not receiving emails expected
davjoh
$send_to[] = "davj...@yahoo.com";
$send_to[] = "produ...@advisiongraphics.com";
$send_to[] = "advision...@mac.com";
// send email
foreach ($send_to as $dest)
mail($dest,$email_subject,$message,$header); //This line NOT
working
//expecting it to send email to all the above addresses assigned to
$send_to[] array. Is it because values have not been added to $dest
and if so how to do
mail($r["email"],$email_subject,$message,$header); //This line
working
Jerry Stuckle
Nope, but you haven't told us enough about your problem. For instance,
what's the response from the mail() call? What's in $header?
Are you suer it isn't going into a spam black hole somewhere? Are you
trying to send too many emails too quickly, and therefore upsetting your
MTA?
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davjoh
> davjoh wrote:
> > The following describes the problem I am having. Can anyone help?
>
> > $send_to[] = "product...@advisiongraphics.com";
> > $send_to[] = "advision_gali...@mac.com";
>
> > // send email
> > foreach ($send_to as $dest)
>
> > mail($dest,$email_subject,$message,$header); //This line NOT
> > working
> > //expecting it to send email to all the above addresses assigned to
> > $send_to[] array. Is it because values have not been added to $dest
> > and if so how to do
>
> > mail($r["email"],$email_subject,$message,$header); //This line
> > working
>
> Nope, but you haven't told us enough about your problem. For instance,
> what's the response from the mail() call? What's in $header?
>
> Are you suer it isn't going into a spam black hole somewhere? Are you
> trying to send too many emails too quickly, and therefore upsetting your
> MTA?
>
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> Jerry Stuckle
> JDS Computer Training Corp.
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>
> - Show quoted text -
This is what is in the header
// build headers
$header = sprintf("From: %s\n",$email_from);
Not sure what you mean by response to mail() call.
davjoh
> > The following describes the problem I am having. Can anyone help?
>
> > $send_to[] = "product...@advisiongraphics.com";
> > $send_to[] = "advision_gali...@mac.com";
>
> > foreach ($send_to as $dest)
>
> > mail($dest,$email_subject,$message,$header); //This line NOT
> > working
> > //expecting it to send email to all the above addresses assigned to
> > $send_to[] array. Is it because values have not been added to $dest
> > and if so how to do
>
> > mail($r["email"],$email_subject,$message,$header); //This line
> > working
>
> Nope, but you haven't told us enough about your problem. For instance,
> what's the response from the mail() call? What's in $header?
>
> Are you suer it isn't going into a spam black hole somewhere? Are you
> trying to send too many emails too quickly, and therefore upsetting your
> MTA?
>
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> Jerry Stuckle
> JDS Computer Training Corp.
Here is some more code related to the header
if (!empty($mail_page))
{
// build headers
$header .= "MIME-Version: 1.0\n";
$header .= "Content-Type: text/html\n";
ob_start();
include($mail_page);
$message = ob_get_contents();
ob_end_clean();
$message .= "\n";
}
else
{
// build email
$message = "";
$message .= sprintf("Subject: %s\n",$subject);
$message .= "\n";
$message .= sprintf("Date: %s\n",$r["adate"]);
$message .= sprintf("Company: %s\n",$r["company"]);
$message .= sprintf("First Name: %s\n",$r["firstname"]);
$message .= sprintf("Last Name: %s\n",$r["lastname"]);
$message .= sprintf("Email: %s\n",$r["email"]);
$message .= sprintf("Phone: %s\n",$r["tel_phone"]);
$message .= "\n";
$message .= sprintf("Mailing: %s\n",$r["mailing"]);
$message .= "\n";
$message .= sprintf("Comments:\n",$r["comments"]);
$message .= sprintf("%s\n",$r["comments"]);
$message .= "\n";
}
Jerry Stuckle
mail() is a function call. It has a return code indicating whether the
email was passed on to your MTA or not.
What's that response?
The first step is to see if it even made it to the mta.
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Jerry Stuckle
And don't try to fool with html to start. Get it to work with plain
text, first.
And when you do send html email, you should always have a plain text
mime type for those who have text email readers (or choose to disable
html email).
Also, some spam filters will block email which has just html.
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davjoh
It appears this is the solution.
The php.ini file needed 'short tags on' enabled to read the
array correctly.
Jerry Stuckle
No, short tags has nothing to do with reading arrays. And nothing
you've posted here indicates a problem with short tags.
Also, you should not be depending on short_tags being on. Even Zend
talks about that.
