PHPMailer to use Gmail as SMTP server.Could not connect to SMTP host. Mailer Error: SMTP Error: Could not connect to SMTP host

Question

i am trying to use phpMailer to send confirmation messages to users via email. my code is this:

Answer 1

From here

2) Comment out the following lines of code in class.phpmailer.php

/*
if(strstr($hosts[$index], ":"))
list($host, $port) = explode(":",
$hosts[$index]); else 
*/

Try this if you haven't already.