Try this..
<?php
require 'PHPMailer-master/PHPMailerAutoload.php';
print "OK HERE WE GO<br><br>";
$activation = md5(uniqid(rand(), true));
$mail = new PHPMailer;
$mail->SMTPDebug = 0; // Enable verbose debug output
$mail->isSMTP(); // Set mailer to use SMTP
$mail->Host = 'mail.smtp.com'; // Specify main and backup SMTP servers
//$mail->SMTPAuth = true; // Enable SMTP authentication
$mail->Username = 'xyz.abc@any.com'; // SMTP username
$mail->Password = 'password'; // SMTP password
//$mail->SMTPSecure = 'tls'; // Enable TLS encryption, `ssl` also accepted
$mail->Port = 25; // TCP port to connect to
$mail->From = 'xyz.abc@any.com';
$mail->FromName = 'tim';
$mail->addAddress('any.one@gmail.com', 'User'); // Add a recipient
$mail->isHTML(true); // Set email format to HTML
$message ="http://www.something...y=$activation";
$mail->Subject = 'Here is the subject';
$mail->Body = " $message";
$mail->AltBody = 'This is the body in plain text for non-HTML mail clients';
//print "code is: $activation";
if(!$mail->send()) {
echo 'Message could not be sent.';
echo 'Mailer Error: ' . $mail->ErrorInfo;
} else {
echo 'Message has been sent';
}
?>