[SOLVED] Unknown error : PHP5 seams to be unable to echo it all...

[XRayden]

hello...

i've got a php class to validate form intry, it's supposed to send back the result in an email.

so far was working good, now i've got it to work on a PHP5 environment and it works, partialy...

here the error :

the faulty code reside in my html_mail() function :
[code]function html_mail()
{
$this->headers  = "MIME-Version: 1.0\n";
$this->headers .= "Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\n";
$this->headers .= "X-Priority: 3\n";
$this->headers .= "X-MSMail-Priority: Normal\n";
$this->headers .= "X-Mailer: php\n";
$this->headers .= "From: \"".$this->fromname."\" <".$this->fromaddress.">\n";
return mail($this->to, $this->subject, stripslashes($this->message), $this->headers);
}[/code]

it was causing RANDOM unknown...

it works perfectly if my $this->to variable is set to [email protected]
and seams to NOT WORK if it's anything other than this one...

but here comes the part that thrown me out of my chair. it's not the $this->to that cauze the error!

check this out : i've modified the code to output some elements
[code]function html_mail()
{
$this->headers  = "MIME-Version: 1.0\n";
$this->headers .= "Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\n";
$this->headers .= "X-Priority: 3\n";
$this->headers .= "X-MSMail-Priority: Normal\n";
$this->headers .= "X-Mailer: php\n";
echo $this->headers .= "From: \"".$this->fromname."\" <".$this->fromaddress.">\n";
echo '<br />';
echo $this->fromaddress;
echo '<br />';
echo $this->to;
return mail($this->to, $this->subject, stripslashes($this->message), $this->headers);
}[/code]

here is the output :
[code]MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: php From: "Olivier Labbé"
[email protected]
[email protected][/code]

php5 seams to shit the line :
$this->headers .= "From: \"".$this->fromname."\" <".$this->fromaddress.">\n";
and not being able to output the first "<" ... i've tried escaping it... dont work... any idea ?

[trq]

To keep it simple, try....

[code=php:0]
$this->headers .= "From: \"{$this->fromname}\" <{$this->fromaddress>}\n";
[/code]

[XRayden]

still doesn't work... is there a way to know WHY the mail() is returning false ?

[emehrkay]

why are you setting the headers var as a property of the class? will you use it somewhere else in the class? if not just do

$header = ...

that may cause your problem

[kenrbnsn]

As for PHP loosing the opening "<" in the echo statement. If you look at the source of the web page, you will see the character there. The problem is that the browser is eating it thinking that it is the beginning of a tag. To solve this problem, use the htmlentities() function when echoing the variable.

Ken