.hi guys can anyone guide me on how to create a PHP form that sends an email to a desired recipient using the email provided by my domain server.
<?php
if($_POST['submit'])
{
$name = $_POST['name'];
$message = $_POST['message'];
if($name&&$message)
{
$namelen = 20;
$messagelen = 300;
if(strlen($name)<=$namelen&&strlen($message)<=$messagelen)
{
$to = "myemail#yahoo.com";
$subject = "Test Email";
$headers = "From: my server provided email here";
ini_set("SMTP", "/*i placed my domain server here");
$body = "This is an email from $name\n\n$message";
mail($to, $subject, $body, $headers);
die();
}
else
die("Max length for name is $namelen, and max length for message is $messagelen.");
}
else
die("You must enter a name <u>and</u> message");
/*echo $name.' '.$message;*/
}
?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Untitled Document</title>
</head>
<body>
<form action='mailpush.php' method='POST'>
Name:<input type='text' name='name' maxlength='20'><br>
Message:<br /><textarea name='message'></textarea><p>
<input type='submit' name='submit' value='Send me this'></p>
</form>
</body>
</html>
.this is the code i have so far. but when i try to send i don't receive anything.
when i try to send i don't receive anything
So really your problem is not in writing the code, but in diagnosing why it's failing.
First thing of note is that you don't check the return value of the mail() call.
ini_set("SMTP", "/*i placed my domain server here");
What is this supposed to mean? There is no such thing as a "domain server". There are domain name servers, SMB domain masters, SMTP servers.....
Next, you've provided no details of the OS this is running on nor the config for mail in php.ini : although you're explicitly setting the SMTP host (to what?, is it resolvable?) what is the setting for smtp_port? Can you telnet to that port on the named machine from where the PHP code is running?
There are an awful lot of technology things between your code and your mailbox - many of which could cause problems with the mail delivery - have you looked at these? Your local SMTP server is just the next hop in the chain, did you check if your email was enqueued there? If it was, then its nothing to do with PHP.
Related
I want to send an email with PHP when a user has finished filling in an HTML form and then emailing information from the form. I want to do it from the same script that displays the web page that has the form.
I found this code, but the mail does not send.
<?php
if (isset($_POST['submit'])) {
$to = $_POST['email'];
$subject = $_POST['name'];
$message = getRequestURI();
$from = "zenphoto#example.com";
$headers = "From:" . $from;
if (mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers)) {
echo "Mail Sent.";
}
else {
echo "failed";
}
}
?>
What is the code to send an email in PHP?
EDIT (#1)
If I understand correctly, you wish to have everything in one page and execute it from the same page.
You can use the following code to send mail from a single page, for example index.php or contact.php
The only difference between this one and my original answer is the <form action="" method="post"> where the action has been left blank.
It is better to use header('Location: thank_you.php'); instead of echo in the PHP handler to redirect the user to another page afterwards.
Copy the entire code below into one file.
<?php
if(isset($_POST['submit'])){
$to = "email#example.com"; // this is your Email address
$from = $_POST['email']; // this is the sender's Email address
$first_name = $_POST['first_name'];
$last_name = $_POST['last_name'];
$subject = "Form submission";
$subject2 = "Copy of your form submission";
$message = $first_name . " " . $last_name . " wrote the following:" . "\n\n" . $_POST['message'];
$message2 = "Here is a copy of your message " . $first_name . "\n\n" . $_POST['message'];
$headers = "From:" . $from;
$headers2 = "From:" . $to;
mail($to,$subject,$message,$headers);
mail($from,$subject2,$message2,$headers2); // sends a copy of the message to the sender
echo "Mail Sent. Thank you " . $first_name . ", we will contact you shortly.";
// You can also use header('Location: thank_you.php'); to redirect to another page.
}
?>
<!DOCTYPE html>
<head>
<title>Form submission</title>
</head>
<body>
<form action="" method="post">
First Name: <input type="text" name="first_name"><br>
Last Name: <input type="text" name="last_name"><br>
Email: <input type="text" name="email"><br>
Message:<br><textarea rows="5" name="message" cols="30"></textarea><br>
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="Submit">
</form>
</body>
</html>
Original answer
I wasn't quite sure as to what the question was, but am under the impression that a copy of the message is to be sent to the person who filled in the form.
