Flash to php/html to Inbox

brhale

I have an application I use online and am having a bit of a time with. Basically, I use flash for the application and POST the variables to a php page. I am trying to streamline the design so when it comes to my Inbox its easier to read. I want to do this by using HTML tables but can't seem to insert the variables into the tables.

EX:

$to = "youraddresshere.com";
$subject = "Pulling my hair out";
$msg ='
<html>
<body>
<p>
I want this to show: $variable
</p>
</body>
</html>
';
$headers = "Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\r\n";
mail($to, $subject, $msg, $headers, "From: My web site\nReply-To: $email\n");
?>

How do I make $variable show the actual variable? Is it even possible?

Thanks in advance for your help!

stolzyboy

this is a simple example with a simple form, i'm sure you can figure it out from this

<!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>

brhale

As soon as I can get a chance I shall try this out.

Thanks

Brett

brhale

Not sure what's going on. I just cut and pasted what you posted to see it work and I get this back...

Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1

From: You <myaddress.com>
X-UIDL: 6T@!!MQ,!!^SB"!ZD2!!

<html>
<head>
<title></title>
</head>
<body>
Email address you entered: <font color=red>Bah@vt.edu</font><br> First Name: Brett;<br> Last Name: Hale;<br> And any other fields you want in your form. </body> </html>

I am saving the file as a php page. Should it be htm(l)?
Is it perhaps a problem with the server I am on?
Any suggestions?

Thanks again,

stolzyboy

did you just use that as a regular page without the flash to see if it works or not

and yes it may have a difference on what server you are on, what
are you on nix or win, i don't think it works correctly with windows unless you have your smtp setup correctly in your php.ini

laughingj

You seem to be missing something about php in your original code.

php does not substitue variables in single quoted strings('), but only in double quoted strings (").

Thus:

$msg = "show this $variable";

will substitute in the variable, using

$msg = 'show this $variable';

will not.

Alternativelity you could use:

$msg = 'show this '. $variable . ' in the message';

stolzyboy

yes you are correct, however, the code i supplied isn't using single quotes

laughingj

sorry stolzyboy, I meant in brhale's original code at the top of this page.

brhale

The server we go through is in a Unix enviroment. I also have a phpinfo page and and it says SMTP is set to "local host". Im not sure if this info is even helpful as to the php.ini config lol.

My other post was the result of cut/paste of your code in a new page and that is what it returned to my inbox. So I have no clue what is happening.

Thanks for your continuing efforts,

Edit: Thanks for the tip about ' and " too, i did not no that 🙂

brhale

I just sent the message to my personal web mail account and it came in loud and clear. I guess my outlook settings aren't set to accept html mail. I'll have to check into that.

Thanks again you all have been most helpful,

stolzyboy

well glad i could help and glad you got it going correctly, now you just need to implement it into your flash stuff, right, that shouldn't be too difficult

brhale

The flash stuff is the easy part lol. I have a new code problem now.

The code is giving me problems now because of the " in the html table code.....

$msg = "
<html>
<body>
<p>21 or Older: $ofAge
</p>
<table width="500" border="1" cellspacing="1" bordercolor="#000000">
<tr align="center" bgcolor="lightgrey">
<td width="41"><b>
<div align="center"><strong>Avail.</strong></div>

Just a few lines for illustration purposes.

I think the " are now interfering with the php parsing. Is there a way around this?

I am not too versed in HTML although I am now starting to teach myself more as I think it will help with php. I used dreamweaver to write the tables. I think it will work once i get past this road block.

Thanks yet again,

stolzyboy

either use single quotes or add backslashes in front of the double quotes

$msg = "
<html>
<body>
<p>21 or Older: $ofAge
</p>
<table width=\"500\" border=\"1\" cellspacing=\"1\" bordercolor=\"#000000\">

brhale

Ok will do...thanks again. Told ya I was a Noob hehe.

You haven't heard the last of me...Muahahahahahaha!

On to the next problem, what ever that will be 😉

Thanks Stolz

brhale

Worked like a charm and looks better than I thought it would. Now if I can just get Outlook to see it my way. Might have to break out the trusty tech support bat and go to work on it 8)

Thanks a million

brhale

Just to clear things up I figured out why Outlook wouldn't display the messages correctly. From reading various other posts, I decided to remove the /r from all headers and Outlook now reads it fine.

This message board rocks 8)

Thanks for all you help...