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Jul 31.2006

Hi, I’m new here, looks like a great forum!
Hope someone can help. I’ve been trying to create a form for my site and have been working on the following but I keep getting a parse error.
I created the form and placed it in my public folder and titled it as form.html, then I added the php script and placed that in the same public folder. Creating the php script within my public folder, I was given the following options on what I wanted to create: text document, html document, perl script, shell script. Not having an option for php I chose text. I then created the script and saved it as mailer.php
This is how I started the php script:
<?PHP
$to = “myemailplacedhere”;
$subject = “Results from your request form”;
$headers = “From: Form Mailer”;
$forward = 1;
$location = “thankyou.html”;

## set up the time ##

This is the action that I placed in my form:
<form action=”mailer.php” method=”post”>
I know my host supports php because they offer an option of having a chat forum in php Thoughts on where I went wrong?

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@Doc_ThirstJul 31.2006 — If you don't mind, post both your <form> and the complete mailer.php. This is prob an easy fix. We just need to see it all. Of course be sure to exit out your connection and personal info.
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@ms_khwauthorJul 31.2006 — Thanks for your kind response. This is what I put together:

My form, saved as form.html

[code=html]<html>
<head>
<title>Form</title>
</head>
<body>
<form action="mailer.php" method="post">
<p>Name:
<input type="text" name="textfield">
</p>
<p>Email:
<input type="text" name="textfield2">
</p>
<p align="left">Comments:</p>
<p align="left">
<textarea name="textarea"></textarea>
</p>
<p align="left">
<input type="submit" name="Submit" value="Submit">
&nbsp;&nbsp;
<input type="reset" name="Submit2" value="Reset">
</p>
</form>
</body>
</html>[/code]

[code=php]<?PHP
$to = "[email protected]";
$subject = "Results from your request form";
$headers = "From: Form Mailer";
$forward = 1;
$location = "thankyou.html";
## set up the time ##

$date = date ("l, F jS, Y");
$time = date ("h:i A");

## mail the message ##

$msg = "Below is the result of your feedback form. It was submitted on $date at $time.nn";

if ($_SERVER['REQUEST_METHOD'] == "POST") {
foreach ($_POST as $key => $value) {
$msg .= ucfirst ($key) ." : ". $value . "n";
}
}
else {
foreach ($_GET as $key => $value) {
$msg .= ucfirst ($key) ." : ". $value . "n";
}
}

mail($to, $subject, $msg, $headers);
if ($forward == 1) {
header ("Location:$location");
}
else {
echo "Thank you for submitting our form. We will get back to you as soon as possible.";
}

?>[/code]
As I said in my earlier post, I had no other option but to select the file for editing as a text file, whether that makes any difference I don't know. But I did save it as mailer.php and placed it in my public folder where I had placed the form.

Thank you
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@bokehJul 31.2006 — Please edit your posts and encapsulate all the code between php tags. All you need to do is highlight the code and press the php button.
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@NogDogJul 31.2006 — What is the exact error message you get? Does it reference a line number in the file, and if so make sure to indicate to us which line it is.

I don't see any obvious syntax errors, but the value for "From:" in the $header variable should be a valid email address, not a name.
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@ms_khwauthorAug 01.2006 — This is the parse error:

Parse error: parse error, unexpected '<' in /home/[I]my user id shows here[/I]/public_html/mailer.php on line 2
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@ms_khwauthorAug 01.2006 — I've solved the problem! All is a-ok.
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