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FlyingIsFun1217

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FlyingIsFun1217

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Ok, for a software website I'm creating, I need to create a mail form. To do this, I just downloaded a simple mail example from this website and edited it a bit. Here's the form I created:

[code="email.php"]<html>
<head>
<title>Comment...</title>
</head>

<body>

<form action="email-guts.php">

<center><b>Nickname:</b></center><br/>
<center><input type="text" name="nickname" value="Your name/nickname"/></center><br/><br/>

<center><b>E-mail:</b></center><br />
<center><input type="text" name="email" value="Your E-mail"/></center><br/><br/>

<center><b>Message:</b></center><br/>
<center><textarea name="message" rows="5" cols="50"></textarea></center><br />

<center><input type="hidden" name="ip" value="<? echo $REMOTE_ADDR; ?>" /></center>

<center>
<input name="Submit" type="submit" value="Submit" />
<input name="Submit" type="reset" value="Reset" />
</center>

</form>

</body>
</html>[/code]

...and connected it to email-guts.php:

[code="email-guts.php"]<?
$yourwebsite = "http://FIF1217.no-ip.org"; // Your website
$recipientname = "FIF1217 Software Admin"; // Whats your name ?!
$subject="FIF1217 Software Website";  // The subject of the mail thats being sended
$recipient="FIF1217Software+form@gmail.com"; // the recipient
$completetion_message="Thanks for sending us your comments!";

/*
  The headers for the e-mail, no need to change it unless you know what you're doing
*/
$header = "From: $nickname <$email>\r\n";
$header .= "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";
$header .= "Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\r\n";
$header .= "X-Priority: 3\r\n";
$header .= "X-MSMail-Priority: Normal\r\n";
$header .= "X-Mailer: PHP / ".phpversion()."\r\n";

/*
  You can change the text below to whatever you wish to have
  for the way the mail is gonne be outputted, you can use HTML!
*/
$content= "
Dear $recipientname, $nickname has sended you an e-mail from $yourwebsite.<br><br>
<b>Message:</b>
$message
<hr noshade=\"true\" size=\"1\" color=\"#000000\" />
You can contact $nickname back at $email.";

// Lets send the e-mail by using the mail() function, no need to change below...this can be edited above!
mail($recipient, $content, $header);

// Message the user will see if the e-mail is succesfully sended :)
echo "Thanks for sending your message!";
?>[/code]

But every time that I try testing it out, it says that it submitted it (as I have taken out the original error code), but when I check my mail, it shows nothing!

Is there something in php that should be changed to allow mail to be sent? Or something like that?

Thanks,
FlyingIsFun1217
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[code]
<?
$yourwebsite = "http://FIF1217.no-ip.org"; // Your website
$recipientname = "FIF1217 Software Admin"; // Whats your name ?!
$subject="FIF1217 Software Website";  // The subject of the mail thats being sended
$recipient="FIF1217Software+form@gmail.com"; // the recipient
$completetion_message="Thanks for sending us your comments!";
$email = $_POST['email'];
$nickname = $_POST['nickname'];

/*
  The headers for the e-mail, no need to change it unless you know what you're doing
*/
$header = "From: $nickname <$email>\r\n";
$header .= "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";
$header .= "Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\r\n";
$header .= "X-Priority: 3\r\n";
$header .= "X-MSMail-Priority: Normal\r\n";
$header .= "X-Mailer: PHP / ".phpversion()."\r\n";

/*
  You can change the text below to whatever you wish to have
  for the way the mail is gonne be outputted, you can use HTML!
*/
$content= "
Dear $recipientname, $nickname has sended you an e-mail from $yourwebsite.<br><br>
<b>Message:</b>
$message
<hr noshade=\"true\" size=\"1\" color=\"#000000\" />
You can contact $nickname back at $email.";

// Lets send the e-mail by using the mail() function, no need to change below...this can be edited above!
//mail($recipient, $content, $header);

if (mail($recipient, $subject, $content, $header))
{
// Message the user will see if the e-mail is succesfully sended :)
echo "Thanks for sending your message!";
}
else
{
echo "Failed Sending message";
}
?>[/code]

Copy paste this over email-guts.php and try!
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kickassamd Member

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Try one off of PHPs site

[code]<?php
// multiple recipients
$to  = 'aidan@example.com' . ', '; // note the comma
$to .= 'wez@example.com';

// subject
$subject = 'Birthday Reminders for August';

// message
$message = '
<html>
<head>
  <title>Birthday Reminders for August</title>
</head>
<body>
  <p>Here are the birthdays upcoming in August!</p>
  <table>
  <tr>
    <th>Person</th><th>Day</th><th>Month</th><th>Year</th>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>Joe</td><td>3rd</td><td>August</td><td>1970</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>Sally</td><td>17th</td><td>August</td><td>1973</td>
  </tr>
  </table>
</body>
</html>
';

// To send HTML mail, the Content-type header must be set
$headers  = 'MIME-Version: 1.0' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1' . "\r\n";

// Additional headers
$headers .= 'To: Mary <mary@example.com>, Kelly <kelly@example.com>' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'From: Birthday Reminder <birthday@example.com>' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'Cc: birthdayarchive@example.com' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'Bcc: birthdaycheck@example.com' . "\r\n";

// Mail it
mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);
?>[/code]

Change the top two vars and test... if it fails then contact your host.
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;) My host is me, I'm using the abyss web server...

Before I was using Apache, which wasn't very helpful, but now that I am using abyss, its gives me this for an error message:

[quote]Warning: mail() [function.mail]: Failed to connect to mailserver at "localhost" port 25, verify your "SMTP" and "smtp_port" setting in php.ini or use ini_set() in C:\Program Files\Abyss Web Server\htdocs\Current_Website\email-guts.php on line 34
Failed Sending message[/quote]

Thanks again!
FlyingIsFun1217
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b00ty Newbie

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From what I can see it shows $recipient="FIF1217Software+form@gmail.com"; which is what the message is getting sent to. As far as I know the "+" symbol most the time takes the place of a space...which i know for sure that email addresses cant have any special characters of. make sure that it says your full email address and try again. Let me know if it works!

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