sending email from .php

[system]

php newbie here -

• I am trying to send an email from the following .php file on my site:

<? $to = “[email protected]”; $subject = “Hello world!”; $from = “From: [email protected]”; $message = “Hi there, how are you?”; // send the mail: mail($to, $subject, $message, $from); // give notification in the browser: echo “I mailed “ . $to . “
”; echo $from . “
”; echo $subject. “

”; echo $message; ?>

---

I get an error message “unexpected @ on line 2” which I can’t explain.

am I missing something obvious? Thanks!

[JimL]

You are using wrong quotes. You have to use normal single or double quotes.

[size=36pt]“[/size] vs [size=36pt]’[/size] or [size=36pt]"[/size]

And you should not use short tags, change <? to <?php

[benanamen]

The "Wrong Quotes’ are known in programming as back ticks.

In PHP per the documentation: PHP will attempt to execute the contents of the backticks as a shell command. Use of the backtick operator is identical to shell_exec().

In MySQL backticks are used to escape column and table names using Mysql’s reserved words. Using reserved words for naming is just a bad idea to do in the first place.

In punctuation they are known as a grave accent

[JimL]

The "Wrong Quotes’ are known in programming as back ticks.

In MySQL backticks are used to escape column and table names using Mysql’s reserved words. Using reserved words for naming is just a bad idea to do in the first place.

Uh, are you confusing “ with ` ?

[traydavid]

The "Wrong Quotes’ are known in programming as back ticks.

In PHP per the documentation: PHP will attempt to execute the contents of the backticks as a shell command. Use of the backtick operator is identical to shell_exec().

In MySQL backticks are used to escape column and table names using Mysql’s reserved words. Using reserved words for naming is just a bad idea to do in the first place.

In punctuation they are known as a grave accent

so if you sub in the ’ for " in the top section it mails fine.
when you want to print the I mailed to, etc. I think you will need to ‘get’ the info again to echo it.
there may be a way without re-querying the $to, $from etc but I don’t know it right off the top
the email portion works, though if " is replaced with ’

thanks