Here is a tested/working copy of an HTML form and PHP handler. This uses the PHP mail() function.
The PHP handler will also send a copy of the message to the person who filled in the form.
You can use two forward slashes // in front of a line of code if you're not going to use it.
For example: // $subject2 = "Copy of your form submission"; will not execute.
HTML FORM:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<head>
<title>Form submission</title>
</head>
<body>
<form action="mail_handler.php" method="post">
First Name: <input type="text" name="first_name"><br>
Last Name: <input type="text" name="last_name"><br>
Email: <input type="text" name="email"><br>
Message:<br><textarea rows="5" name="message" cols="30"></textarea><br>
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="Submit">
</form>
</body>
</html>
PHP handler (mail_handler.php)
(Uses info from HTML form and sends the Email)
<?php
if(isset($_POST['submit'])){
$to = "email#example.com"; // this is your Email address
$from = $_POST['email']; // this is the sender's Email address
$first_name = $_POST['first_name'];
$last_name = $_POST['last_name'];
$subject = "Form submission";
$subject2 = "Copy of your form submission";
$message = $first_name . " " . $last_name . " wrote the following:" . "\n\n" . $_POST['message'];
$message2 = "Here is a copy of your message " . $first_name . "\n\n" . $_POST['message'];
$headers = "From:" . $from;
$headers2 = "From:" . $to;
mail($to,$subject,$message,$headers);
mail($from,$subject2,$message2,$headers2); // sends a copy of the message to the sender
echo "Mail Sent. Thank you " . $first_name . ", we will contact you shortly.";
// You can also use header('Location: thank_you.php'); to redirect to another page.
// You cannot use header and echo together. It's one or the other.
}
?>
To send as HTML:
If you wish to send mail as HTML and for both instances, then you will need to create two separate sets of HTML headers with different variable names.
Read the manual on mail() to learn how to send emails as HTML:
http://php.net/manual/en/function.mail.php
Footnotes:
In regards to HTML5
You have to specify the URL of the service that will handle the submitted data, using the action attribute.
As outlined at https://www.w3.org/TR/html5/forms.html under 4.10.1.3 Configuring a form to communicate with a server. For complete information, consult the page.
Therefore, action="" will not work in HTML5.
The proper syntax would be:
action="handler.xxx" or
action="http://www.example.com/handler.xxx".
Note that xxx will be the extension of the type of file used to handle the process. This could be a .php, .cgi, .pl, .jsp file extension etc.
Consult the following Q&A on Stack if sending mail fails:
PHP mail form doesn't complete sending e-mail
PHP script to connect to a SMTP server and send email on Windows 7
Sending an email from PHP in Windows is a bit of a minefield with gotchas and head scratching. I'll try to walk you through one instance where I got it to work on Windows 7 and PHP 5.2.3 under (IIS) Internet Information Services webserver.
I'm assuming you don't want to use any pre-built framework like CodeIgniter or Symfony which contains email sending capability. We'll be sending an email from a standalone PHP file. I acquired this code from under the codeigniter hood (under system/libraries) and modified it so you can just drop in this Email.php file and it should just work.
This should work with newer versions of PHP. But you never know.
Step 1, You need a username/password with an SMTP server:
I'm using the smtp server from smtp.ihostexchange.net which is already created and setup for me. If you don't have this you can't proceed. You should be able to use an email client like thunderbird, evolution, Microsoft Outlook, to specify your smtp server and then be able to send emails through there.
Step 2, Create your Hello World Email file:
I'm assuming you are using IIS. So create a file called index.php under C:\inetpub\wwwroot and put this code in there:
<?php
include("Email.php");
$c = new CI_Email();
$c->from("FromUserName#foobar.com");
$c->to("user_to_receive_email#gmail.com");
$c->subject("Celestial Temple");
$c->message("Dominion reinforcements on the way.");
$c->send();
echo "done";
?>
You should be able to visit this index.php by navigating to localhost/index.php in a browser, it will spew errors because Email.php is missing. But make sure you can at least run it from the browser.
