WP: 2.1.3

CFORM II: 5.4

I have a domain drseckel.com that I have been using CFORM II with.

The CFORM II was working until a few months ago (in the sense that emails were sent to admins when a visitor filled in the form and clicked submit).

But my hosting service now requires the use of SMTP authentication and so the old way of sending emails from within the CFORM II PHP stopped working.

So I enabled SMTP within the CFORMS II Plugin Settings window. And I got an error message indicating that the PHPMailer class file was not present. So I went to the PHPMailer website and copied over class.phpmailer.php and class.smtp.php to the wp-includes directory. I still had problems and I read in a couple of threads here that one needed to rename them to class-phpmailer.php and class-smtp.php… So I did that.

In any case, I no longer get the error message within the CFORMS II Plugin Settings window… But the webform still does not work… When I click submit I get the following error message:

Fatal error: Cannot access protected property PHPMailer::$language in /home/salembiz/public_html/drseckel/wp-content/plugins/contactforms/phpmailer/cforms_phpmailer.php on line 12

When I check that bit of code it looks like:

        include_once ('phpmailer.lang-en.php');
        $mail->language = $PHPMAILER_LANG;

The file phpmailer.lang-en.php is present in the same directory as cforms_phpmailer.php.

In any case, if anyone has a suggestion for how to get the SMTP authentication/PHPMailer mechanism to work, it would be appreciated.

TIA, –Doug

[And yes, I realize I should upgrade both WP and CFORMS II... But we are in the process of totally replacing this site with a new domain and design... I just want to keep the current site working for another month or two. ]

If you could take a look, I would appreciat it.

The URL is http://drseckel.com

or http://drseckel.com/contact/ for the actual form page.

[Please note, I unchecked the SMPT mechanism so that we'd still record any entries in the tracking database.]

TIA,

–Doug

Oliver said:

jeez v5.4, that is beyond ancient

for some users there indeed have been issues with SMTP server authentication (for the older releases), which should be all addressed by the current version.

What's your URL?

I can take a quick look, but can't promise anything, since v5.4 seems light years ago.

Sorry Oliver, I may have messed you up.

After my initial post here, I unchecked SMTP in the cforms II setup (I didn't want to mess up recording entries in the tracking database).

When the SMTP was checked, I would get the followning error message when I hit the submit button:

Fatal error: Cannot access protected property PHPMailer::$language in /home/salembiz/public_html/drseckel/wp-content/plugins/contactforms/phpmailer/cforms_phpmailer.php on line 12

If you want me to re-enable the SMTP so you can check what's going on, just let me know.

Thanks, –Doug

Hello Oliver,

I tried commenting out line 12, re-enabling SMTP and then submitting a form… That gets rid of the line 12 error message, and no downstream error message appears but the form just hangs at "One moment please…" and no emails are sent (although the tracking database does get updated).

I am willing to try upgrading cforms as you suggest… But I don't want to upgrade WP from 2.1.3 (it's a long story but I am using a theme that isn't compatible with later WP versions… And I am doing a total rebuild of this site… I just need to keep the current one limping along until the new one is ready.)

So… What version of cform is most likely to work with SMTP enabled and also be compatible with WP 2.1.3? 

Thanks again, -Doug