PHP - Php Mail Sending Form Not Arriving In "all" Mailboxes. Smtp Problem ?

Hi guys

I am a newbie with PHP and I have been trying to solve this problem for 3 days..

Ive set up a booking form on my website to be sent directly to my email once the client clicked on the send button..
The problem I am having while checking these pages on wamp is that the booking form is ok but when I click on the send button the following message error appears
"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\fluffy_paws\booking_form2.php on line 27"

When I check online I have this message "500 - Internal server error.
There is a problem with the resource you are looking for, and it cannot be displayed."

Are my codes wrong???

My webhosting is Blacknight.com , Im on Windows Vista, my internet is a dongle with O2 ireland

Thanks for your help!

I have a registration form on my website and after Registration I want the user to activate first his account. I don't have problem on sending this email to the user. What I want to appear is like this..

GoodDay "username",

Blah Blah!

how can you actually do that? I know that you can do that through session variables but the thing is email's can't accept scripts on sending emails. how can I get the value from a session variable for example and convert it to plain html text so that i can OUTPUT it to the email.. HELP PLEASE!

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http://www.phpfreaks.com/forums/index.php?topic=347922.0

Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at )  on line 179
 I labeled 179 its at the bottom.
I understand this means its already generating the html but not how or where.  A solution would of course be nice but if some one could tell me even how to figure it out it would be great.

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<?php

if(isset($_POST['email'])) {
   



// EDIT THE 2 LINES BELOW AS REQUIRED
    $email_to = "test@test.com";
    $email_subject = "$mile";
    
     
    function died($error) {
        // your error code can go here
        echo "We are very sorry, but there were error(s) found with the form you submitted. ";
        echo "These errors appear below.<br /><br />";
        echo $error."<br /><br />";
        echo "Please go back and fix these errors.<br /><br />";
        die();
    }
    
     /*"trail_section_mile", float dash
    "trail_section_name", #9()alphanumeric
    "name",
    "date"auto date
    "email",same
    "telephone" same
    "trail_condition" no validation just sanitize size limit
    "attention_area"   no validation just sanitize size limit
    "under_20"          no validation just sanitize size limit
    "_20_54"          no validation just sanitize size limit
    "_55_over"          no validation just sanitize size limit
    */
 if(!isset($_POST['trail_section_mile']) ) {
        died('1');      
    } 
    if(!isset($_POST['trail_section_name']) ) {
        died('2');      
    }
    if(!isset($_POST['name']) ) {
        died('3');      
    } 
    if(!isset($_POST['email']) ) {
        died('4');      
    }
    if(!isset($_POST['telephone']) ) {
        died('5');      
    } 
    if(!isset($_POST['trail_condition']) ) {
        died('6');   
    }
       if(!isset($_POST['attention_area']) ) {
        died('7');   
    }
    if(!isset($_POST['under_20']) ) {
        died('8');      
    } 
    if(!isset($_POST['_20_54']) ) {
        died('9');      
    }
    if(!isset($_POST['_55_over']) ) {
        died('0');      
    } 
   
      if(!isset($_POST['total_hours']) ) {
        died('011');      
    }
    
    //comments field is a honeypot
    
      require ('Validate.php');
$email = $_REQUEST['email'];
$validate = new Validate();
if (!Validate::email($email, array('check_domain' => true, 'use_rfc822' =>true))) {
  echo "Invalid email";
}
      
    
    $trail_section_mile = $_POST['trail_section_mile']; // required
    $trail_section_name = $_POST['trail_section_name']; // required
   $name = $_POST['name']; // required
   $email = $_POST['email']; // required
   $telephone = $_POST['telephone']; // required
   $trail_condition = $_POST['trail_condition']; // required
    $attention_area = $_POST['attention_area']; // required
   $under_20 = $_POST['under_20'];
   $_20_54 = $_POST['_20_54'];
   $_55_over = $_POST['_55_over'];
   $_55_over = $_POST['total_hours'];
    // required
 
 if (preg_match('/[\d\D\b\B\s\S]/', $comments)) {
    echo "nope";
}
   
if (!preg_match("/([\w\.\#\-\,]{1,30})+/", $trail_section_mile)) 
{echo "please enter the section mile markers again only numbers, decimals dashes and # are aloud";
}

if (!preg_match("/[a-z'-]+/", $trail_section_name)) {
    echo "Try your last name again.";
}

if (!preg_match("/[a-z'-]+/", $name)) {   
    echo "please re-type your address.";
}

 if (!preg_match("/^\(?([0-9]{3})\)?[-. ]?([0-9]{3})[-. ]?([0-9]{4})$/i", $telephone))
 {
    echo "Something is wrong with the phone number you intered. Please enter your area code first then ther rest of tyour number.";
}

   
 if (( preg_match( "/[\r\n]/", $first_name ) || 
 preg_match( "/[\r\n]/", $email ) || 
 preg_match( "/[\r\n]/", $last_name) ) || 
 preg_match( "/[\r\n]/", $state)) {

   echo "nope";

