PHP - Php No Emails Are Received

I am using rawurlencode for my urls, like this: 

I have a site that allows people to register for a fee. It is a very basic form asking for name and contact info. After they fill out the form and submit it, they are brought to paypal to make their payment. After paying, the form data is sent to the admin and to the customer. What is very strange is the form seems to work perfectly most of the time, except sometimes: 1. the email is not received by the admin (not sure if the buyer is getting their copy though). 2. if multiple email addresses in the admin settings to receive it (comma separated), sometimes some receive it, but some do not!   The owner of the site said they do check their spam and we've tried different email addresses for the admin (gmail, outlook, yahoo, etc..) and it has occurred on all of them, no rhyme or reason.   Do you see anything wrong with my form below that would have this intermittent issue?   Also, anyone suggest how I can add headers to this so that the 'from' won't default to the host server name?   The file admin.php contains the email variable $admin_email

<?php
require '../admin.php';
session_start();
if (!isset($_SESSION['order_id']) || empty($_SESSION['order_id'])) {
	header('Location: ../../');
}

// admin email
mail($admin_email, 'Website form submitted', 'Visitor information.
Registration: ' . $_SESSION['order_id']."\r\n".'
First Name: ' .$_SESSION['fname'].'
Last Name: ' .$_SESSION['lname'].'
Email: ' .$_SESSION['email'].'
Phone: ' .$_SESSION['phone']);

// visitor email
$to = $_SESSION['email'];
mail($to, 'Thank you for registering', 'Review your submission below.
Please contact us if you need further assistance.
Registration: ' . $_SESSION['order_id']."\r\n".'
First Name: ' .$_SESSION['fname'].'
Last Name: ' .$_SESSION['lname'].'
Email: ' .$_SESSION['email'].'
Phone: ' .$_SESSION['phone']);

session_destroy();
?>

Hello all,

I am having a bit of trouble with this contact form. Everything submits fine, errors work and all but the information isn't sent to my inbox. Can anyone point out where the problem is? Thanks in advance!

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if(isset($_POST['Email_Address'])) {

include 'free_settings.php';

function died($error) {
echo "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();
}

if(!isset($_POST['Full_Name']) ||
!isset($_POST['Email_Address']) ||
!isset($_POST['Your_Message'])) {
died('We are sorry, but there appears to be a problem with the form you submitted.');
}

$full_name = $_POST['Full_Name']; // required
$email_from = $_POST['Email_Address']; // required
$comments = $_POST['Your_Message']; // required

$error_message = "";
$email_exp = '/^[A-Za-z0-9._%-]+@[A-Za-z0-9.-]+\.[A-Za-z]{2,4}$/';
  if(preg_match($email_exp,$email_from)==0) {
  $error_message .= 'The Email Address you entered does not appear to be valid.<br />';
  }
  if(strlen($full_name) < 2) {
  $error_message .= 'Your Name does not appear to be valid.<br />';
  }
  if(strlen($comments) < 2) {
  $error_message .= 'The Comments you entered do not appear to be valid.<br />';
  }
 
  if(strlen($error_message) > 0) {
  died($error_message);
  }
$email_message = "Form details below.\r\n";

function clean_string($string) {
  $bad = array("content-type","bcc:","to:","cc:","href");
  return str_replace($bad,"",$string);
}

$email_message .= "Full Name: ".clean_string($full_name)."\r\n";
$email_message .= "Email: ".clean_string($email_from)."\r\n";
$email_message .= "Message: ".clean_string($comments)."\r\n";

$headers = 'From: '.$email_from."\r\n".
'Reply-To: '.$email_from."\r\n" .
'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion();
@mail($email_to, $email_subject, $email_message, $headers);
header("Location: $thankyou");
?>
<script>location.replace('<?php echo $thankyou;?>')</script>
<?php

GREAT this forum - JUST GREAT !...

