Sending for results through email

roadrunner440

I have made a form that I would like to be sent through email when the user submits the form. I have gotten the form to send the email as an html email, but I am not able to get the information that the user inputs into the form.

This is the code that I am using for the form....

<html>

<head>
<title>Feedback</title>
</head>

<body>

<form method="POST" action="confirm.php">
Your Name: <input type="text" name="Name" size="20"><br>
Your Age: <input type="text" name="Age" size="20"><br>
Your feedback: <textarea rows="2" name="Reason" cols="20"></textarea><br>
<input type="submit" value="Submit" name="B1"><input type="reset" value="Reset" name="B2">
</form>

</body>

</html>

.....and this is the code on the confirm.php page.....

<html>

<head>
<title>Thank you for sending this information</title>
</head>

<body>

<?
if ($Name)
{
print ("$Name<br>");
}
else
{
print ("You appear to not have a name!<br>");
}
if ($Age)
{
print ("$Age<br>");
}
else
{
print ("Do you even know how old you are?<br>");
}
if ($Reason)
{
print ("$Reason<br>");
}
else
{
print ("You did not enter any feedback!<br>");
}
?>
<?
/ recipients /
$to = "Roadrunner <email@domain.net>";

/ subject /
$subject = "Feedback from website";

/ message /
$message = '
<html>
<head>
<title>Feedback</title>
</head>
<body>
<p><font color="ff0000"><b>Feedback Form:</b></font></p>
<table>
<tr>
<td>
<?
if ($Name)
{
print ("$Name");
}
if ($Age)
{
print ("$Age");
}
if ($Reason)
{
print ("$Reason");
}
?>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>
';

/ To send HTML mail, you can set the Content-type header. /
$headers = "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";
$headers .= "Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\r\n";

/ additional headers /
$headers .= "From: Feedback Form <email@domain.net>\r\n";

$headers .= "Cc: email@domain.net\r\n";
$headers .= "Bcc: email@domain.net\r\n";

/ and now mail it /
mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);
?>

</body>
</html>

Can someone please point me in the right direction to get the email to display the fields that are entered on the form?

sarahk

Firstly you can't escape from php within a text string so you still have a bit of work to do but here's some hints.

this will work

$message = ' 
<html> 
<head> 
<title>Feedback</title> 
</head> 
<body> 
<p><font color="ff0000"><b>Feedback Form:</b></font></p> 
<table> 
<tr> 
<td> ';
if ($Name) $message .= "Name: $Name<br>"; 
if ($Age) $message .= "Age: $Age<br>"; 
if ($Reason) $message .= "Reason: $Reason<br>"; 
$message .= '</td> 
</tr> 
</table> 
</body> 
</html> 
';

or this will

$message = "
<html> 
<head> 
<title>Feedback</title> 
</head> 
<body> 
<p><font color="ff0000"><b>Feedback Form:</b></font></p> 
<table> 
<tr> 
<td> 
Name: $Name<br>
Age: $Age<br>
Reason: $Reason<br>
</td> 
</tr> 
</table> 
</body> 
</html> 
";

The second example doesn't test the values so you could end up with blanks but the KEY difference is that the string is held in double quotes which means the variable substitution happens.

roadrunner440

Thank you sarahk,

I tried it out and was able to get the second suggestion you had to work. I had tried it in that format a few times and was not able to get it to work, I guess I was overlooking the change on the beginning

$message = '

. When I changed it to

$message = "

it worked fine and is now sending me the information. 🙂

roadrunner440

I got the test page that I made to send the information in html format, however when I put it into the sign up page, it is only emailing the html code.

All of the tags appear to be correct to me, but I have one question. According to the manual when using mail() to send an html email, it has the first part of the table as <th> instead of <td>.

On the form that I am building that is only sending the html code, I have it as <td>, could this be the problem and the cause to it only sending the html code?

the_Igel

TH is the same tag as TD with a difference that its content is rendered as header (TH is for Table Header). Usually it means text is bold and centered. You can use TH instead of TD and vice versa everywhere, and it of course has nothing to do with e-mailing a form.

NiXXeD

One thing I noticed that you can improve a bit in your code is those simple if else statements. Use this format:

//instead of:
if ($Name) 
{ 
print ("$Name<br>"); 
} 
else 
{ 
print ("You appear to not have a name!<br>"); 
} 
//use this---- it's much shorter handed and a little easier to read
($name) ? print ("$Name<br>") : print ("You appear not to have a name!<br>");

Or at least tab the nested stuff correctly... (i know it's hard when posting code, just use 4 or 5 spaces per tab.)