mail()

Anon

i created a simple php file to test the mail function and it still does not work. i discovered that because it does not go into the if statement that the mail() returns false as a value. does anyone know why it does this or how i can fix it?

<body>
<?
if(mail("mindless10@hotmail.com", "test", "this is just a test"))

echo "works";
?>

this is just a test
</body>

hawleyj

If this is the actual code you are using, try adding brackets...

<?
if(mail("mindless10@hotmail.com", "test", "this is just a test")) {

echo "works";

}
?>

Jim

dstockto

Try putting

error_reporting (E_ALL ^ E_NOTICE);

before your if statement. If you have an error that PHP is handling it should be reported. I copied the script and changed just the email address though, and it works fine here. What OS and webserver are you using?

Dave

Anon

thank you but i have figured out that this is a problem on the server end. the php was not installed correctly and it is not taking this mail() function. Thank you to everyone for your help.

paul