Issue: All data entered into my online form was lost (blanked out) and the form returned correctly with message "wrong verification code", when submitted with the wrong verification code.  However, going through this great forum I managed to get all - manually entered - data back ! I placed 
value="<?php echo $_GET['the_field_name'];?>"/  after each input field.

BUT... not so with input fields entered from drop-down menu !
How do I put a similar string for the field "Payment by" in this sample:

<tr>
<td class="table-inquire" width="47%">
<font face="Verdana" size="1" color="#000042">
Payment by:</font></td>
<td class="table-inquire" width="51%" colspan="2">
<font color="#400000" face="Verdana">
<select name="payment" size="1">
<option value="VISA">VISA</option>
<option value="MASTER">MASTER</option>
<option value="CASH">CASH</option>
<option value="T/T Banktransfer">T/T Banktransfer</option>
<option selected>Please select</option>
</select></font><font size="2" color="#400000" face="Verdana"></font></td>
</tr>

Any advise greatly appreciated. Thanks.

I really need some help.  I am very new to PHP and I've been stuck for a couple of days.  I created a contact form and everything seems to be working correctly, except the mail is showing it's sent, but I never receive an email in my Inbox or Spam folder.  Can someone please review my code?

Here is the PHP:

<?php
  // DEFINE VARIABLE AND SET EMPTY VALUES
  $varfnameErr = $varlnameErr = $varemailErr = $varphoneErr = $varpositionErr = "";
  $varfname = $varlname = $varemail = $varphone = $varposition = $success = "";

  
  //FORM SUBMITTED WITH POST METHOD
  if ($_SERVER["REQUEST_METHOD"] == "POST") {

    //VALIDATE FIRST NAME
    if (empty($_POST["varfname"])) {
      $varfnameErr = "First Name is required";
    } else {
      $varfname = test_input($_POST["varfname"]);
      // MAKE SURE FIRST NAME ONLY CONTAINS LETTERS AND WHITE SPACE
      if (!preg_match("/^[a-zA-Z ]*$/",$varfname)) {
        $varfnameErr = "Only letters and white space are allowed";
      }
    }

    //VALIDATE LAST NAME
    if (empty($_POST["varlname"])) {
      $varlnameErr = "Last Name is required";
    } else {
      $varlname = test_input($_POST["varlname"]);
      // MAKE SURE LAST NAME ONLY CONTAINS LETTERS AND WHITE SPACE
      if (!preg_match("/^[a-zA-Z ]*$/",$varlname)) {
        $varlnameErr = "Only letters and white space are allowed";
      }
    }
  
    //VALIDATE EMAIL ADDRESS
    if (empty($_POST["varemail"])) {
      $varemailErr = "Email Address is required";
    } else {
      $varemail = test_input($_POST["varemail"]);
      // MAKE SURE EMAIL ADDRESS IS FORMATTED CORRECTLY
      if (!filter_var($varemail, FILTER_VALIDATE_EMAIL)) {
        $varemailErr = "Invalid email address format";
      }
    }

    //VALIDATE PHONE NUMBER
    if (empty($_POST["varphone"])) {
      $varphoneErr = "Phone number is required";
    } else {
      $varphone = test_input($_POST["varphone"]);
      // MAKE SURE PHONE NUMBER IS IN CORRECT FORMAT
      if (!preg_match("/^(\d[\s-]?)?[\(\[\s-]{0,2}?\d{3}[\)\]\s-]{0,2}?\d{3}[\s-]?\d{4}$/i",$varphone)) {
        $varphoneErr = "Invalid telephone format";
      }
    }
	
    //VALIDATE POSITION
    if (empty($_POST["varposition"])) {
      $varpositionErr = "Position is required";
    } else {
      $varposition = test_input($_POST["varposition"]);
    }

    //IF ALL DATA IS CORRECT
    if ($varfnameErr == '' and $varlnameErr == '' and $varemailErr == '' and $varphoneErr == '' and $varpositionErr == '') {
      $message_body = '';
      unset($_POST['submit']);

