Email Form

@Hooded_VillianApr 08.2008

This was taken from an example. I copied it to Dreamweaver, saved it as default.php and uploaded it onto my site. Purely to see how it works…

[code=php] <?php

if (isset($_REQUEST[’email’])) //if “email” is filled out, send email { //send email $email = $_REQUEST[’email’] ; $subject = $_REQUEST[‘subject’] ; $message = $_REQUEST[‘message’] ; mail( “[email protected]”, “Subject: $subject”, $message, “From: $email” ); echo “Thank you for using our mail form”; } else //if “email” is not filled out, display the form { echo “<form method=’post’ action=’mailform.php’> Email: <input name=’email’ type=’text’ /><br /> Subject: <input name=’subject’ type=’text’ /><br /> Message:<br /> <textarea name=’message’ rows=’15’ cols=’40’> </textarea><br /> <input type=’submit’ /> </form>”; }

?> [/code]

Once I hit the submit button, I get a mailform.php error. What do I do to get this code to work so that I can see how it runs and then hopefully write my own…

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@mayooresanApr 08.2008 — #Did you save this php file as [B]mailform.php[/B]???

@Hooded_VillianauthorApr 08.2008 — #Nope... I had an HTML page, that I saved as default.php and placed the above code inside of that.

@mayooresanApr 08.2008 — #You must save it as mailform.php

Cz the details are passed to the mailform.php

you can check it in the form tag
<form method='post' action='mailform.php'>[/QUOTE]
action= name of the file where you want to get and process the details of this form

Hope now the problem is solved!

@Hooded_VillianauthorApr 08.2008 — #Because the file is saved as default.php I changed the below line of code from this

<form method='post' action='mailform.php'>
[/QUOTE]

to this

<form method='post' action='default.php'>
[/QUOTE]

And it works... BUT...

mail( "[email protected]", "Subject: $subject",[/QUOTE]

When I changed that line to my own email address, it still doesn't come through.

@TriZzApr 08.2008 — #Hey, I'm not a PHP expert, but I saw this thread earlier (like two posts down from yours) that had a similar problem about halfway down the page.

http://www.webdeveloper.com/forum/showthread.php?t=178313

Try that out, it may work for you like it did for them.

@Hooded_VillianauthorApr 08.2008 — #mail($to, $sub, $mes, $headers) or die ("There was an Error with Sending Mail via PHP."); [/QUOTE]

I saw from another thread that they added an "or die" function... Where would I put it in the script Im busy using, above?

@Hooded_VillianauthorApr 08.2008 — #Thanks Trizz... I'll give it a bash.

@Hooded_VillianauthorApr 08.2008 — #Still can't get this thing to work!!!

@TriZzApr 08.2008 — #Sorry Hooded_Villian. I've got my own simple question here...I just figured I'd refer you to there since I had seen it earlier. Best of luck to you with the future responses from people much better at this stuff than I.

@mayooresanApr 09.2008 — #Still can't get this thing to work!!![/QUOTE]
can you show me your code?

I try my best to help!

@mayooresanApr 09.2008 — #<?php

if (isset($_REQUEST['email']))

//if "email" is filled out, send email

{

//send email

$email = $_REQUEST['email'] ;

$subject = $_REQUEST['subject'] ;

$message = $_REQUEST['message'] ;

mail( "[email protected]", "Subject: $subject",

$message, "From: $email" );

echo "Thank you for using our mail form";

}

else

//if "email" is not filled out, display the form

{

echo "<form method='post' action='mail.php'>

Email: <input name='email' type='text' /><br />

Subject: <input name='subject' type='text' /><br />

Message:<br />

<textarea name='message' rows='15' cols='40'>

</textarea><br />

<input type='submit' />

</form>";

}

?>[/QUOTE]
I tried this code and it's perfectly working for me!!!

@Hooded_VillianauthorApr 09.2008 — #Dunno wtf is going on, but still cant get this thing to work...

Gonna go thru it step by step:

Go the the website I am studying from.

http://www.w3schools.com/php/php_mail.asp[/QUOTE]

Copy, Cut, Paste the script, below, from the website, to Dreamweaver.

