Why This Error? - PHP script fault

mrdee

Oct 26 2007, 02:16 AM

Hello,
I typed out a PHP script (literally copied from w3schools, the script is as follows:

CODE

<html>
<body>

<?php
function spamcheck($field)
  {
//eregi() performs a case insensitive regular expression match
  if(eregi("to:",$field) || eregi("cc:",$field))
    {
    return TRUE;
    }
  else
    {
    return FALSE;
    }
  }

//if "email" is filled out, send email
if (isset($_REQUEST['email']))
  {
  //check if the email address is invalid
  $mailcheck = spamcheck($_REQUEST['email']);
  if ($mailcheck==TRUE)
    {
    echo "Invalid input";
    }
  else
    {
    //send email
    $email = $_REQUEST['email'];
    $subject = $_REQUEST['subject'];
    $message = $_REQUEST['message'];
    mail("info@vlaanderen=flanders.org.uk", "Subject: $subject",
    $message, "From: $email" );
    echo "Thank you for using our mail form";
    }
  }
else
//if "email" is not filled out, display the form
  {
  echo "<form method='post' action='mailform.php'>
  Email: <input name='email' type='text' /><br />
  Subject: <input name='subject' type='text' /><br />
  Message:<br />
  <textarea name='message' rows='15' cols='40'>
  </textarea><br />
  <input type='submit' />
  </form>";
  }
?>

</body>
</html>

Yet, when I run it, I keep getting the following error:

Warning: mail() [function.mail]: SMTP server response: 530 Authenticate before sending emails. in C:\Program Files\Abyss Web Server\htdocs\mailform.php on line 34
Thank you for using our mail form.

Judiging by the last line, the script continues to run after the error.
Line 34 is this line:

$message, "From: $email" );

As I said before, I am very inexperienced in PHP (a complete beginner), so I do not understand why I am getting this error.

Any help will be very much appreciated.

Thank you.

jlhaslip

Oct 26 2007, 02:51 AM

Does this help at all?

http://groups.google.com/group/Gmail-Probl...be6b2d?lnk=raot

Seems you need to authenticate the SMTP connection. Might be easier to alter your server to use sendmail in the php.ini file.

mrdee

Oct 26 2007, 11:52 AM

I'm afraid that link does not help, talks about using Googlemail.
By the way, I forgot to mention: I am testing this program on my local machine, Using PHP 5.2 in conjunction with Apache server 2.2.
Thanks.

pop

Oct 26 2007, 12:28 PM

you need to setup php.ini file "smtp" (send mail transfer protocol) protocol. you can not send e-mail from your localhost computer, without connection to outside mail server. jlhalslip mentioned one way to setup smtp on your localmachine, by using google mail options as your default mail server. google mail is one of the fastest and largest mails, and i recomend you using the same. also if you have some host like trap18 you can also use their smpt details to setup your localhost mail connection.

mrdee

Oct 26 2007, 12:31 PM

I see, well, I have hosting at Trap17.
So, I could set these details up then?

Thanks.

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