Will it work???

[kylesite]

Would this work?

<?php  

$to = "[e-mail]";  

echo "  

<center> 
<form action=\".$_SERVER['$PHP_SELF'].\" method=\"post\">\n  

<input name=\"a\" value=\"Name\">\n  

<br>\n  

<input type=\"submit\" value=\"send\">\n  

</center> 
        ";  

if (isset($_POST['a'])){  

   $_SESSION['a'] = $_POST['a'];  

echo "Hello ".$_SESSION['a']; 
echo "Message to $to has been sent.";  

mail($to,"Name",$_POST['a']." used the form", "From:$to<Kyle>");  

} else {  

echo "You didn't fill out the form!";  

}
?>

[kylesite]

Please can I have your replies. It's one of my first scripts. I need to know if it will work or not because I don't have a web server that will host PHP. And I want a free one!

[BlueMeteor]

\".$SERVER['$PHP_SELF'].\"
change to
$SERVER['PHP_SELF']."

[kylesite]

Is this better?

<?php   

$to      = "[e-mail]";    

$subject = "Form Results";
$message = $_POST['a']." used the form\n\nThey said that we ".$opinion;
$form 	 = $_SERVER['$PHP_SELF'];
echo  "
	<center>\n 
	<form action=\"$form\" method=\"post\">\n    

	<input name=\"a\" value=\"Name\">\n
	<br>\n
	<select name\"opinion\">\n
	<option value=\"need improvement.\">Site needs improvement\n
	<option value=\"are OK.\">Site is OK\n
	<option value=\"are AWESOME!\">Site is AWESOME!\n
       </select>\n
	<br>\n
	<input type=\"submit\" value=\"Send\">\n
	</center>\n";    

if (isset($_POST['a']) && isset($_POST['opinion'])){ 
	$_SESSION['a'] = $_POST['a']; 
	$_SESSION['opinion'] = $_POST['opinion']; 
	echo "Hello ".$_SESSION['a']." You said that we are ".$_SESSION['opinion']."<BR>"; 
	echo "Message to $to has been sent.<br>"; 
	mail($to,$subject,$message,"From:$to<Kyle>");
} else {    

	echo "You didn't complete the form!<br>";    

}  

?>

[LordShryku]

Originally posted by kylesite
Please can I have your replies. It's one of my first scripts. I need to know if it will work or not because I don't have a web server that will host PHP. And I want a free one!

Kyle, for the purpose of testing scripts, I have Apache, PHP and MySQL installed on every system I own. I'd suggest downloading them and installing them on your computer so you can test these.

[kylesite]

:: Upgraded ::

Is this OK?

<?php   

$to      = "[e-mail]";    

$subject = "Form Results";
$message = $_POST['a']." used the form\n\nThey said that we ".$opinion;
echo  "
	<center>\n 
	<form action=\".$_SERVER['$PHP_SELF'].\" method=\"post\">\n    

	<input name=\"a\" value=\"Name\">\n
	<br>\n
	<select name\"opinion\">\n
	<option value=\"need improvement.\">Site needs improvement\n
	<option value=\"are OK.\">Site is OK\n
	<option value=\"are AWESOME!\">Site is AWESOME!\n
       </select>\n
	<br>\n
	<input type=\"submit\" value=\"Send\">\n
	</center>\n";    

if (isset($_POST['a']) && isset($_POST['opinion'])){ 
	$_SESSION['a'] = $_POST['a']; 
	$_SESSION['opinion'] = $_POST['opinion']; 
	echo "Hello ".$_SESSION['a']." You said that we are ".$_SESSION['opinion']."<BR>"; 
	echo "Message to $to has been sent.<br>"; 
	mail($to,$subject,$message,"From:$to<Kyle>");
} else {    

	echo "You didn't complete the form!<br>";    

}  

?>

[Norman_Graham]

Hi Kyle

I don't know if your code will work. It has to be tested. Look at what Lord Shryku wrote. Install Apache/PHP/MySQL on your computer and test your scripts. No-one on this forum is going to do it for you. If you don't want to do this, then load your scripts up to your host and test them there. If they don't work, then delete them and come back to the forum and tell us what error messages you got. I recently had no WAMP for a while (Windows/Apache/MySQL/PHP), so I just FTPed my scripts to my host and tested them there. You can easily set up a testing sub-domain, e.g. [url]http://www.experiment.mysite.com,[/url] and test your scripts there before integrating them into the public part of your domain. Even with a 56K modem, scripts only take seconds to FTP to your host.

Last point: if an error message reads: Parse error - unexpected squiggly thing on line 256, then it means you have a syntax error and should check the lines prior to the line number in the error message for missing semi-colons, brackets and so on. Don't post parse errors of that type to the forum.

Best o luck

Norm