PHPMailer Help

[hoopplaya4]

Hey all,

 

I've spent several hours googling and browsing through forums, but cannot find any concrete help.

 

I'm new to PHP, and loving what I'm learning so far.  I've run into a little bit of trouble with trying to get PHPMailer installed and getting it to work.

 

Unfortunately (against my will), the site I'm working on is on a shared server on GoDaddy.  I've heard several great things about PHPMailer, and how awesome it is, however, I cannot get the test_mail.php to work.  When I browse to the page, I see "Message Sent!" but I see nothing in the my inbox.  I hope I'm not overlooking anything, but any help would be great!

 

Am I doing something wrong?  Is there something wrong with my code?

 

I'm testing the default "test" file that comes with PHPMailer, (of course I'm entering in my email address).

 

test_mail.php:

 

<?php

include_once('../class.phpmailer.php');

$mail             = new PHPMailer(); // defaults to using php "mail()"

$body             = $mail->getFile('contents.html');
$body             = eregi_replace("[\]",'',$body);

$mail->From       = "[email protected]"; //this is where I'm entering my email address of where I want it sent to-- is this correct?[/color]
$mail->FromName   = "Kyle";

$mail->Subject    = "PHPMailer Test Subject via mail()";

$mail->AltBody    = "To view the message, please use an HTML compatible email viewer!"; // optional, comment out and test

$mail->MsgHTML($body);

$mail->AddAddress("[email protected]", "John Doe");

$mail->AddAttachment("images/phpmailer.gif");             // attachment

if(!$mail->Send()) {
  echo "Mailer Error: " . $mail->ErrorInfo;
} else {
  echo "Message sent!";
}

?>

[ratcateme]

who are you sending this to have you checked the spam box on that account?

 

Scott.

[hoopplaya4]

Hey Scott,

 

Thanks for the reply.  I'm sending this to myself, it's a gmail account.  And yes, I have checked the spam box as well.

 

I put the address in the "$mail->From      = "[email protected]" field.  (My email where the xxxx's are).

 

Is there somewhere else I'm supposed to enter the email address I'm sending to.  It's been a long day, so sorry if I'm overlooking something.

 

Thanks.

[hoopplaya4]

Anyone else have any ideas?  ???

[conker87]

Any errors?

[hoopplaya4]

None that I can see on the front end.

 

All I see is "Message Sent!"

 

Not sure where to look for errors on the server-side with GoDaddy.

[conker87]

I can't really help, don't use this class. Sorry

[hoopplaya4]

Ok.  Thanks.  If anyone else knows anything about using PHPMailer, that'd be great.  Thanks.

[jonsjava]

I never was impressed with phpmailer. When I was looking for a robust class for one of my projects <insert project plug>Mail Group Solution</plug>, I gave that one a go, and decided to stay away from that, and use MIME mailer from PHP Guru.  If you decide to give it a go, I can work up a example script for you.

[hoopplaya4]

Hey jonsjava: I'd be willing to give MimeMail a shot-- I'm just looking for something that can send an attachment.

 

Essentially, what I'm trying to is have a user submit a form online, then have the form generated as a PDF with tcpdf, and then have a mailer send the email as an attachment.

 

Would MimeMail help me out with this, you think?