Need help about mailer function.

siabanie

Hi guys I need some help here about mailer.

I have created a file register new user (register.php) and when a new user register an email will be sent to their address.

I have this code on my register file but when I run them it's okay but I did not get the email... can anyone assist me what I did wrong?

Thanks.

<?php
$to = "someone@example.com"; //change to a valid email
$subject = "Test mail";
$message = "Hello! This is a simple email message.";
$from = "someonelse@example.com"; //change to a valid email
$headers = "From:" . $from;
mail($to,$subject,$message,$headers);
echo "Mail Sent.";
?>

planetsim

Firstly try

$headers = "From:" . $from . "\r\n";

If your still having issues you will need to do some debugging such as checking the return value of mail, should be true if it is being accepted for delivery (this does not mean the email will be sent though). If its still not working it might be a larger problem but see how that goes first.

siabanie

Thanks planetsim,

What is\r stands for?

And by the way, do you know what is caused an error in the browser saying : "“The page isn't redirecting properly”?

Cheers

Bjom

read php.net
read php.net
read php.net

start here search for "linefeed" and you'll get your answers.

siabanie

Thanks Bjom,

Looking at them...

By the way, do you know what is caused an error in the browser saying : "“The page isn't redirecting properly”?

johanafm

The php documentation can be found at php.net. Searching for "mail" on that page, brings up the doc page for mail, and after clicking the link for mail() function, you can see that

PHP: mail - Manual wrote:

additional_headers (optional)

String to be inserted at the end of the email header.

This is typically used to add extra headers (From, Cc, and Bcc). Multiple extra headers should be separated with a CRLF (\r\n).

(...)
Note:

If messages are not received, try using a LF (\n) only. Some poor quality Unix mail transfer agents replace LF by CRLF automatically (which leads to doubling CR if CRLF is used). This should be a last resort, as it does not comply with » RFC 2822.

And from there, going to RFC2822 (linked to from some place on the doc page)

RFC2822 wrote:
2.2. Header Fields

Header fields are lines composed of a field name, followed by a colon
(":"), followed by a field body, and terminated by CRLF.

And then going to the top of that document (usually CTRL-HOME or CMD-ARROW_UP) and performing an in page search (usually CTRL-F or CMD-F) for "CRLF" (without the quotes), the first result found is

RFC2822 wrote:
(The carriage-return/line-feed pair is usually written in
this document as "CRLF".)