I am implementing a code where visitors can email our company.
in my gmail.php, it has this code for line 11
require_once('PHPMailerAutoload.php') or exit();
the error it gives is when i run it is
Warning: require_once(1) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/maxsell/public_html/php/gmail.php on line 11
Fatal error: require_once() [function.require]: Failed opening required '1' (include_path='/home/maxsell/php:.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/maxsell/public_html/php/gmail.php on line 11
and if i click on [function.require-once] it loads
The requested URL /php/function.require-once was not found on this server.
Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.
I made this in our other website and it worked there. I tried changing file path in require_once but it doesn't work. gmail.php and PHPMailerAutoload.php is in the same folder.
edit: here is a directory contents directory contents
The problem is the or exit()-part.
when i use
require_once("test.php") or exit();
i get the same error, but
require_once("test.php");
works if the file exists, or throws a correct error if it doesn't.
also, the common syntax is
require_once "test.php";
and the or exit() part is superfluous anyway, since require quits the script itself if the file is not found.
edit:
after some testing i suspect that the internal workings of this curious error is that require_once is not a function but a command structure, meaning that
require_once('PHPMailerAutoload.php') or exit();
is functionally the same as
require_once ('PHPMailerAutoload.php' or exit());
since the or-operator takes precedence.
which makes your require fail because ('PHPMailerAutoload.php' or exit()) resolves to true, effectively making php try to require(true) which must fail.
you can use this one and hope this will work for you
require_once($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'].'/phpmailerfoldername/PHPMailerAutoload.php');