php - PHPMAILER Not sending and not giving error

Question

I am trying to let users fill out a contact form, which will then be sent to my email. But its not working for some reason. I just get a blank page with no error message or any text and email is also not sent.

if (isset($_POST['submit']))
{
    include_once('class.phpmailer.php');

    $name = strip_tags($_POST['full_name']);
    $email = strip_tags ($_POST['email']);
    $msg = strip_tags ($_POST['description']);

    $subject = "Contact Form from DigitDevs Website";

    $mail = new PHPMailer();
    $mail->IsSMTP();
    $mail->CharSet = 'UTF-8';

    $mail->Host       = "mail.example.com"; // SMTP server example
    //$mail->SMTPDebug  = 1;                     // enables SMTP debug information (for testing)
    $mail->SMTPAuth   = true;                  // enable SMTP authentication
    $mail->Port       = 26;                    // set the SMTP port for the GMAIL server
    $mail->Username   = "[email protected]"; // SMTP account username example
    $mail->Password   = "password";        // SMTP account password example

    $mail->From = $email;
    $mail->FromName = $name;

    $mail->AddAddress('[email protected]', 'Information'); 
    $mail->AddReplyTo($email, 'Wale');

    $mail->IsHTML(true);

    $mail->Subject = $subject;

    $mail->Body    =  $msg;
    $mail->AltBody = 'This is the body in plain text for non-HTML mail clients';

    if(!$mail->Send()) {
    echo 'Message could not be sent.';
    echo 'Mailer Error: ' . $mail->ErrorInfo;
    exit;
}
echo 'Message has been sent';

Answer 1

You need to call:

$mail = new PHPMailer(true); // with true in the parenthesis

From the documentation:

The true param means it will throw exceptions on errors, which we need to catch.