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Hi all,

Im looking for some advice regarding my email form on a website I did for somebody. I received an email asking me to make som adjustments to it. This is the code I was originally using that worked fine

[code]<?php

// Website Contact Form Generator
// [url]http://www.tele-pro.co.uk/scripts/contact_form/[/url]
// This script is free to use as long as you    
// retain the credit link    
// get posted data into local variables
$EmailFrom = Trim(stripslashes($_POST['EmailFrom']));
$EmailTo = "enquiries@celebcars.co.uk";
$Subject = "information request";
$Name = Trim(stripslashes($_POST['Name']));
$subject = Trim(stripslashes($_POST['subject']));
$comments = Trim(stripslashes($_POST['comments']));

// validation
$validationOK=true;
if (Trim($EmailFrom)=="") $validationOK=false;
if (Trim($Name)=="") $validationOK=false;
if (Trim($subject)=="") $validationOK=false;
if (Trim($comments)=="") $validationOK=false;
if (!$validationOK) {
  print "<meta http-equiv=\"refresh\" content=\"0;URL=error.htm\">";
  exit;
}

// prepare email body text
$Body = "";
$Body .= "Name: ";
$Body .= $Name;
$Body .= "\n";
$Body .= "subject: ";
$Body .= $subject;
$Body .= "\n";
$Body .= "comments: ";
$Body .= $comments;
$Body .= "\n";

// send email
$success = mail($EmailTo, $Subject, $Body, "From: <$EmailFrom>");

// redirect to success page
if ($success){
  print "<meta http-equiv=\"refresh\" content=\"0;URL=thankyou.htm\">";
}
else{
  print "<meta http-equiv=\"refresh\" content=\"0;URL=error.htm\">";
}
?> [/code]

but they said they updated their server and this is a fix here for it [a href=\"http://www.fasthosts.co.uk/knowledg.../?article_id=65\" target=\"_blank\"]http://www.fasthosts.co.uk/knowledg.../?article_id=65[/a]

do I just need to add this line they suggest - ini_set("sendmail_from", " email@mydomain ");

Im not sure where to add this to the code.

Hope somebody can help Im totally lost on this..

thanks in advance
Rob
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I couldn't get the link you provided to work, but the code in question, ini_set, would go before the 'mail' function is called. i normally stick things like that right at the top of my page, after my includes and session_start().
the mail function's manual, ( [a href=\"http://uk.php.net/mail\" target=\"_blank\"]http://uk.php.net/mail[/a] ) will probably shed some light on what you want youre tryign to achieve, but when i change servers, normally the only setting i need to alter is 'SMTP' if i havent got a mail server set up on the same server as the php.
otherwise, i can't really see many reasons why the code you've posted still wouldnt work as it is.

did they give you any info in terms of the problem they were having?
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thanks very much for replying.

What was on the link I sent was this

PHP on Windows
Use the PHP mail function and set the mail from using the following line of code - replacing email@mydomain with the correct domain name.


ini_set("sendmail_from", " email@mydomain ");

So I am assuming that all I would need to do was to add it to my code like this, Is this right?

thanks

[code]<?php
ini_set("sendmail_from", " enquiries@celebcars.co.uk");

// get posted data into local variables
$EmailFrom = Trim(stripslashes($_POST['EmailFrom']));
$EmailTo = "enquiries@celebcars.co.uk";
$Subject = "information request";
$Name = Trim(stripslashes($_POST['Name']));
$subject = Trim(stripslashes($_POST['subject']));
$comments = Trim(stripslashes($_POST['comments']));

// validation
$validationOK=true;
if (Trim($EmailFrom)=="") $validationOK=false;
if (Trim($Name)=="") $validationOK=false;
if (Trim($subject)=="") $validationOK=false;
if (Trim($comments)=="") $validationOK=false;
if (!$validationOK) {
  print "<meta http-equiv=\"refresh\" content=\"0;URL=error.htm\">";
  exit;
}

// prepare email body text
$Body = "";
$Body .= "Name: ";
$Body .= $Name;
$Body .= "\n";
$Body .= "subject: ";
$Body .= $subject;
$Body .= "\n";
$Body .= "comments: ";
$Body .= $comments;
$Body .= "\n";

// send email
$success = mail($EmailTo, $Subject, $Body, "From: <$EmailFrom>");

// redirect to success page
if ($success){
  print "<meta http-equiv=\"refresh\" content=\"0;URL=thankyou.htm\">";
}
else{
  print "<meta http-equiv=\"refresh\" content=\"0;URL=error.htm\">";
}
?>[/code]
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