really simple mail problem I suspect...

sjjs

I hope you can help me. It appears to be an easy problem to solve but I’m getting nowhere.

I’ve just uploaded a new site: www.teachinthesun.co.uk and amongst other things there is a simple contact form (http://www.teachinthesun.co.uk/contact.html.) The relevant code is as follows (I’ve taken out all the paragraph tags and so on):

<form method="post" action="sendcontact.php">
 your name: <input type="text" name="fName" size="50">
 your email address: <input type="text" name="fEmail1" size="50">
 your question: <textarea name="fQuestion" cols="50" rows="10" wrap="VIRTUAL"></textarea>
 <input type="submit" name="Submit" value="Submit">
 </form>

This goes to sendcontact.php (http://www.teachinthesun.co.uk/sendcontact.php) which looks like this:

<?
$message .= "Online Contact Form\n\n";
$message .= "fName : $fName\n\n";
$message .= "fEmail1 : $fEmail1\n\n";
$message .= "fQuestion : $fQuestion\n\n\n";

mail( "admin@teachinthesun.co.uk", "ICAL Enquiry (Teach in the Sun UK)", $message, "From: $fEmail1", "-fadmin@teachinthesun.co.uk" );
header( "Location: http://www.teachinthesun.co.uk/contactmade.html" );
?>

For some reason I just cannot work out, the form comes through fine but there is no message apart from the text (i.e. it says “fName :” but without $fName – in other words it simply is not picking up the information input into the form.

Is there something I am neglecting to do?

Thanks

cahva

Its not picking up the form variables because register_globals is set to off.

Use $POST['formvariable'] to retrieve the form variable:

<? 
$message .= "Online Contact Form\n\n"; 
$message .= "fName : ".$_POST['fName']."\n\n"; 
$message .= "fEmail1 : ".$_POST['fEmail1']."\n\n"; 
$message .= "fQuestion : ".$_POST['fQuestion']."\n\n\n"; 
mail( "admin@teachinthesun.co.uk", "ICAL Enquiry (Teach in the Sun UK)", $message, "From: ".$_POST['fEmail1'], "-fadmin@teachinthesun.co.uk" ); 
header( "Location: http://www.teachinthesun.co.uk/contactmade.html" ); 
?>

sjjs

Thanks for your reply - unfortunately when I add in the code you suggest the browser just freezes on sendcontact.php! No emails come through and no forwarding to the next page.

I've cut the code down to the bare minimum and it locks still! The full code for this php page is:

<html>
<head>
<title>Online TESL/TEFL Certificate</title>
<?

mail( "admin@teachinthesun.co.uk", "ICAL Enquiry (Teach in the Sun UK)", $_POST['fName'], "From: $fEmail1", "-fadmin@teachinthesun.co.uk" );
header( "Location: http://www.teachinthesun.co.uk/contactmade.html" );
?>
</head>
</html>

Do you think it might be a problem with the server settings?

Sean.

John_Canyon

"From: ".$_POST['fEmail1'], "-fadmin@teachinthesun.co.uk" );

Is going to create some problems.

"From: ".$_POST['fEmail1']."\r\n Reply-To: fadmin@teachinthesun.co.uk\r\n" );

Would be correct.

Cheers

sjjs

Thanks guys for your help.

In the end it turned out to be something totally different. I had just put up the site on fasthosts.co.uk and it seems they use this proprietary system of envisage windows running php. I upgraded to a linux server (painlessly) and it all runs smoothly now.

Thanks again,

Sean.