Confirmation Email PHP Sender

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Thank you guys,
Is there anyway to use a different code then exit? If I use echo then exit it shows the echo notice event if it was successful. How can I make it show the failure notice?

$userEmail = filter_var( $_POST['email'],FILTER_VALIDATE_EMAIL );

echo 'Were sorry, something went wrong. 
Please go back.';  

if( ! $userEmail ){

    exit;
} 

The notice needs to be in the same block as the exit command - after all, you only want to tell them "something went wrong" if something went wrong.

$userEmail = filter_var( $_POST['email'],FILTER_VALIDATE_EMAIL );

if( ! $userEmail ){
    // something went wrong.

    // tell the user.
    echo 'Were sorry, something went wrong. 
        Please go back.';  

    // make the script end here.
    exit;
} 

I would suggest something more useful than "Please go back" - send them to an actual error page, for example, or show them the form again (with error message(s) included). It's a little more complicated to set up, but it's a lot nicer for all concerned.

For example:

if( ! $userEmail ){
    header( "Location: http://example.com/contact-page-with-error-message.php" );
    exit;
} 

[Deadweight]

Fyi you will need to set up a SMTP if you haven't set one up.

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Fyi you will need to set up a SMTP if you haven't set one up.

Please read through the entire thread before replying. The OP is using PHP's mail() function, which simply uses whatever mail program the host enables (usually sendmail). An SMTP server or account is not required (in fact, SMTP is generally not even supported).