PHP-and-MySQL/C4/Sending-Email-Part-3/English

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0:00	Welcome back. How do we fix this "'Sendmail from not set in php dot ini" error.
0:11	We haven't determined who the email is from.
0:18	We need to do this in order to send the email.
0:23	We won't use something like a "from" parameter here.
0:29	We need to send to specific headers.
0:32	So here we create a "headers" variable which is not equal to something like "me @me.com"
0:43	What we need to do is work with the standardised mail header and that is "From:" and a colon not semi colon and then we say for example "php academy"
0:54	Or you could say something like "admin @php academy" and add ".com" if you like.
1:02	I don't actually have that domain name but we'll just keep it as that.
1:08	So "From: admin @phpacademy.com".
1:11	Inside our mail we need to add another parameter now which is "headers".
1:18	And now we come here and you can type "Alex" and here "This is a test!"
1:24	Click on "Send me this" and we face another error.
1:27	Now I am not actually running a mail server on my computer.
1:33	If you don't want to run a mail server on your computer, google for at mail free mail server and this will install a mail server on your computer just like we are doing now running on a local host.
1:46	And you will have a SMTP mail server running under local host.
1:54	Now as I don't have a mail server, I will use my university email system which is the DNS or the "Domain Name Server" of my university email
2:06	That's the way my email is sent through my university.
2:11	If you know a specific DNS Server, if you have a domain name already, if you have a website you will know it or you will be able to find it, at least.
2:22	You will be able to send an email through that.
2:27	I know that my university email DNS server is "mailhost dot shef dot ac dot uk" because I'm in Sheffield university.
2:36	So I need to incorporate this into my "php dot ini".
2:41	And the best way to do this is to come here and setup our variables
2:46	okay we need 2 - set SMTP in "php dot ini"
2:59	And instead of opening up my "php dot ini" file ,I'll just use the "ini set" function.
3:05	And the variable name is "SMTP".
3:12	So we are editing this line inside our "php dot ini" file.
3:16	And I type the mail host in there as the value.
3:20	Here we just say echo "get ini" which gets a specific value.
3:25	Next I'll say SMTP and that can just kill the script there.
3:30	So we can see how this works.
3:32	So if I say "Alex" and then "Test" and click on "Send me this".
3:40	Oh! Sorry I have typed this completely wrong. Big mistake. That is "ini get" and lets refresh that.
3:52	Okay we are basically setting our "SMTP" inside our "ini" file to "mail host dot shef dot ac dot uk".
3:59	And then we will echo out the value of this.
4:03	So just tells me that that is set to "mail host dot shef dot ac dot uk".
4:10	Presuming this mail host server or DNS server works, then the rest of the code will work.
4:17	After sending our mail I'll just kill the page.
4:24	Um.... no I won't . I'll just kill the page.
4:28	Lets go back and say "Alex" and "This is a test".
4:36	Just checking that everything is okay. We've got my "to", my "subject", my "headers" saying "From:admin@phpacademy.com".
4:45	And our body in here and we are executing our mail function.
4:51	So when I click "Send me this", nothing happens. We've got no errors so we can presume that everything has worked.
4:58	If I come into my hotmail or my email and click on my INBOX, you can see that we've now got a mail from "admin @ phpacademy dot com".
5:09	If we click on it, we have "Email from PHPAcademy" as our subject line that we had set here.
5:17	And we have the email address that I specified from.
5:22	You can put this as from Alex or from phpacademy.
5:27	And then we have "This is an email from Alex" which is the name we gave inside the form here.
5:35	And then we have 2 line breaks which are present - 1 and 2
5:40	And "This is a test" which is the text I put in there.
5:46	So that's a mail function by using my university's DNS mail server.
5:50	Your INSP will have a DNS mail server.
5:55	It may require authentication on which I will be completing the tutorial soon.
6:00	So if this doesn't work for you watch that tutorial or just drop me an email or contact me through my youtube.
6:09	OK so I hope that was useful to a lot of people.
6:13	Please subscribe if you haven't already.
6:15	Alright, thanks for watching. This is Evan Varkey dubbing for the Spoken Tutorial Project. Bye bye.

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