Pls help- email using phpmailer-can't get it...

[kmoffitt]

Here is my code: just can't get it to work for me...
here is error msg: "Message was not sent.Mailer error: You must provide at least one recipient email address.1 "
when I echo print "$emailAddr" variable at bottom, I get "[e-mail]1"; why am I getting a "1" at end??
varibles are obtained from a form...

<?php
// Data received from POST request
$name = stripslashes($_POST['name']);
$emailAddr = stripslashes($_POST['email']);
$issue = stripslashes($_POST['issue']);
$comment = stripslashes($_POST['message']);
$subject = stripslashes($_POST['subject']);  

// Send mail
require("class.phpmailer.php");
$mail = new PHPMailer();
$mail->IsSMTP(); // telling the class to use SMTP

// SMTP Configuration
$mail->SMTPAuth = true;                  // enable SMTP authentication
$mail->Host = "smtpauth.earthlink.net";  // SMTP server
$mail->Username = "[e-mail]";
$mail->Password = "******";            

$mail->Port = 587;                       // optional if you don't want to use the default 

$mail->From = "[e-mail]";
$mail->FromName = "sample name";
$mail->Subject = $subject;
//$mail->AltBody = "To view the message, please use an HTML compatible email viewer!"; // optional, comment out and test
$mail->MsgHTML($issue . "<br /><br />" . $comment);

// Add as many as you want
$mail->AddAddress($emailAddr, $name);

// If you want to attach a file, relative path to it
//$mail->AddAttachment("images/phpmailer.gif");             // attachment

if(!$mail->Send())
{
   echo 'Message was not sent.';
   echo 'Mailer error: ' . $mail->ErrorInfo;
}
else
{
   echo 'Message has been sent.';
}


echo print $emailAddr

[bradgrafelman]

You're getting the "1" because that is what [man]print[/man] returned. Why are you echo'ing the return value of the print statement?

Additionally, why are you using [man]stripslashes/man on incoming data? You shouldn't ever be doing that; if incoming data looks like [man]addslashes/man was automatically applied, you need to disable the "magic quotes" option in your php.ini file.

EDIT: Also, try setting the 'SMTPDebug' property to 2 and see if you get any debug info.

[kmoffitt]

Still learning PHP; any thoughts on my error msg? where is the TO: email address being picked up at? I assumed that by going to the smtp host with username and password, that the email automatically went to the correct email recipient; what am I missing...
my thoughts on the stripslashes was to remove in case the user for whatever reason added a \ from the form. also the echo print at the bottom was just for me to view the value of that variable. Also, do I set the 'SMTPDebug' property to 2' in the php.ini file? thanks for your help!

[NogDog]

Try something like this to see if the AddAddress() call is really working:

$mail->AddAddress($emailAddr, $name); 
die("<pre>".print_r($mail, 1)."</pre>"); // check the "to" property, and see if anything else looks "interesting"

[bradgrafelman]

kmoffitt;11033321 wrote:

Still learning PHP; any thoughts on my error msg?

My thoughts are... the code would appear to work (though I haven't tried it myself), so we probably need to see more information to determine the cause of the error message (hence my suggestion to modify the SMTPDebug property).

kmoffitt;11033321 wrote:

where is the TO: email address being picked up at?

The AddAddress() method should be building the To: header.

kmoffitt;11033321 wrote:

my thoughts on the stripslashes was to remove in case the user for whatever reason added a \ from the form.

Okay, but that raises two more questions:

1. Why would you care if a backslash appears somewhere in the form?

2. If you didn't want any backslashes to appear, why are you using stripslashes()? Note that this:

   $msg = 'This is a backslash: \\\\';
   echo stripslashes( $msg );

   will output this:

   This is a backslash: \

   (In other words, you're still allowing backslashes in the input - the user just has to escape them.)

kmoffitt;11033321 wrote:

also the echo print at the bottom was just for me to view the value of that variable.

Right, but you are not echo'ing the value of that variable. What you are echo'ing is the value returned from the [man]print[/man] construct. Visit the manual page for this construct and you'll find this text:

PHP Manual wrote:

Returns 1, always.

Thus, what you're telling PHP to do in a statement like this:

echo print $emailAddr;

is to print the value of the $emailAddr variable, and then echo the integer 1.

kmoffitt;11033321 wrote:

Also, do I set the 'SMTPDebug' property to 2' in the php.ini file?

No, a property (see: [man]oop5.properties[/man]) is associated with an [man]object[/man], namely the one stored in $mail in this case. In other words, I'm asking you to add:

$mail->SMTPDebug = 2;

somewhere in your code (preferably close to the line where you instantiate the object so that we can get debug output started as early on in the process as possible).

[kmoffitt]

OK, ths so much; I will try couple of these..

[kmoffitt]

I have retryed and etc. ; Everything looks right... Is it possible that earthlink (smtpauth.earthlink.net) just will not work with phpmailer??

[bradgrafelman]

I suppose anything is possible, but generally speaking there shouldn't be a way for them to know that you're using PHPMailer versus any other e-mail client.

What was the output once you set SMTPDebug to 2?

[NogDog]

The error you originally reported appears to be before the email actually gets sent, resulting from a check in the PHPMailer code itself to see if the "To" parameter is populated or not. That being said, I would not be at all surprised if the SMTP mail server rejected your request due to the "From" value being different from the email address you use to log in/connect with it. If that is the case, you will have to use the same email address for the "From" value, but you could use the other address as a "Reply-To" value.