Mail form problem- PLEASE HELP!

eblumrich

Quick to the chase:

I am developing a website for a client, and he wants a mail form where folks can "send this page to a friend". I have that part up and running, but here's the rub:

The clinet wants each message CCd to his e-mail address. I have NO idea of how to do this.

The page is here:

http://www.governorgirlieman.com/mail.html

and the PHP script is here:

http://www.governorgirlieman.com/sendurl.php

(just go to those pages, and "view source")

Can anyone here PLEASE help me out, on this?

I have spent six hours looking all over the web, and other forums, for such information, but none of it is of any use. I'm new to PHP, and it's incomprehensible to me.

Thanks much, for any help you can provide.

dalecosp

I'm afraid that "view source" on any HTML page isn't gonna reveal your PHP code.

The fourth parameter to [man]mail/man is for additional headers. Thus

$message="Someone is spying on you!  Don't use this site!";
$to="customer@yourdomain.net";
$subject="Look Out!";
$headers="cc: sneakyboss@domain.tld \r\n";

mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);

should make your boss a happy camper.

Well, OK: if it's "cc" and not "bcc", maybe he's not so sneaky ;D

eblumrich

Here is the code:

<?php
$myemail = "governor@governorgirlieman.com";
?>
<style type="text/css">

</style>

<table width="400" border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tr>
<td> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width=400 height=400 ><p align="center" class="style1"><span class="style2">Thank You : <?php echo $visitor ?> ( <?php echo $visitormail ?> ) <br>
For sending : <a href="<?php echo $urlis ?>"> <?php echo $sitename ?> </a> (link)<br>
To: <?php echo $friend ?> (<?php echo $friendmail ?>) </span><br>
</p>
<div align="center"><span class="style1"><br>
<a href="<?php echo $redirectlink ?>"> Next Page </a> </span><br>
<?php
$ip = getenv("REMOTE_ADDR");
if (!isset($visitormail) || !isset($friendmail))
echo "<font size=6>You Goofed</font> $ip" ;
$notes = stripcslashes($notes); $messageis = "
Your Friend: $visitor ($visitormail)\n
Sent this URL: $sitename ($urlis) \n
To: $friend $friendmail \n
With These Comments: $notes \n";

$messageme = $ip . " " . $messageis;

$from = "From: $myemail\r\n";

if ($myemail != "")
mail($myemail, $sitename, $messageme, $from);
if ($friendmail != "")
mail($friendmail, $sitename, $messageis, $from);
if ($visitormail != "")
mail($visitormail, $sitename, $messageis, $from);
?>
</div></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> </td>
</tr>
</table>
<p> </p>
<p>

</p>

I looked at the code you mentioned, and it bears no resemblance to antyhing in the code I'm using. Any chance you could tell me if there's just a simple code I can add to the above, to add a CC or BCC?

dalecosp

It bears a striking resemblance. [man]mail/man always works as described there.

You have a mail header already, you're just using "from" and need to add "cc" as well.

$from = "From: $myemail\r\n cc: sneakyboss@domain.tld \r\n";

🙂

eblumrich

Thank you very much for your help, but your code didn't work.

Simply put: This is the fifth forum that I have posted this problem to. I have been given no less than 30 "solutions" on these forums- none of which have worked.

I am going to tell my boss that this can't be done.

The PHP community- well- god bless ya, but quite frankly, I am seriously dissapointed.

gufmn

Originally posted by eblumrich
Thank you very much for your help, but your code didn't work.

Simply put: This is the fifth forum that I have posted this problem to. I have been given no less than 30 "solutions" on these forums- none of which have worked.

I am going to tell my boss that this can't be done.

The PHP community- well- god bless ya, but quite frankly, I am seriously dissapointed.

The only thing you should be dissapointed in is yourself. I've used the exact same code dalecosp gave you and it works fine. You're obviously doing something wrong. If you want to LIE to your client by telling them it can't be done. Well, I guess that says something about your character. All I know is, I wouldn't hire you.

dalecosp

Hmm...

You're obviously doing something wrong.

Perhaps that's a tad harsh, but if what I gave you isn't working, he's right in that it's not the code I gave you that is at fault. It is either your implementation of the code, or the unexpected possibility that something about the way things are being done (and I have no idea what, but could list half a dozen guesses, and I don't mean "things are being done that are your fault", I mean, maybe the server is case-sensitive and I should have put "Cc: " instead of "cc:", or maybe your editor is converting the newline characters which must be in the mail headers, or maybe the server's mail configuration doesn't allow cc'ing, or ... well, that's only 3, but you get the idea....)

There's simply no way anyone on the forum, without exact and more or less total knowledge of the situation and access to the code and server, can tell what your problem is from a couple of posts on the forum. Likely that goes for other forums as well. It may be you give up too easily. I can't say, I don't know you. Sometimes programming is like "kicking dead whales down the beach", though; and it may behoove us to persevere sometimes.

I can't say with one hundred percent certainty, but of all the forums on the 'Net that I read or visit that are concerned with PHP, this one is probably tops in terms of the quickness of response and the sheer number of knowledgeable posters. I'm not the most knowledgeable ... maybe someone will hand you the magic bullet later.

If you're in the U.S., I suggest you relax and enjoy the holiday, and hit it again Monday morning ... what I've shown you is, in essence, absolutely correct, is described in detail in the PHP manual, and is common knowledge among PHP programmers. "cc:" is a mail header, and headers are the fourth argument to mail() ....

eblumrich

For being so harsh...

  A solution already existed.  I dunno if it was in my HTML, or the PHP, but the client says he's getting CCs of the e-mails, even though I don't see them, here.  I guess it's the PHP script interacting with his heb hosting plan, or something, of the sort.

   I just hate the new wave of anal webscript that's pretty much taking over the web.  

    Thanks for your help!

-eric

www.bushflash.com

jazz_snob

I just hate the new wave of anal webscript that's pretty much taking over the web.

How did you know I code w/ my anus? ( you've heard of 'test-driven' development? well I've pioneered ass-driven development! )

It looks like this:

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keyboard

hey, GIGO ( translated for the neohack-crowd: garbage-in = garbage-out ).

-Tom
drunken-coding-jazz-guitarist-republican-anarchist