      //THIS IS JUST FOR TESTING PURPOSES
      $message_body = $varfname;

      //foreach ($_POST as $key => $value) {
      //    $message_body .= "$key: $value\n";
      //}
      $to = 'mygmail@gmail.com';
      $subject = 'Volunteer Form Submission';
      
      $message = wordwrap($message_body, 70);
      $headers  = 'MIME-Version: 1.0' . "\r\n"; 
      $headers .= 'Content-type: text/html; charset=utf-8' . "\r\n";
      $headers .= "From: " . $varemail . "\r\n";
      $subject = 'Volunteer Form Submission';
      $to = 'mygmail@gmail.com';
      $result = mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);
      //THIS RETURNS "1"
      print $result;
      
      //IF ALL DATA IS CORRECT MAKE SURE EMAIL WAS SENT
      if (mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers)) {
        $success = "Message sent. Thank you contacting us! We will reply as soon as possible.";
        $varfname = $varlname = $varemail = $varphone = $varposition = "";
      } else {
        $success = "Something went wrong!";
      }
    }
  }

//STRIP UNWANTED CHARACTERS FROM VARIABLES
function test_input($data) {
  $data = trim($data);
  $data = stripslashes($data);
  $data = htmlspecialchars($data);
  return $data;
}
?>

 

Here is the HTML:

    <div class="row regformrow">
      <div class="coffee-span-12 regformcolumn">
        <div class="subgrid regformsubgrid">
          <div class="row regformsubgridheaderrow">
            <div class="coffee-span-12 regformsubgridheadercolumn">
              <h4 class="regformsubgridheadertitle">Volunteer Form</h4>
            </div>
          </div>
          <div class="row regformsubgridrow">
            <form class="form-container regformsubgridformcontainer" action=<?= $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']; ?> method="post">
              <div class="coffee-span-4 coffee-972-span-6 coffee-458-span-12 regformsubgridcolumn1">
                <div class="container regformsubgridcontainer1">
                  <label class="label form-label-all"><span style="font-style:italic;color:#FF5454;">* Required Fields</span></label></br>
                  <div class="formfieldgroup">
                    <input class="fname" name="varfname" type="text" tabindex="1" placeholder="First Name" value="<?= $varfname; ?>"><span class="requiredfield"> *</span>
                    <span class="form-error"><?= $varfnameErr ?></span>
                  </div>
                  <div class="formfieldgroup">
                    <input class="lname" name="varlname" type="text" tabindex="2" placeholder="Last Name" value="<?= $varlname; ?>"><span class="requiredfield"> *</span>
                    <span class="form-error"><?= $varlnameErr ?></span>
                  </div>
                  <div class="formfieldgroup">
                    <input class="email" name="varemail" type="text" tabindex="2" placeholder="Email Address" value="<?= $varemail; ?>"><span class="requiredfield"> *</span>
                    <span class="form-error"><?= $varemailErr ?></span>
                  </div>
                  <div class="formfieldgroup">
                    <input class="phone" name="varphone" type="text" tabindex="2" placeholder="Telephone Number" value="<?= $varphone; ?>"><span class="requiredfield"> *</span>
                    <span class="form-error"><?= $varphoneErr ?></span>
                  </div>
                  <div class="formfieldgroup">
                    <select class="select selectbox" name="varposition" id="varposition" tabindex="5"><option value="">Select one...</option><option value="Chaperone">Chaperone</option><option value="Class Monitor">Class Monitor</option><option value="Parking Attendant">Parking Attendant</option><option value="Party Coordinator">Party Coordinator</option><option value="Teacher Aid">Teacher Aid</option></select><span class="requiredfield"> *</span>
                    <span class="form-error"><?= $varpositionErr ?></span>
                  </div>
                  <div class="formfieldgroup">
                    <input class="test" name="test" type="text" tabindex="6" placeholder="If you are human, leave this field blank" value="">
                  </div>
                  <div class="formfieldgroup">
                    <button type="submit" class="button-submit-1" name="submit" tabindex="7" data-submit="...Sendng">Submit</button>
                  </div>
                  <div class="formfieldgroup">
  				  <div class="success"><?= $success; ?></div>
                  </div>
                </div>
              </div>
            </form>
          </div>
        </div>
      </div>
    </div>

 

Edited February 20, 2020 by mike3075

Hi,

I am using PHP mail() function to sent message. Following is the code, the message is received in email account, but as attachment, not displayed in the body section as normal message would.

