check if true

[denoteone]

I am trying to understand 

if(!mail("mail function variables")) { echo "this is true or sucessfull}else{ echo "this failed"]

is that how it works or is it check to see if it is false? I know this is a newbie question...but any help would be awesome.

[revraz]

You have it backwards, you are checking !mail and echoing true.

[denoteone]

that makes sense then....thanks

[discomatt]

double post... delete sorry

[discomatt]

The ! before the function can pretty much be equated to == FALSE;

 

so

 

if (!function()) is the same as if (function() == FALSE)

 

Be careful though... ! checks for both FALSE and 0.. so if your function returns a numeric value, and there's a chance it might be 0, be sure to use

 

if (function() === FALSE)

[denoteone]

if(!mail('mrawers@******.com',$subject,$emailmessage,"FROM:$email",$headers)) {echo "error";}else{(html thank you page)} 

for some reason this keeps going into the  error part of the if statement but I am getting the email message in my inbox?

[discomatt]

That's got me stumped. According to the php manual, the function returns as such

 

Returns TRUE if the mail was successfully accepted for delivery, FALSE otherwise.

[kkeim]

try using brackets  like :

 

if(!(mail('mrawers@******.com',$subject,$emailmessage,"FROM:$email",$headers))) {echo "error";}else{(html thank you page)}

 

 

[revraz]

You should only pass 4 parameters, not 5.

 

Combine your FROM: header into your $headers variable.

[denoteone]

$headers = "From: ".$email."\r\n";
$headers .= "Reply-To: mrawers@*******.com\r\n";
$headers .= "CC: sombodyelse@********.com\r\n";
     $headers .= "Content-type: text/html\r\n";  

  is this how I set the from header with a variable?

[denoteone]

Got it! Thanks everyone for your  help and feed back.