I know this is elsewhere on the site but for some reason the answers I've found on here still haven't helped I still can't get it to work after trying different things all day. My goal was to have a confirmation code sent to the email that the user enters. I only know a small amount of PHP and followed a tutorial for the login/registration system but I'm fairly sure the php is working fine and the problem lies in my sendmail.ini and php.ini. Here is my sendmail.ini
; configuration for fake sendmail
; if this file doesn't exist, sendmail.exe will look for the settings in
; the registry, under HKLM\Software\Sendmail
[sendmail]
; you must change mail.mydomain.com to your smtp server,
; or to IIS's "pickup" directory. (generally C:\Inetpub\mailroot\Pickup)
; emails delivered via IIS's pickup directory cause sendmail to
; run quicker, but you won't get error messages back to the calling
; application.
smtp_server=smtp.gmail.com
; smtp port (normally 25)
smtp_port=587
; SMTPS (SSL) support
; auto = use SSL for port 465, otherwise try to use TLS
; ssl = alway use SSL
; tls = always use TLS
; none = never try to use SSL
smtp_ssl=auto
; the default domain for this server will be read from the registry
; this will be appended to email addresses when one isn't provided
; if you want to override the value in the registry, uncomment and modify
;default_domain=mydomain.com
; log smtp errors to error.log (defaults to same directory as sendmail.exe)
; uncomment to enable logging
error_logfile=error.log
; create debug log as debug.log (defaults to same directory as sendmail.exe)
; uncomment to enable debugging
debug_logfile=debug.log
; if your smtp server requires authentication, modify the following two lines
auth_username= [email protected]
auth_password= mygmailpass
; if your smtp server uses pop3 before smtp authentication, modify the
; following three lines. do not enable unless it is required.
pop3_server=
pop3_username=
pop3_password=
; force the sender to always be the following email address
; this will only affect the "MAIL FROM" command, it won't modify
; the "From: " header of the message content
[email protected]
; force the sender to always be the following email address
; this will only affect the "RCTP TO" command, it won't modify
; the "To: " header of the message content
force_recipient=
; sendmail will use your hostname and your default_domain in the ehlo/helo
; smtp greeting. you can manually set the ehlo/helo name if required
hostname=
And my the parts I've edited in my php.ini
extension=php_openssl.dll
[mail function]
; XAMPP: Comment out this if you want to work with an SMTP Server like Mercury
SMTP =smtp.gmail.com
smtp_port =587
; For Win32 only.
; http://php.net/sendmail-from
sendmail_from = [email protected]
sendmail_path = "\"C:\xampp\sendmail\sendmail.exe\" -t"
;sendmail_path="C:\xampp\mailtodisk\mailtodisk.exe"
; Force the addition of the specified parameters to be passed as extra parameters
; to the sendmail binary. These parameters will always replace the value of
; the 5th parameter to mail(), even in safe mode.
;mail.force_extra_parameters =
and my PHP code in case it's needed
<?php
session_start();
include('configdb.php');
if(isset($_POST['submit']))
{
//whether the username is blank
if($_POST['username'] == '')
{
$_SESSION['error']['username'] = "User Name is required.";
}
//whether the email is blank
if($_POST['email'] == '')
{
$_SESSION['error']['email'] = "E-mail is required.";
}
else
{
//whether the email format is correct
if(preg_match("/^([a-zA-Z0-9])+([a-zA-Z0-9._-])*@([a-zA-Z0-9_-])+([a-zA-Z0-9._-]+)+$/", $_POST['email']))
{
//if it has the correct format whether the email has already exist
$email= $_POST['email'];
$sql1 = "SELECT * FROM user WHERE email = '$email'";
$result1 = mysqli_query($mysqli,$sql1) or die(mysqli_error());
if (mysqli_num_rows($result1) > 0)
{
$_SESSION['error']['email'] = "This Email is already used.";
}
}
else
{
//this error will set if the email format is not correct
$_SESSION['error']['email'] = "Your email is not valid.";
}
}
//whether the password is blank
if($_POST['password'] == '')
{
$_SESSION['error']['password'] = "Password is required.";
}
//if the error exist, we will go to registration form
if(isset($_SESSION['error']))
{
header("Location: index.php");
exit;
}
else
{
$username = $_POST['username'];
$email = $_POST['email'];
$password = $_POST['password'];
$com_code = md5(uniqid(rand()));
$sql2 = "INSERT INTO user (username, email, password, com_code) VALUES ('$username', '$email', '$password', '$com_code')";
$result2 = mysqli_query($mysqli,$sql2) or die(mysqli_error());
if($result2)
{
$to = $email;
$subject = "Confirmation for $username";
$header = "Confirmation from";
$message = "Please click the link below to verify and activate your account. rn";
$message .= "http://www.yourname.com/confirm.php?passkey=$com_code";
$sentmail = mail($to,$subject,$message,$header);
if($sentmail)
{
echo "Your confirmation link has been sent to your e-mail address.";
}
else
{
echo "Error while sending confirmation link to your e-mail address";
}
}
}
}
?>
Like I said I've been working on this for a while and I can't seem to figure it out, I assume it's something really simple but since I'm still learning I didn't see it. Thanks for all the help!