Step 3, Create a file called Email.php:
Create a new file called Email.php under C:\inetpub\wwwroot.
Copy/paste this PHP code into Email.php:
https://github.com/sentientmachine/standalone_php_script_send_email/blob/master/Email.php
Since there are many kinds of smtp servers, you will have to manually fiddle with the settings at the top of Email.php. I've set it up so it automatically works with smtp.ihostexchange.net, but your smtp server might be different.
For example:
Set the smtp_port setting to the port of your smtp server.
Set the smtp_crypto setting to what your smtp server needs.
Set the $newline and $crlf so it's compatible with what your smtp server uses. If you pick wrong, the smtp server may ignore your request without error. I use \r\n, for you maybe \n is required.
The linked code is too long to paste as a stackoverflow answer, If you want to edit it, leave a comment in here or through github and I'll change it.
Step 4, make sure your php.ini has ssl extension enabled:
Find your PHP.ini file and uncomment the
;extension=php_openssl.dll
So it looks like:
extension=php_openssl.dll
Step 5, Run the index.php file you just made in a browser:
You should get the following output:
220 smtp.ihostexchange.net Microsoft ESMTP MAIL Service ready at
Wed, 16 Apr 2014 15:43:58 -0400 250 2.6.0
<534edd7c92761#summitbroadband.com> Queued mail for delivery
lang:email_sent
done
Step 6, check your email, and spam folder:
Visit the email account for user_to_receive_email#gmail.com and you should have received an email. It should arrive within 5 or 10 seconds. If you does not, inspect the errors returned on the page. If that doesn't work, try mashing your face on the keyboard on google while chanting: "working at the grocery store isn't so bad."
If you haven't already, look at your php.ini and make sure the parameters under the [mail function] setting are set correctly to activate the email service. After you can use PHPMailer library and follow the instructions.
You can also use mandrill app to send the mail in php. You will get the API from https://mandrillapp.com/api/docs/index.php.html where you can find the complete details about emails sended and other details.
You need to add an action into your form like:
<form name='form1' method='post' action='<?php echo($_SERVER['PHP_SELF']);'>
<!-- All your input for the form here -->
</form>
Then put your snippet at the top of the document en send the mail. What echo($_SERVER['PHP_SELF']); does is that it sends your information to the top of your script so you could use it.
You need a SMPT Server in order for
... mail($to,$subject,$message,$headers);
to work.
You could try light weight SMTP servers like xmailer
Here are the PHP mail settings I use:
//Mail sending function
$subject = $_POST['name'];
$to = $_POST['email'];
$from = "zenphoto#example.com";
//data
$msg = "Your MSG <br>\n";
//Headers
$headers = "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";
$headers .= "Content-type: text/html; charset=UTF-8\r\n";
$headers .= "From: <".$from. ">" ;
mail($to,$subject,$msg,$headers);
echo "Mail Sent.";
I think one error in the original code might have been that it had:
$message = echo getRequestURI();
instead of:
$message = getRequestURI();
(The code has since been edited though.)
I want to send an email with PHP when a user has finished filling in an HTML form and then emailing information from the form. I want to do it from the same script that displays the web page that has the form.
I found this code, but the mail does not send.
<?php
if (isset($_POST['submit'])) {
$to = $_POST['email'];
$subject = $_POST['name'];
$message = getRequestURI();
$from = "zenphoto#example.com";
$headers = "From:" . $from;
if (mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers)) {
echo "Mail Sent.";
}
else {
echo "failed";
}
}
?>
What is the code to send an email in PHP?
EDIT (#1)
If I understand correctly, you wish to have everything in one page and execute it from the same page.
You can use the following code to send mail from a single page, for example index.php or contact.php
The only difference between this one and my original answer is the <form action="" method="post"> where the action has been left blank.
It is better to use header('Location: thank_you.php'); instead of echo in the PHP handler to redirect the user to another page afterwards.
Copy the entire code below into one file.
