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Thank You!!! Yes, I will update to a newer version. mac_gyver Thank you for a great temporary solution to my problem, and for the clarity of how you explained it!

Good point, but I am not ready to update to php 7 yet. The site still uses MySQL functions and I do not have the go ahead to spend the time (and charge them) for changing it. So I actually need to find a version of PHPMailer that will work with php 5.2.17 At least until they are ready to spend the money to pay for me to update their site.

I am just learning how to use PHPMailer. I have not touched anything on any of the PHPMailer files. I am using php 5.2.17 I am surprised to get this error: Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_FUNCTION in /home/content/33/3333333/html/folder/folder2/PHPMailer/class.phpmailer.php on line 3042 I assumed that this would be something common and I would find another person who had the same issue. Only I do not see anyone with the same error and line as this. I could post my code, but the error comes before any of my code is run. Meaning the php file starts with: date_default_timezone_set('America/Los_Angeles'); require 'PHPMailer/PHPMailerAutoload.php'; The error is found before any of my code is run.