mail() function that posts all fields of form

[manishsahu]

I am a PHP novice looking for a quick snippet of code. I have a form page that is slightly long with over 50 fields in it. I wish to use the mail() function to send the posted data to a specific email.

What I would like is code that loops through the entire posted data, collects all field names and values and mails it to the specified email address.

I have done this previously in ASP, but I have very little knowledge of PHP.

Any help or links would be greatly appreciated.

Many thanks,

Manish

[rcmehta_14]

If you submit form with GET method then the following will work. Otherwise use POST instead of GET in following code.

I assume that each of the form fields are printed on the next line.

<?

$Msg = "";
while(list($Key, $Value) = each($HTTP_GET_VARS)){
$Msg .= $Value . "<BR>";
}

$Subject = "Hye";

mail($To, $Subject, $Msg);

?>

[pyro]

If this is being used for an email, I would change this:
$Msg .= $Value . "<BR>";
to this:
$Msg .= $Value . "\n";

Also, for me, it is more intuitive to use a foreach loop to loop through the POST variables (as I nearly always use POST, and would recommend doing so)

foreach ($_POST as $key => $value) { // obviously, you can substitue $_GET
	$Msg .= ucfirst($key) ." : ". $value ."\n";
}

[rupertbj]

Try this out -

$to = "[e-mail]";
$subject = "subject";
$content = array ( $title, $name, $surname, $address, $phone, $email, message );
$val = implode("\n", $content);
$from_email = "[e-mail]";
mail( $to, $subject, $val, $from_email) or print "Error handling message. message not sent.";

Should work a treat, and far simpler!!!

[pyro]

Originally posted by rupertbj
and far simpler!!!

Simpler than a foreach loop? I'd disagree, because with the foreach loop, you don't need to know the names of your form fields, etc. It will just loop through all the POST vars and send them to you.

[rupertbj]

pyro - you're right! 50 fields would be very prolix!

also, just a query on using \n instead of <br>

i am using the following:

<?php
$to = "[e-mail]";
$subject = "email submission from rancone.co.uk";
$content = array ( $title, $name, $surname, "<br>", $address, "<br>", $phone, "<br>", $email, "<br>", $message );
$val = implode(" ", $content);
$sender_name = "rancone.co.uk - booking submission";
$headers   .= "From: \"".addslashes($sender_name)."\" <".$email.">\r\n";
$headers   .= "Reply-To: ".$email."\r\n";
$headers   .= "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";
$headers   .= "Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\r\n";
$headers   .= "X-Priority: 1\r\n";
$headers   .= "X-Mailer: PHP / ".phpversion()."\r\n";
mail( $to, $subject, $val, $headers ) or print "Error handling message. message not sent.";
?>

I tried using:

 $val = implode("\n", $content);

but it didn't work. any ideas why?
Also, should i set <br> in an array instead of \n anyway?

Thanks for your help!