Overwriting php.ini variables

[the12thplaya]

Hi

I'm with Easyspace and don't have access to the php.ini file. I need to change the sendmail_from variable to match a valid email address. Easyspace being a complete waste of space they are will not change it for me in the file. They've come back with this:

Please note that our Technician has informed me that you can set the from address in your code. However, it is not something we can really help with as we cannot debug customers' code.

Not very helpful when I don't know how. Is this possible please, has anyone needed to do this before? If so could you please supply some small simple code that I could easily read. I've really only just started learning PHP.

Thanks in advance

[thorpe]

[man]ini_set[/man]

[the12thplaya]

Thank you for that, I can now overwrite variables 🙂 Only it's still not working 🙁

Here's my test script I'm using:

ini_set("SMTP","smtp.mydomain.com");
ini_set("sendmail_from","[e-mail]");
mail("[e-mail]", "test", "testing") or die ("could not send email");

It dies and shows "could not send email". I've checked the PHP.ini file by doing

phpinfo();

and all the variables listed above have been overwritten locally. Do you know what else could be causing it to fail?

[thorpe]

silly question, but. you are replacing this smtp.mydomain.com with your mail server?

[bradgrafelman]

Since you set the 'SMTP' value, it looks like you are running this script on a Windows server. Are you sure that is correct? Easyspace most likely uses Unix. I could be totally wrong in this, and in the fact that you don't set the 'SMTP' value on a Unix server.

I'm going to shut up now, since I don't know what I'm talking about 😉

[the12thplaya]

Originally posted by thorpe
silly question, but. you are replacing this smtp.mydomain.com with your mail server?

Yes with my domain name smtp ie. smtp.the12thplaya.com

[the12thplaya]

Originally posted by bradgrafelman
Since you set the 'SMTP' value, it looks like you are running this script on a Windows server. Are you sure that is correct? Easyspace most likely uses Unix. I could be totally wrong in this, and in the fact that you don't set the 'SMTP' value on a Unix server.

I'm going to shut up now, since I don't know what I'm talking about 😉

It looks like they're running on Linux. This was taken from phpinfo:

Linux sodium.iomart.com 2.4.21-27.0.2.ELsmp #1 SMP Wed Jan 19 15:27:58 EST 2005 i686

[bradgrafelman]

Can someone else please verify you can set the SMTP server this way on a linux server? Should it perhaps instead be an extra arguement passed to sendmail?

Also, is the sendmail path even valid? Do they allow you to use sendmail?

If all else fails, look for a mail class that you can use with PHP, 'PHPMailer' for example.

[the12thplaya]

sendmail_from = [e-mail]
sendmail_path = /bin/easymail -t
SMTP = localhost
smtp_port = 25

These are some of the lines shown in phpinfo before I overwrite any variables. I can't imagine

Are you saying I should change the line in bold?

They didn't tell me I'm not allowed to sendmail from my site when I emailed them with the problem. But they didn't say much, apart from that they weren't going to help

You can see the full phpinfo here: http://www.the12thplaya.com/phpinfo.php as I can't imagine there being anything secretive in it