problem

[sphinx]

Hello,

 

What i'm trying to do is generate a random email like: something@website.com

 

Why isn't this working:

 

<?php
function genRandomString() {
    $length = 10;
    $characters = ’0123456789abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz’;
    $string = ”;    

    for ($p = 0; $p < $length; $p++) {
        $string .= $characters[mt_rand(0, strlen($characters))];
    }
    }



$to = "email@email.com";
$subject = "Important";
$message = "Cheap goods available, user";
$from = "$string@website.com"
$headers = "From:" . $from;
mail($to,$subject,$message,$headers);
echo "Mail Sent.";
?> 

 

Many thanks

[phily245]

You need this:

 

<?php $from = "$string@website.com" ?>

 

to be this:

 

<?php $from = $string."@website.com"; ?>

[xyph]

http://php.net/manual/en/language.variables.scope.php

[sphinx]

ok thanks,

 

I put it to this:

 

$from = $string."@website.com";

 

Other info:

 

    mail("$email", "$subject",
    $message, "From:" . $from);
    $headers = "From:" . $from;

 

When I tested it, the email 'from' field displays as:

 

@website.com

 

Any ideas?

 

Thanks

[sphinx]

bump

[PFMaBiSmAd]

A) You are not even calling your function.

 

B) As xyph posted, you have a variable scope problem. The $string variable you set inside your function does not exist outside the function. You need to return the result that your function produces.

 

C) What phily245 posted are two different syntaxes that produce the exact same result and don't have anything to do with your problem.

 

D) You should have php's error reporting set to E_ALL and display_errors set to ON so that php will help you by displaying all the errors it detects. You will save a TON of time. You would be getting an undefined error message at the $string variable in your main code, alerting you to the fact that it has not been set (see items A and B in this list.)