Please can you guys help, as why is this message going as attachment, but not being displayed in the body of email.

Below is the url which gives preview as to what I mean.

http://i56.tinypic.com/29fujxf.jpg

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$to = $_POST['to'];
$subject = ' web visior';
$customer = stripslashes($_POST['customer']);
$email = stripslashes($_POST['email']);
$contactinfo = stripslashes($_POST['contactinfo']);
$body = stripslashes($_POST['enquiry']);
$header =  'From:'.$email.'\r\n';
$header = 'Reply-To:'.$email.'\r\n';
$header = 'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion();
$header = 'Content-type: text/html\r\n';
$message = '<html><body>
<table>
<tr><td>From:'.$customer.'</td></tr>
<tr><td>Email:'.$email.'</td></tr>
<tr><td>Contact No'.$contactinfo.'</td></tr>
<tr><td style="center"><b>Message:</b></td></tr>
<tr><td>'.$body.'</td></tr>
</body></html>';

Regards,
Abhishek

Hi guys,
I'm trying to write a script that generates a multipart plaintext/HTML email with a pdf attachment. After much research and trial & error, I seem to have reached a wall.
 
At the moment, I am testing in gmail, hotmail and Outlook 2003. Gmail displays the HTML alternative of the message and attaches the pdf document, while hotmail & Outlook only attach the pdf without displaying either of the message alternatives.
 
Here is the code:
 // Error display
  ini_set ('display_errors', 1);
  error_reporting (E_ALL | E_STRICT);
 
 // Setting a timestamp
  date_default_timezone_set('Australia/Perth');
  $timestamp = date("d/m/y H:i:s", time());
  
  // Create a boundary string. It must be unique, so we use the MD5 algorithm to generate a random hash 
  $random_hash = md5(time()); 
  
  // Read the attachment file contents into a string, encode it with MIME base64 & split it into smaller chunks
  $attachment = chunk_split(base64_encode(file_get_contents("success.pdf")));
  
  // Create the Plain text message to be sent in the email body
  $content_text = "Hello, World!! \nIs this a Plain Text alternative?";
  
  // Create the HTML message to be sent in the email body
  $content_html = "<html><body><h1>Hello, World!!</h1><p>This is <b>HTML</b> formatting.</p></body></html>";
  
  // Sending the email
  $to = "$email";
  $subject = "Test5-3.php :: $timestamp"; 
  
  $headers = "From: The Company <webmaster@example.com>\n";
  $headers .= "MIME-Version: 1.0\n";
  $headers .= "Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary=\"$random_hash\"\n";
  $headers .= "--$random_hash\n";
  $headers .= "Content-Type: application/pdf\n";
  $headers .= "Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64\n";
  $headers .= "Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=\"success.pdf\"\n\n";
  $headers .= "$attachment\n";
  
  $message = "Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=\"$random_hash\"\n";
  $message .= "Content-Type: text/plain; charset=\"iso-8859-1\"\n"; 
  $message .= "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit\n"; 
  $message .= "$content_text\n";
  $message .= "--$random_hash\n";
  $message .= "Content-Type: text/html; charset=\"iso-8859-1\"\n"; 
  $message .= "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit\n"; 
  $message .= "$content_html\n";
  $message .= "--$random_hash--";
  
  // Send the data in an email
  $mail_sent = @mail ($to, $subject, $message, $headers, "[email]-froot@clarebyrnedesign.com.au[/email]");

 
(That's not the full script, but it is the relevant part of it. The full script is attached.)
 
