[Chapter 11 - Sanitizing Functions And Valid Email Formats]

Hi Larry

After running the example provided on page 460 section 11 I get the following error:

Warning: 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:\html\xperiment\raw-js\modern-js\ch-11\resources\contact.php on line 2

 

Here is my Code:

<?php # Script 13.3 - login.php
mail('jack.ui.maynard@gmail.com', 'Contact form Submission', $body, $from);

?>The message has been sent.

 

And here is my php.ini file : smtp section

[mail function]
; For Win32 only.
; http://php.net/smtp
SMTP = localhost
 http://php.net/smtp-port
smtp_port = 25

; For Win32 only.
; http://php.net/sendmail-from
sendmail_from = you@yourdomain

; For Unix only.  You may supply arguments as well (default: "sendmail -t -i").
; http://php.net/sendmail-path
;sendmail_path =

; 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 =

; Add X-PHP-Originating-Script: that will include uid of the script followed by the filename
mail.add_x_header = On

; Log all mail() calls including the full path of the script, line #, to address and headers
;mail.log =

 

CAn you please advise what I have to do.

 

Thank you.