<?php
if(isset($_POST['submit'])){
$to = "email#example.com"; // this is your Email address
$from = $_POST['email']; // this is the sender's Email address
$first_name = $_POST['first_name'];
$last_name = $_POST['last_name'];
$subject = "Form submission";
$subject2 = "Copy of your form submission";
$message = $first_name . " " . $last_name . " wrote the following:" . "\n\n" . $_POST['message'];
$message2 = "Here is a copy of your message " . $first_name . "\n\n" . $_POST['message'];
$headers = "From:" . $from;
$headers2 = "From:" . $to;
mail($to,$subject,$message,$headers);
mail($from,$subject2,$message2,$headers2); // sends a copy of the message to the sender
echo "Mail Sent. Thank you " . $first_name . ", we will contact you shortly.";
// You can also use header('Location: thank_you.php'); to redirect to another page.
}
?>
<!DOCTYPE html>
<head>
<title>Form submission</title>
</head>
<body>
<form action="" method="post">
First Name: <input type="text" name="first_name"><br>
Last Name: <input type="text" name="last_name"><br>
Email: <input type="text" name="email"><br>
Message:<br><textarea rows="5" name="message" cols="30"></textarea><br>
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="Submit">
</form>
</body>
</html>
Original answer
I wasn't quite sure as to what the question was, but am under the impression that a copy of the message is to be sent to the person who filled in the form.
Here is a tested/working copy of an HTML form and PHP handler. This uses the PHP mail() function.
The PHP handler will also send a copy of the message to the person who filled in the form.
You can use two forward slashes // in front of a line of code if you're not going to use it.
For example: // $subject2 = "Copy of your form submission"; will not execute.
HTML FORM:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<head>
<title>Form submission</title>
</head>
<body>
<form action="mail_handler.php" method="post">
First Name: <input type="text" name="first_name"><br>
Last Name: <input type="text" name="last_name"><br>
Email: <input type="text" name="email"><br>
Message:<br><textarea rows="5" name="message" cols="30"></textarea><br>
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="Submit">
</form>
</body>
</html>
PHP handler (mail_handler.php)
(Uses info from HTML form and sends the Email)
<?php
if(isset($_POST['submit'])){
$to = "email#example.com"; // this is your Email address
$from = $_POST['email']; // this is the sender's Email address
$first_name = $_POST['first_name'];
$last_name = $_POST['last_name'];
$subject = "Form submission";
$subject2 = "Copy of your form submission";
$message = $first_name . " " . $last_name . " wrote the following:" . "\n\n" . $_POST['message'];
$message2 = "Here is a copy of your message " . $first_name . "\n\n" . $_POST['message'];
$headers = "From:" . $from;
$headers2 = "From:" . $to;
mail($to,$subject,$message,$headers);
mail($from,$subject2,$message2,$headers2); // sends a copy of the message to the sender
echo "Mail Sent. Thank you " . $first_name . ", we will contact you shortly.";
// You can also use header('Location: thank_you.php'); to redirect to another page.
// You cannot use header and echo together. It's one or the other.
}
?>
To send as HTML:
If you wish to send mail as HTML and for both instances, then you will need to create two separate sets of HTML headers with different variable names.
Read the manual on mail() to learn how to send emails as HTML:
http://php.net/manual/en/function.mail.php
Footnotes:
In regards to HTML5
You have to specify the URL of the service that will handle the submitted data, using the action attribute.
As outlined at https://www.w3.org/TR/html5/forms.html under 4.10.1.3 Configuring a form to communicate with a server. For complete information, consult the page.
Therefore, action="" will not work in HTML5.
The proper syntax would be:
action="handler.xxx" or
action="http://www.example.com/handler.xxx".
Note that xxx will be the extension of the type of file used to handle the process. This could be a .php, .cgi, .pl, .jsp file extension etc.
Consult the following Q&A on Stack if sending mail fails:
PHP mail form doesn't complete sending e-mail
PHP script to connect to a SMTP server and send email on Windows 7
Sending an email from PHP in Windows is a bit of a minefield with gotchas and head scratching. I'll try to walk you through one instance where I got it to work on Windows 7 and PHP 5.2.3 under (IIS) Internet Information Services webserver.
