phpmailerHow can I catch and handle a PHPMailer exception?

Catching and handling a PHPMailer exception can be done using a try/catch statement.

For example:

try {
    // code that may throw an exception
    $mail->send();
} catch (Exception $e) {
    echo 'Message could not be sent.';
    echo 'Mailer Error: ' . $mail->ErrorInfo;
}

This will output:

Message could not be sent.
Mailer Error: SMTP connect() failed.

Code explanation

• try - The try block contains the code that may throw an exception.
• catch - The catch block contains the code that will be executed when the exception is thrown.
• Exception $e - The $e variable is an instance of the Exception class that contains information about the exception that was thrown.
• $mail->send() - This is the code that may throw an exception.
• echo 'Message could not be sent.' - This code is executed if an exception is thrown.
• echo 'Mailer Error: ' . $mail->ErrorInfo; - This code is executed if an exception is thrown and will print the error message.

For more information, please see the PHPMailer documentation.

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