[RESOLVED] PHPFormMail easy replacement

marcnyc

Hello, I have a PHP FormMail installed on my server and I heavily relied on it. Suddenly it stopped working, even thought it still says that messages are sent (but they are never delivered). I contacted my host and I am waiting for a reply but I suspect that they just disabled mail() on the server because they did that another time to me as well on another site I host with them.

I was wondering if there is a quick way to either replace PHPFormMail or send emails a different way.
I have heavily modified the PHP FormMail script for my needs so going to a different type of form handler would be a time-consuming process for me...
Is there another PHP function I can use to send emails and just replace the one instance of mail() inside the PHPFormMail code?

dagon

look for a mailer script that uses a direct socket connection to the smtp server, mail() is rather limited.

marcnyc

can you point me to such a script? is it something where I can simply replace the word mail( with the new name of the function?

halojoy

I had a look at SwiftMailer a week ago.
I say it is a good script. http://swiftmailer.org/
It is for PHP 5.

There are several ways to send a mail. SMTP and others, as well as SENDMAIL.
Good documentation!
Wiki: http://swiftmailer.org/wikidocs/

I know they use Swift for example in Symfony PHP Web Framework http://www.symfony-project.org/

dagon

marcnyc;10942160 wrote:
can you point me to such a script? is it something where I can simply replace the word mail( with the new name of the function?

There is no solution where you can just replace the word mail, this is programming not lego.

If you don't know how to do it, hire some one.

marcnyc

what is sendmail? is it a php function or a library?

if I install a script and their function is thirdparty_mail() I should just be able to replace mail() with thirdparty_mail() as long as it takes the parameters in the same order... that's what I meant...

dagon

marcnyc;10942163 wrote:
what is sendmail? is it a php function or a library?

neither: sendmail

marcnyc;10942163 wrote:
if I install a script and their function is thirdparty_mail() I should just be able to replace mail() with thirdparty_mail() as long as it takes the parameters in the same order... that's what I meant...

That's very unlikely, and i would assume there would be quite a few configuration settings (has to be if not using php's mail function).

bradgrafelman

Another suggestion would be PHPMailer. Its website comes complete with a list of example scripts as well. I've always chosen this class because it's quite versatile.

marcnyc;10942163 wrote:
if I install a script and their function is thirdparty_mail() I should just be able to replace mail() with thirdparty_mail() as long as it takes the parameters in the same order... that's what I meant...

As dagon suggested, this is unlikely; whichever library you go with, you'll have to look at the documentation/code examples and learn how it's used.

If it were as simple as changing 'mail(' to 'newsoftware_mail(' then there wouldn't be such job titles as "Software Engineer" and whatnot since you could hire a 15-year-old to press Control+F, "mail(", "newsoftware_mail(", Replace All.

marcnyc

Thanks for your suggestions... I was looking into SwiftMailer and PHPMailer (one of which I had once installed on another website actually) and then my host fixed the problem... mail() started working again.
They said that they switched PHP from fcgi to DSO and that after moving to .dso everything was run as nobody. Nobody seemed to not be allowed to send mail so they turned this setting off and restored mail sending.