Trying to get mail() to send an email

[howie450]

I am a newbie to programming and know very little about php format. I can not get the php mail to function properly. Any help would be greatly appreciated..
[code=php]
<form action="<?=$PHP _SELF?>" method="post">




<input type=submit value="Send Inquiry" name=Submit> <? } else {mail("abc@some bodyhelp.com"," Inquiry from www.somebodyhel p.com","$Messag e","From: $NAME <$EMAIL>
<input type=reset value=Reset name="reset">
[/code]

I believe this is this the problem script.

[ak1dnar]

Please read some basic examples first if you are new to Php.

[pbmods]

Heya, Howie. Welcome to TSDN!

Changed thread title to better describe the problem (did you know that threads whose titles do not follow the Posting Guidelines actually get FEWER responses?).

Please use CODE tags when posting source code:

&#91;CODE=ph p]
PHP code goes here.
&#91;/CODE]

[sumaiya]

I think you havnt specified proper headers. [link removed] to see how to use the mail() script.

And make sure you have uploaded the script on your website. DO NOT TEST IT ON YOUR LOCAL COMPUTER it will most probably not work.

[ak1dnar]

I think you havnt specified proper headers. [link removed] to see how to use the mail() script.

And make sure you have uploaded the script on your website. DO NOT TEST IT ON YOUR LOCAL COMPUTER it will most probably not work.

If there you have configured a SMTP server on the LOCAL host it will work.

If you have any known SMTP service provider, put their smtp host info in the php.ini.

[pbmods]

Heya, Sumaiya.

I removed a link to a competing forum from your post as per the site Posting Guidelines.

[ronverdonk]

I am a newbie to programming and know very little about php format. I can not get the php mail to function properly.

To prevent guessing, please explain what does not function properly!
Does the function return an error? Does it not return an error but still not send the mail? Please elaborate.

Ronald

[kovik]

Howie, that code is very badly formatted, breaks the string, and tries to input HTML into the headers. Very strange, indeed.

If you want to avoid dealing with the complexities of the mail() function, there's an intuitive solution known as SwiftMailer that can accomplish almost anything you'd need to do with your emails.