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Subject:
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Problems with sending e-mails - please help
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Posted By:
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t@mzk
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Post Date:
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1/8/2004 5:00:39 PM
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Hi!
I'm trying to get customer information through an html form (text field) to my e-mail, but all I get is empty e-mails. I've checked the variables. The variables are taken from the html and are used in php script, both in lowercase format.
Here's my script:
<?php
$firstname = HTMLSpecialChars($firstname);
$lastname = HTMLSpecialChars($lastname);
$email = HTMLSpecialChars($email);
$address = HTMLSpecialChars($address);
$city = HTMLSpecialChars($city);
$zipcode = HTMLSpecialChars($zipcode);
$phone = HTMLSpecialChars($phone);
$textarea = HTMLSpecialChars($textarea);
$email = strtolower($email);
$mail_to = "myemail@myprovider.com";
$mail_subject = "Customer info";
$mail_body = "$firstname \n";
$mail_body .= "$lastname\n";
$mail_body .= "$email \n";
$mail_body .= "$address \n";
$mail_body .= "$city \n";
$mail_body .= "$zipcode \n";
$mail_body .= "$phone \n";
$mail_body .= "$textarea \n";
if (mail($mail_to, $mail_subject, $mail_body))
echo "Success. Thank you!";
else echo "No success. Return and try again. Thank you!";
?>
Please help me solve this.
Thanx many times,
Teo
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Reply By:
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nikolai
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Reply Date:
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1/8/2004 5:17:17 PM
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What's your register_globals set to?
http://p2p.wrox.com/archive/beginning_php/2002-11/17.asp
Take care,
Nik
http://www.bigaction.org/
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Reply By:
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t@mzk
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Reply Date:
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1/9/2004 3:00:28 AM
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Hi Nik,
It's set to On (rebooted). I've read that register_globals = On should be avoided, if possible, for security reasons. Is there then another way to use HTML->PHP variables?
(I still didn't figure out why are the e-mails empty. The script couldn't be simpler. Maybe that's the problem :)).
Many thanx,
Teo
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Reply By:
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t@mzk
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Reply Date:
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1/9/2004 3:24:02 AM
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Nik, one more thing,
I have set IIS on my computer. As you know IIS has a SMTP local server. When I use the same script and send it to localhost, I get everything working and with no problems. I have also tried to change php.ini [mail_function] SMTP = my outgoing mail server provider. Before it was set to SMTP = localhost, but guess what, nothing happend. Why is it that I get email on my local server, and not when I upload it to a internet server?
Again, thank you. You are a big help!
Teo
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