Mail/SMTP error

[abhwhiz]

hi

i am new to PHP.
i am running PHP on windows using PHPTriad.

i am getting a 'unknown error' in the 4th line (where i used mail function) when i run the following program to send email from my system. i tried changing SMTP settings in the PHP.INI. but nothng seems to work! plz help!

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<form name="form1" method="post" action="
<?
$header = "From: $textfield3";
mail($select,$textfield,$textarea,$header);
?>
">
<p class="sub"><span class="sub4"><strong>For questions and inquiries:</strong></span><br>
<br>
Your email:<br>
<input name="textfield3" type="text" size="15" maxlength="20">
<br>
<br>
Select who you wish to contact:<br>
<select name="select">
<option value="[e-mail]" selected>--</option>
<option value="[e-mail]">abh wiz</option>
</select>
</p>
<p class="sub">Subject:<br>
<input name="textfield" type="text" id="textfield" size="15" maxlength="20">
<br>
<br>
Enter your questions and comments below:<br>
<textarea name="textarea" cols="50" rows="6"></textarea>
<input name="imageField" type="image" src="submit_button.gif" width="64" height="49" border="0">
</p>
<p align="right" class="bod"> <br>
</p>
</form>

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[jcasamitjana]

I don't know if i'm understanding this... but at first look i must tell you that you have to generate 2 separate files: one with the html form (let's say 'form.html') and the other with the php code to send the email (let's say 'send.php').
Then you should do:
<form name="form1" method="post" action="send.php">

and in the file called 'send.php' you should put the code to send the email of course..
<?
$header = "From: ".$POST['$textfield3'];
mail($POST['select'],$POST['$textfield'],$POST['$textarea'],$header);
?>
As you can see, you will be getting the values from the form by post method.

And this would be enough to do what you want.

Good luck!

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