PHPMailer class not found, path doesn't exist even though I used PHPMailer\PHPMailer\PHPMailer and required /vendor/autoload.php

Question

Exact error being given:Error: Class 'PHPMailer\PHPMailer\PHPMailer' not found in C:\wamp64\www\tutoring\web\environment.php on line 37

My code:

use PHPMailer\PHPMailer\PHPMailer;
use PHPMailer\PHPMailer\SMTP;
use PHPMailer\PHPMailer\Exception;

require __DIR__ . '../vendor/autoload.php';

Line 37:

// This is inside of a function but the uses and require are not
$mail = new PHPMailer;

My file tree:

autoload is in the right place and so is the PHPMailer class:

I've been trying to fix this for the past 2 hours. Every post I've seen with this issue has been resolved with something that doesn't fix mine.

Have you rebuilt the autoloader since adding the PHPMailer library? Did you try putting the `require` line before the `use` lines? I'm not sure if the order matters, but if it does then it's almost certain that the order you have would be the wrong one. — Greg Schmidt, May 01 '20 at 01:37
Try `require_once __DIR__ . '/../vendor/autoload.php';`. Note the `/` before `..` — Phil, May 01 '20 at 06:47
@GregSchmidt the `use` statements should definitely come first — Phil, May 01 '20 at 06:49
That's weird, because I use a framework where the autoloader is included long before any `use` statements happen. — Greg Schmidt, May 01 '20 at 15:32

score -1 · Answer 1 · answered May 01 '20 at 01:51

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Have you include/require phpmailerautoload.php?,

This works for me,

require_once('PHPMailer/PHPMailerAutoload.php');
$mail = new PHPMailer();

answered May 01 '20 at 01:51

Erwin_San

It just says it failed to open stream. I also tried require_once('../vendor/PHPMailer/PHPMailerAutoload.php'); which also failed to open stream. – lbertoni May 01 '20 at 02:00
check your path manually and check your included path , is there a typo or someting ? my email.php is located beside PHPMailer folder, and there is directly PHPMailerAutoload.php in PHPMailer folder – Erwin_San May 01 '20 at 02:07
If your code says that, you're using a very old version of PHPMailer and should upgrade. – Synchro May 01 '20 at 06:38

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