}
  
    $trail_section_mile = strip_tags($trail_section_mile);
    $trail_section_name = strip_tags($trail_section_name);
   $name  =strip_tags($name);
   $email = strip_tags($email);
   $telephone = strip_tags($telephone);
   $trail_condition = strip_tags($trail_condition);
    $attention_area = strip_tags($attention_area);
    $under_20 = strip_tags($under_20);
   $_20_54 = strip_tags($_20_54);
   $_55_over = strip_tags($_55_over);
    $total_hours = strip_tags($total_hours);
   
   
   $trail_section_mile = htmlspecialchars($trail_section_mile);
    $trail_section_name = htmlspecialchars($trail_section_name);
   $name = htmlspecialchars($name);
   $email = htmlspecialchars($email);
   $telephone = htmlspecialchars($telephone);
   $trail_condition = htmlspecialchars($trail_condition);
    $attention_area = htmlspecialchars($attention_area);
    $under_20 = htmlspecialchars($under_20);
   $under_20 = htmlspecialchars($_20_54);
   $_55_over = htmlspecialchars($_55_over);
    $total_hours = htmlspecialchars($total_hours);
    
   
  
    $email_message = "Form details below.\n\n";
       $email_message = date("m/d/Y") . "\n";

    function clean_string($string) {
      $bad = array("content-type","bcc:","to:","cc:","href");
      return str_replace($bad,"",$string);
    }
     
    $email_message .= "Trail Section Mile Markers: ".clean_string($trail_section_mile)."\n";
    $email_message .= "Trail Section Name : ".clean_string($trail_section_name)."\n";
   $email_message .= "Reported by: ".clean_string($name)."\n";
   $email_message .= "Email Address: ".clean_string($email)."\n";
   $email_message .= "Telephone Number: ".clean_string($telephone)."\n";
   $email_message .= "General Trail Condition : ".clean_string($trail_condition)."\n";
    $email_message .= "Mile #/Problem/Suggested Improvements: ".clean_string($attention_area)."\n";
    $email_message .= "Volunteers Under Age 20 #Males/#Females/Ethnicity/Name: ".clean_string($under_20)."\n";
    $email_message .= "   
Volunteers Ages 20 to 54 #Males/#Females/Ethnicity/Name: ".clean_string($_20_54)."\n";
        $email_message .= "Volunteers Age 55+ #Males/#Females/Ethnicity/Name: ".clean_string($_55_over)."\n";
    $email_message .= "Total Volunteer Hours: ".clean_string($total_hours)."\n";

   
     $about ="Maintenance Report from" .$name. "/n";
     
// create email headers
$headers = 'Subject : '.$about."/r/n"
.'From: '.$email."\r\n"
.'Reply-To: '.$email."\r\n" .
'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion();
header("Location: oht/maintenance/maintenance-report/thank-you/");                              //line 179
@mail($email_to, $email_subject, $email_message, $headers); 
?>

<?php
}
?>


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Can someone please help me with an array problem i can not figure out.

I need the array to be numbered from 1 to how ever many fields that are needed in the form and have a mysql field name and the title of the field also in the array.

1, "mysql_field_name", "Title of form field"
2, "", ""

and so on

then the form will be shown based on the array.

I have the following draft code which I am working with.

any suggestions on how i may do this array ?

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<?php
$options = array(
'1'=> array('fieldtext'=>'option1', 'mysqlfield'=>'option1'),
'2'=> array('fieldtext'=>'option2', 'mysqlfield'=>'option2'),
'3'=> array('fieldtext'=>'option3', 'mysqlfield'=>'option3'),
'4'=> array('fieldtext'=>'option4', 'mysqlfield'=>'option4'),
);


// $options = array(1 => "option1", "option2", "option3", "option4");

// the line above works but i want to include the name of the mysql field as well.

$userid = 1;

?>
<div style="align: center; margin: 12px; font-family:Tahoma;">
<br><br><?php
if ($_POST['Update'] != "Update") { // check if form submitted yet, if not get data from mysql.
$res = db_query("SELECT * FROM `users` WHERE `userid` = '" . $userid . "'");
foreach($options as $key => $value) { $_POST[$key] = mysql_result($res, 0, $value); }
$ok_to_update = "no";
} elseif ($_POST['Update'] == "Update") { // check if form submitted yet, if so get POST data.
// error checking
// foreach($options as $key => $value) {
// $_POST[$i] = "";
// }
$ok_to_update = "yes";
}

if ($_POST['Update'] == "Update" && $ok_to_update == "yes") {
// $res = db_query("INSERT INTO `users` () VALUES ()"); // add user details to database.
?><p><br><br><br>Thank you for updating</p><?php
} else {
?><form name="form1" method="post" action="">
<?php foreach($options as $key => $value) {
?><p><?php echo($value); ?>:&nbsp;<input type="text" name="<?php echo($key); ?>" value="<?php echo($_POST[$key]);?>"></p>
<?php } ?>
<input name="Update" type="submit" value="Update">
</form>
<?php } ?>
</div>