Question
Help with PHP mail
Hello, I am setting up a simple website for the company I work for and I am having trouble getting the contact form email to work. The following is the code for my feedback.php.
<?php
// ------------- CONFIGURABLE SECTION ------------------------
// $mailto - set to the email address you want the form
// sent to, eg
//$mailto = "youremailaddress@example.com" ;
$mailto = "prepress@bestimageprinters.net" ;
// $subject - set to the Subject line of the email, eg
//$subject = "Feedback Form" ;
$subject = "Feedback Form" ;
// the pages to be displayed, eg
//$formurl = "http://www.example.com/feedback.html" ;
//$errorurl = "http://www.example.com/error.html" ;
//$thankyouurl = "http://www.example.com/thankyou.html" ;
$formurl = "contactus.html" ;
$errorurl = "error.html" ;
$thankyouurl = "thankyou.html" ;
$email_is_required = 1;
$name_is_required = 1;
$comments_is_required = 1;
$uself = 0;
$use_envsender = 0;
$use_sendmailfrom = 0;
$use_webmaster_email_for_from = 0;
$use_utf8 = 1;
$my_recaptcha_private_key = '' ;
// -------------------- END OF CONFIGURABLE SECTION ---------------
$headersep = (!isset( $uself ) || ($uself == 0)) ? "\r\n" : "\n" ;
$content_type = (!isset( $use_utf8 ) || ($use_utf8 == 0)) ? 'Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"' : 'Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"' ;
if (!isset( $use_envsender )) { $use_envsender = 0 ; }
if (isset( $use_sendmailfrom ) && $use_sendmailfrom) {
ini_set( 'sendmail_from', $mailto );
}
$envsender = "-f$mailto" ;
$fullname = (isset($_POST['fullname']))? $_POST['fullname'] : $_POST['name'] ;
$email = $_POST['email'] ;
$comments = $_POST['comments'] ;
$http_referrer = getenv( "HTTP_REFERER" );
if (!isset($_POST['email'])) {
header( "Location: $formurl" );
exit ;
}
if (($email_is_required && (empty($email) || !preg_match('/@/', $email))) || ($name_is_required && empty($fullname)) || ($comments_is_required && empty($comments))) {
header( "Location: $errorurl" );
exit ;
}
if ( preg_match( "/[\r\n]/", $fullname ) || preg_match( "/[\r\n]/", $email ) ) {
header( "Location: $errorurl" );
exit ;
}
if (strlen( $my_recaptcha_private_key )) {
require_once( 'Contact Us/recaptchalib.php' );
$resp = recaptcha_check_answer ( $my_recaptcha_private_key, $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'], $_POST['recaptcha_challenge_field'], $_POST['recaptcha_response_field'] );
if (!$resp->is_valid) {
header( "Location: $errorurl" );
exit ;
}
}
if (empty($email)) {
$email = $mailto ;
}
$fromemail = (!isset( $use_webmaster_email_for_from ) || ($use_webmaster_email_for_from == 0)) ? $email : $mailto ;
if (function_exists( 'get_magic_quotes_gpc' ) && get_magic_quotes_gpc()) {
$comments = stripslashes( $comments );
}
$messageproper =
"This message was sent from:<br />" .
"$http_referrer<br />" .
"------------------------------------------------------------<br />" .
"<br />Name of sender: $fullname" .
"<br /><br />Email of sender: $email" .
"<br /><br />-------------------- COMMENTS --------------------<br /><br />
" .
$comments .
"<br /><br />------------------------------------------------------------<br />" ;
$headers =
"From: \"$fullname\" <$fromemail>" . $headersep . "Reply-To: \"$email\" <$email><br /><br />" . $headersep . "X-Mailer: chfeedback.php 2.15.0" .
$headersep . 'MIME-Version: 1.0' . $headersep . $content_type ;
if ($use_envsender) {
mail($mailto, $subject, $messageproper, $headers, $envsender );
}
else {
mail($mailto, $subject, $messageproper, $headers );
}
print("MAILTO<br />");
print($mailto);
print("<br /><br />SUBJECT<br />");
print($subject);
print("<br /><br />MESSAGEPROPER<br />");
print($messageproper);
print("<br /><br />HEADERS<br />");
print($headers);
//header( "Location: $thankyouurl" );
exit ;
?>The part at the bottom I did to make sure that it was emailing to the right place, and it is. But I never get an email. The site is not live yet so this is all from my computer using the builtin Apache webserver. I am thinking I need to change some configuration in Apache, but I am not sure, nor am I sure how to change the config. in Apache to allow the email to be sent. I have enabled PHP.
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