I'm assuming you don't want to use any pre-built framework like CodeIgniter or Symfony which contains email sending capability. We'll be sending an email from a standalone PHP file. I acquired this code from under the codeigniter hood (under system/libraries) and modified it so you can just drop in this Email.php file and it should just work.
This should work with newer versions of PHP. But you never know.
Step 1, You need a username/password with an SMTP server:
I'm using the smtp server from smtp.ihostexchange.net which is already created and setup for me. If you don't have this you can't proceed. You should be able to use an email client like thunderbird, evolution, Microsoft Outlook, to specify your smtp server and then be able to send emails through there.
Step 2, Create your Hello World Email file:
I'm assuming you are using IIS. So create a file called index.php under C:\inetpub\wwwroot and put this code in there:
<?php
include("Email.php");
$c = new CI_Email();
$c->from("FromUserName#foobar.com");
$c->to("user_to_receive_email#gmail.com");
$c->subject("Celestial Temple");
$c->message("Dominion reinforcements on the way.");
$c->send();
echo "done";
?>
You should be able to visit this index.php by navigating to localhost/index.php in a browser, it will spew errors because Email.php is missing. But make sure you can at least run it from the browser.
Step 3, Create a file called Email.php:
Create a new file called Email.php under C:\inetpub\wwwroot.
Copy/paste this PHP code into Email.php:
https://github.com/sentientmachine/standalone_php_script_send_email/blob/master/Email.php
Since there are many kinds of smtp servers, you will have to manually fiddle with the settings at the top of Email.php. I've set it up so it automatically works with smtp.ihostexchange.net, but your smtp server might be different.
For example:
Set the smtp_port setting to the port of your smtp server.
Set the smtp_crypto setting to what your smtp server needs.
Set the $newline and $crlf so it's compatible with what your smtp server uses. If you pick wrong, the smtp server may ignore your request without error. I use \r\n, for you maybe \n is required.
The linked code is too long to paste as a stackoverflow answer, If you want to edit it, leave a comment in here or through github and I'll change it.
Step 4, make sure your php.ini has ssl extension enabled:
Find your PHP.ini file and uncomment the
;extension=php_openssl.dll
So it looks like:
extension=php_openssl.dll
Step 5, Run the index.php file you just made in a browser:
You should get the following output:
220 smtp.ihostexchange.net Microsoft ESMTP MAIL Service ready at
Wed, 16 Apr 2014 15:43:58 -0400 250 2.6.0
<534edd7c92761#summitbroadband.com> Queued mail for delivery
lang:email_sent
done
Step 6, check your email, and spam folder:
Visit the email account for user_to_receive_email#gmail.com and you should have received an email. It should arrive within 5 or 10 seconds. If you does not, inspect the errors returned on the page. If that doesn't work, try mashing your face on the keyboard on google while chanting: "working at the grocery store isn't so bad."
If you haven't already, look at your php.ini and make sure the parameters under the [mail function] setting are set correctly to activate the email service. After you can use PHPMailer library and follow the instructions.
You can also use mandrill app to send the mail in php. You will get the API from https://mandrillapp.com/api/docs/index.php.html where you can find the complete details about emails sended and other details.
You need to add an action into your form like:
<form name='form1' method='post' action='<?php echo($_SERVER['PHP_SELF']);'>
<!-- All your input for the form here -->
</form>
Then put your snippet at the top of the document en send the mail. What echo($_SERVER['PHP_SELF']); does is that it sends your information to the top of your script so you could use it.
You need a SMPT Server in order for
... mail($to,$subject,$message,$headers);
to work.
You could try light weight SMTP servers like xmailer
Here are the PHP mail settings I use:
//Mail sending function
$subject = $_POST['name'];
$to = $_POST['email'];
$from = "zenphoto#example.com";
//data
$msg = "Your MSG <br>\n";
//Headers
$headers = "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";
$headers .= "Content-type: text/html; charset=UTF-8\r\n";
$headers .= "From: <".$from. ">" ;
mail($to,$subject,$msg,$headers);
echo "Mail Sent.";
I think one error in the original code might have been that it had:
$message = echo getRequestURI();
instead of:
$message = getRequestURI();
(The code has since been edited though.)
