mail( ) question

pairustwo

I only have a surface knowledge of php so I am hoping that this is a simple problem.

I have a mail() function that sends me mail but it is not picking up the variables for subject, message, or other headers. mail shows up but everything is blank. My script and form look like this:

<?php
<?php
$name = $REQUEST ['sendName'] ;
$address = $REQUEST ['sendAddress'] ;
$subject = $REQUEST ['subject'] ;
$message = $REQUEST [ 'message' ] ;

mail( "jimndeb@u.washington.edu",
 $subject, $message, "From: $name <$address>" );

header ( "location:
 [url]http://www.littlea.info/thanks.htm[/url]" );
?>

<table>
   <tr> 
      <td>Who are you?</td>
      <td><input name="sendName" type="text"></td>
    </tr>
    <tr> 
      <td>What's your email Adress?</td>
      <td width="180"><input name="sendAddress" type="text"</td>
    </tr>
    <tr> 
      <td>What is this in reference too?</td>
      <td><input name="subject" type="text"></td>
    </tr>
    <tr> 
      <td colspan="2"><textarea name="message" cols="50" rows="10"></textarea></td>
    </tr>
    <tr> 
      <td colspan="2">
          <input name="Submit" type="submit" value="Send">
       </td>
    </tr>
  </table>

Thanks for any advice or for pointing me to a tutorial that is better than my $%^{#$%#$%^book.}
pairus

stolzyboy

this is the script that i use to send emails, if register_globals is off you may have to access the variables with $_POST['variable'] instead of $variable

<?
if (isset($send))
{
$to  = "Whom Ever <whomever@wherever.com>";

$subject = "Contact Form";

$message = "
<html>
<head>
<title></title>
</head>
<body>
Email address you entered:  <font color=red>$email</font>
</body>
</html>
";

$headers  = "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";
$headers .= "Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\r\n";

$headers .= "From: You <you@you.com>\r\n";
$headers .= "Cc: [email]notyou@you.com[/email]\r\n";

mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);
?>
<br><br><center><font size=3><b>Thank You, You're information has been submitted</b></font></center>
<?
}
else
{
?>
<form>
<input type="text" name="email"><br>
<input type="submit" name="send">
</form>
<?
}
?>

wmac

Comment below lines and see the results:

$name = $REQUEST ['sendName'] ;
$address = $REQUEST ['sendAddress'] ;
$subject = $REQUEST ['subject'] ;
$message = $REQUEST [ 'message' ] ;

If you use older php version then it supports global variables by default. Then you should have a global variable $subject in your php file as soon as you post your form to it.

Mac

pairustwo

I'm sorry Stolzyboy, I can't make out your script.
I don't see how info from either form (email or send) is retrieved by the script or how the variable $email is defined. And it looks as if your $message is simply an html page that has will display someone's address. Unless simply naming a form email defines a variable -$email.

Will this send a message STMP or ?😕 ?

Pairus

stolzyboy

this uses the servers smtp to send, and i just used one text field for example, you can have as many as you want and then get as many as you want, everything in the $message will be emailed to the person you want, probably yourself if it is a contact form, and can be formatted as html obviously, here is it with more detail

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">

<html>
<head>
	<title>Untitled</title>
</head>

<body>
<?
if (isset($send))
{
$to  = "Whom Ever <whomever@wherever.com>";

$subject = "Contact Form";

$message = "
<html>
<head>
<title></title>
</head>
<body>
Email address you entered:  <font color=red>$email</font><br>
First Name: $fname;<br>
Last Name: $lname;<br>
And any other fields you want in your form.
</body>
</html>
";

$headers  = "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";
$headers .= "Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\r\n";

$headers .= "From: You <you@you.com>\r\n";
$headers .= "Cc: [email]notyou@you.com[/email]\r\n";

mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);
?>
<br><br><center><font size=3><b>Thank You, You're information has been sent</b></font></center>
<?
}
else
{
?>
<form>
Email Address: <input type="text" name="email"><br>
First Name: <input type="text" name="fname"><br>
Last Name: <input type="text" name="lname"><br>
<input type="submit" name="send">
</form>
<?
}
?>
</body>
</html>

pairustwo

So let me get this straight,

All I have to do is give a form field a name, say fName, and its contents will automatically be passed to a variable called $fName ? (Provided the action is set correctly)

That's great!
What is the story with the $REQUEST nonsense?

Pairus

stolzyboy

that probably depends on server configuration, but if register_globals = on in your php.ini, you can simple use $fname, otherwise, if it is off and you are using method=post, you will have to use $_POST['fname']

wmac

Prior to version 4.0 posted variables (sent from a form using get or post) were global by default.

In version 4.0 there is a setting in php.ini which determines default behaviour of this.

register_globals = On

In PHP version 4.1 and after it , it is Off by default but nearly everyone turns it On to maintain compatibility with older applications.

I myself do this on all our servers before accepting customers.

(Oh, sorry I just saw that sltolzyboy has already told the story.)

Mac

pairustwo

Thanks you guys. It works wonderfully now. 😃

Now how do I prevent the escape slash from appearing in the email body where someone typed an apostrophe in the text fields.

Thanks you all

Pairus

stolzyboy

check out stripslashes() and addslashes() at www.php.net

pairustwo

Thanks again!

You rule.

pairus