php mailer

[flemingmike]

hello all,

 

does anyone know of any simple tutorial, or simple script that i can learn to submit my html form to a php mailer?  the stuff im finding in google isnt formatted so it can be easily read.

 

thanks!

[flemingmike]

i found a tool called  PHP Form Wizard 

 

i tried it out, it created me a php script, but when i tested, it said successfully sent, but nothing recieved in email.

[radar]

read up on the mail function built into PHP.  thats what i use...  just send your action of the form to a php file, and mail from there...  its great!

[flemingmike]

thanks radar.  do you have a link?  ive been trying to find this info, but i keep finding crap unlegible scripts.

[sfc]

If you go on the php.net site and look up the function mail...you should find what you are looking for.

[flemingmike]

lol... cant believe i never checked php.net.  one of those days!

[flemingmike]

ok, so im starting with this, and im getting error on line 9.

 

<?php
$to      = 'email@rogers.com';
$subject = 'Email From Website';
$message = 'hello';
$headers = 'From: mike@email.ca' . "\r\n" .
    'Reply-To: mike@email.ca' . "\r\n" .
    'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion();

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

 

any ideas?

[flemingmike]

specific error is

 

Warning: mail() [function.mail]: SMTP server response: 550 5.7.1 Unable to relay for *****@rogers.com in E:\Website\dance\registration.php on line 9

[radar]

ive never tried setting headers in a single variable, try doing it in multiple like:

 

$headers = 'From: mike@email.ca\r\n'

$headers .= 'Reply-To: mike@email.ca\r\n'

$headers .= 'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion().'\r\n';

 

and see if that works... 

[kenrbnsn]

The message is coming from your SMTP server. Something may be misconfigured there. Which SMTP server are you using?

 

Ken

[flemingmike]

my iis server has exchange running on it.

[flemingmike]

i tried what you said radar, i get this error:

 

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_VARIABLE in E:\Website\dance\registration.php on line 6

[flemingmike]

here is my current code:

 

<?php
$to      = '****@rogers.com';
$subject = 'Email From Website';
$message = 'hello';
$headers = 'From: mike@****.ca\r\n'
$headers .= 'Reply-To: mike@****.ca\r\n'
$headers .= 'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion().'\r\n';



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

[flemingmike]

radar, i saw your other postings on the add cc to email, so im trying that.  here is my alternate code:

 

<?php

$email = $_POST['Email1'];
$name = $_POST['FirstName1'] $_POST['LastName1'];
$mailto = 'mike@*****.ca';
$mailsubj = "Email From Website";
$mailhead .= "FROM: ".$name;
$mailhead .= "Reply-To: ".$email;
$mailhead .= "CC: ".$email;


$mailbody = "Values submitted from LOI:\n";
while (list($key, $val) = each ($HTTP_POST_VARS)) {
$mailbody .= "$key : $val\n";

}

mail($mailto, $mailsubj, $mailbody, $mailhead);



?>

 

 

 

im getting this error:

 

Warning: mail() [function.mail]: SMTP server response: 501 5.5.4 Invalid Address in E:\Website\dance\registration.php on line 18

 

any ideas?

[radar]

Often times, the mail function has issues in a localhost setting.  I've had the same thing happen to me but the moment I upload it to live server, it works perfectly.  mail functions are hard to figure out sometimes...    but my suggestion is to try it on your live server, and not on the local host server and see what that says to you.