Other variations of this code I have tried out include:
     - surrounding all the variables with ". .", eg:   $headers .= "--".$random_hash."\n";
     - sending the entire function as headers, instead of splitting it into message and headers, eg:   $headers = "From: The Company <webmaster@example.com>\n";
  $headers .= "MIME-Version: 1.0\n";
  $headers .= "Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary=\"$random_hash\"\n";
  $headers .= "--$random_hash\n";
  $headers .= "Content-Type: application/pdf\n";
  $headers .= "Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64\n";
  $headers .= "Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=\"success.pdf\"\n\n";
  $headers .= "$attachment\n";
  $headers .= "Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=\"$random_hash\"\n";
  $headers .= "Content-Type: text/plain; charset=\"iso-8859-1\"\n"; 
  $headers .= "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit\n"; 
  $headers .= "$content_text\n";
  $headers .= "--$random_hash\n";
  $headers .= "Content-Type: text/html; charset=\"iso-8859-1\"\n"; 
  $headers .= "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit\n"; 
  $headers .= "$content_html\n";
  $headers .= "--$random_hash--";
 
Does anyone know why I would be having this problem? It seems that nothing I've tried will work!!
 
Thanks

Hi,
i have tried everything i can think of to get this to work correctly. What is below here, is what i have last tried to work with..:
basically the script allows the use to register an email account on a cpanel domain.

Everything works perfectly but then i added a option for banned words now i cant  get the script to work..
basically what happens is:
 the user creates an email account, if the account is not a banned word and does not exist, then the message echoes success, and the $_Post values are also entered into the database under the users name. and the email is also created with the $f fopen
if success the email form also does not show.. so only one email per user.. i just cant get it to work with the banned words included..
what to note::
this is a function in a function..



$bannedemailwords='customerinformation,custinfo,customerinfo,custtext,custsupport,customersupport,admin,accounts';
$bannedmail=explode(',', $bannedemailwords);
$bannedmail = array_unique($bannedmail);
sort($bannedmail);
foreach($bannedmail as $noemail)
//the selected username

if ($Config['enablemyemailapp_enable'] == '0' && $_POST['cfg_enablemyemailappaddress_enable'] !== $noemaill && $_POST['cfg_enablemyemailappaddressdomain_enable'] !== 'Select a domain'){
$cpuser = 'ausername'; 
$cppass = 'apassword'; 
$cpdomain = 'adomain'; 
$cpskin = 'askin';  
$epass = 'somepassword'; 
$equota = 'somequota';

$euser = $_POST['cfg_enablemyemailappaddress_enable'];
$epass = $_POST['emailspassword_enable'];
$edomain = $_POST['cfg_enablemyemailappaddressdomain_enable'];

if (!empty($euser) && $euser !=='nomail')
while(true) {
  $f = fopen ("http://$cpuser:$cppass@$cpdomain:2082/frontend/$cpskin/mail/doaddpop.html?email=$euser&domain=$edomain&password=$epass&quota=$equota", "r");
  if (!$f) {
$enablemyemailapp_enable = '0';
$enablemyemailappaddress_enable = 'Replace with a Name';
$enablemyemailappaddressdomain_enable = 'Select a domain';
    $msgemail = 'The email '.$euser.'@'.$edomain.' is a restricted email account.';
break;
  } 
$enablemyemailapp_enable = '1';
$enablemyemailappaddress_enable =  $_POST['cfg_enablemyemailappaddress_enable'];
$enablemyemailappaddressdomain_enable = $_POST['cfg_enablemyemailappaddressdomain_enable'];
        $msgemail ='<center><font color="#ff0033">Your Email '.$euser.'@'.$edomain.' has been created.</font></center>';
  
   
  while (!feof ($f)) {
    $line = fgets ($f, 1024);
    if (ereg ("already exists", $line, $out)) {
$enablemyemailapp_enable = '0';
$enablemyemailappaddress_enable = 'Replace with a Name';
$enablemyemailappaddressdomain_enable = 'Select a domain';
    $msgemail ='<center><font color="#ff0033">The email account '.$euser.'@'.$edomain.' already exists.</font></center><br><center>Please try again!</center>';
break;
    }
  }
  
 echo $msgemail;
 
