PHP Mail Function - Please Help

wowcrofty · July 23, 2010

I am hoping someone will be kind enough to help me with this problem. I am using an HTML form to collect data and then passing it to a php file with the mail function to send a message. However, whenever I click the Submit button on the HTML and execute the PHP code, I receive the error: Warning: mail() expects at most 5 parameters, 6 given in D:\Hosting\4872190\html\forum.php on line 8. Included below are the two files for your reference.

My HTML form (forum_verification.htm)

<head>
<style type="text/css">
.style1 {
font-family: Arial;
}
.style2 {
text-align: center;
}
.style30 {
vertical-align: middle;
}
.style32 {
font-family: Arial;
text-align: center;
}
.style33 {
text-align: center;
font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-weight: bold;
}
</style>
<title>Forum Registration Verification</title>
<script type="text/javascript">
<!--
function FP_swapImg() {//v1.0
var doc=document,args=arguments,elm,n; doc.$imgSwaps=new Array(); for(n=2; n<args.length;
n+=2) { elm=FP_getObjectByID(args[n]); if(elm) { doc.$imgSwaps[doc.$imgSwaps.length]=elm;
elm.$src=elm.src; elm.src=args[n+1]; } }
}

function FP_preloadImgs() {//v1.0
var d=document,a=arguments; if(!d.FP_imgs) d.FP_imgs=new Array();
for(var i=0; i<a.length; i++) { d.FP_imgs[i]=new Image; d.FP_imgs[i].src=a[i]; }
}

function FP_getObjectByID(id,o) {//v1.0
var c,el,els,f,m,n; if(!o)o=document; if(o.getElementById) el=o.getElementById(id);
else if(o.layers) c=o.layers; else if(o.all) el=o.all[id]; if(el) return el;
if(o.id==id || o.name==id) return o; if(o.childNodes) c=o.childNodes; if(c)
for(n=0; n<c.length; n++) { el=FP_getObjectByID(id,c[n]); if(el) return el; }
f=o.forms; if(f) for(n=0; n<f.length; n++) { els=f[n].elements;
for(m=0; m<els.length; m++){ el=FP_getObjectByID(id,els[n]); if(el) return el; } }
return null;
}
// -->
</script>
</head>


<body style="background-color: #9E9A61; background-image: url('background.jpg');" onload="FP_preloadImgs(/*url*/'button55.gif',/*url*/'button56.gif')">
<div class="style2">
	<table style="width: 100%" cellspacing="4" align="center">
		<tr>
			<td class="style32" style="width: 342px">
			<img alt="American Flag" src="American%20Flag.gif" width="161" height="90" /></td>
			<td class="style1" style="width: 342px">
			<center><img alt="Crest" src="Honor%20Crest.gif" width="125" height="122" class="style30" /></center></td>
			<td class="style32" style="width: 342px">
			<img alt="PA Flag" src="PA%20Flag.gif" width="152" height="96" />.</td>
		</tr>
	</table>

<br /></div>
<form method="post" action="forum.php"> 
<div class="style2">
<span class="style1">Name:                               
<input name="name" type="text" style="width: 182px"><br>
<br>
Registered User Name:  <input name="reguser" type="text" style="width: 180px; height: 20px"><br>
<br>
Email Address:                
<input name="email" type="text" style="width: 180px; height: 20px"><br>
<br>
<br>
</span>
<br> 
<input type="submit" value="Submit" name="submit">   
<input type="reset" value="Clear Form" name="clear">
</div>
</form> 
<p class="style33"><br>
THANK YOU FOR TAKING THE TIME TO SEND THE INFORMATION!</p>
<p class="style33"> </p>
<p class="style2"><a href="javascript:window.opener='x';window.close();">
	<img style="border: 0" id="img1" src="button57.gif" height="30" width="150" alt="Close Window" onmouseover="FP_swapImg(1,0,/*id*/'img1',/*url*/'button55.gif')" onmouseout="FP_swapImg(0,0,/*id*/'img1',/*url*/'button57.gif')" onmousedown="FP_swapImg(1,0,/*id*/'img1',/*url*/'button56.gif')" onmouseup="FP_swapImg(0,0,/*id*/'img1',/*url*/'button55.gif')" fp-style="fp-btn: Metal Capsule 2; fp-font: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; fp-font-size: 12; fp-transparent: 1" fp-title="Close Window" /></a></p>
</body>

My PHP file (forum.php

<?php 
$to = "[email protected]"; 
$subject = "Forum User Name Identification"; 
$name= $_REQUEST['name'] ;
$reguser = $_REQUEST['reguser'] ; 
$email = $_REQUEST['email'] ; 
$headers = "From: $name" ;
$sent = mail($to, $subject, $name, $reguser, $email, $headers) ; 
if($sent) 
{print "Your information has been submitted.  Thank you very much!"; }
else 
{print "There was a problem sending your information.  Please try again."; }
?>

Thank you in advance for your assistance!

Pikachu2000 · July 23, 2010

The error message is pretty self-explanatory. like it says in the manual: mail(to, subject, body, headers, [optional 5th parameter])

Alex · July 23, 2010

It's pretty self-explanatory; mail takes in 5 parameters at most, and you're supplying it with 6. Check out the manual on mail() for instructions on how to use it.

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