Sending Form Data via email

gmoody

Hi I have a simple 4 field form that I need the results mailed to me. If the reuired field is not filled out they shouldnt be redirected to another page, but at the top of the form an error message as well as if the form was sent correctly, a thank you message. I am able to send the form correctly, but everytime the page is refreshed I get a new email with no input. If someone could help it would be appreciated.

Anon

Post a copy of your code and I'll try to help further.

gmoody

Here is my code

<?PHP
$to = "user@domain.com";
$subject = "Response to Request";
$message = "My Choice was $variable \n"

. "My Comments are: $comments";
$from = "user@domain.com";

....
<form name="form1" method="post" action=""> with 2 variables $variable, and $comments.
...

<?PHP
mail( $to, $subject, $message, "From: $from\r\n")
or print "Could not send mail";
?>
<input type="submit" name="Submit" value="Submit">

Anon

Hi Geoff,

You need to have somewhere to submit the values to!At the moment your code is not sending them anywhere whe they are submitted (action="")
Wat I would do is have the e-mail sending routine ona separate .php page and then submit the form to that location.
(You could use a self-submitting form but that might get a little complicated and I've not tested approach myself)

So in your example:

Change the form submission line to:

Then create the page for sending the e-mail:

send_email.php ---->

<?PHP
$to = "user@domain.com";
$subject = "Response to Request";
$body = "My Choice was $variable \n"
. "My Comments are: $comments";
$from = "user@domain.com";

....
....

// send email
// @ supresses the display of parse errors
if($mailsend = @mail($to,$subject,$body))
{
// type the name of the page to go to if successful here
include("thanks.php");
}
else
{
echo "<font color=\"#FF0000\" size=\"3\" face=\"Arial\"><b>";
echo "COULD NOT SEND E-MAIL";
echo "</font></b></font>";
// type the name of the page to go to if failed here
include("......");
}

Also note that where you have user@domain in your to and from field you will have to pass these variables in the form if you want to use them.
What I do is get the user to type their e-mail address into the form and then pass this variable to the send e-mail page.

Hope this helps?

Regards