form: html to php to email

[MsKitti]

I have a coupon. I started with a html form, where folks fill in their name, email and phone. When they click on submit, they are taken to a .php results page that shows them what they filled in. They are to print the page and bring it to us to get the coupon value. All works fine. I also have a call in the php where I also want the filled in info to be emailed to me (Name, Email and Phone). I have tried every way I can possibly think of to get all results emailed to me.

I do receive an email which states their email and the subject.

However, the body is suppose to have their name, email and phone.

This is the php code I have:

<?php
//Declare the variables
$name = $POST[Name];
$email = $POST[Email];
$phone = $_POST[Phone];
mail("[e-mail]", "Certificate from RMS", $mailheaders, $message);

//Contents of form
$Name=$POST['Name'];
$Email=$POST['Email'];
$Phone=$_POST['Phone'];
?>

<?php print $Name; ?>
<?php print $Email; ?>
<?php print $Phone; ?>

Also, in the email I receive it states in the from line (unpriveleged user).

Does anyone see what I doing wrong?
Help please, please!!

[dalecosp]

Well, it would do you a lot of good to have a $message to send ....

😉

<?php 
//Declare the variables // unnecessary...
/*$name = $_POST[Name]; 
$email = $_POST[Email]; 
$phone = $_POST[Phone]; */

//Contents of form 
$Name=$_POST['Name']; 
$Email=$_POST['Email']; 
$Phone=$_POST['Phone']; 

$message="$Name wants to participate.  His/her Email address ";
$message.="is $Email and you can call him/her at $Phone.";

mail("[e-mail]", "Certificate from RMS", $mailheaders, $message); 
?>

[MsKitti]

That worked DaleCosp. I really appreciate your help. I still get this line:

It states in the from line (unprivileged user). Do you know why?

You are swell. Thank you!!

Kitti

[dalecosp]

Originally posted by MsKitti
That worked DaleCosp. I really appreciate your help. I still get this line:

It states in the from line (unprivileged user). Do you know why?

You are swell. Thank you!!

Kitti

Yes. Your mail is being sent by the webserver; the webserver account is automatically setup by the Apache installation program. Depending on what variety of UNIX is being run (BSD, Linux, Solaris, etc.), the full name attached to the webserver account may be "nobody", "webuser", "unprivileged user", or even the name of the server.

To go back to our original example, inserting a $mailheader may cure the problem: but did we get that order of arguments right?

 <?php  

//Contents of form 
$Name=$_POST['Name'];  

$Email=$_POST['Email'];  

$Phone=$_POST['Phone'];  

$message="$Name wants to participate.  His/her Email address "; 
$message.="is $Email and you can call him/her at $Phone."; 

$mailheaders="From: [email][e-mail][/email]\r\n";

mail("[e-mail]", "Certificate from RMS", $message, $mailheaders);  

?> 

Give it a try....

[MsKitti]

I put the $mailheaders code in my .php page as you stated. I did change the header from: line to say email, instead of an email address. Was I suppose to do that? All works fine except the from line states unprivileged user still. The mailheader I added inputs itself in the body of the email like this (From:[e-mail]), which is what I filled in to submit. So, the testing email is in the body 2 times. The from line in the top of the email where the Subject: and To: lines are is where it states From: unprivileged user.

<?php

$Name=$POST['Name'];

$Email=$POST['Email'];

$Phone=$_POST['Phone'];

$message="My name is $Name. I just printed out your website Discount Voucher, to get 10% off auto repair. My email address ";
$message.="is $Email and my phone number is $Phone. I will bring the Voucher when I stop in for auto repair. Thank you";

$mailheaders="From: Email\r\n";

mail("[e-mail]", "RMSAutoCare.com Discount Voucher", $mailheaders, $message);

?>

This is my hosting companies server info:

Server: Apache/1.3.27 (Unix) mod_perl/1.27 PHP/4.2.3 mod_fastcgi/2.2.12 FrontPage/5.0.2.2510 mod_jk/1.2.0 mod_ssl/2.8.11 OpenSSL/0.9.6g

Kitti

[dalecosp]

Isn't $message to come before $mailheaders in the mail() prototype?

This works for me:

<?$name="bob";
$email="[e-mail]";
$phone="555/555-1212";

$message="$name called to say hi.  His email is $email and phone is $phone.";
$mailheader="From:  [email][e-mail][/email]\r\n";

$success=mail("[e-mail]", "test of mailer", $message, $mailheader);

if ($success) { echo "Test worked."; }
else { echo "Test failed....";  }

?>

Echos "test worked" and mail at other site reads "From: [e-mail]"....

HTH,

[MsKitti]

You are just to good!! What a guy!! Thank you so very much for taking the time to help a beginner in php to understand more about what they don't understand.

Thanks again, DaleCosp!
Respecfully,
Kitti

[dalecosp]

:o

[Cynthia_Blue]

I also want to thank you. I have been interested in adding the email feature to my site and it seems to be working great just like this. 🙂

[dalecosp]

You're welcome, also, of course; but, please, ladies...no more fuel for the middle age crisis!

/me blushes and runs away ..... 😉