Error sending Mail()

[k994519]

Hi guys need help,

I am am executing a fucntion which sends a email to a user but I get this error:

Warning: mail(): "sendmail_from" not set in php.ini or custom "From:" header missing in c:\program files\apache group\apache\htdocs\admin_winners.php on line 127

I have looked in php.ini but cant seem to find the "sendmail_from"

any help would be much appricated......

[Billett]

can you post your code, so we can have a look?

[Drakla]

You could either add the sendmail_from like

sendmail_from = [e-mail]

or if you need to change it on a script by script basis use ini_set('sendmail_from', '[e-mail]')

sendmail_from is for Win32 only (it says in the ini file)

[k994519]

Drakla,

in the script by script example you gave how and where would I put the statement you gave in an earlier post......

Also here is the code, for you to see......

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include "header.php";
//include "authenticate.php";

$page_title = "Survey Admin: Weekly Random Drawing";
include "start_page.php";

// get SQL syntax to determine the date of the beginning of the week in
// which the date value in $weekdate falls, from the weekstart() function
// (defined in header.php). a week is considered to start on Sunday.
$qweekdt = weekstart($weekdate);
list($thisweek) = mysql_fetch_array(safe_query("select $qweekdt"));

print subtitle("Draw a winner for the week of $thisweek");

// get a list of qualifying entries for the given week.
$query = "select name, email, user_id from users
where week(create_dt) = week('$thisweek')
and year(create_dt) = year('$thisweek')
and name is not null and name != ''
and email is not null and email != '' and email like '%@%.%'
and age > 0
and country is not null and country != ''
";

$result = safe_query($query);
$tot = mysql_num_rows($result);
if ($tot == 0)
{
print subtitle("There were no entries for the week of $thisweek.");
}
else
{
if ($tot == 1)
{
// if there's only one entry, they win.
$winner = 0;
}
else
{
// seed random number generator.
// (do this only once in a script.)
mt_srand((double)microtime()*1000000);

            // pick a winner from the result set by picking a random
	// row number from the result set, starting at the first 
	// row (0).
            $winner = mt_rand(0,$tot-1);
}

    // move to the winner's row and grab the information.
    mysql_data_seek($result, $winner);
    list($name, $email, $user_id) = mysql_fetch_array($result);

// we'll be including the week date in the query string, so
// encode it
$urlthisweek = rawurlencode($thisweek);

print paragraph(
	"<b>$name</b> $email "
	, "<b><font color=red>WINNER!</font></b> "
	,anchor_tag("admin_winners.php?weekdate=$urlthisweek"
			."&what=notify&user_id=$user_id"
		, "Notify Winner"
	)
);

}

print <<<EOQ
<p>
<b>Past Weeks:</b>
<br>
EOQ;

// get SQL syntax to determine the starting date for entries based on
// the value of the create_dt field from the weekstart() function.
$pastwkqry = weekstart("create_dt");

// print out a list of previous weeks when entries have been made
$query = "select distinct $pastwkqry as pastweek from users order by pastweek";
$result = safe_query($query);
while (list($pastweek) = mysql_fetch_array($result))
{
$urlweek = rawurlencode($pastweek);
print anchor_tag("admin_get_winner.php?weekdate=$urlweek",$pastweek)
."<br>\n"
;
}

print "</p>\n";

include "admin_end_page.php";

?>

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thanks for any help as ever!!

[planetsim]

where is mail(); i couldnt see it

Also use the [php ][/php ] without spaces

[Drakla]

You can put the ini_set(blah) anywhere in the script, but obviously before you call the mailing function.

I forgot to say add the line sendmail_from = [e-mail] INTO your php.ini file if you want it set permanently. Even if you do that you can still use ini_set to change it for the duration of a script.