e-mailing php

liquefi

I am trying to e-mail form information to a certain e-mail address. I was able to get a link to a script (thank you paul088) which showed how to do it, but it doesn't seem to work when I test it. Can anyone help?

I took from the example I was given and created my own form and php to compliment it.

Here is the php code I have....

<?php
if ((!txtName)) {
echo "Please enter your name";
echo "<p>";
echo "Please press the back button to continue";
echo "</p>";
echo "<a href='contact.htm' onclick='self.history.back();'>Back</a>";
exit;
}

$message = "
<html>
<head>
<title>Inquiry</title>
</head>
<body>
$txtName
</body>
</html>
"
mail("$email@address.com", "$message");
?>

The form submit action is to this php file that has nothing more than what I have above. Any help will be greatly appreciated!

Thanks,

Brian

paul088

You didn't say what went wrong. Noticed missing semi-colon after </html>, and others (see revised script)

<?php 
if ((!txtName)) { 
echo "Please enter your name"; 
echo "<p>"; 
echo "Please press the back button to continue"; 
echo "</p>"; 
echo "<a href='contact.htm' onclick='self.history.back();'>Back</a>"; 
exit; 
} 

$message = " 
<html> 
<head> 
<title>Inquiry</title> 
</head> 
<body> 
$txtName 
</body> 
</html> 
"; 
mail($email, $subject, $message, "From: $from_email\nX-Mailer: PHP/"); 
//assume $email, $subject, and $from_email are from previous form
?>

liquefi

So if I were to test it to my e-mail address...where would I put my e-mail address in it?

Also, so I don't have to "over-post"...I was getting this error message with the first example you gave me...

Warning: Failed to Receive in C:\apache\htdocs\confirm.php on line 20

Any idea as to why I'd be getting that message?

Thanks again for your reply,

Brian

paul088

Could you post the codes for your form so that I can tell what went wrong?

Also be reminded that if you are running your script on your PC, it is likely you do not have a mail server running, and therefore you can not send mail. The error message could be caused by this. If line 20 is mail(). That must be the case.

paul088

If you just want to test the email, try this simple one. Save it as emailtest.php and upload it to a server that allows you to send email.

<?php 
$message = "This is to test email function."; 
$email = "put your email address here";
$subject = "Email testing";
$from_email = "put another email address of yours here";

//Above variables can be passed from previous form, and set right on this page like above.

mail($email, $subject, $message, "From: $from_email\nX-Mailer: PHP/"); 

?>

liquefi

Thanks, I'll try it out on a server that can mail.

Here is the code you requested for the form and for the php that goes with it....

Form code...

<body>

Name: <input type="text" name="txtName" size="10"><br><br>
Phone: <input type="text" name="txtPhone" size="10"><br><br>
Message: <input type="text" name="txtMessage" size="10"><br><br>

</body>
</html>

php code from "email.php"....

$message = "
<html>
<head>
<title>Inquiry</title>
</head>
<body>
$txtName
<br>
$txtPhone
<br>
$txtMessage
</body>
</html>
";

mail($email, $subject, $message, "From: $from_email\nX-Mailer: PHP/");

See any problems there? I'm assuming that "$email" is where the form information would be submitted to, but I'm not completely sure.

Thanks,

Brian

paul088

Does the server on which you are running the code have email capability?

liquefi

I figured out the problem. You were right, I was testing it where I didn't have email capability. When I did test it on a server that had mail capability, it worked fine.

Thanks for your help and patience!

Brian