why is not sending

Alidad

hi, I tried to send email confirmation, they are two files out there, first file is forms where to fill out the person and email address, and once submit it send out the to process.php.
in the process.php is process to send email, my question is that why they are not sending! what did i missed!

pleas help thanks.

<? php
// send e-mail to ...
$to=$email;

// Your subject
$subject="Your confirmation link here";

// From
$header="from: your name <contact@aa.com>";

// Your message
$message="Your Comfirmation link \r\n";
$message.="Click on this link to activate your account \r\n";
$message.="http://www.yourweb.com/confirmation.php?passkey=$confirm_code";

// send email
$sentmail = mail($to,$subject,$message,$header);

}

// if not found 
else {
echo "Not found your email in our database";
}

// if your email succesfully sent
if($sentmail){
echo "Your Confirmation link Has Been Sent To Your Email Address.";
}
else {
echo "Cannot send Confirmation link to your e-mail address";
}

?>

ucffool

Does mail($email,$subject,$message); work?
Does mail('youremail@yourdomain.com',$subject,$message); work?

You need to start breaking things down part by part to find the issue.

Xager

i didn't get mail() to work, i ended up using phpmailed instead. I suggest you give it a shot.

Alidad

is there is link where i can learn phpmailed!

Xager

Here is an example of how you use phpmailer:

require("class.phpmailer.php");

$mail = new PHPMailer();

$mail->From     = "list@mydomain.com";
$mail->FromName = "List manager";
$mail->Host     = "smtp1.site.com;smtp2.site.com";
$mail->Mailer   = "smtp";

@MYSQL_CONNECT("localhost","root","password");
@mysql_select_db("my_company");
$query  = "SELECT full_name, email, photo FROM employee WHERE id=$id";
$result = @MYSQL_QUERY($query);

while ($row = mysql_fetch_array ($result))
{
    // HTML body
    $body  = "Hello <font size=\"4\">" . $row["full_name"] . "</font>, <p>";
    $body .= "<i>Your</i> personal photograph to this message.<p>";
    $body .= "Sincerely, <br>";
    $body .= "PHPMailer List manager";

// Plain text body (for mail clients that cannot read HTML)
$text_body  = "Hello " . $row["full_name"] . ", \n\n";
$text_body .= "Your personal photograph to this message.\n\n";
$text_body .= "Sincerely, \n";
$text_body .= "PHPMailer List manager";

$mail->Body    = $body;
$mail->AltBody = $text_body;
$mail->AddAddress($row["email"], $row["full_name"]);
$mail->AddStringAttachment($row["photo"], "YourPhoto.jpg");

if(!$mail->Send())
    echo "There has been a mail error sending to " . $row["email"] . "<br>";

// Clear all addresses and attachments for next loop
$mail->ClearAddresses();
$mail->ClearAttachments();
}

Alidad

thank you so much, let me ask you one question do i have to change in class.phpmailer.php ! or just change setting in the code that you provided me!

Xager

Alidad wrote:
thank you so much, let me ask you one question do i have to change in class.phpmailer.php ! or just change setting in the code that you provided me!

AM

Either put phpmailer in your include variable in php.ini or include the php file as such:

require("/path/to/phpmailer/phpmailer.php");

Alidad

I'm not sure if i undersand clear, please correct me if im wrong.

I downloaded the phpmailer an installed into one of our folder called phpmailer.
then......
I copied that phpmailer codes (from above) and saved file called "mytesting.php" in the path where class.phpmailer.php is.

I copied require("/path/to/phpmailer/phpmailer.php"); but not sure where to put,
i do not want to mess it up with php.ini, so i if i want to put "mytesting.php" i could before require("class.phpmailer.php") line.
but my question is that correct path
require("localhost/sitename/CS/PHPMailer/mytest.php);
I know i must have put wrong path name, can you correct me please!
another thing is that do i have to change any setting name in class.phpmailer.php!

please help thanks.

Xager

require("localhost/sitename/CS/PHPMailer/mytest.php);

First of all you don't need to copy anything, just extract it to any folder.
Second it's not towards your site but instead your computer so for windows:
require("c:/Program Files/CS/PHPMailer/phpmailer.php);
or linux:
require("/etc/CS/PHPMailer/phpmailer.php);

You have to change the path so it fits your server ofcourse

Alidad

thanks for your response, my one thing is bother me is that "phpmailer.php"! i do not have that file, unless you were talking about "class.phpmailer.php" is this correct!

Xager

Alidad wrote:
thanks for your response, my one thing is bother me is that "phpmailer.php"! i do not have that file, unless you were talking about "class.phpmailer.php" is this correct!

AM

That is the one, my bad

Alidad

thanks so much for your help, at this time is works great. but i missing something myself, i tried to find right variable from php mailer.

what is name of variable for send email address! is taht going to be "$to" is this correc! i know from, email name, subject, body but what is for send to email address variable going to be from php mailer!

Alidad

i found the variable name for sender is AddAddress is this correct!

if so, then I need help because i'm still getting error message.
one of text field called "email" which is for who to send to.

And in part of php mailer i can't figure out what variable do i need to put to get email address from text field.
please see code in bold, if this is correct to put name of email variable from text field!

require("PHPMailer/class.phpmailer.php");
$mail = new PHPMailer();
$mail->IsSMTP(); // telling the class to use SMTP
$mail->Host = "smtp.comcast.net"; // SMTP server
$mail->From = "root@root.com";
$mail->AddAddress("$email");

$mail->Subject = "your conformation";
$mail->Body="Your Comfirmation link \r\n";
$mail->Body="Click on this link to activate your account \r\n";
$mail->Body="http://xxx/xxx/EmailTest/confirmation.php?passkey=$confirm_code";
$mail->WordWrap = 50;

please help thanks.

Xager

You don't need " around a variable if that is the only one:

$mail->AddAddress($email);

Alidad

so what do i need to put there to get email from email text field form! i know i can't out email address there too. i have tried that it did not works.

Xager

Alidad wrote:
so what do i need to put there to get email from email text field form! i know i can't out email address there too. i have tried that it did not works.

AM

Keep it to one topic please