Member Avatar for david.roun.7_1

I have a webiste and would like to send an email to someone, and myself, when they request their lost password. For some reason, I can't get the mail() function to work, no matter what I do. I unsuccessfully tried to model it after the listserv I created and am at a loss. Please help if you can.

<!DOCTYPE html>
<title></title>
<head></head>
<body>
<?php
require_once('connect.php');

$user=mysql_real_escape_string($_REQUEST['lin']);
$subject='Rounsworld lost information';
$from='Password retrieval at rounsworld.com';
$headers="From:" . $from;

$result=mysql_query("SELECT login,password FROM demo WHERE Name='$user'") or die(mysql_error());
$mresult=mysql_query("SELECT email FROM maillist WHERE name='$user'") or die(mysql_error());
$row=mysql_fetch_array($result);
$mrow=mysql_fetch_array($mresult);
$message= 'Your login id is ' . $row['login'] . '<br>' . 'Your password is ' . $row['password'];

mail('roun@rounsworld.com',$subject,$headers,$message);
mail($mrow['email'],$subject,$headers,$message);

echo 'Your request has been sent to the email address on file.  If you do not receive an email, please let me know <br>';

?>
</body>
</html>
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Member Avatar for diafol

Before anything else, why do you want to email yourself? Can't you log it somewhere else?

Is this a local site or is it live on a host?

Edited by diafol
Member Avatar for david.roun.7_1

I just want a copy of the lost password request so I can ask the person if they really did send it or if someone else did. It's a small live site that only my family goes on. I used to use the security from the host but I'm trying to learn more about doing it myself (starting to look at .ht access).

Member Avatar for david.roun.7_1

I think the problem is in the '$mrow['email']' command. When I take that out, it sends the email to me, it's just not selecting the email address from the database.

Member Avatar for Lsmjudoka

Not sure if this is exactly the issue but it appears your 3rd and 4th paramaters are backwards. See http://us3.php.net/manual/en/function.mail.php
bool mail ( string $to , string $subject , string $message [, string $additional_headers [, string $additional_parameters ]] )

$message should go before $headers. If you think $mrow['email'] is the problem, try echoing out the value of that right before the mail() function and see what it says.

Also on a security side note, storing passwords in plaintext is generally regarded as bad practice. They should be in a hashed/encrypted form and you should be giving the users a token to reset the password.

Member Avatar for david.roun.7_1

It doesn't echo anything and I don't get any error messages, it's just ignoring the email address. I'm learning about encryption and other securities.

Member Avatar for david.roun.7_1

I got it. I had an error in the database so the php file didn't find a match. Feel kinda stupid I didn't catch it earlier.

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