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From: Dave Festing <dave_festing@hotmail.com>
To: ptxdist@pengutronix.de
Subject: [ptxdist] PTXdist PHP5 CLI mail()
Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2013 09:20:33 +0000 (UTC)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <loom.20130614T104727-646@post.gmane.org> (raw)

Have been struggling with trying to get PHP's mail() to work in PTXdist
2012.12.0

I can send email using PHP-CLI as follows:

#!/usr/bin/php5

<?php
mail('your_name@hotmail.com', 'Alarm!!', "High temperature", "From:
my_name@clear.net.nz \r\n");
?>

But, when I try to send email from within a PHP block in a webpage the mail
function does not run:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<title> Test mail function
</title>
</head>

<body>
<h2>Test mail function</h2>

<?php
if(mail('your_name@hotmail.com', 'Alarm!!', "High temperature", "From:
my_name@clear.net.nz \r\n"))
{
  echo "mail was sent";
}
else
{
  echo "there were errors";
}
?>

</body>
</html>

These both are in the same directory, same permissions and use the same
php.ini file.

In the rule file php5.in and for PHP5_SAPI_CLI the help states:
Build CLI (command line version) of PHP.

Does this mean one ends up with an unique version of PHP that has the added
feature of running CLI or does it mean that if you want to have a "normal"
version of PHP to use in webpages then you have to build a version without CLI?

The CLI version I ended up with seems to work in both BUT not for the mail()
function!

I have also tried PHPmailer and get an error:
Mailer Error: Could not instantiate mail function. 
This confirms to me that the mail() just does not run on the webpage.

Appreciate any suggestions as to the apparently fundamental mistake I am making.

Thanks,
Dave






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             reply	other threads:[~2013-06-14  9:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-06-14  9:20 Dave Festing [this message]
2013-06-20 10:04 ` Dave Festing
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2013-06-14 10:57 ` Dennis.Herbrich
2013-06-14 11:15   ` Dave Festing

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