PHP Mail with SMTP

shaty002

Hi fellows,

I am a PHP and online hosting noob, so sorry in advance for any obvious mistakes. I am trying to make a 'Contact Us' form on a new hosting service I signed up for.

So, I make a nice little html form with fields: Name, Email, Phone & Inquiry. Initially I tried using the normal mail() function of php to send the information to me, but the hosting service does not have the mail function enabled. Instead a PHP Mail with SMTP authentication is to be used.

The template given on the site is as:

require_once "Mail.php";
$from = "You ";
$to = "Recipient ";
$subject = "Hi!";
$body = "Hi,\n\nHow are you?";
$host = "mail.example.com";
$username = "smtp_username";
$password = "smtp_password";
$headers = array ('From' => $from,
'To' => $to,
'Subject' => $subject);
$smtp = Mail::factory('smtp',
array ('host' => $host,
'auth' => true,
'username' => $username,
'password' => $password));
$mail = $smtp->send($to, $headers, $body);
if (PEAR::isError($mail)) {
echo("
" . $mail->getMessage() . "
");
} else {
echo("
Message successfully sent!
");
}

However, when I try to execute the code, I get:

Warning: Mail_smtp::include_once(Net/SMTP.php) [mail-smtp.include-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /usr/local/lib/php/Mail/smtp.php on line 206
Warning: Mail_smtp::include_once() [function.include]: Failed opening 'Net/SMTP.php' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in /usr/local/lib/php/Mail/smtp.php on line 206
Fatal error: Class 'Net_SMTP' not found in /usr/local/lib/php/Mail/smtp.php on line 210

Anybody has any idea of what I might be doing wrong? Also, this php file is lying in my public directory, with username and password in it - wouldn't this be a security problem?

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shaty002;10889670 wrote:
Hi fellows,

I am a PHP and online hosting noob, so sorry in advance for any obvious mistakes. I am trying to make a 'Contact Us' form on a new hosting service I signed up for.

So, I make a nice little html form with fields: Name, Email, Phone & Inquiry. Initially I tried using the normal mail() function of php to send the information to me, but the hosting service does not have the mail function enabled. Instead a PHP Mail with SMTP authentication is to be used.

The template given on the site is as:
require_once "Mail.php";
$from = "You ";
$to = "Recipient ";
$subject = "Hi!";
$body = "Hi,\n\nHow are you?";
$host = "mail.example.com";
$username = "smtp_username";
$password = "smtp_password";
$headers = array ('From' => $from,
'To' => $to,
'Subject' => $subject);
$smtp = Mail::factory('smtp',
array ('host' => $host,
'auth' => true,
'username' => $username,
'password' => $password));
$mail = $smtp->send($to, $headers, $body);
if (PEAR::isError($mail)) {
echo("
" . $mail->getMessage() . "
");
} else {
echo("
Message successfully sent!
");
}
However, when I try to execute the code, I get:

Anybody has any idea of what I might be doing wrong? Also, this php file is lying in my public directory, with username and password in it - wouldn't this be a security problem?

You are missing the file "Net/SMTP.php" do you have a directory called "Net" or do you know the correct location of "SMTP.php", check you Mail.php file and make the necessary corrections if you know where the file SMTP.php is.

PHP code does not get rendered when you view the source of a page so you info does not show, unless someone hacks in to your site no one else can see that info but who ever has direct ftp access to that particular directory.