Sending Email with PHP

PHP
1

I am trying to send plain/text email to gmail using the following PHP code:

<?php
if(isset($_POST['email'])) {
				
       // EDIT THE 2 LINES BELOW AS REQUIRED
      $email_to = "example@gmail.com";
      $email_subject = "Sree Vizag Marketing-Tiles Enquiry";
													
													
      $first_name = $_POST['name']; // required
      $email_from = $_POST['email']; // required
      $phone = $_POST['phone']; // not required
      $comments = $_POST['comments']; // required
													
													
      $email_message .= "First Name: ".$first_name."\
\
";
      $email_message .= "Email: ".$email_from."\
\
";
      $email_message .= "Telephone: ".$phone."\
\
";
      $email_message .= "Comments: ".$comments."\
";

     //create email headers
      $headers = "From: $email_from";
      'Reply-To: '.$email_from."\\r\
" .
      'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion();
												
												
     $mail_sent = @mail($email_to, $email_subject, $email_message, $headers);

                                                                                                 
     echo $mail_sent ? "Mail sent" : "Mail failed";
}
?>

Using this code the email does not show up in the gmail inbox.Any kind help will be appreciated.

srinivas.

2

What happens when you run it? Do you see ‘mail sent’ or ‘mail failed’? Consider removing the @ from the mail() function, it might be suppressing a useful error message.

In any case, you form is vulnerable to email injection, and should be modified.

3

Nice spotting there. I suppose that should be a dot instead of a semi-colon :slight_smile:

4

Looks like you have a syntax error also. There is a semi-colon at the end of this line…

$headers = “From: $email_from”;

Doesn’t look like it should be there.