Error connecting external SMTP server

Here I am with some quick solution, if you are sending email connecting to external smtp server like smtp.gmail.com you may have to consider to check 2 options.

1. Check smtp ports are open or make sure its not block:
Open your WHM and go to "ConfigServer Security & Firewall" and Edit the configuration file for the csf firewall and lfd or click on "Firewall Configuration" locate SMTP_PORTS and make sure porst are open (Ex: 25,465,587)

2. Check smtp allowed users are added in the list or Always allow the following comma separated users and groups to bypass SMTP_BLOCK
Open your WHM and go to "ConfigServer Security & Firewall" and Edit the configuration file for the csf firewall and lfd or click on "Firewall Configuration" locate SMTP_ALLOWUSER and add the cpanel username (Ex: cpanel, )

Save the changes & you restart both csf and lfd.

In anyway if this one helps you, please make a comment & share in your post

Thank you.
Saf

UPDATE:
This is really strange, new problem rise everyday and we have to find solution, codes are also same like life now.

“Password not accepted from server: 535 Incorrect authentication data” when sending with GMail and phpMailer

using CentOs 6 Login to CPanel > Tweak Settings > All> "Restrict outgoing SMTP to root, exim, and mailman (FKA SMTP Tweak)" <== disable it.

Reference:  http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14297264/password-not-accepted-from-server-535-incorrect-authentication-data-when-send

How to read folder names/ file names in PHP

1. How to read folder name in PHP

$folderpath = "./FOLDER-NAME/*";

foreach(glob($folderpath, GLOB_ONLYDIR) as $foldername){

/* Do your magic here */

echo $foldername;

}

Don't forget to add '/*' after your folder name
2. How to read file names in a folder in PHP

$folderpath = "./FOLDER-NAME/*.*";

foreach(glob($folderpath) as $filename){

/* Do your magic here */

echo $filename;

}

Don't forget to add '/*.*' after your folder name

Might you will complain that it is reading the whole path, not the folder/ filename you want to get at the end. So follow this trick. :)

$folderpath = "./FOLDER-NAME/*";

foreach(glob($folderpath, GLOB_ONLYDIR) as $foldername){

$newFolderName = str_replace("./FOLDER-NAME/", '', $foldername);

echo $newFolderName;

}

TaDa !!!!

How to use the same MySQL query again and again

Actually, what we going to do is to move the internal row pointer to re-query. For this, Im going to use the mysql function mysql_data_seek().

The internal row pointer is the current row position in a result returned by the mysql_query() function.

$sql    = "SELECT * FROM tbl_data";
$result = mysql_query($sql,$con);

while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)) {
   /* Show your data here*/
}

/* Call the result info again*/

mysql_data_seek($result,0); 

//  you can change the 0 into any number. From this, it will control from which row number you want to start the query again.

while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)) {
   /* Show your data for the 2nd time */
}

Getting the first letters of text using PHP [SafGetFirstLetters]

It is always better to make small small functions and keep a library, I was collecting all my experimental functions since I am in to PHP.

I wanted to take first letters from a line of text and realized that I have to use this for many places. Yesterday I have made a new one "SafGetFirstLetters"?

What does it do?
Example Text: This Is A Example Text Line
Output: TTIAETL

SafGetFirstLetters("Lagoon Water Villa with Private Pool", 5)
will return: "LWVwP"
5 is the limit of the text I have asked from function to return.

function SafGetFirstLetters($Text,$MaxChr){
 $TextArray = explode(" ",$Text);
 $WordCount = count($TextArray);
 if ($WordCount) {
  $MakeText='';
  for ($i_a = 0; $i_a < $WordCount; $i_a++) {
   $MakeText = $MakeText . substr($TextArray[$i_a],0,1);
  }
 }
 if ($MaxChr) {
  return substr($MakeText,0,$MaxChr);
 }else{
  return $MakeText;
 }
}

If you like it please comment.
Thanks.
Safras Ahamed

How Get Number of Days in a Month in PHP

Extracted from PHP.net

function days_in_month($month, $year)  { 
return $month == 2 ? 
($year % 4 ? 28 : ($year % 100 ? 29 : ($year % 400 ? 28 : 29))) : 
(($month - 1) % 7 % 2 ? 30 : 31); 
}

echo days_in_month(YOUR_MONTH,YOUR_YEAR);

