I have a contact form on my website that I want to be able to send emails to a certain address. I have followed this tutorial, but I can't get it to work. As a comment under that post stated, I'm using XamPP and can skip step 1, 2, 9 and 10. My website is running on localhost port :8080. The only thing I think it can be, is the fact that I can't find one of the files I should edit, according to that post I mentioned. That file is located (for him) here: wamp\bin\apache\apache[version here]\bin\php.ini. As I'm using XamPP, I don't have that location.
Below is my sendmail.ini file, located here: xampp\sendmail\sendmail.ini. I'm not sure if I have to edit more things to this or not, I have tried changing the localhost to localhost:8080, as I'm using port 8080 like I said. Also note that I have deleted the comments that are in the file, so it's easier to read. I've also changed a bit where my email and password should be, for obvious reasons.
[sendmail]
smtp_server=mail.gmail.com
smtp_port=465
smtp_ssl=ssl
default_domain=localhost:8080
error_logfile=error.log
debug_logfile=debug.log
auth_username= emailaddress
auth_password= mypassword
;pop3_server=
;pop3_username=
;pop3_password=
;force_sender=
;force_recipient=
hostname= localhost:8080
Here is my php.ini file, located here: xampp\php\php.ini. This is not the same file that i couldn't find, the one in the apache folder. I have only put the relevant (I think) bit of the file here, as this is the only thing that I have changed.
[mail function]
; For Win32 only.
; http://php.net/smtp
SMTP=localhost:443
; http://php.net/smtp-port
smtp_port=465
; For Win32 only.
; http://php.net/sendmail-from
;sendmail_from = me@example.com
; For Unix only. You may supply arguments as well (default: "sendmail -t -i").
; http://php.net/sendmail-path
sendmail_path = "C:\xampp\sendmail\sendmail.exe -t -i"
Finally, here is my php code that executes the contact form. I get the following error message when executing it: Warning: mail(): Failed to connect to mailserver at "localhost" port 25, verify your "SMTP" and "smtp_port" setting in php.ini or use ini_set() in C:\xampp\htdocs\Portfolio\contact_backend.php on line 49
Er ging iets mis, probeer het nog eens. (this is my own set error message)
<?php
if($_POST) {
$visitor_name = "";
$visitor_email = "";
$email_title = "";
$concerned_department = "";
$visitor_message = "";
$email_body = "<div>";
if(isset($_POST['visitor_name'])) {
$visitor_name = filter_var($_POST['visitor_name'], FILTER_SANITIZE_STRING);
$email_body .= "<div>
<label><b>Visitor Name:</b></label> <span>".$visitor_name."</span>
</div>";
}
if(isset($_POST['visitor_email'])) {
$visitor_email = str_replace(array("\r", "\n", "%0a", "%0d"), '',
$_POST['visitor_email']);
$visitor_email = filter_var($visitor_email, FILTER_VALIDATE_EMAIL);
$email_body .= "<div>
<label><b>Visitor Email:</b></label> <span>".$visitor_email."
</span>
</div>";
}
if(isset($_POST['email_title'])) {
$email_title = filter_var($_POST['email_title'], FILTER_SANITIZE_STRING);
$email_body .= "<div>
<label><b>Reason For Contacting Us:</b></label>
<span>".$email_title."</span>
</div>";
}
if(isset($_POST['visitor_message'])) {
$visitor_message = htmlspecialchars($_POST['visitor_message']);
$email_body .= "<div>
<label><b>Visitor Message:</b></label>
<div>".$visitor_message."</div>
</div>";
}
$recipient = "martinboersma55@gmail.com";
$email_body .= "</div>";
$headers = 'MIME-Version: 1.0' . "\r\n"
.'Content-type: text/html; charset=utf-8' . "\r\n"
.'From: ' . $visitor_email . "\r\n";
if(mail($recipient, $email_title, $email_body, $headers)) {
echo "<p>Bedankt voor het sturen van het bericht, $visitor_name. Er wordt zsm naar
gekeken.</p>";
} else {
echo '<p>Er ging iets mis, probeer het nog eens.</p>';
}
} else {
echo '<p>Er ging iets mis, probeer het nog eens.</p>';
}
?>
So to sum it all up, I'm trying to make a working contact form on my localhost, that runs on port :8080. I get the error message I mentioned above and I'm not sure what I'm supposed to do. I followed the tutorial from another post I found, the link is on the top of this question.
