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Posted by Ryan Lockhart
Ryan Lockhart
Courses Plus Student 1,685 Points

Stuck and Confused - Contact Form

Problem: Cannot get contact form submissions sent to my website email.

I have reviewed the Contact form videos several times in the Simple php website series. I further followed Randy's advice in his blog, went through step by step. Signed up for Postmark and followed those instructions to set up a server.

When I FTP my contact.php file to my web server I immediately get a fatal error. But when I take out the 

$mail->IsSMTP();
$mail->SMTPAuth = true;

the page renders fine, but unable to send an email. Looking for help on this, on day 6 of frustration.

Here's a link to my current code with the email addresses and username/password taken out.

I hope Randy or Staff find this message, in need of help!

-Ryan

1 Answer

Randy Hoyt
STAFF
Randy Hoyt
Treehouse Guest Teacher
Randy Hoyt
Randy Hoyt
Treehouse Guest Teacher

On line 3, you call the IsSMTP method on an object called $mail, like this:

$mail->IsSMTP();

I think the problem is that the $mail object doesn't exist yet! You create it on line 34, like this:

$mail = new PHPMailer();

You are getting the error at line 3 because you are calling a method (IsSMTP) that doesn't exist on the $mail variable. Try moving the code you currently have at line 3-8 down after the code you currently have at line 34, like this:

$mail = new PHPMailer();
$mail->IsSMTP();
$mail->SMTPAuth = true;
$mail->Host = "smtp.postmarkapp.com";
$mail->Port = 25;
$mail->Username = "@$@$@@$@@@$$@@";
$mail->Password = "@$@$@$@$@$@$@@";

Does that help?

Ryan Lockhart
Ryan Lockhart
Courses Plus Student 1,685 Points

Randy,

Thanks for the response! I made the changes mentioned and the page does load correctly. However, I am now getting this error "There was a problem sending the email: SMTP Connect() failed."

Will the require_once("inc/phpmailer/class.phpmailer.php"); also call on the class.smtp.php file?

Possibly because the username / password ? Am I supposed to be using the one to log into my Postmark account, correct?

-Ryan

Ryan Lockhart
Ryan Lockhart
Courses Plus Student 1,685 Points

I should have read the fine print, I had to change the username and password to the API key provided by Postmark.

Getting a correct thank you message on the contact.php site, but still no email.

At least I am headed in the right direction!!