[code=php]if (isset($_REQUEST['email']))
 //if "email" is filled out, send email
 {
 //send email
 $email = $_REQUEST['email'] ; 
 $subject = $_REQUEST['subject'] ;
 $message = $_REQUEST['message'] ;
 mail( "[email protected]", "Subject: $subject",
 $message, "From: $email" );
 echo "Thank you for using our mail form";
 }
 else
 //if "email" is not filled out, display the form
 {
 echo "<form method='post' action='mailform.php'>
 Email: <input name='email' type='text' /><br />
 Subject: <input name='subject' type='text' /><br />
 Message:<br />
 <textarea name='message' rows='15' cols='40'>
 </textarea><br />
 <input type='submit' />
 </form>";
 }
 [/code]

Change the lines, below, to what I need them to be.

mail( "[email protected]", "Subject: $subject", $message, "From: $email" );[/QUOTE]
echo "<form method='post' action='default.php'>[/QUOTE]

Save as default.php and upload to www.myowntestpage.com

Let's see if it works this time round.

@mayooresanApr 09.2008 — #Seems ok, It should work now... check and tell me!

@Hooded_VillianauthorApr 09.2008 — #O... Thats interesting. Now the form doesn't even show up.

*Puts gun to head*

@Hooded_VillianauthorApr 09.2008 — #Right... Im border line giving up here. Dunno what else to do... Got everything up and running. Even put my spam filter on my hotmail account on low, and still... It says the form has been sent but nothing comes thru to my email account.

So, a friend of mine suggests this.

$TEST = mail( "[email protected]", "Subject: $subject", $message, "From: $email" ); echo $TEST;[/QUOTE]

So I do it, and get the result of number 1. Which I am assuming is true.

@mayooresanApr 09.2008 — #

[code=php]<?php
 if (isset($_REQUEST['email']))
 //if "email" is filled out, send email
 {
 //send email
 $email = $_REQUEST['email'] ;
 $subject = $_REQUEST['subject'] ;
 $message = $_REQUEST['message'] ;
 mail( "[email protected]", "Subject: $subject",
 $message, "From: $email" );
 echo "Thank you for using our mail form";
 }
 else
 //if "email" is not filled out, display the form
 {
 echo "<form method='post' action='mail.php'>
 Email: <input name='email' type='text' /><br />
 Subject: <input name='subject' type='text' /><br />
 Message:<br />
 <textarea name='message' rows='15' cols='40'>
 </textarea><br />
 <input type='submit' />
 </form>";
 }
 
 ?>[/code]

save this code as mail.php!!

and then try to send the mail!!! this code is working for me.. if your hotmail is not receiving the mail try with another account.. it's working for my gmail account!!!

Don't give up!!

@Hooded_VillianauthorApr 09.2008 — #

[code=php]<?php
 
 if (isset($_REQUEST['email']))
 //if "email" is filled out, send email
 {
 //send email
 $email = $_REQUEST['email'] ; 
 $subject = $_REQUEST['subject'] ;
 $message = $_REQUEST['message'] ;
 mail( "[email protected]", "Subject: $subject",
 $message, "From: $email" );
 echo "Thanks for using this form";
 }
 else
 //if "email" is not filled out, display the form
 {
 echo "<form method='post' action='mail.php'>
 Email: <input name='email' type='text' /><br />
 Subject: <input name='subject' type='text' /><br />
 Message:<br />
 <textarea name='message' rows='15' cols='40'>
 </textarea><br />
 <input type='submit' />
 </form>";
 }
 
 ?>[/code]

I created a gmail account and saved the damn thing as mail.php. Then I went to my hotmail account and sent two emails to the gmail account, and those came through right away.

Wonder if its got something to do with my hosting company. I am using fasthosts.co.uk.

@Hooded_VillianauthorApr 09.2008 — #Just as I thought.

Email sent from scripts must be from or to a Fasthosts-hosted email address.[/QUOTE]

@Hooded_VillianauthorApr 09.2008 — #You can find the help you need in our knowledge base article "Email sent from scripts must be from or to a Fasthosts-hosted email address" at:

http://www.fasthosts.co.uk/knowledge-base/?article_id=1077

On our windows server you will need to define this command at the top of the script :

ini_set("sendmail_from", " [email][email protected][/email] ");

Thanks again for contacting us.
[/QUOTE]

This is getting really confusing now...

@Hooded_VillianauthorApr 09.2008 — #OMW... IT FREAKING WORKS!!!!!!!!!!

What a mission...

Thanks for all your help. Trust me... I'll be back real soon!!!

@TheLanyardApr 09.2008 — #EDIT: Whoops...you got it working. Now how do I delete this?

@mayooresanApr 10.2008 — #anyway you got it work..huh? thats the spirit!! good luck!

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