Reputation: 163
I am a newbie in PHP, so all i know is actually from the forums. These are the settings i made in my php.ini file
SMTP=smtp.gmail.com
smtp_port=587
sendmail_from = [email protected]
sendmail_path = "\"C:\xamppnew\sendmail\sendmail.exe\" -t"
;sendmail_path = "C:\xamppnew\mailtodisk\mailtodisk.exe"
These are the changes made in sendmail.ini file
smtp_server=smtp.gmail.com
smtp_port=587
error_logfile=error.log
debug_logfile=debug.log
[email protected]
auth_password=************
[email protected]
And here is the code I am using to send the mail
$to = "[email protected]";
$myemail = "[email protected]";
$email_subject = "Contact form submission: $name";
$email_body = "my message";
$headers = "From: $myemail\n";
$headers .= "Reply-To: $email_address";
mail($to,$email_subject,$email_body,$headers);
header('Location: ../index-alt2.html?t="done successfully"');
Upvotes: 0
Views: 1845
Reputation: 1604
I would recommend using PHPMailer to send email from PHP. Here's the steps to accomplish this.
include '/path/to/PHPMailer/PHPMailerAutoload.php';
at the top of your PHP script.Here's an example...
index.html
<form action="index.php" method="post">
<input type="email" name="email">
<input type="text" name="name">
<input type="text" name="subject">
<input type="text" name="message">
</form>
index.php
include '/path/to/PHPMailer/PHPMailerAutoload.php';
$email = $_POST['email'];
$name = $_POST['name'];
$subject = $_POST['subject'];
$message = $_POST['message'];
$mail = new PHPMailer;
$mail->isSMTP(); // Set mailer to use SMTP
$mail->Host = 'localhost'; // Specify main and backup SMTP servers
$mail->SMTPAuth = true; // Enable SMTP authentication
$mail->Username = 'username'; // SMTP username
$mail->Password = 'password'; // SMTP password
$mail->SMTPSecure = 'tls'; // Enable TLS encryption, "ssl" also accepted
$mail->Port = 587; // TCP port to connect to
$mail->setFrom('your email', 'your name'); // from
$mail->addAddress($email, $name); // to
$mail->isHTML(true); // if html
$mail->Subject = $subject;
$mail->Body = $message; //HTML
if($mail->send()){
echo 'Mail sent!';
}
else {
echo 'Mail failed!';
}
Upvotes: 1