PHPMailer saying could not connect to SMTP host

Question

For the past 2 days I\'ve been trying to get a PHP script to send an e-mail and it doesn\'t seem to work. First I\'ve tried the normal php mail function, then PHPMailer and then

Answer 1

The SMTPOptions line in @David Kariuki's solution fixed my issue. Was getting a SMTP connect failure due to the failure in the TLS handshake.

$mail->SMTPOptions = array(
                  'ssl' => array(
                      'verify_peer' => false,
                      'verify_peer_name' => false,
                      'allow_self_signed' => true
                  )
              );