form results in html mail

tnsbuff

Hi,

I'm new to PHP and I'd like to use PHP's html mail to be able to send form results that mimic the actual form page after it's filled out.

Can anyone point me to a good tutorial for this? Also, if there is anything special I should do to minimize the risk of dangerous code being added to the comment field.

Thanks a bunch!

yelvington

Did you read the manual page for the mail() function? It includes an example of HTML mail. t's actually fairly simple.

The mail() function takes several arguments, including one that can pass extra headers. Set the content type as per Internet standards. RFC2045 is rather dense, but all you have to know is

Content-type: text/html
So: Format your mail as if you were building a Web page, then call mail() with the proper arguments. Result: HTML mail.

tnsbuff

Thanks Yelvington. Yes, I did read the manual page for the mail() function, but I didn't see an example that shows including form results in the mail.

I took a stab at it, but obviously something's not right. What I get is that the confirmation page shows that it's been sent. I do receive it, but it just displays all of the html code defined in $msg, plus it displays this below the code:

From: Me
Reply-To: me@me.com
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1

Here's the code I used.

<?
$to = "me@mydomain.com";
$sender_name = $name;
$sender_email = $email;
$subject = "Testing PHP HTML Mail Form Results";
$mailheaders = "From: $sender_name\n";
$mailheaders .= "Reply-To: $sender_email\n\n";
$mailheaders .= "MIME-Version: 1.0\n";
$mailheaders .= "Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\n";
$msg = '<html>
<head>
<style type="text/css">
body {font-family: verdana; font-size: 10pt}
</style>
</head>

<body>

<form method="POST" name="form1" action="html_mail_test.php">
<p>Name: <input type="text" name="name" value=$sender_name size="20"></p>
<p>Email: <input type="text" name="email" value=$sender_email size="30"></p>
<p>Session:   I<input type="checkbox" name="session1" value=$session1>  
II<input type="checkbox" name="session2" value=$session2>   III<input
type="checkbox" name="session3" value=$session3></p>
<p><input type="submit" value="Submit" name="B1"><input type="reset"
value="Reset" name="B2"></p>
</form>

</body>

</html>';

mail($to, $subject, $mailheaders, $msg);
?>
<html>
<head>
</head>
<body>
<?
echo "<p>Mail has been sent!</p>";

</body>
</html>

Any ideas? 🙁

Thanks!

yelvington

There are four problems I noticed:

You have the order of arguments to mail() mixed up.
You have a doubled newline at the end of one of your header lines. In SMTP mail, a blank line is considered the end of headers, so a doubled newline will cause any additional header lines to be ignored (or, more precisely, passed along as part of the message body).
You have the entire message body as a single-quoted string, which is handy for not tripping over quotes in the string itself, but it prevents $sender_name, et cetera, from being evaluated.
The form ACTION points to a local file that won't make sense when the mail is delivered. If you're going to email a form, be sure to pass a full URL.

tnsbuff

Woohoo! It works! THANKS yelvington!!!

Okay, now how do I get the checkboxes to show "checked"? :eek: Also, radio buttons ... ?

tnsbuff

. . . bump . . .

how do I get the checkboxes to display "checked"? <<

Anyone?

Thanks,

psy

ok say that this is the code that was passed

in the code to see if its checked or not run something like this

$out="<input type='checkbox' name='chk1' value='value' " . (isset($_POST['chk1'])?"checked":"") . ">";
echo $out;

that looks to see if it was passed, and if so it will just print 'checked'

it should work, just do that for each checkbox