simpson_121919

I came across this error when trying to learn how to send form data to my email address - Warning: mail() [function.mail]: Failed to connect to mailserver at "localhost" port 25, verify your "SMTP" and "smtp_port" setting in php.ini or use ini_set() in C:\Apache\htdocs\websites\php_learn\report.php on line 30 From what I have read so far I think I need to reconfig my php.ini file. So I looked into my php.ini file and found this - [mail function] ; For Win32 only. ; http://php.net/smtp SMTP = localhost ; http://php.net/smtp-port smtp_port = 25 ; For Win32 only. ; http://php.net/sendmail-from ;sendmail_from = me@example.com I have a 64 bit system so do I need to download another version of php? Also when I do get to the point at where I can config the php.ini file how do I go about it? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Got it. Thanks

Thanks for the help. I will be using linux and thats what had me leaning towards php and python. With python do I get the best of both worlds(general purpose programming and web development)?

I see. Well considering I have no tasks at hand for programming I cant ask if this would be good for a given situation. How about Python, is it powerful when it comes to web development. I really really want to kill two birds with one stone.

My main focus is creating websites. I know CSS and html and I know its time to learn a scripting language. It would be nice to have both a general purpose programming language and web scripting language under my belt. PHP No? Two birds one stone so to speak. So my question is would it be a good idea to use PHP for general purpose programming or just take the time to learn python also?