PHPMailer not found by smtpmailer bundled in public.openstack-org

[Clark Boylan]

I am working to run a local instance of public.openstack-org and have found that I get 500 errors because smtpmailer bundled by public.openstack-org fails to require_once class.phpmailer.php.

The line that breaks is at https://github.com/OpenStackweb/public.openstack-org/blob/master/smtpmailer/code/SmtpMailer.php#L3

The 500 error looks like:
Deprecated: mysql_connect(): The mysql extension is deprecated and will be removed in the future: use mysqli or PDO instead in /opt/openstackweb/_ss_environment.php on line 19

Warning: require_once(/opt/openstackweb/smtpmailer/code/vendor/class.phpmailer.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /opt/openstackweb/smtpmailer/code/SmtpMailer.php on line 3

Fatal error: require_once(): Failed opening required '/opt/openstackweb/smtpmailer/code/vendor/class.phpmailer.php' (include_path='.:/opt/openstackweb/framework:/opt/openstackweb/framework/parsers:/opt/openstackweb/framework/thirdparty:.:/usr/share/php:/usr/share/pear') in /opt/openstackweb/smtpmailer/code/SmtpMailer.php on line 3

I can confirm that /opt/openstackweb/smtpmailer/code/vendor/class.phpmailer.php is a file that does not exist. This appears to be an undocumented install step? Or possibly a missing dependency that needs to be added to smtpmailer?

[Elizabeth K. Joseph (lyz)]

I've confirmed that we are able to install the libphp-phpmailer package in Ubuntu 14.04 and edit smtpmailer/code/SmtpMailer.php to point to that package's copy of class.phpmailer.php and the site does continue with loading properly.

So this:

require_once( dirname( __FILE__ ).DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR.'vendor'.DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR.'class.phpmailer.php' );

Is replaced by this:

require_once('/usr/share/php/libphp-phpmailer/class.phpmailer.php');

Where does it get this vendor/class.phpmailer.php version? This file does not exist when following the installation documentation in the README.

What is the difference between vendor/class.phpmailer.php and the one in the Ubuntu package, can we just update the code to use the Ubuntu libphp-phpmailer package instead?

[sebastian marcet (smarcet)]

done
here are the fixes

https://github.com/OpenStackweb/public.openstack-org/commit/0e5571416572bd99b0430426687f737327ce08d4
and
https://github.com/OpenStackweb/public.openstack-org/commit/fa511c6fe972d3c4d8630a12efc4c535e858387e

regards