Problem With Sending Email Through PHP

michaelli321 · 08-23-2011, 06:05 PM

I downloaded and installed XAMPP on my computer, which includes mysql, php, apache, and mercury. I am currently running everything on localhost. I created a form that was supposed to send an email to me, but I get this error:

Warning: mail() [function.mail]: SMTP server response: 553 We do not relay non-local mail, sorry. in

Here is my code:

Code:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
    "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
    <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
    <title>Contact Me</title>
</head>
<body>
    <h1>Contact Me</h1>
    <?php # Script 10.1 - email.php
    
    // Check for form submission:
    if (isset($_POST['submitted'])) {
        
        // Minimal for validation:
        if (!empty($_POST['name']) && !empty($_POST['email']) && !empty($_POST['comments']) ) {
            
            // Create the body:
            $body = "Name: {$_POST['name']}\n\nComments: {$_POST['comments']}";
            
            // Make it no longer than 70 characters long:
            $body = wordwrap($body, 70);
            
            // Send the email:
            mail('li.michael1998@gmail.com', 'Contact Form Submission', $body, "From: {$_POST['email']}");
            
            // Print a message:
            echo '<p><em>Thank you for contacting me. I will reply some day.</em></p>';
            
            // Clear $_POST (so that the form's not sticky):
            $_POST = array();
            
        } else {
            echo '<p style="font-weight: bold; color: #C00">Please fill out the form completely.</p>';
        }
        
    } // End of main isset() IF.
    
    // Create the HTML form:
    ?>
    <p>Please fill out this form to contact me.</p>
    <form action="email.php" method="post">
        <p>Name: <input type="text" name="name" size="30" maxlength="60" value="<?php if (isset($_POST['name'])) echo $_POST['name']; ?>" /></p>
        <p>Email Address: <input type="text" name="email" size="30" maxlength="80" value="<?php if (isset($_POST['email'])) echo $_POST['email']; ?>" /></p>
        <p>Comments: <textarea name="comments" rows="5" cols="30"><?php if (isset($_POST['comments'])) echo $_POST['comments']; ?></textarea></p>
        <p><input type="submit" name="submit" value="Send!" /></p>
        <p><input type="hidden" name="submitted" value="TRUE" />
    </form>
</body>
</html>

I'm not sure if I need to download something else, or configure php.ini or what. Any help?

tangoforce · 08-23-2011, 06:12 PM

I think you'll find with xampp that you need to configure fakesendmail (or similar) to use an SMTP server. By that I mean you need to set your username and password.

michaelli321 · 08-23-2011, 06:28 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by tangoforce

I think you'll find with xampp that you need to configure fakesendmail (or similar) to use an SMTP server. By that I mean you need to set your username and password.

Sorry I'm new to computer programming and stuff, how would I do that?

tangoforce · 08-23-2011, 06:35 PM

Look in the xampp directory for a directory called fakesendmail (or similar). Go into it and set up the configuration file with your connection settings.

Shouldn't you be asking this on the xampp website? - The error you received is not POHP related. It's a reply from your ISPs SMTP server. Therefor this is not a PHP issue and really the most obvious (and best) place to ask is in the xampp support section of their website.