SENDING EMAIL PLEASE HELP

[kdawg2k12]

this is my email.php file

 

 

 

<?php

 

 

 

 

$senderName  =$_POST['userName'];

$senderEmail  =$_POST['userEmail.'];

$senderMessage =$_POST['userMessage.'];

 

 

//security

$senderName=stripslashes($userName);

$senderEmail=stripslashes($userEmail);

$senderMsg=stripslashes($userMessage);

 

 

 

 

$to      = 'myName@mydomain.com';

$from    = 'myName@mydomain.com';

$subject = 'Testing CONTACT PAGE';

 

 

$message = 'Message From your site:

 

 

Their Name: $senderName

 

 

Their Email: $senderEmail

 

 

Their Message is below:

 

 

$senderMsg';

 

 

// Build $headers Variable

 

 

$headers = 'From: Company <mysite@mydomain.com.com>' . "\r\n";

 

 

$to = '$to';

    // Send the email

    mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);

 

 

$my_msg='thanks your message has been sent.';

 

 

print $my_msg;           

?>

 

 

 

 

The error I'm getting is  this:

 

 

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_ENCAPSED_AND_WHITESPACE, expecting T_STRING or T_VARIABLE or T_NUM_STRING in C:\xampp\htdocs\PHP_Test\email.php on line 5

 

all I want to be able to do is verify my form works and that I can  receive emails from users of mysite any help would be greatly appreciated. Also what should the send_mail in  the PHP.INI file be set to?

 

thansk

[Andy-H]

$senderName   =$_POST['userName'];
$senderEmail  =$_POST['userEmail.']; // should the full stop be here?
$senderMessage =$_POST['userMessage.']; // should the full stop be here?

//security
$senderName=stripslashes($userName);
$senderEmail=stripslashes($userEmail);
$senderMsg=stripslashes($userMessage); 

 

$senderName   =$_POST['userName'];
$senderEmail  =$_POST['userEmail.']; // should the full stop be here?
$senderMessage =$_POST['userMessage.']; // should the full stop be here?

//security
$senderName=stripslashes($senderName);
$senderEmail=stripslashes($senderEmail);
$senderMsg=stripslashes($senderMessage);

 

Also, you should wrap code in

or

tags

[Pikachu2000]

Is that the actual code, cut from your script and pasted in here? The code above doesn't contain any parse errors.

[kdawg2k12]

@ ANDY H I am not sure what you are referring to when you say should the full stop be here? I am new to PHP

 

thanks for the quick replies

[kdawg2k12]

Pikachu2000  yes that is the full script

 

I have a html form that retrieves the information. Can someone give me an example of what I need to change in the PHP.INI file to test it locally? and What I should have in the email.php file when i upload it to the live server?

 

I been racking my brain tryna figure this stuff out for over a week now!

[Andy-H]

$_POST['userMessage.'] the period shouldn't be there, they're not allowed in array keys. This is the issue.

 

 

 

 

[Pikachu2000]

Although the full stops probably aren't supposed to be in the code above, with associative indices, they work fine. With enumerated indices, the index value is truncated at the full stop, but no parse errors are thrown.

 

$array[1.1] = 'numeric';
$array[1.2] = 'numeric2';
$array['string.string'] = 'associative';
$array['string.string2'] = 'associative2';
echo '<pre>';
print_r($array);
echo '</pre>';

// RETURNS: Array
(
    [1] => numeric2
    [string.string] => associative
    [string.string2] => associative2
)

[trq]

$_POST['userMessage.'] the period shouldn't be there, they're not allowed in array keys. This is the issue.

 

Array keys are just strings. You can put pretty much whatever you like in there.

 

$a = array('^$r%9)k!!~`}+0h*' => 'foo');

 

is perfectly valid.

[Andy-H]

Oh, fair enough, I wasn't sure so read an article that said they weren't allowed. My bad :/

[kdawg2k12]

okay i resolved the last error and now I am getting this error

 

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_

 

I would like to  use a secure connection  and use port 465 but I do not know all the parameters i need to configure to do this please advise and thanks for the help guys I am a newbe to PHP

[trq]

Have you got a mail server installed on localhost?

[kdawg2k12]

no, i thought I could use  my live domain server for testing i.e. smptp.mail@mydomain.com do i need to install one for it to work correctly?