simple question

[ahazin]

As im looking at webhosts now and my website has some php in it which includes the mail function where the user fills in a form and then when the submit button is pressed the form gets sent to my email address.  In regards to buying a server i know it needs to allow php but does it matter if it simply has PHP or PHP5? 

 

Thanks in advance.

 

 

[trq]

php5 is the current version of php, anything older is out of date. php4 reached the end of its life at the begining of this year.

[ahazin]

so i wud need php5 to allow my fourm to send then?

[tapos]

Yeah. PHP-5 is simply great.

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[ahazin]

So basically both these hosting options:http://www.fasthosts.co.uk/hosting/ and http://www.easyspace.com/starter_hosting.php

 

will support this section of php:

 

<?php 
$to = "lucealmighty@hotmail.co.uk";
$subject = "Contact Us";
$name_field = $_REQUEST['name_field'] ;
$email_field = $_REQUEST['email_field'] ;
$message = $_REQUEST['message'] ;
$headers = "From: $email_field";
$body = "Name: $name_field \n E-Mail: $email_field \n Message:\n $message";
$sent = mail($to, $subject, $body, $headers) ;
if(!eregi("[A-Z0-9._%-]+@[A-Z0-9.-]+\.[A-Z]{2,4}",$email_field)) print ("<br><br><br><br><p align=\"center\"><strong><font face=\"Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\" font color = \"#FFFFFF\">Invalid E-Mail address please correct the error and try again.</strong></font>");
else if($sent)
{print ("<br><br><br><br><p align=\"center\"><strong><font face=\"Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\" font color = \"#FFFFFF\">Your message was sent successfully</strong></font>"); }
else
{print ("<br><br><br><br><p align=\"center\"><strong><font face=\"Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\" font color = \"#FFFFFF\">We encountered an error sending your message.  Please try again or call us on 07802 414985</strong></font>"); }
?>

 

Thanks in advance.  Really appreciate the help i got through these fourms.

[runnerjp]

yup they will but why not use  http://bigwetfish.co.uk/  10.99 a year