 $_POST['cfg_enablemyemailapp_enable']= $enablemyemailapp_enable;
 $_POST['cfg_enablemyemailappaddress_enable']=$enablemyemailappaddress_enable;
 $_POST['cfg_enablemyemailappaddressdomain_enable']=$enablemyemailappaddressdomain_enable;
 
  @fclose($f);
break;
}
}

I have been trying to get my files to upload onto a computer and I receive this message: Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING in /home/content/19/6550319/html/listing.php on line 27. Line 27 is how the php logs into my SQL. The problem is that I was able to log in before. I just made changes to the form by adding a dropdown menu and price and now it says it doesnt parse.

Can anyone figure this out. I will include the code without the login information because the forum is public but I did put the words left out for you to see where I took out the passcodes.

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<?php




//This is the directory where images will be saved
$target = "potofiles/";
$target = $target . basename( $_FILES['photo']['name']);

//This gets all the other information from the form
$price=$_POST['price'];
$gig=$_POST['giga'];
$yesg=$_POST['yesg'];
$pic=($_FILES['photo']['name']);
$pic2=($_FILES['phototwo']['name']);
$pic3=($_FILES['photothree']['name']);
$pic4=($_FILES['photofour']['name']);
$description=$_POST['iPadDescription'];
$condition=$_POST['condition'];
$fname=$_POST['firstName'];
$lname=$_POST['lastName'];
$email=$_POST['email']



// Connects to your Database
mysql_connect ("left out", "left out", "left out") or die(mysql_error()) ;
mysql_select_db("left out") or die(mysql_error()) ;

//Writes the information to the database
mysql_query("INSERT INTO listing (price,giga,yesg,photo,phototwo,photothree,photofour,iPadDescription,condition,firstName,lastName,email)
VALUES ('$price', '$gig', '$yesg', '$pic', '$pic2', '$pic3', '$pic4', '$description', '$condition', '$fname', '$lname', '$email')") ;

//Writes the photo to the server
if(move_uploaded_file($_FILES['photo']['tmp_name'], $target))
{

//Tells you if its all ok
echo "The file ". basename( $_FILES['uploadedfile']['name']). " has been uploaded, and your information has been added to the directory";
}
else {

//Gives and error if its not
echo "Sorry, there was a problem uploading your file.";
}

echo date("m/d/y : H:i:s", time()) 


?>

I'm trying to do a query as such:
SELECT * FROM projects WHERE user = {$user}

and $user = a secured email. but I'm getting this error:
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You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near '@gmail.com' at line 1

Why am I getting this error?

Thank you very much!

hello,

just a quick question, as im new to php but think its probably an easy answer. How would i make the code below send an email to the address it pulls from the database (which it already does) and to another address i.e example@example.com

$to = "$slide[email]";


thanks,
gavin

Hi..

I want to implement a program for identifying spam emails using an algorithm naive bayes
in php..

How to implement this ..can any one help me..

thanks in advance

hi i am new on php+mysql
i am trying to create signup form that will:


users to enter email address and the script check via ajax from MYSQL database if the email is not registered send the signup link to their email if already registered  than show error you are a member.

Hi This subject doesn't really have a category but is driving me mad. I use the mail() function to send out emails to a news group forum that I have created. This forum does the same. I am getting the emails placed in a spam folder. Is there any way around this. I have been told that it has something to do with no reverse DNS. I get emails like DoNotReply@bt.com. This email address doesn't exist. How does the email system know this, and is there a way around it.

TIA

Desmond.

Hi all, how do I read emails sent to an email account on my site such as admin@mysite.com?