I have a web site and every time I try to set up a user account I get this error message.

Fatal error:call to undefind function:mail()in/home/Filenet/public_html/includes/Email.php on line 5

Can anybody tell me what this error means and maybe how to fix it ?


Thanks for your time

I'm no PHP master but I would say that you are trying to call a function that has either not been declared or that the particualr page does not reference the php file that contains the function.

whatever file contains the function mail should be added to the top of email.php as:

[php]
<?php
include_once ("file.php"); //replace file.php with file containing the mail function
?>

You may also want to post your code if this doesn't help.

Thanks for your help.

The mail() function can be seen from any page. It is a global function in PHP. So that shouldn't be the problem. I have got this error before on a local set up webserver.The reason was because I didn't have the smtp server set up on the webserver as well. So with out a server to send the email out on it wont work. If this website is being hosted for you they may not allow this function to be used as well. Some web hosts that are free or cheap don't support this service do to the bandwidth and other factors.