Form input help needed

marvinko

Hi all. I'm very new to php but learning before old age renders me useless. 🙂

I have a form that works fine except for one aspect that I want to incorporate. Below is the coding:

<FORM method="post" action="sendto.php?send">
<DIV align="center">
<P>Subject:
<INPUT type="text" name="subject" size="40" value="<? print $subject?>">
</P>
<P>Message: </P>
<P>
<TEXTAREA name="message" cols="50" rows="10"><? print $message ?></text>
<BR>

        To send your ad in HTML format, please check this box <input type="checkbox" name="html" value="yes">
        <BR>
      </P>
      <P>
        <INPUT type="submit" name="Submit" value="Send">
      </P>
    </DIV>
  </FORM>

Basically the person fills in the subject, message, and checks the box or not to sent in html.

Its in the TEXTAREA section that produces the message that I want the person's username ($username) to be included in the message. But I don't want the user to be able to change their username. I tried a couple of times with input hidden ... but either got the message typed (with no username) ... or ... the username with no message.

I've spent the last 3 hours looking through this site and learned quite a few other things. Will definately be back. But if anyone could help an old timer with this ... it would be appreciated.

Thank you
Marv

bretticus

Can you provide more code or a better explanation as I see no code for inserting a username? Maybe someone else can decipher your question a bit better, but I don't quite understand.

marvinko

That is my question ... what and where would I put in the code that includes $username into the TEXTAREA message that the user would type?

You see I want a person to type in their message but have their username included in the message when they submit. It is just so I know which user sent the message to prevent abuse.

razz

It would be good to see your sendto.php code but I will take a shot anyway.

Below is an example from the php.net manual. I added the $guest variable. note the use of variables in the mail() function. Using the variable for message body to simply build a string that includes your form variables and body text together. Note how I used the $guest in the body:

EXAMPLE

<?php
/ test variables /
$guest = "Susan";

/ recipients /
$to = "mary@example.com" . ", " ; // note the comma
$to .= "kelly@example.com";

/ subject /
$subject = "Birthday Reminders for August";

/ message /
$message = '
<html>
<head>
<title>php mail test</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>Hope this sends mail!</p>
<table>
<tr>
<th>Crazy Person</th><th>Day</th><th>Month</th><th>Year</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>'.$guest.'</td><td>3rd</td><td>August</td><td>1970</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Sally</td><td>17th</td><td>August</td><td>1973</td>
</tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>
';
/ To send HTML mail, you can set the Content-type header. /
$headers = "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";
$headers .= "Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\r\n";

/ additional headers /
$headers .= "To: Mary <mary@example.com>, Kelly <kelly@example.com>\r\n";
$headers .= "From: Birthday Reminder <birthday@example.com>\r\n";
$headers .= "Cc: birthdayarchive@example.com\r\n";
$headers .= "Bcc: birthdaycheck@example.com\r\n";

/ and now mail it /
mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);
?>

razz

bretticus

Ah, no problem. Don't bother having them include their username in the textarea input, automatically or manually. Simply check the message string in your sendto.php script to make sure it's not empty (along with your subject & email addresses if this is an e-mail submitor script).

Then simply append their username to the message before emailing, inserting to a database, etc.

$message = '(By $username)'.$_POST['message'];

marvinko

That's it.

Thank you so much Bretticus. You've saved me so much grief. Works like a charm.