PHPMailer Mailer Error: Message body empty

I'm trying to get the basic example working for PHPMailer. All I done was upload the whole PHPMailer_5.2.2 folder, configured the page below as per the code you see and I keep getting `Mailer Error: Message body empty`, but I can clearly see the contents.html file has html in it and isn't empty. This is the example file I'm using from the PHPMailer PHPMailer_5.2.2/examples/test_smtp_gmail_basic.php I tried using the settings I have in Outlook for Gmail that works, I know my username and password, the SMTP port is 587 and it's set to TLS, I tried replacing SSL with TLS in the code below, I still get same error. I also tried the following code, which has been suggested: changed this: ``` $mail->MsgHTML($body); ``` to this ``` $mail->body = $body; ``` I still got same error, is there something else I need to configure? It's my first time using PHPMailer, I can get the standard php mail working, but I want to try this because the page I'm going to be emailing has lots of html and I don't want to have to go through all the html and enter character escapes so someone recommending using this. ``` <?php //error_reporting(E_ALL); error_reporting(E_STRICT); date_default_timezone_set('America/Toronto'); require_once('../class.phpmailer.php'); //include("class.smtp.php"); // optional, gets called from within class.phpmailer.php if not already loaded $mail = new PHPMailer(); $body = file_get_contents('contents.html'); $body = preg_replace('/[\]/','',$body); $mail->IsSMTP(); // telling the class to use SMTP $mail->Host = "smtp.gmail.com"; // SMTP server $mail->SMTPDebug = 1; // enables SMTP debug information (for testing) // 1 = errors and messages // 2 = messages only $mail->SMTPAuth = true; // enable SMTP authentication $mail->SMTPSecure = "ssl"; // sets the prefix to the servier $mail->Host = "smtp.gmail.com"; // sets GMAIL as the SMTP server $mail->Port = 587; // set the SMTP port for the GMAIL server $mail->Username = "xxx@gmail.com"; // GMAIL username $mail->Password = "xxx"; // GMAIL password $mail->SetFrom('xxx@gmail.com', 'First Last'); $mail->AddReplyTo("xxx","First Last"); $mail->Subject = "PHPMailer Test Subject via smtp (Gmail), basic"; $mail->AltBody = "To view the message, please use an HTML compatible email viewer!"; // optional, comment out and test $mail->MsgHTML($body); $address = "xxx.net"; $mail->AddAddress($address, "John Doe"); //$mail->AddAttachment("images/phpmailer.gif"); // attachment //$mail->AddAttachment("images/phpmailer_mini.gif"); // attachment if(!$mail->Send()) { echo "Mailer Error: " . $mail->ErrorInfo; } else { echo "Message sent!"; } ?> ```