help with email form

Can anyone tell me why this code won't work?
I've saved it as mail.php, and have a form on a web page with
action="mail.php" in the html. I've gotten this to work before on
other pages I've worked on, I can't figure out why it's not working
today, I must have forgotten something. The thank you page comes up,
but the mail is not actually delivered.

<?php
$to="greg@fearofdolls.com";
$subject="Fear of Dolls web email";
$email=$_POST["email"];

$message="From Fear of Dolls web email\n";
$message.="message: ".$message."\n";

$head="From: fear@fearofdolls.com";
mail($to,$subject,"".$message,$head);
header("Location:thankyou.html");
?>

alice says...
> Can anyone tell me why this code won't work?
> I've saved it as mail.php, and have a form on a web page with
> action="mail.php" in the html. I've gotten this to work before on
> other pages I've worked on, I can't figure out why it's not working
> today, I must have forgotten something. The thank you page comes up,
> but the mail is not actually delivered.
>
> <?php
> $to="greg@fearofdolls.com";
> $subject="Fear of Dolls web email";
> $email=$_POST["email"];
>
> $message="From Fear of Dolls web email\n";
> $message.="message: ".$message."\n";
>
> $head="From: fear@fearofdolls.com";
> mail($to,$subject,"".$message,$head);
^^^^
dot not comma?

> header("Location:thankyou.html");
> ?>
>
>

On Aug 6, 10:13 pm, alice <al...@fearofdolls.com> wrote:
> Can anyone tell me why this code won't work?
> I've saved it as mail.php, and have a form on a web page with
> action="mail.php" in the html. I've gotten this to work before on
> other pages I've worked on, I can't figure out why it's not working
> today, I must have forgotten something. The thank you page comes up,
> but the mail is not actually delivered.
>
> <?php
> $to="g...@fearofdolls.com";
> $subject="Fear of Dolls web email";
> $email=$_POST["email"];
>
> $message="From Fear of Dolls web email\n";
> $message.="message: ".$message."\n";
>
> $head="From: f...@fearofdolls.com";
> mail($to,$subject,"".$message,$head);
> header("Location:thankyou.html");
> ?>

I can't see any reason why it wouldn't work, are you getting an error
message? if not, then the code is probably working and your problem is
that the SMTP server isn't properly set in your configurations.

On Aug 6, 7:03 pm, Geoff Muldoon <geoff.muld...@trap.gmail.com> wrote:
> alice says...
>
>
>
> > Can anyone tell me why this code won't work?
> > I've saved it as mail.php, and have a form on a web page with
> > action="mail.php" in the html. I've gotten this to work before on
> > other pages I've worked on, I can't figure out why it's not working
> > today, I must have forgotten something. The thank you page comes up,
> > but the mail is not actually delivered.
>
> > <?php
> > $to="g...@fearofdolls.com";
> > $subject="Fear of Dolls web email";
> > $email=$_POST["email"];
>
> > $message="From Fear of Dolls web email\n";
> > $message.="message: ".$message."\n";
>
> > $head="From: f...@fearofdolls.com";
> > mail($to,$subject,"".$message,$head);
>
> ^^^^
> dot not comma?
>
>
>
> > header("Location:thankyou.html");
> > ?>- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -

So it should be mail($to,$subject,"",$message,$head);
?

On Aug 6, 7:03 pm, Geoff Muldoon <geoff.muld...@trap.gmail.com> wrote:
> alice says...
>
>
>
> > Can anyone tell me why this code won't work?
> > I've saved it as mail.php, and have a form on a web page with
> > action="mail.php" in the html. I've gotten this to work before on
> > other pages I've worked on, I can't figure out why it's not working
> > today, I must have forgotten something. The thank you page comes up,
> > but the mail is not actually delivered.
>
> > <?php
> > $to="g...@fearofdolls.com";
> > $subject="Fear of Dolls web email";
> > $email=$_POST["email"];
>
> > $message="From Fear of Dolls web email\n";
> > $message.="message: ".$message."\n";
>
> > $head="From: f...@fearofdolls.com";
> > mail($to,$subject,"".$message,$head);
>
> ^^^^
> dot not comma?
>
>
>
> > header("Location:thankyou.html");
> > ?>- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -

Well, doing that made something different happen...I got a message
from my ISPs proxy email relay, but not the content of the message I
mailed in the form.

