Send mail using php from HTML?

Question

Am trying to send mail from my html website using php function but didn't receive mail when website is in live. Is this correct way SMTP connection & remaining code ? Please help me to solve this. HTML Code(index.html)

    <div class="done">
    <div class="alert alert-success">
        <button type="button" class="close" data-dismiss="alert">×</button>
            Your message has been sent. Thank you!
        </div>
    </div>
    <form method="post" action="contact.php" id="contactform">
        <div class="form">
            <input class="col-md-12" type="text" name="name" placeholder="Name">
            <input class="col-md-12" type="text" name="email" placeholder="E-mail">
            <textarea class="col-md-12" name="comment" rows="3" placeholder="Message"></textarea>
            <input type="submit" id="submit" class="btn btn-default" value="Send">
        </div>
    </form>

PHP Code (contact.php)

<?php
    ob_start();

    $to = "username@gmail.com";
    $subject = "Quick Message- Subject";

    $Name=$_POST["name"];
    $Email=$_POST["mail"];
    $Message=$_POST["message"];

    $message = "Name : ".$Name.PHP_EOL.
    "Email Id : ".$Email.PHP_EOL.
    "Message : ".$Message.PHP_EOL;                  

    $from = "username@gmail.com";

    $headers = "From : " . $from;
    mail($to,$subject,$message,$headers);

    header('Location: http://newhtmlwebsite.net'); 
?>

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 10 '15 at 10:56

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You're mixing PHPMailer with the default php mailer.

First:

On your $mail variable from PHPMailer You're failing to add the address. This is done like the following:

$mail->addAddress('username@gamil.com', 'User Name');

You're also failing to add the subject to the $mail object

$mail->Subject = $subject;
$mail->Body = $Message;

Also the $mail From

$mail->From = 'your-mail-addres@gmail.com';

And finally, do remove the line

 $result=mail($to,$subject,$message,$header);

That line by itself is sending an email using the simple mail() function (not recommended)

Do remember to apply some kind of filtering to your $_POST variables before adding them straight into a mail

For more info on this visit: PHP Variable Filtering

answered Jun 10 '15 at 10:56

Sandman21dan

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Hi Thanks for your time, I edited php code can you check now that code is works ?? – Sri Jun 10 '15 at 11:17
The code I see on your question is still the same, so it doesn't work yet. – Sandman21dan Jun 10 '15 at 11:19
Sorry can you check now.. It updated now... in that php code from mail id & to mail id are same... is that any problem occurs ? – Sri Jun 10 '15 at 11:20
Well, you've got rid of the PHPMailer which yields better results, but should the code as you have it should be working, Not sure why you have an output buffer `ob_start();` at the beginning of your file. And be aware that this kind of mail sent by the `mail()` function has a tendency to go to the Spam folder quite often. So remember to check that. – Sandman21dan Jun 10 '15 at 11:29

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