how do change email from my local host to my webserver

[lisa007]

hi i was using xampp to create my website but now i changed to a real web host is called dream-hosting.co.uk/ now i my emails sent tru my contact form no longer work bellow is my code using xampp localhost..

        mail("[e-mail]", 'Name: '.$name, 'Telephone: '.$subject, $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']."\n\n".$message,  "From: $from");

how do i change to still send the emails to my hotmail account but the difference is that the server is no longer xampp local host but dream hosting?? i tried to change the email address to the one i created form the webhost site like [email]xxx@name_of_my_site.co.uk[/email] but still didnt work

[bradgrafelman]

I have a hard time believing that code ever worked.

Take a look at the manual page for [man]mail/man - you can't just throw random values at each parameter of mail() and expect magic to happen.

[lisa007]

sorry that was just one line of the code this is the whole code

<?php
// ----------------------------------------- 
//  The Web Help .com
// ----------------------------------------- 
// remember to replace [e-mail] with your own email address lower in this code.

// load the variables form address bar
$subject = $_POST["subject"];
$message = $_POST["message"];
$name = $_POST["name"];
$from = $_POST["from"];
$verif_box = $_POST["verif_box"];

// remove the backslashes that normally appears when entering " or '
$message = stripslashes($message); 
$subject = stripslashes($subject); 
$name = stripslashes($name); 
$from = stripslashes($from); 

// check to see if verificaton code was correct
if(md5($verif_box).'a4xn' == $_COOKIE['tntcon']){
	// if verification code was correct send the message and show this page
	mail("[e-mail]", 'Name: '.$name, 'Telephone: '.$subject, $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']."\n\n".$message,  "From: $from");
	// delete the cookie so it cannot sent again by refreshing this page
	setcookie('tntcon','');
} else if(isset($message) and $message!=""){
	// if verification code was incorrect then return to contact page and show error
	header("Location: contact.php?subject=$subject&name=$name&from=$from&message=$message&wrong_code=true");
	exit;
} else {
	echo "no variables received, this page cannot be accessed directly";
	exit;
	}
?>

and yes it works fine with xammp if you change your php.ini file but now it doesnt work on a webhost

[bradgrafelman]

Regardless of whether it appears to work with XAMPP, your use of the mail() function is wrong, which is why you're having problems now.

[lisa007]

ok i manage to get to send the email and is sending the values but now the problem is it only send two values like this

$subject = $_POST["subject"];
$message = $_POST["message"];
$name = $_POST["name"];
$from = $_POST["from"];
mail('[e-mail]', 'My Subject', $message, $from);

and i have more values such as $name $subject i tried to just insert them on that line but on the email it will only post two values no matter how many i insert

[bradgrafelman]

It doesn't mail any number of "values." The parts of the e-mail that are of interest are the subject and the body.

If you want to display multiple variables, just build a message string that contains all of the information you want and use that as the body of the e-mail.