send e-mail from my site using PHP

[Anon]

Hi,

I know very little about PHP but i know html. I wanted to put a form on my web site so people could use it to send me an e-mail strait from my site. I looked round on the net and found something I could use, they are two files "contact.html" and "sendmail.php". You type your e-mail on "cotact.html" and then send it using the php file(I think). When I put it on my web site, type a message etc. and click send, it should send the e-mail but I get the folowing error message:

Method Not Allowed

The requested method POST is not allowed for the URL sendmail.php

What do I do? do I need to install something or what?

[brandonschnell]

your host may be preventing POSTs to php files. you could try to change the method to a GET, but that'll prevent the users from sending large emails.

[Anon]

I changed it from POST to GET on the html file. Now when I type the message it appers to send, it loads the PHP file says the message hase been sent but it dose nothing, it doesn't send the e-mail.

[brandonschnell]

try just the php mail() function by itself in a php script and hard code the email address for the email to be sent to. if it still fails its an issue with either the php.ini config or sendmail config.

[Anon]

right, and if it fales where are those files? oh and what do you mean by hard code?

[Anon]

Is this what the code should be in the PHP file?

<?

if (($sender_name == "") && ($sender_email == "") && ($message == "")) {
header("Location: http://localhost/simple_form.html");
exit;
}

$msg = "E-MAIL SENT FROM WWW SITE\n";
$msg .= "Sender's Name: $sender_name\n";
$msg .= "Sender's E-Mail: $sender_email\n";
$msg .= "Message: $message\n\n";

$to = "[e-mail]";
$subject = "Web Site Feedback";
$mailheaders = "From: My Web Site <> \n";
$mailheaders .= "Reply-To: $sender_email\n\n";

mail($to, $subject, $msg, $mailheaders);

?>

[Anon]

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