I have created folders under my domain.
Emails scripts in folder-1 are getting delivered but scripts in folder-2 show message = "email sent successfully". But these emails are not receiving in email address.
I am using phpmailer
When this sampleemail.php file is kept in Folder1, Email get delivered. But when same file is kept in Folder2, Error Message is there.
Code is as follows :
<?
$msg="";
if(isset($_POST['submit']))
{
$from_add = "name#my-web-site.com";
$to_add = "myemail#gmail.com"; //<-- put your yahoo/gmail email address here
$subject = "Test Subject";
$message = "Test Message";
$headers = "From: $from_add \r\n";
$headers .= "Reply-To: $from_add \r\n";
$headers .= "Return-Path: $from_add\r\n";
$headers .= "X-Mailer: PHP \r\n";
if(mail($to_add,$subject,$message,$headers))
{
$msg = "Mail sent OK";
}
else
{
$msg = "Error sending email!";
}
}
?>
And HTML Sample Form As Follows :
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<title>Test form to email</title>
</head>
<body>
<?php echo $msg ?>
<p>
<form action='<?php echo htmlentities($_SERVER['PHP_SELF']); ?>' method='post'>
<input type='submit' name='submit' value='Submit'>
</form>
</p>
</body>
</html>
I would suggest you use PHPmailer because it has the function which you needed. The reason i am not suggest you use your method because it need to change the sendmail() function in your localhost.
For example: if u using xampp, you must go into the sendmail directory and go for sendmail.php to edit the SMTP to mail.google.com and so on.
Please try this tutorial:
http://codeforgeek.com/2014/11/phpmailer-ultimate-tutorial/
Hope it can helps you.
Looking at your code I see you are NOT using "PHPMailer", but "PHP's mailer".
Regarding your problem of undelivered emails and error message, here are some general hints:
If you send HTML mail, always send a multipart email containing both, HTML and TEXT
Don't use "X-Mailer: PHP". There are mail servers who will give your mail an increased spam score just because of that.
If you get an error, try this:
$errLevel = error_reporting(E_ALL ^ E_NOTICE);
mail(...);
error_reporting($errLevel);
Try using a different delivery method (smpt, sendmail, ...)
I am following this guide:
http://www.w3schools.com/php/php_mail.asp
So by following this guide can I really send an email to myself (someemail#website.com) by opening this page I called "email.php" in Chrome or other internet browser?
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Untitled Document</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1> Email Application </h1>
<?php
$to = "someemail#website.com";
$subject = "Test mail";
$message = "Hello! This is a simple email message.";
$from = "Some Guy";
$headers = "From:" . $from;
mail($to,$subject,$message,$headers);
echo "Mail Sent.";
?>
</body>
</html>
I tried running email.php seen above locally but nothing happens. Do I need to put email.php on a server?
I'm currently working on a Contact Form and I want all the information entered in a contact form's fields to be sent to a specified email address. I'm doing this for a company's website.
Yes, PHP can send e-mails. But you need to configure a mail (SMTP) server in php.ini.
If you have a mail server running locally, php.ini is set to use it by default. Don't forget to turn on the mail server and configure it to allow relaying of local mails.
I you have a remote mail server (you can even use Google's SMTP server), set php.ini to use it.
You might want to change
mail($to,$subject,$message,$headers);
echo "Mail Sent.";
into
if (mail($to,$subject,$message,$headers))
echo "Mail Sent.";
else
echo "Failed sending e-mail";
This happened due to your smtp setup and not your code. You should verify that your smtp is properly set up.
Try using
echo ini_get("SMTP");
echo ini_get("smtp_port");
To get your SMTP details. Check your php.ini
It should be in this format
[mail function]
; For Win32 only.
SMTP = localhost
smtp_port = 25
<?php
$to = "something#email.com";
$subject = "Test mail";
$message = "Hello! This is a simple email message.";
$headers = "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";
$headers .= "Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\r\n";
$headers .= "From: XYZ <xyz.com>\r\n";
if(mail($to,$subject,$message,$headers))
{
echo "Mail Sent.";
}
else
{
echo "Mail Failed ";
}
?>
I want to send email with php using xampp.
