Web Development

11-Sep-12 5:28

Hi all,

I've problem with send email using php. I used this code:

IsSMTP();

//GMAIL config
$mail->SMTPAuth = true; // enable SMTP authentication
$mail->SMTPSecure = "ssl"; // sets the prefix to the server
$mail->Host = "smtp.gmail.com"; // sets GMAIL as the SMTP server
$mail->Port = 465; // set the SMTP port for the GMAIL server
$mail->Username = "myaccount@gmail.com"; // GMAIL username
$mail->Password = "mypassword"; // GMAIL password
//End Gmail

$mail->From = "<myaccount@gmail.com>";
$mail->FromName = "I am";
$mail->Subject = "Test";
$mail->MsgHTML("the message");

//$mail->AddReplyTo("reply@email.com","reply name");//they answer here, optional
$mail->AddAddress("myfriend@gmail.com","Myfriend");
$mail->IsHTML(true); // send as HTML

if(!$mail->Send()) {//to see if we return a message or a value bolean
echo "Mailer Error: " . $mail->ErrorInfo;
} else echo "Message sent!";

?>

After I running the code and I get this error :

SMTP Error: Could not connect to SMTP host. Mailer Error: SMTP Error: Could not connect to SMTP host.

Why this code isn't running properly? What should I do?

Thank you,

Reinhart

User 171649211-Sep-12 9:53

User 1716492

11-Sep-12 9:53

Try replacing

PHP

"smtp.gmail.com";

with

PHP

"smtp.googlemail.com";

modified 1-Aug-19 21:02pm.

chandra reinhart11-Sep-12 13:29

11-Sep-12 13:29

Hi richard,

Thank you for your previous answer.. I've tried your idea but it is still not working with error message:

"SMTP -> ERROR: Failed to connect to server: Unable to find the socket transport "ssl" - did you forget to enable it when you configured PHP? (118706120)
SMTP Error: Could not connect to SMTP host. Mailer Error: SMTP Error: Could not connect to SMTP host."

Does any configuration should I do?

User 171649211-Sep-12 22:12

User 1716492

11-Sep-12 22:12

In the php.ini file, have you uncommented

extension=php_openssl.dll

This you can try

PHP

require("PHPMailer/class.phpmailer.php");


$mailer = new PHPMailer();
$mailer->IsSMTP();
$mailer->Host = 'ssl://smtp.gmail.com:465'; // you could replace gmail with googlemail here
$mailer->SMTPAuth = TRUE;

$mailer->Username = 'username@gmail.com';
$mailer->Password = 'yourpassword';

$mailer->From = 'from@gmail.com';
$mailer->FromName = 'namefrom';
$mailer->Body = "your message";
$mailer->Subject = "subjectname";

$mailer->AddAddress(joeblogs@fredsmith.com);

if(!$mailer->Send()) {
    error_log("Mailer :  error ".$mailer->ErrorInfo)." : $to";
    echo "fail";
}
else {
    echo "sent";
}

modified 1-Aug-19 21:02pm.

chandra reinhart11-Sep-12 22:47

11-Sep-12 22:47

I've uncommented extension=php_openssl.dll and the message is "fail", is there another alternative error so this script can't send email?

Thank you,

Search action should be an HTTP GET or a POST?

User 171649212-Sep-12 0:25

User 1716492

12-Sep-12 0:25

Here are the Wiki pages from PHPMailer.

http://code.google.com/a/apache-extras.org/p/phpmailer/wiki/BasicGmail[^]
and
http://code.google.com/a/apache-extras.org/p/phpmailer/wiki/AdvanceGmail[^]

modified 1-Aug-19 21:02pm.

AlexCode11-Sep-12 0:23

AlexCode

11-Sep-12 0:23

What do you think?
Ok, basically doesn't matter, it works anyway but I like to have my HTTP verbs used the right way.

Since ever I've been using GET to handle all the data pulling actions. So everytime I need to pull data from the server I use a GET, everytime I push data to the server I use a POST.

