PHP-and-MySQL/C4/Sending-Email-Part-3/English
From Script | Spoken-Tutorial
| Time | Narration |
|---|---|
| 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. |
