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[webdevdea]

Im working from this fun PHP sql book while I am out for a few weeks, I am working on an alien abduction form lol its supposed to mail it to me..
here is my code for that part.. can you tell me what I am doing wrong with it?
 

$to = 'webdevdea@gmail.com';
   $subject = 'Aliens Abducted Me - Abduction Report';
   $msg = "$name was abducted $when_it_happened and was gone for $how_long.\n" .
    "Number of aliens: $how_many\n";
    "Alien Description: $alien_description\n";
    "What they did: $what_they_did\n";
    "Fang Spotted: $fang_spotted\n";
    "Other Comments: $other";
     mail($to, $subject, $msg, 'From:' . $email);

[0xMatt]

You should tell us what is wrong.

 

Are you getting a php error? No, because I used your script on my localhost and sent the email to myself which works.

 

Have you checked your mail logs for errors?

 

Do you have sendmail configured properly?

[gristoi]

are you running this from your local machine or from a web server. if you are running it from your local machine then you need to make sure your mail client is configured correctly

[webdevdea]

Yeah I didnt look in my junk box, I thought it was not working, I apologize i am new to this just trying to work out some bugs lol .. 

are you running this from your local machine or from a web server. if you are running it from your local machine then you need to make sure your mail client is configured correctly

[jazzman1]

Try to send this exampe from php.net:

<?php

$to      = 'nobody@example.com';
$subject = 'the subject';
$message = 'hello';
$headers = 'From: webmaster@example.com' . "\r\n" .
    'Reply-To: webmaster@example.com' . "\r\n" .
    'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion();

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