Topic 4C

Done.

Another great tutorial this one! Love the fact that you can respond to a form with a mail() function, just a pity I couldnt utilise it to the fullest because the testing server does not allow me to send the actual mail

Done with 4C (but not entirely...)

I setup a mailserver (hMailServer and not Mercury as supplied with XAMPP) on my PC and could successfully send the email when executing bookform.php and thankyou.php. However, I was not successful in setting up an Outlook Express account in order to connect to the local mail server to retrieve the sent email.

hMailServer is free and seems simple enough but I lack experience with setting up mail servers! I know we are not supposed to do this (send an email successfully in this task), but I would like to get it right as it should be possible. I mean the mail server seems happy to accept the mail from the php app, so to connect to the mail server should be easy enough .

Can someone please help?

Task 4C complete. Ordo did you see Macs comments regarding XAMPP in the forum for PHP first semester. Doesn't really help with what you want to do but might explain?

Activating the Email Form with PHP.It`s often more efficient to process everything in the same page ( html + php )
Set the action attribute of the form to process itself by using a variable from the server superglobal array.

Example:
< form id = " contactform " name = " contactform " method = " POST " action = " <? php echo $_SERVER [ ' PHP_SELF ' ] ; ?> " >

NOTICES
- Mac users should be able to send a test email from their local computer. but Windows users will need to have set up the corect SMTP setting.

- it`s important to understand that mail ( ) isn`t an email program. It passes the address, subject line, message, and any additional email headers to the web server`smail transport agent ( MTA ).
PHP`s responsability ends there. It has no way of knowing if the email is delivered to its intended destination.

- Email doesn`t always arrive when testing mail ( ) in a local testing environment.
Normally, this has no nothing to do with your configuration, but with your service provider`s security policies. If email fails to arrive , upload the script to your remote serverand test it there.

Ordo where do i get hMailServer or does it come with xammp

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Topic 4C done

When all else fails , read instructions
Reading is a course on it's own !

Done with the topic, but I would really love to see the results for myself (not just the 'expected' error message ). I guess the best way to test this would be to upload to a server and test from there?

Yip. But simple mail functions hardly ever gives problems - it when you need to add attachments etc that it gets a bit harder.....

Completed 4C

Would have loved to see the email work though.

Done.

The following additional settings worked for me and I could send the e-mail:

ini_set("SMTP", "mailserver.com";
ini_set("smtp_port","25";
ini_set("sendmail_from","youremail@server.com";

I added the code just before the if (mail($mail_to,$mail_subject,$mail_body)) { clause

that came out wrong :p
those winking smileys should be )

Done. Awesome topic.

Done 4C. I agree with Lordric would have liked to see email work.

Again life bit my behind, having moved and things settling down again, I got this one done.

Chris
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"Cleverly disguised as a responsible adult."

Completed... it's amazing how simple the code, for validating whether the email has been sent, is. Great stuff

Topic 4C done

Done with 4C!

This one was a brain teaser but got the email working with hMailServer and setting the php.ini file setting id the code as fcb showed


Thanks fcb and ordo

Cheers

Done; i always wanted to know how, but i know...