mail form help PLEASE!!

pixelsoul

okay I am new and very inexperienced and I have this mail form I want to do that someone at one time actually post the code to on here. The problem I am having with it is it doesn't send all the content of the form, and if I enter in an email address with out "@" it still send it saying mail sent successfully.

NOW if I only specify a couple of the fields from the form for some reason it sends them but if I soecify all the fields on the form it doesn't send a thing here is the code from the form:

<form name="email" action="mail.php" method="post">
<div align="left">
<input type="name" name="name">
<font color="#FFFFFF">Name</font><br>
<br>
<input type="email" name="email">
<font color="#FFFFFF">E-Mail</font><br>
<br>
<input type="subject" name="subject">
<font color="#FFFFFF"> Subject</font><br>
<br>
 <font color="#FFFFFF"> Comment</font><br>
<textarea name="comment" cols="45" rows="8"></textarea>
<br>
<br>
<input type="submit" name="Submit" value="Submit" class="textwhite">
</div>
</form>

I hope I posted that right.

and here is the PHP from mail.php that it goes to after you hit submit:

<?php
//The mail script --- "mail.php" 

$to = "oliver.kelso@comcast.net";  

$headers  = "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";  

$headers .= "Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\r\n";  

$headers .= "Wrom: CMHVIBGDADRZFSQHYUCDDJBLVLMH
$mail =  @mail($to,$_POST['subject'],$_POST['comment'],$headers);  

// The "@" sign before the mail() call suppresses printing of errors 
// that may occur.  The test below will check for errors instead: 

if(!$mail){  

    echo "Email not sent! Please try again!";  

}else{  

    echo "Mail sent successfully! We will contact as soon as possible Thank You!";  

}
?>

I am very new to this so I just wasn't able to figure it out. I was happy it actually sent me an email LMAO.

Thanks for the help PHP Junkies!

EDIT: actually when I tell it to send all fields then it echoes to me that it wasn't sent and to retry

drag0n

$headers .= "Wrom: CMHVIBGDADRZFSQHYUCDDJBLVLMH
should be
$headers .= "From: CMHVIBGDADRZFSQHYUCDDJBLVLMH";

I cant believe ur script even worked!

pixelsoul

The weird thing is it didn't say that when I copied and post it. ???

Let me try again and see if it will work:

<?php
//The mail script --- "mail.php" 

$to = "oliver.kelso@comcast.net";  

$headers  = "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";  

$headers .= "Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\r\n";  

$headers .= "From: ".$_POST['frmail']."\r\n";  

$mail =  @mail($to,$_POST['name'],$_POST['email'],$_POST['subject'],$_POST['comment'],$headers);  

//The "@" sign before the mail() call suppresses printing of errors 
//that may occur.  The test below will check for errors instead: 

if(!$mail){  

    echo "Email not sent! Please try again!";  

}else{  

    echo "Mail sent successfully! We will contact as soon as possible Thank You!";  

}
?>

drag0n

ummm ok? so the above script is ur real code right? is the code you currently have? what is wrong with it?

pixelsoul

All the stuff I said up above. It will only send a couple of the fields correctly in my form and when I tried to make it so it would send all of the fields in the email form it told gave me the echoed failure notice to try again. If I had to guess it is probably that I am not doing the code right to make it include those certain fields. Also I guess it is supposed to check to make sure that the "@" is in the email field and if not it is supposed to not send but it doesn't seem to be doing that.

I incuded on the post above the HTML for my form with all of the field names but I am not quite sure how to insert those commands into PHP. I kind of just duplicated what I saw already and altered.

drag0n

what are the $POST['name'] and $POST['email'] fields for? are those supposed to be part of the message or what?

pixelsoul

Me and my inexperience I thought that was telling what fields of the form to send. I put those there after seeing how the others were so that it would include that part of the form also. I really don't know what I am doing I just saw that and took a guess that it was for that and tried to mimic it.

drag0n

thats not going to work at all, u need to include those as part of your $_POST['comments'] so I would suggest you on mail.php do $msg = blah blah blah and use this to send all ur stuff:
@mail( $to , $subject , $comment , $headers );
Because ur whole code is messed up ull have to re design it for u to compile the message on mail.php then use the mail function 🙂

pixelsoul

I am still a little confused but thanks a lot for the help man. I know if I study it long enough I will finaly figure out how this stuff works. Thanks dragOn

drag0n

if your looking for a good tutorial, check here:
http://robouk.mchost.com/tuts/tutorial.php?tutorial=emailform
also from your name, are you a graphic/web designer?

pixelsoul

Ya I was into graphic arts for about 6 yrs then I wanted to really get into web design so early last year I started that. I am just really trying to take on the task of learning code. For a long time I didn't realize the importants of it untill this last winter.

I will check out that tutorial you posted I really need to learn this stuff.

You can check out the site I am working on right now. It is not that great but it is a work in progress.
Dunks Performance.com

I have someone helping me (doing it all lol) with the cart, but I wanted to take on the task of building the contact page with the form and stuff just so I could learn a little more on how it works.

pixelsoul

Hey man thanks a whole lot for that cool tutorial it explained it almost down to every little detail....actually it did 😃

Thanks man!

drag0n

yep 🙂

pixelsoul

Hey if your still available I have ran into another problem.
I decided to change the script to the one that is in the tutorial from the link you gave me and I love it. The only problem I am having is that I keep getting an error on the php page that it echoes when it sends the email.

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/u5/msampo1/html/dunks/thanks.php:5) in /home/u5/msampo1/html/dunks/thanks.php on line 356

The email gets sent and it sent right but it is just this error msg I am getting and I have not been able to figure it out.

Here is the code:

<?php  

if($sentemail == "2"){  

include("sorry.php");  

}else{  

$num = $sentmessage + 1;  

setcookie("sentemail","$num",time()+600); //set the cookie 

$email = "Sender Name:\t$name\nSender E- Mail:\t$thereemail\nMessage:\t$message\nIP:\t$REMOTE_ADDR\n\n"; 
$to = "oliver.kelso@comcast.net"; 
$subject = "Dunks Form Mail"; 
$mailheaders = "From: $thereemail <> \n"; 
$mailheaders .= "Reply-To: $thereemail\n\n"; 
mail($to, $subject, $email, $mailheaders); 
include("thanksecho.php"); 
} 
?>

The on line 356 is this one:
setcookie("sentemail","$num",time()+600); //set the cookie

Is there a typo? or is there something that I forgot to do you think?

drag0n

Do you have any headers() etc before that in ur script?

drag0n

u also dont need the ""
try this:
setcookie("sentemail",$num,time()+600); //set the cookie
it still wont work since u are either using HTML or whatever before u set ur cookie if you could tell me whats before/after that piece of code u said the setcookie() part is line 360 something so wheres the rest, some of those are the cause of this problem.

pixelsoul

Not that I am aware of. is tagged with $headers
I am not sure. That script I posted is the only php on the page.

drag0n

ooo so the rest of the code is HTML?
does ur include() before the setcookie() work?

drag0n

you can't send anything to the clients browser html,header() jscript.... etc... before your set cookie

pixelsoul

Ya it looks like the include() works it says below the error msg the thanksecho.php msg for when the msg is sent but since I changed the limit to 50 emails so I could test I haven't seen the sorry.php include() yet.