Hi, I'm using jems contact form on a clients website,but have found out that the host has disabled the mail()function thingy (technical term)

 

Apparently I can change something so it uses smtp of something..

 

As you can see, I don't do php or anything technical like that, so can someone point me in the right direction where I can find something where I basically copy and paste?

 

Fanks!

Hi, I'm using jems contact form on a clients website,but have found out that the host has disabled the mail()function thingy (technical term)

 

Apparently I can change something so it uses smtp of something..

 

As you can see, I don't do php or anything technical like that, so can someone point me in the right direction where I can find something where I basically copy and paste?

 

Fanks!

You will need to use the Mail::Factory method, which is pretty simple to use , u just need your smtp details, i looked up a resource for u that shows u how to use that method Heres the link

Thank you!

Thank you!

Your welcome let me know if you get it working

Hi

 

I have stumbled across your forum post as I am desperately trying to work the exact same thing out for myself. After lots of reading I am starting to work out the direction I'm going but the problem I have is how to incorporate the SMTP bits into the current form I have.

 

I looked at the code (as linked above) but in the contact form I have - using the unsecure option - I don't know what bits I should or can delete as there seems to be a lot about the validations of the form. I am very much a novice and so have used the Contact form with CAPTCHA - Contact form where you can view the files I think the one I need to change is the fgcontactform.php but the php code before the DOCTYPE on the contactform.php page asks for the email address (I'm hoping this copies properly!):

<?PHP
/*
   Contact Form from HTML Form Guide
   This program is free software published under the
   terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License.
   See this page for more info:
   http://www.html-form-guide.com/contact-form/creating-a-contact-form.html
*/
require_once("./_scripts/contactform/fgcontactform.php");
/*require_once("./_scripts/contactform/captcha-creator.php");

$formproc = new FGContactForm();
$captcha = new FGCaptchaCreator('scaptcha');

$formproc->EnableCaptcha($captcha);          */

//1. Add your email address here.
//You can add more than one receipients.
$formproc->AddRecipient('info@website.co.uk'); //<<---Put your email address here


//2. For better security. Get a random tring from this link: http://tinyurl.com/randstr
// and put it here
$formproc->SetFormRandomKey('CnRrspl1FyEylUj');


if(isset($_POST['submitted']))
{
  if($formproc->ProcessForm())
  {
       $formproc->RedirectToURL("thank-you.php");
  }
}                                                        

?>
<?php 
session_start();

if( isset($_POST['submit'])) {
  if( $_SESSION['security_code'] == $_POST['security_code'] && !empty($_SESSION['security_code'] ) ) {
	// Insert you code for processing the form here, e.g emailing the submission, entering it into a database. 
	echo 'Thank you. Your message said "'.$_POST['message'].'"';
	unset($_SESSION['security_code']);
  } else {
	// Insert your code for showing an error message here
	echo 'Sorry, you have provided an invalid security code';
  }
} else {
?>   	

 

Thank you if anyone is able to help.

 

Beth

There is also this version I have found, PHPMailer instead of PEAR - but I have the same issues - where to put it and what am I supposed to delete!

require_once('../class.phpmailer.php');//include("class.smtp.php"); // optional, gets called from within class.phpmailer.php if not already loaded$mail = new PHPMailer(true); 
// the true param means it will throw exceptions on errors, which we need to catch$mail->IsSMTP(); 
// telling the class to use SMTP
try 
{  $mail->Host       = "mail.yourdomain.com"; // SMTP server  
$mail->SMTPDebug  = 2;                // enables SMTP debug information (for testing)  
$mail->SMTPAuth   = true;                 // enable SMTP authentication  
$mail->Host       = "mail.yourdomain.com"; // sets the SMTP server  
$mail->Port       = 26;                    // set the SMTP port for the GMAIL server  
$mail->Username   = "yourname@yourdomain"; // SMTP account username  
$mail->Password   = "yourpassword";        // SMTP account password  
$mail->AddReplyTo('name@yourdomain.com', 'First Last');  
$mail->AddAddress('whoto@otherdomain.com', 'John Doe');  
$mail->SetFrom('name@yourdomain.com', 'First Last');  
$mail->AddReplyTo('name@yourdomain.com', 'First Last');  
$mail->Subject = 'PHPMailer Test Subject via mail(), advanced';  
$mail->AltBody = 'To view the message, please use an HTML compatible email viewer!'; // optional - MsgHTML will create an alternate automatically  
$mail->MsgHTML(file_get_contents('contents.html'));  
$mail->AddAttachment('images/phpmailer.gif');      // attachment  
$mail->AddAttachment('images/phpmailer_mini.gif'); // attachment  
$mail->Send();  echo "Message Sent OK<p></p>\n";
} catch (phpmailerException $e) {  
echo $e->errorMessage(); //Pretty error messages from PHPMailer
} catch (Exception $e) {  
echo $e->getMessage(); //Boring error messages from anything else!
}    

Edited March 28, 201214 yr by bethlou