Trying to Send Email from a PHP Script

gecasti

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In my cPanel domain and account, I am creating a simple HTML and CSS business website that uses PHP to send an email notification to request an estimate or to contact the business.

I created a cPanel email account to handle these type of emails, which I am using in my php script with the corresponding uid and pwd.

Currently I have the HTML, CSS, and PHP all together in one file that I call estimate.php

PHP:
<?php
    [B]require_once "../php/Mail.php";[/B]
    require_once "../php/smtp.php";
    require_once "../php/Net/SMTP.php";
    
    $FirstName = $_POST['FirstName'];
    $LastName = $_POST['LastName'];
    $company = $_POST['company'];
    $email = $_POST['email'];
    $phone = $_POST['phone'];
    $formMessage = $_POST['message'];
    
    $to = '<username>@<mycpaneldomain.com>';
    
    $subject = '[TEST] Free Estimate or Quote Request';
    
    $headers = "From: " . strip_tags($_POST['email']) . "\r\n";
    $headers .= "Reply-To: ". strip_tags($_POST['email']) . "\r\n";
    $headers .= "CC: [email]<anotheremail>@yahoo.com[/email]\r\n";
    $headers .= "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";
    $headers .= "Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1\r\n";
    
    //Incoming and Outgoing Server <mail.hostname.com>
    $host = "ssl://<mail.hostname.com>";
    $port = "465";  //SMTP: Port 465    IMAP: Port 993    POP3: Port 995
    $username = "<estimate>@<mycpaneldomain.com>";
    $password = "<password>";
     
     $smtp = Mail::factory('smtp', array ('host' => $host, 'port' => $port, 'auth' => true, 'username' => $username, 'password' => $password));
     $mail = $smtp->send($to, $headers, $body);
     
     if(PEAR::isError($mail)) {
          echo("<p>" . $mail->getMessage() . "</p>");
     } else {
          echo("<p>Message successfully sent!</p>");
     }
?>
</head>
     <body>
          <div class="wrapper">
               <header>
	       ........................
               </header>
			........................
					<form method="post" action="estimate.php">
						<fieldset>
						<legend><h3>Free Estimate or Quote</h3></legend>
							<p>
								<label class="title" for="FirstName">First Name:</label>
								<i>*</i>
								<input type="text" name="FirstName" id="FirstName" size="300" maxlength="400" title="Enter your first name.">
								<br />
								<label class="title" for="LastName">Last Name:</label>
								<i>*</i>
								<input type="text" name="LastName" id="LastName" size="300" maxlength="400" title="Enter your last name.">
								<br />
								<label class="title" for="company">Company:</label>
								<i>*</i>
								<input type="text" name="company" id="company" size="300" maxlength="400" title="What's the name of your company or organization?">
								<br />
								<label class="title" for="email">Your email:</label>
								<i>*</i>
								<input type="text" name="email" id="email" size="300" maxlength="400" title="Enter your email address.">
								<br />
								<label class="title" for="phone">Phone:</label>
								<i>*</i>
								<input type="text" name="phone" id="phone" size="300" maxlength="400" title="Enter your phone number.">
								<br />
								<label for="message">Question(s) and/or Comment(s):</label>
								<textarea name="message" id="message" cols="72" rows="5" title="Enter your questions and/or comments."></textarea>
							</p>
							<div class="submit"><input type="submit" id="submit" value="GET IT NOW" /></div>
						</fieldset>
					</form>





My html, images, php, and css files are in the .../www directory and the installed PHP extensions and apps are in the .../php directory

Note that my cpanel setup from pear.php.net already has the following Installed PHP Extension(s) and Application(s)
<> Auth_SASL 1.0.6
<> Mail 1.2.0
<> Net_SMTP 1.6.2
<> Net_Socket 1.0.14


To me it seems like I have everything I need, I just need to link or glue all the pieces together. When I try to go to the estimate.php page via an IE web browser I get the following error:

Code:
Warning: require_once(../php/smtp.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in ../public_html/estimate.php on line 49
 
Fatal error: require_once() [function.require]: Failed opening required '../php/smtp.php' (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in <mycpanle_home_root>/public_html/estimate.php on line 49

Line 49 would be require_once "../php/Mail.php"; It can't find the php/Mail.php file, but is there...

It seems like the 'ROOT_PATH' is Not defined; I can't find the php.ini file and I don't know how to define the 'ROOT_PATH'.
 

HSN-Saman

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Line 49 would be require_once "../php/Mail.php"; It can't find the php/Mail.php file, but is there...
You may check the permission and owner of those file that are not accessible by your application.
 
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cPanelMichael

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Hello :)

You may want to try using the full path to the included files. EX:

Code:
/home/$username/public_html/path/to/file.php
The php.ini file is stored at /usr/local/lib/php.ini by default. If you do not have root access, you can create your own php.ini file in /home/$username if your host uses a PHP handler that supports it.

Thank you.
 

gecasti

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cPanelMichael,

I am pass that problem, now I need to configure PHP to use that mail server as its primary mail server. Where can I find the php.ini file so I can set the following options:
<> SMTP — The hostname of your SMTP server; default is localhost
<> smtp_port — The port for your SMTP server; default is 25
<> sendmail_from — The name and email to set for the from header
<> sendmail_path — Path to sendmail or a sendmail-capable utility

Currently I am getting the following failure:
authentication failure [SMTP: Invalid response code received from server (code: 535, response: Incorrect authentication data)]

Please advise, thanks.
 

cPanelMichael

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Those values should be configured in your PHP script and not in the php.ini file. I recommend consulting with your web hosting provider for assistance because they can review the existing php.ini file if necessary, or troubleshoot the 535 error.

Thank you.