<html>
<head>
</head>
<body>
<?php
error_reporting(E_ALL ^ E_NOTICE);
$to = $_POST['email_add'];
//define the subject of the email
$subject = $_POST['sbjct'];
//define the message to be sent. Each line should be separated with \n
$message = $_POST['msg'];
//define the headers we want passed. Note that they are separated with \r\n
$headers = "From: webmaster#example.com\r\nReply-To: webmaster#example.com";
$mail_sent = #mail( $to, $subject, $message, $headers );
echo $mail_sent ? "Mail sent" : "Mail failed";
?>
<form action="send_email.php" method="post">
Email Add<input type="text" name="email_add" />
Subject<input type="text" name="sbjct" /> <br>
<textarea name="msg" rows="9" cols="20"></textarea><br>
<input type="submit" value="Send"/>
</form>
</body>
</html>
It's not working. Is there something wrong with my code?
I found some tutorials on the cloud, but it mentions SMTP and I do not understand it.
PHP doesn't actually send the email... in Linux it'll forward it to sendmail or similar daemon, in Windows it'll forward it to an SMTP server. Depending on your OS you have to setup these other processes and explain to PHP how/where to contact them (in php.ini in the [mail function] section).
PHP need a SMTP server to send emails.
You can specify it in your php config file (and set it to your ISP one for example), or use "Test Mail Server Tool" ( http://www.toolheap.com/test-mail-server-tool/ ) that catches the smtp local calls and saves them in a directory of your hard disk, so that you can debug everything.
Obviously, this solution works only if you need to debug it.
If your need is to send the mail, please refer to php documentation and use your ISP SMTP server.
If you are using the mail() function on Windows from a local development environment, you may need to specify an SMTP server that can relay the mail for you. Linux has this functionality baked in, Windows may not. Your ISP may provide you with this or a webmail provider may allow you to relay mail through them.
Look inside your php.ini file and locate the [mail] section and fill in:
SMTP = smtp.yourprovider.com
SMTP_PORT = 25
From the PHP mail manpage
"The Windows implementation of mail() differs in many ways from the Unix implementation. First, it doesn't use a local binary for composing messages but only operates on direct sockets which means a MTA is needed listening on a network socket (which can either on the localhost or a remote machine)."
I think you're looking for http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.mail.php ?
<html>
<head>
</head>
<body>
<form action="<?php echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] ?>" method="post">
Email Add<input type="text" name="email_add" />
Subject<input type="text" name="sbjct" /> <br>
<textarea name="msg" rows="9" cols="20"></textarea><br>
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="Send"/>
</form>
</body>
</html>
<?php
If(isset('submit'))
{
error_reporting(E_ALL);
$to = $_POST['email_add'];
//define the subject of the email
$subject = $_POST['sbjct'];
//define the message to be sent. Each line should be separated with \n
$message = $_POST['msg'];
//define the headers we want passed. Note that they are separated with \r\n
$headers = "From: webmaster#example.com\r\nReply-To: webmaster#example.com";
$mail_sent = mail( $to, $subject, $message, $headers );
echo $mail_sent ? "Mail sent" : "Mail failed";
}
?>
Here is a script I re-use in a lot of my projects, pretty straight forward just copy in and change the obvious values.
$email_to = "myemail#gmail.com,anotheremail#gmail.com";
$email_subject = "This is the subject line";
$break = 'echo "/n"';
$form_email = "no-reply#myemail.com";
//Function to convert /n to line breaks in HTML
function nl2br2($email_message) {
$string = str_replace(array("\r\n", "\r", "\n"), "<br />", $string);
return $email_message;
}
//Unformatted email body
$email_message = "This is the main blody of the email";
//Format string against function
nl2br2($email_message);
// create email headers
$headers = 'From: '.$form_email."\r\n".
'Reply-To: '.$form_email."\r\n" .
'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion();
#mail($email_to, $email_subject, $email_message, $headers);