what is wrong with this code?

[ShawnD]

i made this code to test my sendmail program to see if it really works. tell me what i did wrong please 🙂

<div align="center">
  <form>
  <table width="650" cellspacing="1">
    <tr>
      <td>
      whom shall i email?
      </td>
      <td>
      <input type="text" name="<?php $name ?>" value="[e-mail]">
      </td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>
        what is the title?
      </td>
      <td>
        <input type="text" name="<?php $title ?>" value="title">
      </td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>
        what is the message?
      </td>
      <td>
        <input type="text" name="<?php $message ?>" value="message">
      </td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>
      </td>
      <td>
        <input type="submit" name="submit" value="email now">
      </td>
    </tr>
</div>
<?php
if ($title = "title") {
echo "remember that you cannot email the title as \"title\"";
}
else {
mail($name, $title, $message);
}
?>

[Ticktaku]

<?php
if ($title == "title") {
echo "remember that you cannot email the title as \"title\"";
}
else {
mail($name, $title, $message);
}
?>

it's double equal!

[mrmufin]

Well, the form tag is missing the action and method elements. Try:

<form action="<?php echo $PHP_SELF; ?>" method="POST">

The form is missing a closing tag, </form> which is absolutely necessary.

It looks to me like you've got the name / value pairs backwards throughout your form. Instead of:

<input type="text" name="<?php echo name; ?>" value="[e-mail]">

It should be:

<input type="text" name="name" value="<?php echo $name; ?>">

While an even better method would use:

<input type="text" name="name" value="<?php echo $HTTP_POST_VARS['name']; ?>">

Since that makes no assumptions about the register globals setting on the server.

Make the appropriate changes for all form elements which have this boo-boo...

The if() statement is trying to set the value, since it only has a single '=' sign. A single '=' sets a value while '==' tests equality.

Apply the same technique to the if() statement that you put in the form elements:

if($HTTP_POST_VARS["title"] == "title") {
	echo "remeber you can not email the title as \"title\".";
} else {
	mail($HTTP_POST_VARS['name'], $HTTP_POST_VARS['title'], $HTTP_POST_VARS['message'])
}

Basically, once you get the <form> tag straightened out, account for PHP's register_globals setting to be in the 'off' position (this is fer security reasons), correct the form name / value pairs, close the <form> tag and correct the if() condition, it should work like a champ.

Have fun...

[ShawnD]

OMG IT WORKED

I LOVE YOU GUYS!!!!!
now i don't have to log into hotmail just to send a friggin message, this way i can also make a pretty template ehehehe

  <form action="<?php echo $PHP_SELF; ?>" method="POST">
  <table width="650" cellspacing="1">
    <tr>
      <td>
      who shall i email, sir?
      </td>
      <td>
      <input type="text" name="name" value="<?php echo $HTTP_POST_VARS['name']; ?>">
      </td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>
        what is the title?
      </td>
      <td>
        <input type="text" name="title" value="<?php echo $HTTP_POST_VARS['title']; ?>">
      </td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>
        what is the message?
      </td>
      <td>
        <input type="text" name="message" value="<?php echo $HTTP_POST_VARS['message']; ?>">
      </td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>
      </td>
      <td>
        <input type="submit" name="submit" value="email now">
      </td>
    </tr>
    </form>
</div>
<?php

if ($HTTP_POST_VARS['name'] != "0") {
mail($HTTP_POST_VARS['name'], $HTTP_POST_VARS['title'], $HTTP_POST_VARS['message']);
}
?>

how can i make the text box for "message" bigger? to have a big text box i know it's <textarea rows="" cols=""></textarea> but how do i actually integrate that into my page?