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user1873632
user1873632

Reputation: 71

not receiving emails from php

I know I'm being sent a status of '1' from this process file as my JavaScript resulting is functioning. Problem is that I'm not getting the email.

<?php
//Retrieve form data. 
//GET - user submitted data using AJAX
//POST - in case user does not support javascript, we'll use POST instead
$name = ($_GET['name']) ? $_GET['name'] : $_POST['name'];
$email = ($_GET['email']) ?$_GET['email'] : $_POST['email'];
$comment = ($_GET['comment']) ?$_GET['comment'] : $_POST['comment'];
//flag to indicate which method it uses. If POST set it to 1
if ($_POST) $post=1;
//Simple server side validation for POST data, of course, 
//you should validate the email
if (!$name) $errors[count($errors)] = 'Please enter your name.';
if (!$email) $errors[count($errors)] = 'Please enter your email.'; 
if (!$comment) $errors[count($errors)] = 'Please enter your comment.'; 
//if the errors array is empty, send the mail
if (!$errors) {
    //recipient - change this to your name and email
    $to = '[email protected]';    
    //sender
    $from = $name . ' <' . $email . '>';

    //subject and the html message
    $subject = 'Comment from ' . $name;    
    $message = '
    <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" 
    "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
    <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
    <head></head>
    <body>
    <table>
        <tr><td>Name</td><td>' . $name . '</td></tr>
        <tr><td>Email</td><td>' . $email . '</td></tr>
        <tr><td>Comment</td><td>' . nl2br($comment) . '</td></tr>
    </table>
    </body>
    </html>';
    //send the mail
    $result = sendmail($to, $subject, $message, $from);

    //if POST was used, display the message straight away
    if ($_POST) {
        if ($result) echo 'Thank you! We have received your message.';
        else echo 'Sorry, unexpected error. Please try again later';

    //else if GET was used, return the boolean value so that 
    //ajax script can react accordingly
    //1 means success, 0 means failed
    } else {
        echo $result;    
    }
//if the errors array has values
} else {
    //display the errors message
    for ($i=0; $i<count($errors); $i++) echo $errors[$i] . '<br/>';
    echo '<a href="form.php">Back</a>';
    exit;
}
//Simple mail function with HTML header
function sendmail($to, $subject, $message, $from) {
    $headers = "MIME-Version: 1.0" . "\r\n";
    $headers .= "Content-type:text/html;charset=iso-8859-1" . "\r\n";
    $headers .= 'From: ' . $from . "\r\n";

    $result = mail($to,$subject,$message,$headers);

    if ($result) return 1;
    else return 0;
}
?>

Upvotes: 0

Views: 135

Answers (2)

hello
hello

Reputation: 81

when testing mails you can test it directly to your server, php mail has a function that already runs on it. if you test it on xampp locally it will not send , unless you have set the php mailer in localhost. but for me its better to test it on server than in localhost.

Upvotes: 0

Thomas Farvour
Thomas Farvour

Reputation: 1103

You mentioned you are using GoDaddy. GoDaddy requires you set the sender address legitimately to match the domain of the site it is sending from or use SMTP with Authentication.

There is a huge gaping hole with this method of sending email. Spammers can easily override the From: header by inserting additional recipients.

I'm not sure how mail centric your application plans to be, but I would recommend using a package like PHPMailer or PEAR::Mail as it takes care of email handling for you at a much higher level. This let's you focus on more important parts of your application. The built-in PHP mail() feature is very limited in its abilities and as you try to extend your mail capabilities you'll run into many road blocks that the base mail() function just cannot handle without a lot of additional logic on your behalf (attachments, MIME-types, etc come to mind).

Upvotes: 4

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