sending mail using php and pear on windows

Question

I am trying to send an e-mail using php script but i am getting errors this is my code.i am using xampp netbeans and windows. and i included pear in the php.ini file but still having thies errors any ideas

 require_once "Mail.php";

                            $from = "[e-mail]";
                            $to = "'$email'";
                            $subject = "Online book store information";
                            $body = "This is your Id '$userID' click <a href =../index.php > here </a> to change to go to the website "; //todo change URL to make it work when it is online

                            $host = "ssl://smtp.gmail.com";
                            $port = "993";
                            $host = "smtp.gmail.com";
                            $username = "[e-mail]";
                            $password = "";

                            $headers = array('From' => $from,
                                'To' => $to,
                                'Subject' => $subject);
                            $smtp = Mail::factory('smtp', array('host' => $host,
                                        'port' => $port,
                                        '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>");
                            }

and this is the errors i am getting :

Strict Standards: Non-static method Mail::factory() should not be called statically in C:\xampp\htdocs\OnlineBookStore\Store\Register.php on line 85

Strict Standards: Non-static method PEAR::isError() should not be called statically, assuming $this from incompatible context in C:\xampp\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:\xampp\php\PEAR\Net\SMTP.php on line 450

Strict Standards: Non-static method PEAR::isError() should not be called statically, assuming $this from incompatible context in C:\xampp\php\PEAR\Net\SMTP.php on line 467

Answer 1

I just ran into the same problem and solved it using:

@require_once "Mail.php";
...
$smtp = @Mail::factory('smtp', array('host' => $host,
                                        'port' => $port,
                                        'auth' => true,
                                        'username' => $username,
                                        'password' => $password));
$mail = @$smtp->send($to, $headers, $body);
if (@PEAR::isError($mail)) {

Notice that I prepended an @ to all pear / mail calls.

I prefer this solution to changing the general error message settings as I don't want to see the pear / mail warnings but I do want to see the ones that apply to my own code.

Answer 2

Yes jeroens method doesn't show the warning messages, but does it actually solve the problem? apprehending @ just hides the warning associated with it.

To fix the problem in Mail.php modify the following

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

Change it to

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

Reason for this error is because PEAR Mail has not been updated to PHP5 Standards and still uses PHP4 so gradually as servers become PHP5 Compliant this will become more frequent. Its better to fix rather than hide.

Hope this helps