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I'm trying to email the contents of a JS array by encoding using JSON.stringify and then decoding in the PHP which should then be sent via email. I get a success alert that the data is sent to the PHP okay, but the email doesn't come through. Can anybody spot anything glaringly obvious I'm missing/got wrong, please?

Array has been populated via .push function and I can output that fine in the HTML, so I know it's populated.

Using ajax to encode my data string:

dataString = myArray; 

var jsonString = JSON.stringify(dataString);

 $.ajax({
    type: "POST",
    url: "script.php",
    data: {data : jsonString}, 
    cache: false,

    success: function(){
       alert("Success");
    }
});

Then in the PHP:

<?php
$data = json_decode(stripslashes($_POST['data']));

$to = "[email protected]";
$header = "Content-Type: text/html\r\nReply-To";
$subject = "This is my Subject Line";

$body = 
    @"
    <strong>The data is:</strong> $data
    ";


    if(mail($to, $subject, $body, $header)) {
        die("true");    
        } else {
            die("There was an error sending the email.");   
        }
?>

The email doesn't come through at all, and I don't get any error messages at all. Can anybody help, please? Thanks!

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3 Answers

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Probably you don't have a mail server.

What you can do quickly is, go to this link,

http://www.toolheap.com/test-mail-server-tool/

Download the tool. follow the steps to run it.

Then change your code to this to see things that you can do,

<?php
$data = json_decode(stripslashes($_POST['data']));

$to = "[email protected]";
$header = "Content-Type: text/html\r\nReply-To";
$subject = "This is my Subject Line";

$body = 
@"
<strong>The data is:</strong> 
".print_r($data, true) ;


if(mail($to, $subject, $body, $header)) {
    die("true");    
    } else {
        die("There was an error sending the email.");   
    }
?>

I think you will get the value but how you will use it that's your choice.

Cheers.

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Thanks for that - I've ran the tool and no email is getting sent... – Martin Smith Jun 5 at 11:01
I think you haven't configured it properly. You should get the mail locally. You can check it in your local store(configured folder). – Indrajit Das Jun 6 at 5:10
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Has you got a mailserver in the PHP machine?

mail() returns true if the mail is accepted to delivery, but this doesn't mean it's sent at all.

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Yes, the server should be set up correctly as I've sent emails via PHP before! – Martin Smith Jun 5 at 10:29
And where does your program end? At die("true") or at the second die()? – Antonio Jesús Sánchez Padial Jun 5 at 10:40
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First, you can't convert $data array to string directly.

You have to use print_r($data, true) to insert contents of the array into a string

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