HELP with this code!!!

jjoves

Here is my code: I cant seem to make it work. I am trying to make it email me if they click on submit, verify the form if incomplete, and Prints THANK YOU if completed - if not show the form...

<script type="text/javascript">
// Form field validation.  Not strictly necessary, since the process page also does error checking

function validateForm(form) { 

if (form.email.value == "") { 
   alert("The \"Email\" field is empty."); 
   form.email.focus( ); 
   return false; 
   } 
}
</script>

<body bgcolor="#E6EAEE">
<?php
if ($submit)
 { 

$to = "the.email@domain.com";
$subject = "Request for an email alert";
$message = "Blah!";

$headers = "Content-Type: text/plain\r\n";
$headers .= "From: [email]your-email@domain.com[/email]\r\n";
$headers .= "Reply-To: [email]your-email@domain.com[/email]\r\n";

// send it
mail($to,$subject,$message,$headers) or die("Sending Failed");

echo"THANK YOU";
}
else
{

<table width="364" border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0">
<form method="post" action="<? echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']; ?>" name="submit" onSubmit="return validateForm(this)">
 <tr> 
  <td width="362" valign="top" bgcolor="#003366">
    <table width="350" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="6">
          <tr> 
            <td colspan="2" bgcolor="#003366"><div align="center"><img src="images/smallheader.gif" width="350" height="41"></div></td>
          </tr>
          <tr> 
            <td colspan="2" valign="top" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><p align="center"><br>
                Email me when this title get restocked.</p>
              <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2">
                <tr> 
                  <td width="25%"><div align="right">Artist:</div></td>
                  <td width="75%"><div align="left"></div></td>
                </tr>
                <tr> 
                  <td><div align="right">Title: </div></td>
                  <td><div align="left"></div></td>
                </tr>
                <tr> 
                  <td><div align="right">Label:</div></td>
                  <td><div align="left">IHR </div></td>
                </tr>
                <tr> 
                  <td height="17"><div align="right">Email:</div></td>
                  <td><div align="left"> 
                      <input type="text" name="email" value="" size="30" maxlength="64">
                    </div></td>
                </tr>
              </table></td>
          </tr>
          <tr> 
            <td width="67%" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><br> <input type="submit" name="Submit" value="Submit"> 
            </td>
            <td width="33%" valign="bottom" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div align="center"><a href="javascript:window.close()"><font size="1">[Close 
                Window]</font></a></div></td>
          </tr>
          <tr> 
            <td colspan="2" bgcolor="#003366"><div align="center"><font color="#FFFFFF">&copy; 
                Copyrights 2003 UndergroundMusic.com All Rights Reserved</font></div></td>
          </tr>
        </table>
    </td>
  </tr>
  </form>
</table>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
};
</body>

ir4z0r

probably the standard answer:
try using $POST['var'] instead of $var for all variables passed by the form
eg $POST['submit']

jjoves

Still does not work! -- nothing shows up on the browser:

<body bgcolor="#E6EAEE">
<?php
if(isset($_POST['email'])):
	$to = "mail@mail.com";
	$subject = "request for restock Alert";
	$body = "Artist:";
	$body = "Title:";
	$body = "Label:";
	mail($to, $subject, $body);
?>
<table width="250" border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0">
<tr><td bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div align="center">THANKS</div></td>
</tr>
</table>
<?php else: ?>
<table width="250" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="6">
  <tr>
  <form action="<?php print $PHP_SELF; ?>" method="post"> 
    <td width="100%" valign="top" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><p align="center"><br>
        Add me to your mailing List</p>
      <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2">
        <tr> 
          <td width="25%" height="17"><div align="right">Email:</div></td>
          <td width="75%"><div align="left"> 
              <input type="text" name="email" value="" size="30" maxlength="64">
              <input type="submit" name="Submit" value="Submit">
            </div></td>
        </tr>
      </table></td>
	  </form>
  </tr>
</table>
</body>

BuzzLY

Look at your if / else statement

if(condition==TRUE) {
  Do This;
} else {
  Do That;
}

Looks like you are missing some parts to that if statement...

ir4z0r

<body bgcolor="#E6EAEE">
<?php
if(isset($_POST['email']))
{
	$to = "mail@mail.com";
	$subject = "request for restock Alert";
	$body = "Artist:";
// you are overwriting $body twice ??
	$body = "Title:";
	$body = "Label:";
	mail($to, $subject, $body);

?><table width="250" border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0">
<tr><td bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div align="center">THANKS</div></td>
</tr>
</table>
<?php 
}
else
{
?>
<table width="250" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="6">
  <tr>
  <form action="<?php print $PHP_SELF; ?>" method="post"> 
    <td width="100%" valign="top" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><p align="center"><br>
        Add me to your mailing List</p>
      <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2">
        <tr> 
          <td width="25%" height="17"><div align="right">Email:</div></td>
          <td width="75%"><div align="left"> 
              <input type="text" name="email" value="" size="30" maxlength="64">
              <input type="submit" name="Submit" value="Submit">
            </div></td>
        </tr>
      </table></td>
	  </form>
  </tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>
<?PHP
}
?>

blanius

<?php
if(isset($_POST['email'])){
	$to = "mail@mail.com";
	$subject = "request for restock Alert";
	$body = "Artist:";
	$body .= "Title:";
	$body .= "Label:";
	mail($to, $subject, $body);
}
?>

That will work, you didn't have a { or } and the $body was overwritten. Of course you don't have any information in there.

I would think you'd need some hidden items in the form to send along and you'd probably like to have the FROM filed and reply to fields filled in so you need to send headers

<?php
if(isset($_POST['email'])){
	$to = "mail@mail.com";
                $header="From:".$_POST['email']."\n\r";
                $header.="Reply-To:".$_POST['email']."\n\r";
                $header="To:mail@mail.com\n\r";
	$subject = "request for restock Alert";
	$body = "Artist:".$_POST['artist']."\n";
	$body .= "Title:".$_POST['title']."\n";
	$body .= "Label:".$_POST['label']."\n";
	mail($to, $subject, $body,$header);
}
?>

jjoves

OK -- THANKS everyone, I got it to work with this code:

<?php
if(isset($_POST['submit'])):
	$to = "mail@mail.com";
	$subject = "Request for Restock Alert Notification";
	$body = "Artist:";
	mail($to, $subject, $body);
?>

but now I need to get the email address of the requestor and have it show as From and Reply to in the email.

I am currently getting the address of the host.

ir4z0r

that's what php.net says ...

mail($to, $subject, $body,"From: here@here.com\r\n" . "Reply-To: webmaster@here.com\r\n");

jjoves

THANK YOU AGAIN --

Now how can I validate the email format.

So they cant type just anything - it would be in an email format with the "email@domain.com" or something in that nature..

I really appreciate your help...

Im sure you'll be haering lot's from me since im just learning...

THANK YOU AGAIN

ir4z0r

well, who's not learning 😉

you would need some sort of an algorithm using regular expressions (regex)
search the board or google for words like "valid" and "mail"

(guess what: you aren't the first one with this prob 😃 )