On Aug 6, 11:15 pm, alice <al...@fearofdolls.com> wrote:
> On Aug 6, 7:03 pm, Geoff Muldoon <geoff.muld...@trap.gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> > alice says...
>
> > > Can anyone tell me why this code won't work?
> > > I've saved it as mail.php, and have a form on a web page with
> > > action="mail.php" in the html. I've gotten this to work before on
> > > other pages I've worked on, I can't figure out why it's not working
> > > today, I must have forgotten something. The thank you page comes up,
> > > but the mail is not actually delivered.
>
> > > <?php
> > > $to="g...@fearofdolls.com";
> > > $subject="Fear of Dolls web email";
> > > $email=$_POST["email"];
>
> > > $message="From Fear of Dolls web email\n";
> > > $message.="message: ".$message."\n";
>
> > > $head="From: f...@fearofdolls.com";
> > > mail($to,$subject,"".$message,$head);
>
> > ^^^^
> > dot not comma?
>
> > > header("Location:thankyou.html");
> > > ?>- Hide quoted text -
>
> > - Show quoted text -- Hide quoted text -
>
> > - Show quoted text -
>
> So it should be mail($to,$subject,"",$message,$head);
> ?

No

The signature of PHP's mail function is:
bool mail ( string $to, string $subject, string $message [, string
$additional_headers [, string $additional_parameters]] )

meaning that if you use: mail($to,$subject,"",$message,$head) then
what will happen is PHP will consider $message to be your headers and
if it does work, it will just send a blank email because you are
passing "" as the message

I'd recommend you use mail($to,$subject,$message,$head); instead

On Aug 6, 7:15 pm, Loki25 <kgarnet...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Aug 6, 10:13 pm, alice <al...@fearofdolls.com> wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
> > Can anyone tell me why this code won't work?
> > I've saved it as mail.php, and have a form on a web page with
> > action="mail.php" in the html. I've gotten this to work before on
> > other pages I've worked on, I can't figure out why it's not working
> > today, I must have forgotten something. The thank you page comes up,
> > but the mail is not actually delivered.
>
> > <?php
> > $to="g...@fearofdolls.com";
> > $subject="Fear of Dolls web email";
> > $email=$_POST["email"];
>
> > $message="From Fear of Dolls web email\n";
> > $message.="message: ".$message."\n";
>
> > $head="From: f...@fearofdolls.com";
> > mail($to,$subject,"".$message,$head);
> > header("Location:thankyou.html");
> > ?>
>
> I can't see any reason why it wouldn't work, are you getting an error
> message? if not, then the code is probably working and your problem is
> that the SMTP server isn't properly set in your configurations.- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -

Not getting any error messages. Where are the configurations that you
speak of?

>
> I'd recommend you use mail($to,$subject,$message,$head); instead- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -

That still isn't working.

On Aug 6, 11:25 pm, alice <al...@fearofdolls.com> wrote:
> > I'd recommend you use mail($to,$subject,$message,$head); instead- Hide quoted text -
>
> > - Show quoted text -
>
> That still isn't working.

If you are running your own server, find your php.ini file and open it
up. look for do a search for the SMTP section (using your editor's
find command, it should be the first result)...you will see the
mail_function block configuration block...should look something like:

[mail function]
; For Win32 only.
SMTP = <your SMTP server address>

; For Win32 only.
sendmail_from = <your reply email address>

; For Unix only. You may supply arguments as well (default: "sendmail
-t -i").
;sendmail_path =

enter this information if it is not already there, save the file and
restart your web server so the new settings take affect and try it
again.

On Aug 6, 7:30 pm, Loki25 <kgarnet...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Aug 6, 11:25 pm, alice <al...@fearofdolls.com> wrote:
>
> > > I'd recommend you use mail($to,$subject,$message,$head); instead- Hide quoted text -
>
> > > - Show quoted text -
>
> > That still isn't working.
>
> If you are running your own server, find your php.ini file and open it
> up. look for do a search for the SMTP section (using your editor's
> find command, it should be the first result)...you will see the
> mail_function block configuration block...should look something like:
>
> [mail function]
> ; For Win32 only.
> SMTP = <your SMTP server address>
>
> ; For Win32 only.
> sendmail_from = <your reply email address>
>
> ; For Unix only. You may supply arguments as well (default: "sendmail
> -t -i").
> ;sendmail_path =
>
> enter this information if it is not already there, save the file and
> restart your web server so the new settings take affect and try it
> again.

I'm not running my own servier, but I guess I'll suggest this to my
ISP. I have had email forms work with this same site/ISP, I'm just
trying to change it slightly, borrowed the code from somewhere where
it seemed to work fine.