php mail function

[james_byrne]

I am trying to use vcalendar on a site that i am working on and i need to edit the e-mail function they are using to put a user name and password in for the smtp server.

 

My question is how can i pass the a user name and password for my smtp server to the php mail function so that it can use my smtp server as a relay.

 

Thanks in advance for the help.

[jonsjava]

stolen from About.com

<?php
require_once "Mail.php";

$from = "Sandra Sender <[email protected]>";
$to = "Ramona Recipient <[email protected]>";
$subject = "Hi!";
$body = "Hi,\n\nHow are you?";

$host = "mail.example.com";
$username = "smtp_username";
$password = "smtp_password";

$headers = array ('From' => $from,
  'To' => $to,
  'Subject' => $subject);
$smtp = Mail::factory('smtp',
  array ('host' => $host,
    'auth' => true,
    'username' => $username,
    'password' => $password));

$mail = $smtp->send($to, $headers, $body);

if (PEAR::isError($mail)) {
  echo("<p>" . $mail->getMessage() . "</p>");
} else {
  echo("<p>Message successfully sent!</p>");
}
?>

[DeanWhitehouse]

or use the PHPmailer

 

google it.

[james_byrne]

I have tired this and i am getting a error. I am using this in a function.

 

error:

 

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /var/www/vcalendar/common_functions.php:316) in /var/www/vcalendar/registration.php on line 532

 

here is there original code:

function SendEmailMessage($variable, $email_to, $parameters) {
        global $calendar_config;
        $value = 0;

        if (strlen($variable)) {
                $db = new clsDBcalendar();
                $SQL = "SELECT email_template_from, ".
                                        "email_templates.email_template_subject AS mainSubject, ".
                                        "email_templates_lang.email_template_subject AS localeSubject, ".
                                        "email_templates.email_template_body AS mainBody, ".
                                        "email_templates_lang.email_template_body AS localeBody ".
                           "FROM email_templates LEFT JOIN email_templates_lang ".
                                        "ON email_templates.email_template_id = email_templates_lang.email_template_id ".
                           "WHERE email_template_type = ".$db->ToSQL($variable, ccsText).
                                        " AND language_id = ".$db->ToSQL(CCGetSession("locale"), ccsText);
                $db->query($SQL);
                if ($db->next_record()) {
                        $email_subject = CCStrLen($db->f("localeSubject"))? $db->f("localeSubject") : $db->f("mainSubject");
                        $email_body = CCStrLen($db->f("localeBody"))? $db->f("localeBody") : $db->f("mainBody");
                        $email_from = CCStrLen($db->f("email_template_from"))? $db->f("email_template_from") : $calendar_config["site_email"$

                        while (list($key,$value) = each($parameters))
                                $email_body = str_replace($key,$value,$email_body);

                        $email_body = str_replace("{site_url}",ServerURL,$email_body);

                        if (strlen(trim($calendar_config["SMTP"]))) {
                                $value = mailsmtp($email_from, $email_to, $email_subject, $email_body, "From: $email_from\nContent-Type: tex$
                        } else {
                                $value = @mail($email_to, $email_subject, $email_body, "From: $email_from\nContent-Type: text/plain");
                                if ($value)
                                        $value = "";
                                else
                                        $value = "Email sending ERROR";
                        }
                }
                $db->close();
    }
    return $value;
}

 

and when i change it it looks like this:

 

function SendEmailMessage($variable, $email_to, $parameters) {
        global $calendar_config;
        $value = 0;

        if (strlen($variable)) {
                $db = new clsDBcalendar();
                $SQL = "SELECT email_template_from, ".
                                        "email_templates.email_template_subject AS mainSubject, ".
                                        "email_templates_lang.email_template_subject AS localeSubject, ".
                                        "email_templates.email_template_body AS mainBody, ".
                                        "email_templates_lang.email_template_body AS localeBody ".
                           "FROM email_templates LEFT JOIN email_templates_lang ".
                                        "ON email_templates.email_template_id = email_templates_lang.email_template_id ".
                           "WHERE email_template_type = ".$db->ToSQL($variable, ccsText).
                                        " AND language_id = ".$db->ToSQL(CCGetSession("locale"), ccsText);
                $db->query($SQL);
                if ($db->next_record()) {
                        $email_subject = CCStrLen($db->f("localeSubject"))? $db->f("localeSubject") : $db->f("mainSubject");
                        $email_body = CCStrLen($db->f("localeBody"))? $db->f("localeBody") : $db->f("mainBody");
                        $email_from = CCStrLen($db->f("email_template_from"))? $db->f("email_template_from") : $calendar_config["site_email"$

                        while (list($key,$value) = each($parameters))
                                $email_body = str_replace($key,$value,$email_body);

                        $email_body = str_replace("{site_url}",ServerURL,$email_body);

require_once "Mail.php";
$from = $email_from;
$to = $email_to;
$subject = $email_subject;
$body = $email_body;

$host = "mysmtpserver";
$username = "XXXXXX";
$password = "XXXXXXXXXX";

$headers = array('From' => $from,
'To' => $to,
'Subject' => $subject);

$smtp = Mail::factory('smtp',
        array('host' =>$host,
                'auth' => $ture,
                'username' => $username,
                'password' => $password));

$mail = $smtp->send($to, $headers, $body);

if (PEAR::isError($mail)) {
  echo("<p>" . $mail->getMessage() . "</p>");
  $vaule = "";
} else {
  echo("<p>Message successfully sent!</p>");
  $value = "Email sending ERROR";
}

                }
                $db->close();
    }
    return $value;
}

 

if i run a smiler script in its own file it works fine, but it will not work it in a function i guess. Is there anyone who has any ideas.

 

Thanks in advance for the help.

[DeanWhitehouse]

the header must be before any html output(i think).

 

 

[james_byrne]

Ya you are correct, so i made it so it at least tells me that it is sending the e-mail now. The only thing is that it is not sending anything at all. Something else to troubleshoot.

 

But thanks to everyone for the help. I appreciate it.