Who can find the error in my code?

Anon

Hey,

I'm using a very simple code to let people post messages to a .dat file. This works fine. Now I want to receive a HTML-mail whenever a message is posted, but I doesn't work properly. Is there anyone who can spot the error in the code below?

Thanks in advance, Michiel

PHP Code:

function sendMail()
{

  /* Recipients */
  $to = "My name <my@domain.com>";

  /* Message */
  $body = '

   <BODY bgcolor="#eeeeee" topmargin="5" leftmargin="5" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" link="#3f3f3f">

    <TABLE border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%">
     <TR>
      <TD bgcolor="#000033">
       <TABLE border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="1" width="100%">
        <TR valign="top">
         <TD>
          <FONT face="arial" size="2" color="orange"><B>&nbsp;New Message:
         </TD>
        </TR>
        <TR>
         <TD bgcolor="#eeeeee">
          <TABLE border="0" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="0" width="100%">
           <TR>
            <TD>
             <FONT face="arial" color="#000033" size="2"><B>'.
               $name .'has posted a new message in'. $category.' </B><BR><BR>
              <I>Message:</I><BR><BR>'.
              $message.'
            </TD>
           </TR>      
          </TABLE>
         </TD>
        </TR>
       </TABLE>
      </BODY>

     ';

  /* Content-type header */
  $headers = "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";
  $headers .= "Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\r\n";
  $headers .= "From: Me\r\n";

  /* SEND MAIL!! */
  mail($to, $subject, $body, $headers);

}

If($name !== "")
{
$fp = fopen($path, "r");
$oldmessages = fread($fp,filesize($path));
fclose($fp);

  $date = date("d-m-Y (H:i:s)");
  $message  =  ereg_replace("\n","<BR>",$message);
  $message  =  ereg_replace('\\\"',"&quot;",$message); 
  $message  =  ereg_replace('\\\'',"&quot;",$message); 
  $fp = fopen($path, "w");
  fwrite($fp,$name."\n");
  fwrite($fp,$subject."\n");
  fwrite($fp,$message."\n");
  fwrite($fp,$date."\n");
  fwrite($fp,$oldmessages);            
  fclose($fp);

  // Send Email
  //sendMail();


  // Confirmation 
  echo "$name, your message is succesfully posted!";

amcgrath

What type of problem are you having?
Do you even have the ability to send mail on yuor system (have you sent another test to check?)

Anon

Hey,

I do have the ability to send mail on my server. I've used the mail-function previously, by just filling in the elements directly in between the (). The problem I'm encountering is that the confirmation is not displayed at all, furthermore I haven't received any e-mail messages so far (since 48 hours ago). The strange thing is that the message is propperly written to the data-file, so that part does work.

I hope this is enough info and thanks for your help.

Michiel

pornost4r

i dont see any errors. there is maybe problem with your server.

test it by creating a small .php file like:

<?php

$email = "your@email.com";
$message = "Hi";

$headers = "From: $email\n" .
"Reply-To: $email\n"."X-Mailer: PHP\n" .
"Return-Path: <$email>\n";

mail($email, "Testing Sendmail", $message, $headers);

this code is working. if you still dont receive emails, than you u have a problem with your server. contact your host.

amcgrath

Agree with you too, Porn, I couldn't see anything wrong either....

Anon

Thanks guys,

I think that it's probably a problem with my server, because I didn't receive the test E-mail either. Still I've got a question about the code: Can anyone tell me whether the definition of $body is correct? I mean I'm not sure wether I've correctly placed other variables ($category, $name, $message) into this variable. $category, $name, $message are defined by the user. Since there's a problem with my server I can't really check it either.

Thanks, Michiel

amcgrath

just echo the variable out to the page...