.html document, preg_replace() mail php?

<?php

$name = 'John Smith';

//get the file
$content=file_get_contents("yourFile.html");

//now replace whatever you need to replace
$content = str_replace('FIRSTNAME',$name, $content);


//now the emailing part
$to="You@yourcompany.com";
$subject="Testing";

// To send HTML mail, the Content-type header must be set
$headers  = 'MIME-Version: 1.0' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1' . "\r\n";

// Additional headers
$headers .= 'To: Mary <mary@example.com>, Kelly <kelly@example.com>' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'From: Birthday Reminder <birthday@example.com>' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'Cc: birthdayarchive@example.com' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'Bcc: birthdaycheck@example.com' . "\r\n";

// Mail it
mail($to, $subject, $content, $headers);
?>

I am still messin with it. It didnt work straight out of the box. if I can not get it to work in the next few minutes I will post what errors I am receiving
thank you
Brian

save the above example as test.php into the SAME folder where you have "yourFile.html".
Then withing yourFile.html you need to have a "place holder" named "FIRSTNAME" (all in uppercase).

to verify that FIRSTNAME was replaced as expected, after this line:
$content = str_replace('FIRSTNAME',$name, $content);

put:
echo $content;

this is what it says when I try to do it that way. I did incude the info that I need to send an email to the test file. Should I not have? this is the error message


Warning: mail() [function.mail]: Failed to connect to mailserver at "localhost" port 25, verify your "SMTP" and "smtp_port" setting in php.ini or use ini_set() in C:\deadcentre\webroot\mailtest102.php on line 28

any ideas

below is the code that i usually use to send emails from a form i have on one of my sites. can I just add some of the other infor to it?

<?PHP

if(isset($_POST["Submit"]))
{
require("c:\php\includes\class.phpmailer.php");

$mail = new PHPMailer();

////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
// Customize the following 5 lines with your own information. //
////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

$toaddress = "my email"; //Change this to the email address you will be receiving your notices.
$mailhost = "mymail.brinkster.com";  //Change this to your actual Domain name.
$fromaddress = "host email";  //Change this to the email address you will use to send and authenticate with.
$frompwd = "PWD";  //Change this to the above email addresses password.
$subject = "the site has sent you a message";  //Change this to your own email message subject.

//////////////////////////////////////////
// DO NOT CHANGE ANYTHING PAST THIS LINE//
//////////////////////////////////////////

$fromname = $_POST["Tname"];
$question = $_POST["Tquestion"] ;
$rplyto = $_POST["Temail"];
$msgbody = $fromname . "<br>" . $rplyto . "<br>" . $question;

$mail->IsSMTP();
$mail->Host = $mailhost;
$mail->SMTPAuth = true;
$mail->Username = $fromaddress;
$mail->Password = $frompwd;

$mail->From = $fromaddress;
$mail->FromName = $fromname;
$mail->AddReplyTo($rplyto); 
$mail->AddAddress($toaddress); 
$mail->IsHTML(true);
$mail->Subject = $subject;
$mail->Body = $msgbody;
$URL="http://www.MYSITE.html";  header ("Location: $URL");

if(!$mail->Send())
{
   echo "Message could not be sent. <p>";
   echo "Mailer Error: " . $mail->ErrorInfo;
   exit;
}
 
echo "Thank you, your message has been sent!";
}
mail($rplyto, $subject, $msgbody);
?>

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here is the code that gave me the error message.



thank you
B

<?php
include("test2223.php");
include("class.phpmailer.php");
$name = 'John Smith';

//get the file
$content=file_get_contents("thankyouemail.html");

//now replace whatever you need to replace
$content = str_replace('FIRSTNAME',$name, $content);


//now the emailing part
$to="jaxbrian@hotmail.com.com";
$subject="Testing";

// To send HTML mail, the Content-type header must be set
$headers  = 'MIME-Version: 1.0' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1' . "\r\n";

// Additional headers
$headers .= 'From: Birthday Reminder <birthday@example.com>' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'Cc: birthdayarchive@example.com' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'Bcc: birthdaycheck@example.com' . "\r\n";


// Mail it
mail($to, $subject, $content, $headers);
?>

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When I echo $content, it has changed the FIRSTNAME to john smith like you defined. so that part is working great. thank you. I guess I need to figure out why it is not mailing

>>I guess I need to figure out why it is not mailing
Because the machine where the script is running does NOT have a mail SERVER. You will have a remote mail server, which is what your working example does.

