygh/Notifications/EventDispatcher.php
Line:	109
Function:	create
File:	app/functions/fn.users.php
Line:	4174
Function:	dispatch
File:	app/controllers/common/auth.php
Line:	183
Function:	fn_recover_password_generate_key
File:	app/functions/fn.control.php
Line:	722
Function:	include
File:	app/functions/fn.control.php
Line:	458
Function:	fn_run_controller
File:	index.php

[Synchro]

@lindiii your report has nothing to do with this issue.

That sounds like either you're running a really old version of PHP, or there are errors in the scripts that are loading PHPMailer. PHPMailer itself will not cause this problem.