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

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00:00	Welcome back. How do we fix this "'Sendmail_from' not set in php dot ini" error?
00:11	We haven't determined who the email is from.
00:18	We need to do this in order to send the email.
00:23	We won't use something like a "from" parameter here.
00:29	We need to send to specific headers.
00:32	So, here we create a "$headers" variable which is not equal to something like "me @me.com"
00:43	What we need to do is, work with the standardized mail header and that is "From:" and a colon not semi colon and then we say for example "PHP Academy"
00:54	Or you could say something like "admin @PHP Academy" and add ".com", if you like.
01:02	I don't actually have that domain name but we'll just keep it as that.
01:08	So "From: admin @phpacademy.com".
01:11	And now, inside our mail we need to add another parameter which is "headers".
01:18	And now we come here and you can type "Alex" and here "This is a test!"
01:24	Click on "Send me this" and we face another error.
01:27	Now I am not actually running a mail server on my computer.
01:33	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.
01:46	So, you will have a SMTP mail server running under local host.
01:54	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.
02:06	That's the way my email is sent through my university.
02:11	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.
02:22	You will be able to send an email through that.
02:27	I know that my university email DNS server is "mailhost dot shef dot ac dot uk" because I'm in Sheffield university.
02:36	So I need to incorporate this into my "php dot ini".
02:41	And the best way to do this is to come here and setup our variables.
02:46	Okay, we need 2, set SMTP in "php dot ini"
02:59	and instead of opening up my "php dot ini" file, I'll just use the "ini_set()" function
03:05	and the variable name is "SMTP".
03:12	So, we are editing this line inside our "php dot ini" file.
03:16	And I type the "mailhost" in there as the value.
03:20	Here we just say echo "get_ini()" which gets a specific value.
03:25	Next I'll say "SMTP" and that can just kill the script there.
03:30	So, we can see how this works.
03:32	So, if I say "Alex" and then "Test" and click on "Send me this".
03:40	Oh! Sorry I have typed this completely wrong. Big mistake. That is "ini_get()" and let's refresh that.
03:52	Okay, we are basically setting our "SMTP" inside our "ini" file to "mail host dot shef dot ac dot uk".
03:59	And then we will echo out the value of this.
04:03	So, this just tells me that- that is set to "mail host dot shef dot ac dot uk".
04:10	Presuming this mail host server or DNS server works, then the rest of the code will work.
04:17	After sending our mail, I'll just kill the page.
04:24	Um.... no I won't. I'll just kill the page.
04:28	Let's go back and say "Alex" and "This is a test".
04:36	Just checking that everything is okay. We've got my "$to", my "$subject", my "$headers" saying "From:admin@phpacademy.com".
04:45	And our $body in here and we are executing our mail() function.
04:51	So, when I click "Send me this", nothing happens. We've got no errors, so we can presume that everything has worked.
04:58	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".
05:09	If we click on it, we have "Email from PHPAcademy" as our subject line that we had set here.
05:17	And we have the email address that I specified from.
05:22	You can put this as from Alex or from 'phpacademy'.
05:27	And then we have "This is an email from Alex" which is the name we gave inside the form here.
05:35	And then we have 2 line-breaks which are present, 1 and 2.
05:40	And "This is a test" which is the text I put in there.
05:46	So, that's a mail function by using my university's DNS mail server.
05:50	Your INSP will have a DNS mail server.
05:55	It may require authentication on which I will be completing the tutorial soon.
06:00	So, if this doesn't work for you watch that tutorial or just drop me an email or contact me through my you-tube.
06:09	OK, so I hope that was useful to a lot of people.
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06:15	Alright, thanks for watching. This is Evan Varkey, dubbing for the Spoken Tutorial Project. Bye bye.

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