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PHP Building Websites with PHP Contact Form & Sending Email Sending Our Email

Posted by Eduardo Mejía
Eduardo Mejía
36,816 Points

Unsent email.

I'm working with MAMP. When I submit the form, it redirect me to home page but I open my inbox and the mail is not there. This is my code:

<?php
$app->post('/contact', function () use($app){
        $name = $app->request->post("name");
        $email = $app->request->post("email");
        $msg = $app->request->post("msg");

        if (!empty($name) && !empty($email) && !empty($msg)) {
            $cleanName = filter_var($name, FILTER_SANITIZE_STRING);
            $cleanEmail = filter_var($email, FILTER_SANITIZE_EMAIL);
            $cleanMsg = filter_var($msg, FILTER_SANITIZE_STRING);
            //echo $cleanName . "/" . $cleanEmail . "/" . $cleanMsg;
            //exit();
        } else {
            //Message the user that there was a problem
            $app->redirect("/newphp/contact");
        }

        $transport = Swift_SendmailTransport::newInstance("/usr/sbin/sendmail -bs");
        $mailer = \Swift_Mailer::newInstance($transport);

        $message = \Swift_Message::newInstance();
        $message->setSubject("Email from our website");
        $message->setFrom(array(
            $cleanEmail => $cleanName
        ));
        $message->setTo(array("eduardoamf12@gmail.com"));
        $message->setBody($cleanMsg);

        $result = $mailer->send($message);

        #var_dump($result);
        #exit();
        if ($result > 0) {
            $app->redirect("/newphp");
        } else {
            $app->redirect("contact");
        }
    });

    $app->run();
?>

Thank you in advance.

2 Answers

David Tonge
PLUS
David Tonge
Courses Plus Student 45,640 Points
David Tonge
David Tonge
Courses Plus Student 45,640 Points

You won't be able to sent emails unless it's on a server with email handling capabilities. Won't work in MAMP.

Carlos Mendez
Carlos Mendez
6,757 Points

I am using MAMP to serve my PHP environment and I was able to send email to a public email account successfully. I suppose I could have something else running on my machine that makes this work but I generally use MAMP for dev work and don't think the native PHP install is running in the background? Thoughts?

Eduardo Mejía
Eduardo Mejía
36,816 Points
Eduardo Mejía
Eduardo Mejía
36,816 Points

Thanks for answering David. How can I make this possible? Can I send emails from a local environment?