http://wpforum.designpraxis.at/ WordPress Designpraxis Forum Topic: Fatal error: Cannot redeclare class phpmailer en Sat, 04 Feb 2012 04:03:25 +0000 http://wpforum.designpraxis.at/topic/fatal-error-cannot-redeclare-class-phpmailer#post-117 Thu, 13 Sep 2007 11:48:43 +0000 rol 117@http://wpforum.designpraxis.at/ <p>;) You're welcome! </p> http://wpforum.designpraxis.at/topic/fatal-error-cannot-redeclare-class-phpmailer#post-115 Wed, 12 Sep 2007 19:48:16 +0000 Saksoy 115@http://wpforum.designpraxis.at/ <p>Yup, it worked thank you. </p> http://wpforum.designpraxis.at/topic/fatal-error-cannot-redeclare-class-phpmailer#post-114 Wed, 12 Sep 2007 18:23:15 +0000 rol 114@http://wpforum.designpraxis.at/ <p>Saksoy, the <em>require</em> statement tells your plugin to load the contents of a specific file when running another. <em>require_once</em> ensures that a file ist loaded only once thus preventing an error.</p> <p>If all plugins, making use of class-phpmailer.php require the file which resides in the wp-includes path of the WordPress installation and do that by calling require_once, this file, holding the class phpmailer in fact is loaded only once when running any of these plugins.</p> <p>That's why BackUpWordPress requires the class-phpmailer that comes with WordPress.<br /> Another method would be to ask if that class exists allready: <a href="http://www.php.net/class_exists" rel="nofollow">http://www.php.net/class_exists</a></p> <p>so the following code would have a similar effect:</p> <p>if (!class_exists("phpmailer")) {<br /> require_once(ABSPATH."wp-includes/class- phpmailer.php");<br /> }</p> <p>Put this instead of the require-line in wp-email.php and you'll be fine. </p> http://wpforum.designpraxis.at/topic/fatal-error-cannot-redeclare-class-phpmailer#post-113 Wed, 12 Sep 2007 14:53:44 +0000 Saksoy 113@http://wpforum.designpraxis.at/ <p>Thanks, for the help.</p> <p>I changed the first half but I did not understand the following:</p> <p>you should also change the path to the file that comes with WordPress and use require_once instead of require.<br /> use: require_once(ABSPATH."wp-includes/class- phpmailer.php");</p> <p>Can you clarify please? In which file do I change this?</p> <p>I will definitely mention this conflict and your fix to WP-Email.</p> <p>Thanks for you time and help. </p> http://wpforum.designpraxis.at/topic/fatal-error-cannot-redeclare-class-phpmailer#post-112 Wed, 12 Sep 2007 14:52:02 +0000 Saksoy 112@http://wpforum.designpraxis.at/ <p>I have the WP-EMail plugin installed and when I activate the BackupWordPress it interferes with it. This is the error message it gives when I try to click on the email this post link.</p> <p>Fatal error: Cannot redeclare class phpmailer in /homepages/30/d131350319/htdocs/wp-content/plugins/email/class-phpmailer.php on line 21</p> <p>For now I will just have to switch between the two to backup my site. Any ideas why?</p> <p>Great plugin, just wish the two would work simultaneously, so I can utilizes the automatic email backup.</p> <p>=================<br /> Roland Rust replied<br /> class-phpmailer.php is actually a class that comes with WordPress since version 2.2.0.<br /> On line 24 of wp-email.php, which is the main file of the WP-Email plugin you can find the require statement for that class.</p> <p>Add the following if-statement around it:<br /> if (class_exists('phpmailer')) {<br /> require(...);<br /> }</p> <p>you should also change the path to the file that comes with WordPress and use require_once instead of require.<br /> use: require_once(ABSPATH."wp-includes/class-phpmailer.php"); </p>