So now my son is into PHP and so I bought a book for him, Head First PHP and MySQL and my son took the code and tried it. The main page is report.html.
report.html:-
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Aliens Abducted Me - Report an Abduction</title>
</head>
<body>
<h2>Aliens Abducted Me - Report an Abduction</h2>
<p>Share your story of alien abduction:</p>
<form method="post" action="report.php">
<label for="firstname">First name:</label>
<input type="text" id="firstname" name="firstname" /><br />
<label for="lastname">Last name:</label>
<input type="text" id="lastname" name="lastname" /><br />
<label for="email">What is your email address?</label>
<input type="text" id="email" name="email" /><br />
<label for="whenithappened">When did it happen?</label>
<input type="text" id="whenithappened" name="whenithappened" /><br />
<label for="howlong">How long were you gone?</label>
<input type="text" id="howlong" name="howlong" /><br />
<label for="howmany">How many did you see?</label>
<input type="text" id="howmany" name="howmany" /><br />
<label for="aliendescription">Describe them:</label>
<input type="text" id="aliendescription" name="aliendescription" size="32" /><br />
<label for="whattheydid">What did they do to you?</label>
<input type="text" id="whattheydid" name="whattheydid" size="32" /><br />
<label for="fangspotted">Have you seen my dog Fang?</label>
Yes <input id="fangspotted" name="fangspotted" type="radio" value="yes" />
No <input id="fangspotted" name="fangspotted" type="radio" value="no" /><br />
<label for="other">Anything else you want to add?</label>
<textarea id="other" name="other"></textarea><br />
<input type="submit" value="Report Abduction" name="submit" />
</form>
</body>
</html>
report.php:-
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Aliens Abducted Me - Report an Abduction</title>
</head>
<body>
<h2>Aliens Abducted Me - Report an Abduction</h2>
<?php
$name = $_POST['firstname'] . ' ' . $_POST['lastname'];
$when_it_happened = $_POST['whenithappened'];
$how_long = $_POST['howlong'];
$how_many = $_POST['howmany'];
$alien_description = $_POST['aliendescription'];
$what_they_did = $_POST['whattheydid'];
$fang_spotted = $_POST['fangspotted'];
$email = $_POST['email'];
$other = $_POST['other'];
$to = 'cadencerayn@yahoo.com';
$subject = 'Aliens Abducted Me - Abduction Report';
$msg = "$name was abducted $when_it_happened and was gone for $how_long.\n" .
"Number of aliens: $how_many\n" .
"Alien description: $alien_description\n" .
"What they did: $what_they_did\n" .
"Fang spotted: $fang_spotted\n" .
"Other comments: $other";
mail($to, $subject, $msg, 'From:' . $email);
echo 'Thanks for submitting the form.<br />';
echo 'You were abducted ' . $when_it_happened;
echo ' and were gone for ' . $how_long . '<br />';
echo 'Number of aliens: ' . $how_many . '<br />';
echo 'Describe them: ' . $alien_description . '<br />';
echo 'The aliens did this: ' . $what_they_did . '<br />';
echo 'Was Fang there? ' . $fang_spotted . '<br />';
echo 'Other comments: ' . $other . '<br />';
echo 'Your email address is ' . $email;
?>
</body>
</html>
And when he tries the page, all those echo statements take place, but above the statements, is this error message:-
( ! ) Warning: mail() [function.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:\wamp\www\report.php on line 30
Call Stack
# Time Memory Function Location
1 0.1019 379384 {main}( ) ..\report.php:0
2 0.1020 380536 mail ( ) ..\report.php:30
Tell me if you want my php.ini. I didn't include it here because it is awfully long.
How to solve the error? I also did not get any email.
P.S. I use WampServer.
