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Matthew1980 - 11:25 pm on Nov 17, 2011 (gmt 0)


Hi there Gilead,

Well, all I can say really is that when using the mail function in php there is no guarantee that the email actually gets to the recipient. You will have to check the junk folder in the mail addresses' junk box, as this is where most of them end up.

Also I strongly suggest that you turn on error reporting, as this will catch errors that are in your code. (error_reporting(E_ALL|E_NOTICE))

And as your using the error suppressor operator (@) on your mysql functions, this is a really bad habit that needs nipping now, though, granted, php themselves advocate using this for certain function in the php arsenal - I forget what they are but I have answered questions like this before.

But as you tell us that the success message is displayed, this means that the function has been executed, you may need to check the formatting of the content of email you're sending, strip it back to the bare minimum - even if you put the string directly into the function, this will then get rid of any ambiguity there.

And not meaning to pick too many holes in your hard work, but the html side of things, your attributes/tags need not be in CAPITALS as they get parsed in lowercase too :) and look into the security of your script; check out strip_tags() and mysql_real_escape_string() as database protection, this prevention of attacks is a good thing to invest time in.

Have fun coding,

Cheers,
MRb


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