Simple mail script not working...

[ethayne]

Hi all,

 

I've got a simple mail script here for an html form. Everything seems to be working correctly except the actual mailing part. Here is the site for reference: http://www.littlesproutandco.com/splash

 

PHP script:

<?php

$email=$_POST['email'];
$body="The email address $email wants to be notified when the Little Sprout and Company website is finished!";

if ($email) {

mail("[email protected]","Little Sprout Sign Up",$body,"From:LittleSprout")

header("Location: success.php");

}

else {
header("Location: index.php");
}

?>

 

Any idea what's going on?

Thanks!

 

[R0bb0b]

First thing that pops out is the missing semi-colon after

<?php mail("[email protected]","Little Sprout Sign Up",$body,"From:LittleSprout") ?>

[ethayne]

Good catch, but I'm still not getting the message...

[R0bb0b]

do it like this

<?php
if(!mail("[email protected]","Little Sprout Sign Up",$body,"From:LittleSprout"))
{
    print_r(error_get_last());
    exit();
}
?>

[ethayne]

Okay, so apparently the problem has to do with GoDaddy (why do clients insist on using them for a host?). I'll get it straightened out with them. Thanks for the help.

[Brian W]

Do they not allow you to set you SMPT in the ini? I've had that problem with one server I was working with.

I am just wondering because I have a few times told people to use them though I've never once used the myself, I just hear they are good for people just looking for a simple, user friendly host.

If the mail() function has issues, that may ward me off from their serviced in the future. :-\

[ethayne]

Well, maybe it's just my experience, but I've never been satisfied with GoDaddy. I've done some google searches and it seems I'm not the only one having problems with the mail() function. I'll be sure to post here what I find out from them.

[R0bb0b]

try phpmailer, there are many tutorials and example on their site.

[wrathican]

function sendMail($to, $subject, $message) {

 

$headers = "From: SNT CMS <[email protected]>\r\n" .

      'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion() . "\r\n" .

      "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n" .

      "Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8\r\n" .

      "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit\r\n" .

  "Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\r\n";

 

// Send

$mailing = mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);

if ($mailing != false) {

return true;

}else{

return false;

}

}

 

 

i use this homemade thing - enjoy

use like so:

 

<?php

$email = '[email protected]';
$subject = 'Hello!';
$message = 'I <3 PHP';

$mailing = sendMail($email, $subject, $message);

if($mailing == false){
//error capture
}else{
//success capture
}
?>