hopefully an easy PHP Mail question

aggieerin · December 7, 2008

Howdy all,

My background is in perl, so I get most of what's going on with PHP. I have a set of code that is a "game" that runs both javascript and php. It's actually a psychology experiment I am trying to run. Here's how it works:

People log in to the website and take the "game" (which can be seen http://www.olemiss.edu/depts/psychology/exp/ospan/ospan.html here). If you want to try it (I would not recommend this) the codes are p1, p2, p3...up to p180.

The javascript randomizes the screens and what you see in different orders (don't know if you need to know this or not, but can't hurt).

After they are done with the game, it form posts to "ospanlog.php". The original ospanlog.php had all the write handles to open a text file and write it to the server. I know the post action is working because otherwise it would give you an error and you would not see the end game screen. The tech guys that set up my web space swear I have write permissions to my folders, but I have yet to believe them since this file will not work. If you set up your own websever (such as IBserver) the damn thing works fine.

My solution to this is just to get the form to email me the information. However, I am doing something wrong because my basic grasp of the mail function in PHP is not sending me an email. I'm hoping that y'all can tell me what I'm doing wrong.

Here's the original code:

<?

if($endGameField)

{

$allstring = "******************OVERALL DATA FOR $id******************\n";

$allstring .= "Test Date: " . date("m/d/Y") . "\n";

$allstring .= "Test Time: " . date("h:i:s") . "\n";

$allstring .= "IP Address: " . $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'] . "\n";

$allstring .= "Final math percentage: " . $mathPercentage . "\n";

$allstring .= "Total problems shown: " . $totalLetters . "\n";

$allstring .= "Total letters correct: " . $lettersCorrect . "\n";

$rawString = explode("^",$endGameField);

$label = "";

$cnt = 1;

$masterCnt = 1;

for($i=1; $i<count($rawString); $i++) //Scip first line because it is blank

{

if($cnt == 13)

{

$cnt = 1;

$masterCnt ++;

}

if($cnt == 1)

{

$allstring .= "\n******************SET $masterCnt DATA FOR $id******************\n";

$allstring .= "Maximum Math Time: " . $mathTime . "\n";

}

switch($cnt)

{

case 1:$label = "Equations: "; break;

case 2:$label = "Shown Answers: "; break;

case 3:$label = "Correct Answers: "; break;

case 4:$label = "Student Answers: "; break;

case 5:$label = "Student Was Correct: "; break;

case 6:$label = "Letters Shown: "; break;

case 7:$label = "Students Letters: "; break;

case 8:$label = "Time on Problem screen: "; break;

case 9:$label = "Time on Answer Screen: "; break;

case 10:$label = "Times on Recall screen: "; break;

case 11:$label = "Session Letters Correct: "; break;

case 12:$label = "Session Math Percentage: "; break;

default: break;

}

$allstring .= $label . $rawString[$i] . "\n";

$cnt ++;

}

$filename = "scores/" . $id . "-OSPAN.txt";

$handle = fopen($filename, 'w+');

fwrite($handle, $allstring);

fclose($handle);

}

?>

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">

<HTML>

<HEAD>

<TITLE> OSPAN </TITLE>

</HEAD>

<BODY>

<tr>

Thank you for participating.<br>

<br>

<a href="javascript:window.close()">Close this window</a>.</div>

</td>

</tr>

</table>

</div>

</BODY>

</HTML>

Here's what I tried with no luck:

<?

if($endGameField)

{

$allstring = "******************OVERALL DATA FOR $id******************\n";

$allstring .= "Test Date: " . date("m/d/Y") . "\n";

$allstring .= "Test Time: " . date("h:i:s") . "\n";

$allstring .= "IP Address: " . $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'] . "\n";

$allstring .= "Final math percentage: " . $mathPercentage . "\n";

$allstring .= "Total problems shown: " . $totalLetters . "\n";

$allstring .= "Total letters correct: " . $lettersCorrect . "\n";

$rawString = explode("^",$endGameField);

$label = "";

$cnt = 1;

$masterCnt = 1;

for($i=1; $i<count($rawString); $i++) //Scip first line because it is blank

{

if($cnt == 13)

{

$cnt = 1;

$masterCnt ++;

}

if($cnt == 1)

{

$allstring .= "\n******************SET $masterCnt DATA FOR $id******************\n";

$allstring .= "Maximum Math Time: " . $mathTime . "\n";

}

switch($cnt)

{

case 1:$label = "Equations: "; break;

case 2:$label = "Shown Answers: "; break;

case 3:$label = "Correct Answers: "; break;

case 4:$label = "Student Answers: "; break;

case 5:$label = "Student Was Correct: "; break;

case 6:$label = "Letters Shown: "; break;

case 7:$label = "Students Letters: "; break;

case 8:$label = "Time on Problem screen: "; break;

case 9:$label = "Time on Answer Screen: "; break;

case 10:$label = "Times on Recall screen: "; break;

case 11:$label = "Session Letters Correct: "; break;

case 12:$label = "Session Math Percentage: "; break;

default: break;

}

$allstring .= $label . $rawString[$i] . "\n";

$cnt ++;

}

$to = "[email protected]";

$subject = "$id";

$message = $allstring;

$headers = "From: ospansite";

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

}

?>

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">

<HTML>

<HEAD>

<TITLE> OSPAN </TITLE>

</HEAD>

<BODY>

<tr>

Thank you for participating.<br>

<br>

<a href="javascript:window.close()">Close this window</a>.</div>

</td>

</tr>

</table>

</div>

</BODY>

</HTML>

Thanks for the help in advance.

aggieerin · December 7, 2008

ok i change the offending section to this:

$to = "[email protected]";
$subject = "$id";
$message = "$allstring";
$headers = "From: [email protected]";
mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);

after reading some other posts on the board.

No love.

chronister · December 7, 2008

Check out PHPMailer.

http://phpmailer.codeworxtech.com/index.php?pg=phpmailer

It is a really good mail class. I used the standard mail function for a long time and struggled with somethings like attaching files, and creating a text/html email.

PHPMailer made these things SUPER easy and allows for mail(), smtp, gmail and I think a couple other transport methods.

There may also be something in the config for the server. I had a problem when I switched the company I worked for to a VPS. I had to add an entry to the trusted_domains file (linux server) before any mail would go through.

Thats all I got on this.

Nate

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