Adding mailto: to a submit button

[Jermizzle]

i have another problem. i want to send an email to some people when a new entry has been added to the database. i would like an email to be created once the submit button has been pressed. i first tried an IF statement. this is what i tried:

if ('submit'){
echo "mailto:[e-mail]";
} 

but this echoed the text. then i remembered about a href but then i would have to add text so it would be like a hyperlink and that is something which i do not want.

i looked up mailto in PHP, and i came across sending emails without a link which was what i was looking for but it mentions that i can only be placed as a header.

<?php
header("Location: mailto:[e-mail]");
?> 

is there anyway i can get the email to appear by only clicking on the submit button.

Thanks

[suntra]

Have a look at the mail() function...

[Jermizzle]

I looked into mail(), now im trying to figure out how to set it up. I was getting an error saying it could not connect to the mailserver 'localhost' so i first thought you couldn't send email because i was using my PC as the server. so i used ini_set() to set my SMTP to the mailserver which i use to send for my actual emails. This is what i have done:

<?php
ini_set("SMTP","mailserver");
ini_set("sendmail_from","[e-mail]");

$to="[e-mail]";
$subject="testing";
$body="I Love Lemonade";
$headers="From: [e-mail]/n";

mail($to,$subject,$body,"$headers");

echo "Mail is sent to $to"; 

?>

But i still get the error that it cannot connect to my mailserver, but its the correct mailserver address.

Failed to connect to mailserver at "mailserver" port 25, verify your "SMTP" and "smtp_port" setting in php.ini or use ini_set() in C:\Apache\Apache2\PHPFiles\mail.php on line 10

Does anyone know what im doing wrong. I have searched through the forum and found results but i do not understand it very well.

Thanks

[scrupul0us]

the error is pretty self explanitory

verify your "SMTP" and "smtp_port" setting in php.ini

the file is normally in c:\windows\ or c:\php

find the line for smtp and enter your outgoing email server

e.g. for my roadrunner mail it would be: smtp.nycap.rr.com

[Houdini]

Configure like this

[mail function]
; For Win32 only.
SMTP = mail.bna.bellsouth.net//put in your email server
smtp_port = 25

; For Win32 only.
sendmail_from = [e-mail]//this is your actual address

[bradgrafelman]

Note that if the mailserver you're trying to use requires authentication, you can't use PHP's mail() function.

[Jermizzle]

Houdini wrote:

Configure like this

[mail function]
; For Win32 only.
SMTP = mail.bna.bellsouth.net//put in your email server
smtp_port = 25

; For Win32 only.
sendmail_from = [e-mail]//this is your actual address

I did this. I looked into the email program im using and the port was 465 so i changed it in php.ini now when i try the page it just loads with no response. It like the page is frozen, but its loading something from somewhere.

This may be a silly question but how do i find out if the mailserver needs authentication

btw, thanks for the help guys!!

[bradgrafelman]

Port 465 is used for SSL connections. I've never had to send mail via SSL, so I don't know which direction to send you in. You might have to do some Google searching.