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davjoh
if I echo the results of reading the array could that help in
determining the problem?
Jerry Stuckle
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>
> if I echo the results of reading the array could that help in
> determining the problem?
>
It could. But more importantly, where is the data coming from? and
what does it look like there?
And when dealing with objects and arrays, it's generally better to do
something like:
echo "<pre>\n";
print_r ($var);
echo "</pre>\n";
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davjoh
The data is hard coded into the file
$send_to[] = "davjoh...@yahoo.com";
$send_to[] = "product...@advisiongraphics.com";
$send_to[] = "advision_gali...@mac.com";
// send email
This is the whole file:
<?php
// Copyright 2004-2007 J.F. Aubertin & AdVision Multimedia
Productions, all rights reserved.
//----------------------------------------------------------
//------------[ Config ]------------------------------------
//----------------------------------------------------------
$thanks_page = "contact_us_thanks.php";
$form_page = "contact_us_form.php";
$mail_page = "contact_us_email.php";
$send_to[] = "davj...@yahoo.com";
$send_to[] = "webm...@cliffhousecottages.com";
//$send_to[] = "in...@cliffhousecottages.com";
$email_subject = "Cliffhouse & Treehouse Accommodations - Thank you
for contacting us!";
$email_from = "reserv...@cliffhousecottages.com";
$db_table = "clifftree_requests";
//----------------------------------------------------------
//------------[ Setup ]-------------------------------------
//----------------------------------------------------------
include_once("fdb_conf.php");
include_once("flib/txt2htm.php");
if (empty($vars)) $vars=$HTTP_POST_VARS;
if (empty($vars)) $vars=$HTTP_GET_VARS;
if (empty($vars)) $vars=$_POST;
//----------------------------------------------------------
//------------[ Main Code ]---------------------------------
//----------------------------------------------------------
if (empty($vars))
{
include($form_page); exit();
}
else
{
//if (empty($vars["company"])) $err_msg[] = "Company required.";
if (empty($vars["firstname"])) $err_msg[] = "First Name Required.";
if (empty($vars["lastname"])) $err_msg[] = "Last Name Required.";
if (empty($vars["email"])) $err_msg[] = "Email Required.";
if (empty($vars["tel_phone"])) $err_msg[] = "Telephone Number
Required.";
//if (empty($vars["street"])) $err_msg[] = "Street required.";
//if (empty($vars["city"])) $err_msg[] = "City required.";
//if (empty($vars["prov"])) $err_msg[] = "Prov/State
required.";
//if (empty($vars["postal"])) $err_msg[] = "Postal Code
required.";
//if (empty($vars["country"])) $err_msg[] = "Country required.";
$str="sdate"; if (!checkdate($vars[$str."_month"],$vars[$str."_day"],
$vars[$str."_year"])) $err_msg[] = "Valid appointment date
required";
$str="xdate"; if (!checkdate($vars[$str."_month"],$vars[$str."_day"],
$vars[$str."_year"])) $err_msg[] = "Valid appointment date
required";
$str="ldate"; if (!checkdate($vars[$str."_month"],$vars[$str."_day"],
$vars[$str."_year"])) $err_msg[] = "Valid appointment date
required";
if (count($err_msg) > 0)
{
include($form_page); exit();
}
else
{
$str="sdate";
$vars[$str] = sprintf("%04d.%02d.%02d",$vars[$str."_year"],
$vars[$str."_month"],$vars[$str."_day"]);
$sdate = mktime(0,0,0,$vars[$str."_month"],$vars[$str."_day"],
$vars[$str."_year"]);
$str="xdate";
$vars[$str] = sprintf("%04d.%02d.%02d",$vars[$str."_year"],
$vars[$str."_month"],$vars[$str."_day"]);
$xdate = mktime(0,0,0,$vars[$str."_month"],$vars[$str."_day"],
$vars[$str."_year"]);
$str="ldate";
$vars[$str] = sprintf("%04d.%02d.%02d",$vars[$str."_year"],
$vars[$str."_month"],$vars[$str."_day"]);
$ldate = mktime(0,0,0,$vars[$str."_month"],$vars[$str."_day"],
$vars[$str."_year"]);
// -- Begin Prepare Insert -------- //
$ff=array();
$ff[]="firstname";
$ff[]="lastname";
$ff[]="tel_phone";
$ff[]="email";
$ff[]="accommodation";
$ff[]="sdate_month";
$ff[]="sdate_day";
$ff[]="sdate_year";
$ff[]="xdate_month";
$ff[]="xdate_day";
$ff[]="xdate_year";
$ff[]="ldate_month";
$ff[]="ldate_day";
$ff[]="ldate_year";
$ff[]="diet_requirements";
$ff[]="comments";
