phpmailerHow do I install PHPMailer using Composer?

1. Install Composer if you don't have it already.
2. Create a composer.json file in your project root directory.
3. Add the following code to the composer.json file:

{
    "require": {
        "phpmailer/phpmailer": "^6.0"
    }
}

4. Run composer install in the command line in the project root directory.
5. This will install PHPMailer into the vendor directory.
6. Include the autoloader in your code with the following line:

require 'vendor/autoload.php';

7. You can now start using PHPMailer by creating a new PHPMailer instance.

Code parts explanation

• Line 3: this line tells Composer to install PHPMailer version 6.0 or higher.
• Line 6: this line includes the Composer autoloader which allows us to access the classes from the vendor directory.

Relevant links

• PHPMailer installation instructions
• Composer documentation

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