Sending Form Response to myself via email - Autentication Required

LCNewbie · September 8, 2010

Hi Everyone. I am a little unsure if i am on the right thread so here goes!!

I am new to PHP but have good knowledge of HTML. I have put together a form and am using some PHP from a .NET magazine article to validate the form etc. My is sending the email. Once i click send the form updates with a successful message but the email never arrives. I am told its because the server needs authentication. I am using 123 reg for my hosting ad have the details i need but evertime i try to put the code in i get an error from the server. I would appreciate any help anyone can give me on getting this to work.

The code is below.... Feel free to contact me if you need more information. I look forward to hearing from you!! (The website is thiconstruction.co.uk

<?php

// Configure our email variables

$email_to = 'info@thi-construction.co.uk';

$email_subject = 'THI Form submission';

// Configure our required fields

$required_fields = array('fullname','email','comment');

// What are our error messages?

$error_messages = array(

'fullname' => 'Please enter your Name to continue.',

'email' => 'Please enter a valid Email Address to continue.',

'comment' => 'Please enter your Comment to continue.'

);

// Set our default form status

$form_complete = FALSE;

// Prepare our validation array

$validation = array();

// Let's check that the form was submitted

if(!empty($_POST)) {

// Sanitise our POST array

foreach($_POST as $key => $value) $_POST[$key] = remove_email_injection(trim($value));

// Loop through our requirements and make sure they are acceptable

foreach($required_fields as $field) {

// Firstly, has the field been submitted?

if(!array_key_exists($field, $_POST)) array_push($validation, $field);

// Secondly, is there actually any data in the field?

if($_POST[$field] == '') array_push($validation, $field);

// Lastly, let's validate the submitted email address

if($field == 'email') if(!validate_email_address($_POST[$field])) array_push($validation, $field);

}

// Now we want to check the outcome of our basic validation

if(count($validation) == 0) {

// Prepare our content string

$email_content = 'New Website Comment: ' . "\n\n";

// Let's build our simple email content

foreach($_POST as $key => $value) {

if($key != 'submit') $email_content .= $key . ': ' . $value . "\n";

}

// Identify the mail server, username, password, and port

$server = "smtp.123-reg.co.uk";

$username = "info@thi-construction.co.uk";

$password = "ry54lln330";

$port = "25";

// The validation passed, so send the email

$mail = $smtp->send($email_to, $email_subject, $email_content);

// Configure the mailer mechanism

$smtp = Mail::factory("smtp",

array(

"host" => $server,

"username" => $username,

"password" => $password,

"auth" => true,

"port" => $port

)

);

// Update our form switch

$form_complete = TRUE;

}

function validate_email_address($email = FALSE) {

return (preg_match('/^[^@\s]+@([-a-z0-9]+\.)+[a-z]{2,}$/i', $email))? TRUE : FALSE;

}

function remove_email_injection($field = FALSE) {

return (str_ireplace(array("\r", "\n", "%0a", "%0d", "Content-Type:", "bcc:","to:","cc:"), '', $field));

}

?>

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">

<head>

<title>THI Construction Newbury </title>

var nameError = '<?php echo $error_messages['fullname']; ?>';

var emailError = '<?php echo $error_messages['email']; ?>';

var phoneError = '<?php echo $error_messages['phone']; ?>';

var commentError = '<?php echo $error_messages['comment']; ?>';

</script>

</head>

<body>

</td>

</tr>

<a href='index.html' class=navigation target='_parent'>Home</a> <a href='index.php' class=navigation target='_parent'>Enquiries</a>

</td>

</tr>

<tr >

<p>

<h1>THI Construction is a local Building and Home Improvement company based in Newbury, West Berkshire.</h1>

<h2> Although based in Newbury we also serve it's surrounding area's including but not exclusive to Thatcham, Cold Ash, Hermitage and Kintbury.

If you are not within one of these areas, please contact us, as you may still be within our area. </h2>

<p>We are having technical issues at the moment, please email your enquiry to info@thi-construction.co.uk until we are able to solve the issue with the form submission</p>

</td>

</tr>

<tr>

<td>

<?php if($form_complete === FALSE): ?>

<div>

<input type="text" name="fullname" value="<?php echo isset($_POST['fullname'])? $_POST['fullname'] : ''; ?>" id="fullname" />

<?php if(in_array('fullname', $validation)): ?><span class="error"><?php echo $error_messages['fullname']; ?></span><?php endif; ?>

</div>

<div>

<label for="email">Email Address: <strong>*</strong></label>

<input type="text" name="email" value="<?php echo isset($_POST['email'])? $_POST['email'] : ''; ?>" id="email" />

<?php if(in_array('email', $validation)): ?><span class="error"><?php echo $error_messages['email']; ?></span><?php endif; ?>

</div>

<div>

<label for="phone">Phone Number: <strong>*</strong></label>

<input type="text" name="phone" value="<?php echo isset($_POST['phone'])? $_POST['phone'] : ''; ?>" id="phone" />

<?php if(in_array('phone', $validation)): ?><span class="error"><?php echo $error_messages['phone']; ?></span><?php endif; ?>

</div>

<div>

<label for="comment">Brief description: <strong>*</strong></label>

<?php if(in_array('comment', $validation)): ?><span class="error"><?php echo $error_messages['comment']; ?></span><?php endif; ?>

</div>

<p class="mand">* Mandatory fields</p>

</div>

</fieldset>

</form>

<?php else: ?>

<p>Thank you for your feedback! We are having issues at the moment, please email your enquiry to info@thi-construction.co.uk until we are able to solve the issue </p>

<?php endif; ?>

</td>

</tr>

<tr >

Registered Address: 3 Abbey Close, Newbury, Berkshire, RG14 7QX Contact us:<a href='form.php' target='_parent'> Enquiries</a><p>

</td>

</tr>

</table>

</div >

</body>

</html>

Kind regards Lisa

trq · September 8, 2010

Your attempting to send the email using an object ($smtp) before the object is actually created.

LCNewbie · September 9, 2010

Your attempting to send the email using an object ($smtp) before the object is actually created.

Thank you for responding so quickly. As a novice, i am unsure what i can do to solve this? Does the PHP need to be below the html?

Kind regards

:-[

trq · September 10, 2010

This line attempts to send an email using the $smtp object.....

$mail = $smtp->send($email_to, $email_subject, $email_content);

These lines create the $smtp object.

$smtp = Mail::factory("smtp",
  array(
    "host"     => $server,
    "username" => $username,
    "password" => $password,
    "auth"     => true,
    "port"     => $port
  )
);

The problem is, in your code, the line that uses the $smtp object comes before the lines that actually create this object. Meaning the object doesn't even exist when you attempt to use it. So, the first line needs to go after the second series of lines.

LCNewbie · September 10, 2010

I understand. I have swapped the lines over as suggested thank you. That stops the horrible error coming up. I still dont recieve the email, and dont see the confirmation message displayed as i should. In firefox i get a blank page and ie i get 'this website cannot display the page'. Can you tell if missing something?

I appreciate your help! I am starting a digital media course at Uni as a mature student in a few weeks and im sure once we do touch on php i can solve most of this myself but in the time inbetween i am very grateful!

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