$r = array();
foreach ($ff as $x)
$r[$x]=$vars[$x];
// -- End Prepare Insert ---------- //
// add to db, show thanks page
$r["uid"] = sprintf("%010d",fcounter2($db_type,$db,
$db_table,"1000000000"));
$r["adate"] = date("Y.m.d");
$r["atime"] = date("H.i");
$r["mdate"] = date("Y.m.d");
$r["mtime"] = date("H.i");
fdb_insert($db_type,$db,$db_table,$r);
// build headers
$header = sprintf("From: %s\n",$email_from);
if (!empty($mail_page))
// send email
foreach ($send_to as $dest)
mail($dest,$email_subject,$message,$header);
echo "$dest.\" \".$email_subject.\" \".$message.\" \".$header
\n"; //test code 09/27/07
mail($r["email"],$email_subject,$message,$header);
include($thanks_page);
}
}
//----------------------------------------------------------
//------------[ Functions ]---------------------------------
//----------------------------------------------------------
function fcheckbox($name,$value)
{
global $vars;
if ($vars[$name] == $value)
return " checked";
return "";
}
//----------------------------------------------------------
//------------[ End ]---------------------------------------
//----------------------------------------------------------
?>
Jerry Stuckle
> On Sep 30, 9:00 pm, Jerry Stuckle <jstuck...@attglobal.net> wrote:
>> davjohwrote:
>>> On Sep 30, 11:01 am, Jerry Stuckle <jstuck...@attglobal.net> wrote:
>> It could. But more importantly, where is the data coming from? and
>> what does it look like there?
>>
>
OK, a few things. If you have to have the file, instead of using
include_once(), use require_once(). And what are in these files? Do
they perhaps use short tags?
You should use $_POST and $_GET instead of HTTP_POST_VARS and
HTTP_GET_VARS. The former are superglobals, the latter are not.
What's the purpose of this?
ob_start();
include($mail_page);
$message = ob_get_contents();
ob_end_clean();
Including the file will display anything displayable, anyway.
Also, you have a lot of other stuff going on - database, etc.
Is this running on a test sever? If so, you should be running with
display_errors=on
error_reporting=E_ALL
in your php.ini file.
If this is a production server, the above is not a good idea. But you
can do the same thing by putting at the top of your script:
ini_set("display_errors", "1");
ini_set("error_reporting", E_ALL);
If you still can't see anything wrong, strip it down to the bare
minimums and try to get it working. It will be much easier to debug,
and once you get that working, you can add features and ensure it keeps
working.
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davjoh
> davjoh wrote:
> > On Sep 30, 9:00 pm, Jerry Stuckle <jstuck...@attglobal.net> wrote:
> >> davjohwrote:
> >>> On Sep 30, 11:01 am, Jerry Stuckle <jstuck...@attglobal.net> wrote:
> >> It could. But more importantly, where is the data coming from? and
> >> what does it look like there?
>
> > The data is hard coded into the file
>
> > $send_to[] = "davjoh...@yahoo.com";
> > $send_to[] = "product...@advisiongraphics.com";
> > $send_to[] = "advision_gali...@mac.com";
>
> > // send email
>
> > This is the whole file:
>
> > <?php
> > // Copyright 2004-2007 J.F. Aubertin & AdVision Multimedia
> > Productions, all rights reserved.
> > //----------------------------------------------------------
> > //------------[ Config ]------------------------------------
> > //----------------------------------------------------------
>
> > $thanks_page = "contact_us_thanks.php";
> > $form_page = "contact_us_form.php";
> > $mail_page = "contact_us_email.php";
>
> > $send_to[] = "webmas...@cliffhousecottages.com";
> > //$send_to[] = "i...@cliffhousecottages.com";
> > $email_subject = "Cliffhouse & Treehouse Accommodations - Thank you
> > for contacting us!";
It appears all the emails that should have been sent, were. It just
took 3 days to get to the destination.
Jerry Stuckle
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>>
>> - Show quoted text -
>
> It appears all the emails that should have been sent, were. It just
> took 3 days to get to the destination.
>
I guess it's true - while electricity moves at the speed of light,
electrons move at 1-2 inches/second.
:-)
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