<?php
include("test2223.php");

$name = 'John Smith';
//get the file
$msgbody=file_get_contents("thankyouemail.html");

//now replace whatever you need to replace
$msgbody = str_replace('FIRSTNAME',$name, $msgbody);


include("class.phpmailer.php");
////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
// Customize the following 5 lines with your own information. //
////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

$toaddress = "youremail here"; //Change this to the email address you will be receiving your notices.
$mailhost = "mymail.brinkster.com";  //Change this to your actual Domain name.
$fromaddress = "host email";  //Change this to the email address you will use to send and authenticate with.
$frompwd = "PWD";  //Change this to the above email addresses password.
$subject = "the site has sent you a message";  //Change this to your own email message subject.
$fromname="yourname here";

$mail = new PHPMailer();
$mail->IsSMTP();
$mail->Host = $mailhost;
$mail->SMTPAuth = true;
$mail->Username = $fromaddress;
$mail->Password = $frompwd;

$mail->From = $fromaddress;
$mail->FromName = $fromname;

$mail->AddAddress($toaddress); 
$mail->IsHTML(true);
$mail->Subject = $subject;
$mail->Body = $msgbody;






// Mail it
$mail->Send()
?>

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I stuck the $content and string replace stuff into another script i have that sends an email and intom y data base. it did send the email to me but it gave me an error message.

Thank you, your message has been sent!
Warning: mail() [function.mail]: "sendmail_from" not set in php.ini or custom "From:" header missing in C:\deadcentre\webroot\mailtest103.php on line 67

below is the code that I stuck the $content/string replace into. any suggestions to why it is erroring
thanks alot,
B

<?PHP

if(isset($_POST["Submit"]))
{
require("c:\php\includes\class.phpmailer.php");
include("test223.php");
include("test224.php");

$mail = new PHPMailer();



$fromname = htmlspecialchars($_POST["Tname"]);
$question = strip_tags($_POST["Tquestion"]);
$rplyto = htmlspecialchars($_POST["Temail"]);
if (!preg_match("/([\w\-]+\@[\w\-]+\.[\w\-]+)/",$rplyto))
{
    die("E-mail address not valid");
}
$content=file_get_contents("thankyouemail.html");
$content = str_replace('FIRSTNAME',$fromname, $content);

$questions = addslashes($question);
$questions2 = htmlentities($questions);
$cleanquestion = addcslashes($questions2, "a");
$newstring = str_replace(array('=','/','[','/'),array('+','-','_','44'),$cleanquestion);
$msgbody = $content;
wordwrap($question, 50, "<br />\n"); 

$mail->IsSMTP();
$mail->Host = $mailhost;
$mail->SMTPAuth = true;
$mail->Username = $fromaddress;
$mail->Password = $frompwd;


$mail->From = $fromaddress;
$mail->FromName = $fromname;
$mail->AddReplyTo($rplyto); 
$mail->AddAddress($toaddress); 
$mail->IsHTML(true);
$mail->Subject = $subject;
$mail->Body = $msgbody;



if(!$mail->Send())
{
   echo "Message could not be sent. <p>";
   echo "Mailer Error: " . $mail->ErrorInfo;
   exit;
}
 
echo "Thank you, your message has been sent!";
}


$sql="INSERT INTO mytable (name, email, question)
VALUES
('$_POST[Tname]','$_POST[Temail]','$newstring')";
if (!mysql_query($sql,$con))
  {
  die('Error: ' . mysql_error());
  }
mail($rplyto, $subject, $msgbody);


?>

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I am going to award points for this and try a few things out. If i cant get it to work on the other servers I will be back. thanks a bunch you have really help me out in the last few days.


thank you

Brian

thanks a bunch