Day 12 - Sending Mail From PHP - Become PHP Expert in 30 days

**admin** · 06-02-2014, 06:11 AM

Originally Posted by annie

http://php.flashwebhost.com/annie/mail.php

Code:

<?php
$toEmail = '[email protected]';
$fromEmail = '[email protected]>';
$subject = 'TIME FOR GOD    ';
$body = '
Hi    ,

If You Love God... And, are not ashamed of all the marvelous things HE has done for you...

GOD BLESS!

swapz ';

mail ($toEmail, $subject, $body);
echo ' Mail send to ' . $toEmail;

Good, whenever some one visit the url, you get an email, so it is better remove it after some time. Only need to post 3rd script with HTML form as it won't auto generate such emails.

**Vahaa11** · 06-02-2014, 11:29 AM

Following error showing day_12_ex_3.php
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '$body' (T_VARIABLE) in day_12_ex_3.php on line 5

Missing ( ; ) in
$fromEmail = $POST['fromEmail']

**admin** · 06-02-2014, 04:21 PM

Originally Posted by sibichan1

Following error showing day_12_ex_3.php
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '$body' (T_VARIABLE) in day_12_ex_3.php on line 5

Missing ( ; ) in
$fromEmail = $POST['fromEmail']

Updated the post, hope that will fix the error. Hope everyone can find and fix small errors like this by now.

**Vahaa11** · 06-03-2014, 05:48 AM

Sender email address not getting in inbox.
its showing as 'unknown sender'

php-email-1.jpg

in day_12_ex_3.php, i changed the below line

$fromEmail = $POST['fromEmail'];

to

$fromEmail = $_POST['fromEmail'];

and now its working.

php-email-2.jpg

http://php.flashwebhost.com/sibichan...ay_12_ex_3.php

PHP Code:



<?php
if (isset($_POST['submit'])) {  

  $fromEmail = $_POST['fromEmail'];   

 $body = $_POST['body'];  

 mail('[email protected]','Message from web site', $body, 'From: ' . $fromEmail);  

  echo 'Thank you for contacting us.';} 

else {   

echo 

'<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">  
<title>Contact Us</title>
</head>
<body>
<form action="day_12_ex_3.php" method="POST">  
  Email<br>    <input type="text" name="fromEmail"><br>   
 Message<br>  <textarea name="body" cols="30" rows="10"></textarea>  
  <br>    <button type="submit" name="submit" value="submit">Send Mail</button></form>
</body></html>  
';}

**admin** · 06-03-2014, 06:11 AM

Add "\n\r" after $fromEmail.

Find

PHP Code:


mail('[email protected]','Message from web site', $body, 'From: ' . $fromEmail);

Replace with

PHP Code:


mail('[email protected]','Message from web site', $body, 'From: ' . $fromEmail . "\n\r");

**Vahaa11** · 06-03-2014, 11:48 AM

Why need "\n\r" after $fromEmail ?

**admin** · 06-03-2014, 11:59 AM

Originally Posted by sibichan1

Why need "\n\r" after $fromEmail ?

This is because that field is called Header. 4th parameter in mail() function access many more stuff than just from like mail priority, x-send from and many more. Each line in header need to be separated with "\n\r", this is called, new line + carriage return.

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