Is my server able to accept PHP mail calls?

[rickface]

I am trying to debug my flash/php mailer and I want to start at the root, unfortunately i dont know much php.

Does anyone know if there is a way to tell whether or not a server can accept php mail calls by looking at the php info page? (ie - the page displayed by <?php phpinfo(); ?>).

There seems to be a lot of information on that page, i'm just not sure where to look. I would hate to be attempting to debug my flash scripts when it's my server that is the problem.

TIA for you help!

[simplistik]

if you can do phpinfo() then yes... if you're looking for a specific function you have to be more specific... we can't fix a car over the internet if you just tell us it's broken.

[rickface]

if you can do phpinfo() then yes...

Thanks for the reply, I think that's all I needed to know.


if you're looking for a specific function you have to be more specific... we can't fix a car over the internet if you just tell us it's broken.

Yeah, like I said, i dont know much of anything at all about PHP, so that includes specific functions (hence the pretty generic question). While troubleshooting and searching these forums I ran across someone with a similar problem and the suggestion was to "check if the server was capable of receiving PHP mail calls." The only thing I knew about my server is that PHP was installed, i didnt know, since that was the case, that that also meant it could accept PHP mail calls.

The problem turned out to be a parse error in my php file (i forgot a semicolon on line 1....apparently php is much more picky about that than flash is).