More Simple way by a SafFunction

function days_in_month($month,$year) {
return date('t',mktime(0,0,0,$month,1,$year));
}

echo days_in_month(YOUR_MONTH,YOUR_YEAR);

SafSendMailV2: A function to send mail using php

I started to make and collect my own function since 2001 and SafSendMail I made it in 2002 for a project where there was lots of mail sending option. If I want to send a mail I have to write whole lot and I didn't like it. Created SafSendMail so that I can send mail as I want using a single line.

Later I made SafSendMailV2 supporting HTML and other stuff as you can see, if any mail sent using V2 it will also record From-IP & From-File. Using this you can Identify different things.

function SafSendMailV2(
 $MYRECIPIENTE_EMAIL,
 $MYRECIPIENTE_NAME,
 $MYFROM_NAME,
 $MYFROM_EMAIL,
 $MYSUBJECT,
 $MYBODY,
 $MYHTML,
 $REMOTE_ADDR,
 $PHP_SELF){
 $MYRECIPIENTE_EMAIL  = "$MYRECIPIENTE_EMAIL";
 if ($MYHTML==true) {
  $MYHEADERS = "From: $MYFROM_NAME <$MYFROM_EMAIL>\r\n";
  $MYHEADERS .= "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";
  $MYHEADERS .= "Content-Type: text/html; charset=windows-1256\r\n";
  $MYHEADERS .= "Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64\r\n";
  $MYHEADERS .= "From-IP: $REMOTE_ADDR\r\n";
  $MYHEADERS .= "From-File: $PHP_SELF\r\n";
  $MYHEADERS .= chunk_split(base64_encode("$MYBODY"));
  mail("$MYRECIPIENTE_EMAIL", "$MYSUBJECT", "", $MYHEADERS);
 }else{
  $MYHEADERS = "From: $MYFROM_NAME <$MYFROM_EMAIL>\r\n";
  $MYHEADERS .= "From-IP: $REMOTE_ADDR\r\n";
  $MYHEADERS .= "From-File: $PHP_SELF";
  mail("$MYRECIPIENTE_EMAIL", "$MYSUBJECT", "$MYBODY", $MYHEADERS);
 }
}

How to use?

SafSendMailV2("Recipiente@domain.com","Recipiente Name","Your Name","Your Email","Subject",$MYBODY,true,$REMOTE_ADDR,$PHP_SELF)

PHP Date Functions with SafDate Functions

This is a set of small functions I use, this will make my life easy, no need to remember all the variables at date() function and you can make some predefined functions that you use always.













saf.date.functions.php

<?php
//Pass 2007-01-22 as date and output  as January 22, 2007
function SafDate1V2($date){
    list($y,$m,$d) = explode("-",$date);
    $mycooldate = date("F d, Y",mktime(0, 0, 0, $m, $d, $y));
    return $mycooldate;
}
//Pass 2007-01-22 as date and output  as Jan 22, 2007
function SafDate2V2($date){
    list($y,$m,$d) = explode("-",$date);
    $mycooldate = date("M d, Y",mktime(0, 0, 0, $m, $d, $y));
    return $mycooldate;

}
//Pass 2007-01-22 as date and output  as Jan 22, 07
function SafDate3V2($date){
    list($y,$m,$d) = explode("-",$date);
    $mycooldate = date("M d, y",mktime(0, 0, 0, $m, $d, $y));
    return $mycooldate;
}
//Pass 2007-01-22 as date and output as Sunday Jan 22, 2007
function SafDate4V2($date){
    list($y,$m,$d) = explode("-",$date);
    $mycooldate = date("l M d, Y",mktime(0, 0, 0, $m, $d, $y));
    return $mycooldate;
}
?>

<?php
//Pass 2007-01-22 as date and output as Sun, Jan 22, 2007
function SafDate5V2($date){
    list($y,$m,$d) = explode("-",$date);
    $mycooldate = @date("D, M d, Y",mktime(0, 0, 0, $m, $d, $y));
    return $mycooldate;
}
?>