Yesterday I had this discussion with a guy that argued that search operations (like an AJAX request that implements a grid filtering mechanism) must be a POST because it doesn't return a resource... (I really couldn't understand this answer... I tried to but it was impossible to make him explain to me what it meant by that in other words)

Search operations, for me, naturally fit in the data pulling logic. Although it may be filtered data, and we may need to pass a bunch of filter options to the server, the operation itself is to retrieve data from the server.

What do you think?

Eddy Vluggen11-Sep-12 2:16

Eddy Vluggen

11-Sep-12 2:16

AlexCode wrote:
What do you think?

I think it depends on the circumstance and environment. I love to be able to bookmark a parameterized url, always more efficient than having to navigate to the page from the homepage.

OTOH, I can imagine some people wanting to keep their search-terms private. Check out the history of your browser, and you'll see what I mean.

Bastard Programmer from Hell Suspicious | :suss:

if you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]

AlexCode11-Sep-12 2:47

AlexCode

11-Sep-12 2:47

On your answer you actually give me one more reason why a search should be a GET (for bookmarking).

Although this is not the case, is for internal ajax requests handling, but the same concept still applies.

The only circonstance I can imagine using a POST instead of a GET on this is it the data to be passed to the server is such that there's a chance of overloading the URL max size standards. Otherwise, its a GET!!! Smile | :)

Thanks!

Eddy Vluggen11-Sep-12 5:32

Eddy Vluggen

11-Sep-12 5:32

You're welcome Smile | :)

Zamshed Farhan12-Jan-13 15:35

Zamshed Farhan

12-Jan-13 15:35

Yes, I think so.

HTML table oddity

David Crow10-Sep-12 11:01

David Crow

10-Sep-12 11:01

I've got a table whose row color alternates between light gray and default (white). This looks fine in my browser, but when I preview or print the page, no gray shows up. Any particular reason?

<HTML>
<TABLE BORDER="1">
  <TR STYLE="BACKGROUND-COLOR:LIGHTGRAY">
    <TD>Row1,Col1</TD>
    <TD>Row1,Col2</TD>
  </TR>
  <TR>
    <TD>Row2,Col1</TD>
    <TD>Row2,Col2</TD>
  </TR>
  <TR STYLE="BACKGROUND-COLOR:LIGHTGRAY">
    <TD>Row3,Col1</TD>
    <TD>Row3,Col2</TD>
  </TR>
</TABLE>
</HTML>

Thanks.

- DC

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Peter_in_278010-Sep-12 13:11

Peter_in_2780

10-Sep-12 13:11

Not a real answer, but a bit more info. I saved your source and looked at it with Chrome21 and FF15. In print preview, FF gets it right but Chrome behaves as you describe.
Me, I'd be tempted to use CSS rather than inline styling. Then you can use media-specific stuff to control screen and print styling independently.

[edit]Did the research I should have done before posting. Blush | :O

I looked at one of my sites where I have alternate divs styled background-color:#EEEEEE and it's the same - browser views and FF print preview good, Chrome print preview broken.
So it looks to not be related to where the style is set. But again, I haven't got any @media print styling on that page.[/edit]

Cheers,
Peter

Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012

David Crow11-Sep-12 3:38

David Crow

11-Sep-12 3:38

Peter_in_2780 wrote:

Me, I'd be tempted to use CSS rather than inline styling.

I had already tried both. Same result.

Thou mewling ill-breeding pignut!

AspDotNetDev10-Sep-12 13:15

AspDotNetDev

10-Sep-12 13:15

Browsers are sometimes set to not print background colors (to save on ink, I guess).

David Crow11-Sep-12 3:44

David Crow

11-Sep-12 3:44

Changing that setting solved it. Thanks.

enhzflep10-Sep-12 15:17

enhzflep

10-Sep-12 15:17

Perhaps one of these 2 links will help. Smile | :)

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2392366/print-background-colours-in-chrome[^]
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8768717/css-media-type-print-using-background-color-in-chrome[^]

The mention of -webkit-print-color-adjust: exact; in an answer in the 2nd link seems like an interesting lead.

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Jquery Ajax

chandra reinhart9-Sep-12 18:24