Forms Headache

@luke2125Nov 20.2008

Hi,

I hope someone can help or lead me in the right direction. I have like 6 Forms that need to process, each with different field names. Now, I’m looking to use a general script that will take fields and send them vial E-mail to correct e-mail addess. Example: Newsletter form with different fields, and now I would like a newsletter.php to process the data and send via e-mail:

[code=php]<?php $Contact_FirstName = $_POST[‘Contact_FirstName’] ; $Contact_LastName = $_POST[‘Contact_LastName’] ; $Contact_MiddleInitial = $_POST[‘Contact_MiddleInitial’] ; $Contact_StreetAddress = $_POST[‘Contact_StreetAddress’] ; $Contact_Address2 = $_POST[‘Contact_Address2’] ; $Contact_City = $_POST[‘Contact_City’] ; $Contact_State = $_POST[‘Contact_State’] ; $Contact_ZipCode = $_POST[‘Contact_ZipCode’] ; $Contact_Country = $_POST[‘Contact_Country’] ; $Contact_HomePhone = $_POST[‘Contact_HomePhone’] ; $Contact_Email = $_POST[‘Contact_Email’] ; $Receive_By_US_Mail = $_POST[‘Receive_By_US_Mail’] ; $Receive_By_Email = $_POST[‘Receive_By_Email’] ; $msg=”Your name: ” . $_POST[‘Contact_FirstName’] . “n”; $msg=”Your email: ” . $_POST[‘Contact_Email’]. “n”; $headers=”From: ” . $_POST[‘Contact_Email’]; mail(“[email protected]”, “Newsletter Sign In”,$msg, $headers); ?> [/code]

After I press the submit button, and I go to the destination e-mail nothing has arrived. Also, I’m doing this for site, and I’m working on it through a dedicated IP Address, since the domain name has been pointed yet to the hosting server…..I’ve also looking to add a re-direct code to take me to another page. I understand that one can use the mailto: in the form action, but this can be dangerous for spam……I would like to use the hard and secure method…..Thanks and God Bless…..

God Love U
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@SyCoNov 20.2008 — #You've rewritten a load of POST variables in non POST variables for no reason, then done nothing with them and you've overwritten $msg var rather than .= concatenated to it.

Try to debug methodically.

First test mail is configured on you server by putting only this in a PHP script and running it.

[code=php]<?php
 mail("[email protected]", "testing","message test");
 ?>[/code]

Then if that works you know mail is set up correctly if not contact your host.

Don't do this for no reason. Only rename a variable if you change or process it in some way. You'll need to know where the values came from.
[code=php]$Contact_FirstName = $_POST['Contact_FirstName'] ; [/code]

concatenate like this (notice the .= )

[code=php] $msg="Your name: " . $_POST['Contact_FirstName'] . "n";
 $msg.="Your email: " . $_POST['Contact_Email']. "n";[/code]

@luke2125authorNov 21.2008 — #Hi there,

Thanks for the response, I'm sorry but I'm confused, all of those variables come from the HTML Form, I'm trying to get those values from the html form (ex: Contact_First Name is the first value in the form) and display them in an E-mail......? Thanks and God Bless....

God Loves U

www.endtimestube.com

@SyCoNov 21.2008 — #You've come here asking for help and I posted a few suggestions to try. I can't magically fix you problem. Your simple script has a lot of things wrong but i gave you the first things to try . You've not said whether they worked, so how am I or anyone to know what is happening. There not much I can say with out repeating my last post but anyway.

This doesn't do anything.

[code=php]$Contact_FirstName = $_POST['Contact_FirstName'] ; [/code]
$_POST['Contact_FirstName'] is a variable like any other it doesn't need to be renamed you can use it like any array value.

[code=php]
 $foo='hello';//writes value hello to $foo
 $foo=' and goodbye';//overwrites value 'and goodbye' to $foo
 echo $foo;
 
 //will only echo 'and goodbye'
 [/code]

[code=php]
 $foo='hello';//writes value hello to $foo
 $foo.=' and goodbye';// .= adds (concatenates) to $foo value 'and goodbye' 
 echo $foo;
 
 //will echo 'hello and goodbye'
 [/code]

So

start a variable
[code=php]$msg='';[/code]
and concatenate to it.

[code=php]
 $msg.="Your name: " . $_POST['Contact_FirstName'] . "n"; //notice the dot equals .=
 $msg.="Your email: " . $_POST['Contact_Email']. "n";[/code]

All the other variables like this one $_POST['Contact_MiddleInitial'] ; also need to be included in the same way or they wont be in the message variable and so wont be in the email.

Programming is like building a machine, you have to be methodical.

Maybe you have another error somewhere? Maybe mail() isn't configured correctly. Google how to turn up error reporting to E_ALL with an ini flag setini() or search this forum it's posted a million times.

If you actually try the suggestions and post the results you can expect more help.

I suppose you could try praying to make it work. ?

@luke2125authorNov 21.2008 — #Hi,

Thanks for the thorough explanation, I appreciated it.....Well, I don't pray for mathematical equations, afterall E=MC2 is not going to get me into heaven, but the Alpha and Omega will.....Or in other words, Jesus Christ, Yeshua!!!! ?

Thanks and God Bless....

God Loves U

www.endtimestube.com

@AvenueNov 21.2008 — #Wow, as a PHP newbie I have to say that I learned a lot from this thread.

Thanks!!

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