fixed the problem - but how?

[Anon]

Hi all,

I've just set up a sendmail program called postcast which works fine.

I had problems getting mail() to work with this code: -

<?
echo ("your details will be e-mailed to you");

mail($to, $subject, $body);
?>

The browser came back with 'unknown error on line 12' (the line with the mail function).

Adding these lines to the top of the script removes the error and mail() works perfectly.

ini_set("SMTP", "rgoweb");
ini_set("sendmail_from", "[e-mail]");

Does anyone know why this worked? - these lines are set to the same values in php.ini

I don't really have a problem anymore but I don't like inserting solutions I don't understand.

Thanks for any suggestion of why (I'm using php4 on win32 Apache)

Chris

[Anon]

Ah, they are set in php.ini - but is php.ini being used?

Try this: Check a value (like magic quotes on/off) with phpinfo(). Check php.ini.

Then, change php.ini, and if you are using the mod version of php, restart the http daemon.

check phpinfo again. Did the value you switched change?

-Ben

[Anon]

Whoops,

I had put php.ini in winnt\system32 instead of winnt.

I didn't even check this as I was convinced I had installed php correctly because: -

1. I had been (so I thought) really careful during configuration (which actually happened months ago).

2. I thought that php would not even work without php.ini so, to me, it was implicit that everything was okay with my installation.

Thanks Ben, I appreciate you pointing out my mistake 🙂

Chris