PHP: PEAR mail help

Question

I'm trying out the mail pear package. It successfully sends an email but give me the following error:

Strict Standards: Non-static method Mail::factory() should not be called statically, assuming $this from incompatible context in C:\Program Files (x86)\Apache Software Foundation\Apache2.2\htdocs\ClientPortal\classes\SupportTickets.php on line 356  Strict Standards: Non-static method PEAR::isError() should not be called statically, assuming $this from incompatible context in C:\PHP\PEAR\Mail\smtp.php on line 365  Strict Standards: Non-static method PEAR::isError() should not be called statically, assuming $this from incompatible context in C:\PHP\PEAR\Net\SMTP.php on line 386  Strict Standards: Non-static method PEAR::isError() should not be called statically, assuming $this from incompatible context in C:\PHP\PEAR\Net\SMTP.php on line 391  Strict Standards: Non-static method PEAR::isError() should not be called statically, assuming $this from incompatible context in C:\PHP\PEAR\Net\SMTP.php on line 398  Strict Standards: Non-static method PEAR::isError() should not be called statically, assuming $this from incompatible context in C:\PHP\PEAR\Net\SMTP.php on line 441  Strict Standards: Non-static method PEAR::isError() should not be called statically, assuming $this from incompatible context in C:\PHP\PEAR\Net\SMTP.php on line 230  Strict Standards: Non-static method PEAR::isError() should not be called statically, assuming $this from incompatible context in C:\PHP\PEAR\Net\SMTP.php on line 445  Strict Standards: Non-static method PEAR::isError() should not be called statically, assuming $this from incompatible context in C:\PHP\PEAR\Mail\smtp.php on line 376  Strict Standards: Non-static method PEAR::isError() should not be called statically, assuming $this from incompatible context in C:\PHP\PEAR\Net\SMTP.php on line 526  Strict Standards: Non-static method PEAR::isError() should not be called statically, assuming $this from incompatible context in C:\PHP\PEAR\Net\SMTP.php on line 230  Strict Standards: Non-static method PEAR::isError() should not be called statically, assuming $this from incompatible context in C:\PHP\PEAR\Net\SMTP.php on line 529  Strict Standards: Non-static method PEAR::isError() should not be called statically, assuming $this from incompatible context in C:\PHP\PEAR\Net\SMTP.php on line 532  Strict Standards: Non-static method PEAR::isError() should not be called statically, assuming $this from incompatible context in C:\PHP\PEAR\Net\SMTP.php on line 441  Strict Standards: Non-static method PEAR::isError() should not be called statically,  assuming $this from incompatible context in C:\PHP\PEAR\Net\SMTP.php on line 230  Strict Standards: Non-static method PEAR::isError() should not be called statically, assuming $this from incompatible context in C:\PHP\PEAR\Net\SMTP.php on line 445  Strict Standards: Non-static method PEAR::isError() should not be called statically, assuming $this from incompatible context in C:\PHP\PEAR\Net\SMTP.php on line 550  Strict Standards: Non-static method PEAR::isError() should not be called statically, assuming $this from incompatible context in C:\PHP\PEAR\Net\SMTP.php on line 694  Strict Standards: Non-static method PEAR::isError() should not be called statically, assuming $this from incompatible context in C:\PHP\PEAR\Net\SMTP.php on line 230  Strict Standards: Non-static method PEAR::isError() should not be called statically, assuming $this from incompatible context in C:\PHP\PEAR\Net\SMTP.php on line 698  Strict Standards: Non-static method PEAR::isError() should not be called statically, assuming $this from incompatible context in C:\PHP\PEAR\Net\SMTP.php on line 706   Strict Standards: Non-static method PEAR::isError() should not be called statically, assuming $this from incompatible context in C:\PHP\PEAR\Net\SMTP.php on line 230  Strict Standards: Non-static method PEAR::isError() should not be called statically, assuming $this from incompatible context in C:\PHP\PEAR\Net\SMTP.php on line 1017  Strict Standards: Non-static method PEAR::isError() should not be called statically, assuming $this from incompatible context in C:\PHP\PEAR\Net\SMTP.php on line 415  Strict Standards: Non-static method PEAR::isError() should not be called statically, assuming $this from incompatible context in C:\PHP\PEAR\Net\SMTP.php on line 230   Strict Standards: Non-static method PEAR::isError() should not be called statically, assuming $this from incompatible context in C:\Program Files (x86)\Apache Software Foundation\Apache2.2\htdocs\ClientPortal\classes\SupportTickets.php on line 364 Message successfully sent! 

Here's my code:

function submitTicket(){       $from = "Billy Jones <[email protected]>";      $to = "helpdesk <[email protected]>";      $subject = "Email Test!";      $body = "email test body";       $host = "***";      $username = "***";      $password = "**********";       $headers = array ('From' => $from,        'To' => $to,        'Subject' => $subject);      $smtp = Mail::factory('smtp',        array ('host' => $host,          'auth' => true,          'username' => $username,          'password' => $password));       $mail = $smtp->send($to, $headers, $body);       if (PEAR::isError($mail)) {        echo("<p>" . $mail->getMessage() . "</p>");       } else {        echo("<p>Message successfully sent!</p>");       }  } 

Can some one help me out here?

Answer 1

I asked the same question over here, and found a real solution (instead of masking errors). Read the answer to the question below for more details, but basically just follow the three edits below.

How to not call a function statically in php?

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Find php/pear/Mail.php, go to line 74 and change:

function &factory($driver, $params = array()) 

to

static function &factory($driver, $params = array()) 

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Also in php/pear/Mail.php go to line 253 and change:

$addresses = Mail_RFC822::parseAddressList($recipients, 'localhost', false); 

to

$Mail_RFC822 = new Mail_RFC822(); $addresses = $Mail_RFC822->parseAddressList($recipients, 'localhost', false); 

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Find php/pear/PEAR.php, go to line 250 and change:

function isError($data, $code = null) 

to

static function isError($data, $code = null) 

Thanks for Amal for showing how to fix this!

Answer 2

The strict errors do not prevent the code from working.

Just set the error reporting setting to E_ALL & ~E_STRICT and they will magically disappear.