Sending mail

While Click submit button mail have to send to the address

[Madhu]

i am new to php
i haven given an assignment to create a contact form page
I have designed that page
but the main function is that while clicking the submit button an mail have to sent to the given particular mail address. What i have to do for that .
Plz help

Madhu

[RonPK]

Hello Madhu, have you looked at the manual? [php.net...]

The basic syntax of the

mail()

function is easy:

mail($to, $subject, $message, 'From: [e-mail]');

[dreamcatcher]

Hi Madhu,

Try this thread in our library:
[webmasterworld.com...]

dc

[vincevincevince]

Madhu,

One additional thing to be aware of is that recently bots have been taking over contact forms. For that reason, santise (check/clean) your data very well, especially sender addresses.

[Madhu]

but my friends....
It is not working still..

it is showing some SMTP error

[eelixduppy]

Have you properly setup your SMTP server to send mail? Also, if you need to alter the default values in php.ini for your setup, you might want to take a look at those directives:
[php.net...]
[php.net...]

[Madhu]

With the help of [webmasterworld.com...] i tried to send email but it is showing the following error .What i have to do?

Warning: mail() [function.mail]: Failed to connect to mailserver at "localhost" port 25, verify your "SMTP" and "smtp_port" setting in php.ini or use ini_set() in D:\Program Files\xampp\htdocs\mailer\sendemail.php on line 35

[RonPK]

SMTP is the protocol that does the actual sending. PHP cannot send mail by itself; it needs an SMTP server for that.

It's quite normal that there is no SMTP server on a Windows machine. You may need to specify your provider's information in php.ini. So, please re-read eelixduppy's post...

[edited by: RonPK at 7:09 am (utc) on July 30, 2007]