Concatenate mail subject in PHP mailer

Question

I have a form for users to submit their inquiry which will be sent as an email. As users are able to select their inquiry type, i wish to concatenate the inquiry type into the subject of the email.

$formname = "Website Inquiry Form";
$inquirytype = "Books";
$mail->Subject = $formname . ' - ' . $inquirytype;

When I submitted the form, I got this error, Mailer Error: SMTP Error: data not accepted.

Any advise? Thanks.

After 3 seconds of googling: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15880042/phpmailer-the-following-smtp-error-data-not-accepted — mario.van.zadel, Sep 10 '15 at 08:04
there is nothing wrong in your concatenation. Problem is elsewhere. — iiro, Sep 10 '15 at 08:18

Leena Patel · Answer 1 · 2015-09-10T08:11:19.747

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Just declare one variable subject

$subject = $formname.'-'.$inquirytype;
$mail->Subject = $subject;

edited Sep 10 '15 at 08:11

answered Sep 10 '15 at 08:09

Leena Patel

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Abdulla Nilam · Accepted Answer · 2015-09-10T08:13:28.997

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Read about Basic Example using SMTP
and look at this too

do like this

$sub = $formname.'-'.$inquirytype;
$mail->Subject = $sub;

to add body text use

$mail->Body = 'I'm Body text';

Basic of use

$mail->SMTPAuth   = true;                  // enable SMTP authentication
$mail->Host       = "mail.yourdomain.com"; // sets the SMTP server
$mail->Port       = 25;                    // set the SMTP port for the GMAIL server
$mail->Username   = "yourname@yourdomain"; // SMTP account username
$mail->Password   = "yourpassword";        // SMTP account password

$mail->SetFrom('name@yourdomain.com', 'First Last');

$mail->AddReplyTo("name@yourdomain.com","First Last");

$mail->Subject    = "PHPMailer Test Subject via smtp, basic wi

edited Sep 10 '15 at 08:13

answered Sep 10 '15 at 08:07

Abdulla Nilam

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I tried the first example but it still doesn't work. i think the issue lies with the concatenation but i need to join the two variables together. Tried googling but do not have any solution. – Spiral1ng Sep 10 '15 at 08:22
that should work check did you include all part of it – Abdulla Nilam Sep 10 '15 at 08:23
i tried using $mail->Subject = $formname; and $mail->Subject = $inquirytype; both worked perfectly. but once there is a . in the Subject, i get the error. – Spiral1ng Sep 10 '15 at 08:26
@user558085 try this `$sub = "$formname $inquirytype";` and tell works or not – Abdulla Nilam Sep 10 '15 at 08:30
it works half the time, i'm suspecting its the SMTP configuration. T_T – Spiral1ng Sep 10 '15 at 09:00

Concatenate mail subject in PHP mailer

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