Re: [NEWBIE] PEAR::Mail Help Please

* Brett Patterson <brett2@umbc.edu>: > Hello all. I am new to using PEAR, but not so much to PHP. I was looking > for a little help. > > I'm trying to get my contact script to work with the PEAR::Mail extension. > So I followed the "tutorial" on pear.php.net about using the object =& > Mail::factory() and then the object::send() method to send the email. So > after doing that, I get the following code: > > Main.php > > $recips = $Recip.'; '; > $recips .= $Email; > require_once('config.php'); This could cause errors. It looks like, from below, the name of the file is 'Config.php'. require/include arguments are CaSe Sensitive -- the lowercase 'c' would mean it wouldn't be found and loaded. > $headers['From'] = $Name." <".$Email.">"; > $headers['Subject'] = $Subject; > $headers['To'] = $Recip; > $headers['Cc'] = $Email; An easier way to do the above would be: $headers = array( 'From' => "$name <$Email>", 'Subject' => $Subject, 'To' => $Recip, 'Cc' => $Email ); > require_once('Mail.php'); > $mail_object =& Mail::factory($method, $params); > $mail_object->send($recips, $headers, $message); > if($mail_object != 'TRUE'){ Okay, here's your error. Try the following: $sent = $mail_object->send($recips, $headers, $message); if (PEAR::isError($sent)) { // Do something with the error } The send() method returns either 'true' or a PEAR_Error -- with true meaning only that the message has been successfully passed on to the mail transport agent. PEAR::isError() is a static method of the PEAR package used for testing for errors. NOTE: the $mail_object retains its state after the send method -- it is still a PEAR::Mail object -- which evaluates to true ALWAYS -- which is why your code would fail at this point. > require_once('PEAR.php'); > $error = PEAR_Error::toString(); > echo "<b>".$error."</b>"; > $_REQUEST['pageid'] = '23'; > } > else{ > $_REQUEST['pageid'] = '22'; > } > > > > Config.php > > $method = 'smtp'; > //$params['sendmail_path'] = "/usr/sbin/sendmail"; > $params['host'] = "localhost"; > $params['port'] = "25"; > $params['auth'] = "TRUE"; > $params['username'] = "ridgeswi"; > $params['password'] = "**********"; > The email is not sent to either recipient, and I don't get an error, or if I > do, it has no values: > > i.e. [: message="" code=0 mode= level= prefix="" info=""] > > > > Anyone see anything wrong? Is it perhaps that I'm using tabs instead of > spaces for indentation or what? Thanks for the help. PHP evaluates tabs and spaces as simply whitespace; these would not make a difference. -- Matthew Weier O'Phinney | WEBSITES: Webmaster and IT Specialist | http://www.garden.org National Gardening Association | http://www.kidsgardening.com 802-863-5251 x156 | http://nationalgardenmonth.org mailto:matthew@garden.org | http://vermontbotanical.org