How to send email in php from localhost?

[amit08]

i am a beginner in php. i am making a small email sending script in php but no success till now. i am using XAMPP server. tried all the configurations settings and also with mercury email server in xampp but no success. Please help!!

[Exequiel]

can you post your code on how you made your email sending?

[amit08]

Actually my concern is of sending mail to any of email client(e.g. yahoo or gmail) through my localhost. I am using xampp server. I did settings in php.ini and sendmail.ini but no success. Any how i am sending you my php code and i expect if you know any configuration settings of php.ini and sendmail.ini please suggest me.

<?php
$customeremail = $_POST['customeremail'];
$message = $_POST['message'];
$replywanted = false;
if(isset($_POST['replywanted']))
	$replywanted = true;
	
//build the text of email

$t = "you have received the message from ".	$customeremail . ":\n";
$t = $t. $message. "\n";

if($replywanted)
	$t = $t . "A reply was requested";
else
	$t = $t . "No reply was requested";
	
$headers = "From: sender@gmail.com";	

//send an email 
$isSent =  mail("receiver@gmail.com", "Customer Message", $t, $headers);

if($isSent)
	echo "thanks for sending the message";	
else
	echo "not sent";	

?>

[jaroc]

Some trick I have summarize

I am sorry, but some comments are in french.
Also, I have tested it with gmail and not yahoo.
I

<?php
/* Setup email

Under PHP in XAMPP tool
We must configure XAMPP parameters

The email server used to generate email is: gmail
 You have to open and activate a parameter in google gmail, https://www.google.com/settings/security/lesssecureapps and select "activate"
 (WARNING: this is not dramatic, because to use this server you must define the password in XAMPP.
 
 In the XAMPP tool
C: \ xampp \ sendmail edit "sendmail.ini"
Add two fields to the email address of your gmail account and password (WARNING: If this is not your PC that is dangerous)
	auth_username=xxxx@gmail.com
	AUTH_PASSWORD = yyyy
Change the address and port for SMTP "smtp.gmail.com" and "587"
	smtp_server = smtp.gmail.com
	smtp_port = 587

C: \ xampp \ php edit "php.ini"
Remove the ";" before "sendmail_path =" \ "C: \ xampp \ sendmail \ sendmail.exe \" -t "
Add the ";" before sendmail_path = "C: \ xampp \ mailtodisk \ mailtodisk.exe"
 
!! it is mandatory to define a header "FROM" format xxx@yyy.zzz it is not necessary that this be your gmail address
 
 The appeal of this test is: http: // http: //localhost/yourdirectory/testemail.php

*/ 
?>

<h1> test d'émission d\'email sous XAMPP </h1>
<div>
	<form method="post" accept-charset="utf-8" >  
        <label for="to">Email</label>
			<input type="email" name="to" id="to" value="<?php if (isset($_POST['to'])) echo $_POST['to']; ?>" />
		<div>
		<label for="subject">Sujet</label>
			<input type="text" name="subject" id="subject"  value="<?php if (isset($_POST['subject'])) echo $_POST['subject']; ?>" />
        </div>
		<div>
		<label for="message">Message (format HTML)</label>
			<div>
            <textarea name="message" id="message" rows="20" cols="50"><?php if (isset($_POST['message'])) echo $_POST['message']; ?></textarea>
			</div>
		</div>
		<div>
		<input type="submit" name="action" value="Envoyer" />
		</div>
    </form>
</div>

<?php
//print_r($_POST);

if (isset($_POST['action']) && $_POST['action'] == 'Envoyer') {
    $send_error = "";
    $required_fields = array('to', 'subject', 'message');
	
    foreach ($required_fields AS $v) {
	//	echo 'champs : '.$v. ' valeur : ' .$_POST[$v].'<br>';
        if (empty($_POST[$v])) { $send_error = "Un ou plusieurs champs sont vides, veuillez vérifier le formulaire."; }
    }
    if (empty($send_error)) {
        $headers = "FROM:a@b.c";
        //$headers .= 'Content-type: text/html; charset=utf-8' . PHP_EOL;
		extract($_POST);					// pas nécessaire ici , cela vérifie le contenu de $_POST 
		echo 'Email bien formulée et soumise avec les paramètres : <br>TO : ' .$to. '<br>SUBJECT : ' .$subject. '<br>HEADER : '. $headers. '<br>MESSAGE : '  .$message. '<br>';
        if (!mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers)) { $send_error = "Erreur lors de l'envoi de l'email : voir les détails sous C:\xampp\sendmail\error.log";}	
        //if (!true) { $send_error = "Erreur lors de l'envoi de l'email : voir les détails sous C:\xampp\sendmail\error.log";}	
	}
	else { 
		echo '<div>Erreur : ' . $send_error . '</div>';
	}
}
?>

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[amit08]

The email is still not received by the recipient. The error in error log file was Connection Closed Gracefully. I got this error many times before but failed to resolve. Please help.