Newb question

tommmmm

this is my first time writing in php so dont laugh at me too hard:

i have a from on my site that submits to a php script that sends it to my e-mail like so

<?

PRINT "<center><FONT SIZE=-1 face=verdana>"; PRINT "Greetings $titlequote $forenamequote $surnamequote, thank you for filling out our quote builder";
PRINT "</center><p><center><TABLE border=0 width=300";
PRINT "cellspacing=0 cellpadding=7>"; PRINT "<TR><TD><FONT SIZE=-1 face=verdana>"; PRINT "In the form, you built the following site: \n A $style site with $flashintro, $splash, $gamesandanimation, $php, $sql. You also required: $other and also specified: $commentsquote\n";
PRINT "$status. Thank you for your quote."; PRINT " We will be in touch shortly with a reply to your quote";
PRINT " in an email to $emailquote.";
PRINT " If you have any more requests, feel free to e-mail us.";
PRINT "</FONT></TD></TR></TABLE></center>";

mail("tomwhitson@hotmail.com", "Request", "$titlequote $forenamequote $surnamequote from $companynamequote\n\nThey needed A $style site with $flashintro, $splash, $gamesandanimation, $php, $sql. You also required: $other and also specified: $commentsquote. \nThis quote was sent by $emailquote.\n\n\nThis quote was sent from the html quote form");

?>

as you can see this take the user to a new page made by the php that tells them what they put in the form.

two questions

is it possible to change the background color of the page that the user is shown telling them what they put in the form
is it possible for the e-mail to tell me what time they submitted the form and make the reply path for the e-mail sent to me the users e-mail address that they submitted to the form

thanks

mikeatrpi

1) Yes. Print a BODY tag statement:

echo '<html><head><title>Hi!</title></head><body bgcolor="red">';
/* ... */
echo '</body></html>';

2) Yes. Use extra headers:

FROM Godfried van Loo at http://www.php.net/mail

Here the example: 

$myname = "Me Myself"; 
$myemail = "myself@email.com"; 

$contactname = "Mister Contact"; 
$contactemail = "contact@email.com"; 

$message = "hello from happy me"; 
$subject = "A mail not refused by Hotmail"; 

$headers .= "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n"; 
$headers .= "Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\r\n"; 
$headers .= "From: ".$myname." <".$myemail.">\r\n"; 
$headers .= "To: ".$contactname." <".$contactemail.">\r\n"; 
$headers .= "Reply-To: ".$myname." <$myreplyemail>\r\n"; 
$headers .= "X-Priority: 1\r\n"; 
$headers .= "X-MSMail-Priority: High\r\n"; 
$headers .= "X-Mailer: Just My Server"; 

mail($contactemail, $subject, $message, $headers);

tommmmm

thanks that looks good, i haven't had a chance to try it out yet but it looks easy to understand and i can see the logic behind it so thanks 😃

tommmmm

One more thing

how can i change the text color and font face on the print out that the user gets, i tries putting <FONT SIZE=1 COLOR="#4D7752"> </font>in the echo bit that you suggest to change the color of the background but it only changed the first line to this color

the code now looks like :

<?

echo '<html><head><title>Thanks For Filing Out Our Form</title></head><body bgcolor="DCDBD9"><FONT SIZE=1 COLOR="#4D7752">';

PRINT "<center>"; PRINT "Greetings $titlequote $forenamequote $surnamequote, thank you for filling out our quote builder";
PRINT "</center><BR><BR>";
PRINT "<center>In the form, you built the following site: \n A $style site with $flashintro, $splash, $gamesandanimation, $php, $sql. You also required: $other and also specified: $commentsquote\n";
PRINT "$status. Thank you for your quote."; PRINT " We will be in touch shortly with a reply to your quote";
PRINT " in an email to $emailquote.";
PRINT " If you have any more requests, feel free to e-mail us.";
PRINT "</center>";

echo '</FONT></body></html>';

$myname = "$titlequote $forenamequote $surnamequote"; 
$myemail = "$emailquote"; 

$contactname = "Tom Whitson"; 
$contactemail = "tomwhitson@hotmail.com"; 

$message = "$titlequote $forenamequote $surnamequote from $companynamequote built the following quote\n\nThey needed A $style site with $flashintro, $splash, $gamesandanimation, $php, $sql. You also required: $other and also specified: $commentsquote. \nThis quote was sent by $emailquote.\n\n\nThis quote was sent from the html quote form"; 
$subject = "Quote"; 

$headers .= "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n"; 
$headers .= "Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\r\n"; 
$headers .= "From: ".$myname." <".$emailquote.">\r\n"; 
$headers .= "Reply-To: ".$myname." <$myemail.>\r\n"; 
$headers .= "X-Priority: 1\r\n"; 
$headers .= "X-MSMail-Priority: High\r\n"; 
$headers .= "X-Mailer: Just My Server"; 

mail($contactemail, $subject, $message, $headers);

?>

ok no worries i worked it out

thanks anyway

tommmmm

the code from the post above is cool and works but i was wandering i put \n (new lines) into the e-mail that wgets sent to me however they do not come out ??

here is the code that makes the message that is sent to me

$message = "$titlequote $forenamequote $surnamequote from $companynamequote built the following quote\n\nThey needed A $style site with $flashintro, $splash, $gamesandanimation, $php, $sql. You also required: $other and also specified: $commentsquote. \nThis quote was sent by $emailquote.\n\n\nThis quote was sent from the html quote form";

so what i want is for this to be the e-mail that gets sent to me to have new lines where the \n symbol is.

thanks