simple order form

ashley526

I am trying to make a simple order form, just something that'll email me the information that people put in.

I already have the form made, I just need to do the php page now. I have done php to enter stuff into a database, but not to send to an email. I have searched but can't find exactly what I am wanting on here. 🙁 Can someone point me in the right direction?

Thanks in advance!!

Ashley

kekke

Maybe you should have a look at this:

http://www.phorm.com/

Sends e-mail and/or to textfile.

bubblenut

[man]mail()[/man]

ashley526

I looked at that mail() function but I am totally confused! LOL

I don't want them to know they are sending me an email, but I need to have the information sent to me. Does that make any sense for this function?

ashley526

Okay, I tried to made a simple email form.... and I think the php to go with it.

This is what I put on the php, what am I doing wrong?

<?php 
$package=$_POST['package']; 
$payment=$_POST['payment']; 
$name=$_POST['name'];
$email=$_POST['email'];
$domain=$_POST['domain'];
$username=$_POST['username'];
$password=$_POST['password'];
$referral=$_POST['referral'];

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

mail("sales@mydomain.com", "New Customer", $mailheaders); 
?>

dalecosp

Hi, Ashley ...

It's really quite simple. You have a form:

<htmll>
   <head>
      <title>My email form that doesn't tell the user I'm sending mail</title>
<!-- unless they read browser titles, heh heh... -->

   </head>
   <body>
      <form action="notamailer.php" method="POST">
         <p>Sign up for free stuff here! &nbsp; You too could win a free 
                 year's supply of Diaperene!!</p>
        Your name: <input type="text" name="name"><br>
        Your email: <input type="text" name="email"><br>
        What do you wish to be your password?<input type="password" name="pass1">
        <br>
        <input type="submit" value="Sign up now!">
   </body>
</html>

Then you have a handler:

<?php

// notamailer.php --- sends mail, but doesn't say so...

// stuff from POST array (form)

$name=$_POST['name'];
$email=$_POST['email'];
$password=$_POST['pass1'];

// the date/time
$date=date('r', time());

$message=" At $date, $name submited the form at the site. \n";
$message.="$name's email address is: $email \n";
$message.="$name was his/her password to be $password, but be \n";
$message.="sure and don't tell anyone!!!";

$success=mail("me@mydomain", "form results", $message);

if ($success) {
   echo "<pre>Thanks for signing up!  You'll now be entered in the monthly drawing!";
   echo "</pre>";
} else {
   echo "<pre>There was an error processing your entry.  Could you go back and try";
   echo " again?  Thanks!</pre>";
}
?>

It looks like in your example you forgot the message :eek:, which is the requisite third parameter for [man]mail/man. If you need extra headers, they go in after the $message parameter as parameter #4 (but they aren't required)... 😉

yelvington

You forgot to actually send the information. The third argument to mail() should be a message body. Construct one using the input variables.

Also, the From: line should include a valid email address, and the code you supplied will not include one. Perhaps you meant:

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

ashley526

Awesome help you guys!!!

THANK YOU!

<?php 
// order.php --- sends mail, but doesn't say so... 

// stuff from POST array (form)
$package=$_POST['package']; 
$payment=$_POST['payment']; 
$name=$_POST['name'];
$email=$_POST['email'];
$domain=$_POST['domain'];
$username=$_POST['username'];
$password=$_POST['password'];
$referral=$_POST['referral'];

// the date/time 
$date=date('r', time()); 

$message="Date/Time: $date \n"; 
$message.="Name: $name \n";
$message.="Email: $email \n";
$message.="Password: $password \n"; 
$message.="Package: $package \n";
$message.="Payment: $payment \n";
$message.="Domain: $domain \n";
$message.="Username: $username \n";
$message.="Referral: $referral \n";

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

$success=mail("mail@mydomain.com", "New Customer", $message, $mailheaders); 

if ($success) { 
   echo "<pre>Thanks for choosing Simply Baby to host your website! You will recieve an email from us shortly. :)"; 
   echo "</pre>"; 
} else { 
   echo "<pre>There was an error processing your order.  Could you go back and try"; 
   echo " again?  Thanks!</pre>"; 
}
?>

The only thing I forget how to change the echo page.... do I just put the html after the first " in the echo?

dalecosp

There are myriad ways to handle HTML output. I showed you in something of a "beginner" fashion...all those echo() statements.

You can extend echo() over several newlines, thus:

<?php

echo "
<html>
   <head>
      <title>My Page</title>
   </head>
   <body>
       <p>Click below to see my other page!</p>
      <a href=\"otherpage.html\">Click this!</a>
   </body>
";
?>

Note, of course, that you must remember things that echo can't do ... like tell when a quote is supposed to be printed to the browser, or whether it's the end of the string argument.

Probably even better, you should just escape from php by closing the tag ?> and doing your HTML as usual; you can reopen whenever you need dynamic content (or to close a conditional loop as seen below):

<?php

if (!$_SESSION['username']) {
   include 'secretpage.html';
} else {

?>
<html>
   <head>
      <title>Access denied!</title>
   </head>
   <body>
      <p>You are not logged in, so you cannot view this page...sorry!</p>
   </body>
<?php
}
?>