[SOLVED] Mail() Function Manual error check

[icekat83]

Hey,

 

I'm new to this forum, although not to PHP but I've hit a wall with this. I have form processor page sending a contact mail and need to suppress error messages of my mail() function (using @). However I want to know if there is an error so is there a way I can check for an error manually, so I can decide what happens? The idea is that the user sees a pretty 'sorry there was an error' message instead of the confusing php error message. Does anyone know of a good method?

 

Thanks,

Alanna.

[Bendude14]

as the documentation quite clearly says the mail function returns true on success and false on failure.

 

http://au.php.net/manual/en/function.mail.php

[icekat83]

I have a line in my code:

 

@mail($recipient, $subject, $msg, $headers); -- with the @ symbol to stop error messages being printed.

 

However if I put in something like:

if(mail()) == false){

  echo 'error';

}

 

I get a message saying that '3 parameters are expected'.

[icekat83]

LOL. Brain dead moment. I gave it a variable name and used === instead of ==, now it works. 

[Bendude14]

if statement check for true or false, doing if mail() == false is the same as saying if false == false..

 

Simply do if( mail() ) { }