PHP Form (send email / save file - need help!)

[lennydiego]

Hi everyone,

I am currently building a rather simple form and I was wondering if someone could help me write or find a script to do what I need.

Here is what I am trying to accomplish. I have a form with about 50 fields, and when someone clicks submit I need two things to happen. I need the information sent by e-mail to a designated (specified in the script) e-mail address and a copy to be saved on the server. (So that our windows clients can later access it via a samba share.

I am not a php programmer but I believe the top can be done, but I also need a couple more things to happen. I need to be able to setup how the email is sent. It will be containing a lot of information (im sure this possible as well!). Basically I just want it to display the information that was written in the fields neatly so someone can read it. And, the good news is, the e-mail that is produced is exactly what I need saved on the server. I just need it to use one of the text fields (variable) as the file name, I am hoping I can save them as .txt files or even .html files.

If anyone could provide any assistance I would be greatful!

Thanks,
- Lenny

[Myrkul]

quite simple in fact.. here is the beggining of the email script.. modify it to your needs.

<?php
//EMAIL THE FORM DATA
//Create the Email body message
$msg = "Form Submitted\n";
$msg .= "Form Field 1:\t$_POST[fieldone_name]\n";
$msg .= "Form Field 2:\t$_POST[fieldtwo_name]\n";
$msg .= "Form Field 3:\t$_POST[fieldthree_name]\n";
$msg .= "Form Field 4:\t$_POST[fieldfour_name]\n";
$msg .= "Form Field 5:\t$_POST[fieldfive_name]\n";
//Continue doing the above until all form fields you want displayed in the email are there.
//Email address to which form is to be mailed
$to = "[e-mail]";
//Subject of email 
$subject ="Subject";
//From section of email
$mailheaders = "From: Your Website <>\n";
//Reply to (the person filling out the forms info) 
//Replace the email in $_POST[email] with name of the field in the form containing the email of user
$mailheaders .= "Reply-To: $_POST[email]\n\n";
//Mail the email
mail($to, $subject, $msg, $mailheaders);
?>

Now as for the write to a file.. do you want all forms submitted to append to one file, or a new file for each time someone clicks the submit button?
If the latter, what would you want the file named? The value of one of the fields in the form?

hope this helps.