Help With Email Form

Dena

I am a total newbie and I need help with this code. I uploaded the script and the form shows on my site. The problem is when I hit submit it gives me this error "Your email address contains errors. " I used different types of legit email addresses to test it out but I get the same error. I am not fluent in php talk so please explain in layman's term. Any help is appreciated. Thanks.

I think that maybe there is an error in the way the codes are written in the folowing lines, but I have included the entire script for review.

// Check email address for certain charcters
elseif (!eregi("^.+@.+\..+$", $from))
{
$errorMes4="ERROR: Your email address contains errors. "; $error=1;
}

THIS IS THE ENTIRE CODE:

<?php

// Include webmaster settings file
include('../config.php');

// Below code may or may not be necessary for you
$name = $POST['name']; $from = $POST['from']; $message = $_POST['message'];

// Set IP variable based on registar globals status
$register_globals = (bool) ini_get('register_gobals');
if ($register_globals) { $ip=getenv(REMOTE_ADDR); }
else $ip=$_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'];

// If webmaster wants to do domain checks
if($verify_referrer=="1")
{
// If the domain referrer DOESN'T match either the set domain or domainAlias variable
if(!eregi("$domain", $HTTP_REFERER) && !eregi("$domainAlias", $HTTP_REFERER))
{
$error=1;

// If webmaster wants to log 3rd party domain attempts
if($ipLogging=="1"){
$date=date ("l dS of F Y h:i:s A");
$ipLog="ipLog.htm";
$fp=fopen("$ipLog", "a+");
fputs($fp, " >>> Logged IP address: $ip - Date: $date ");
fclose($fp);

$errorMesB="ERROR: Invalid domain. NOTICE: Your IP has been logged as: $ip."; $error=1;
}
else{ $errorMesA="ERROR: Invalid domain."; $error=1; }

// If webmaster wants to be notified via email of 3rd party domain attempts
if($notify=="1"){
$subject=$notifySubject;

// If webmaster wants mail sent in HTML format
if($HTMLmailFormat=="1"){
$body=" 
--------WARNING! Form abuse notification ------
 A person has attempted to abuse the contact form.
 Their IP address was logged as: $ip ";
}
// If no HTML then send as plain text
else{
$body=" \n--------WARNING! Form abuse notification ------\n\n\n
A person has attempted to abuse the contact form.\n
Their IP address was logged as: $ip \n";
}
$from=$notifyFrom;

// Set headers based on content type (plain / HTML)
if($HTMLmailFormat=="1") $headers="Content-Type: text/html; charset=windows-1252 \n";
else $headers="Content-Type: text/plain \n";
$headers.="From: $from \n";
$headers.="X-mailer: \"contactMe\n";

// Mail notice to webmaster
mail($to,$subject,$body,$headers);

$errorMesC="An email with this information has been sent to the webmaster."; $error=1;
}
}
}

// Trim whitespace from user input and replace potentially harmfull charchters
$name=trim($name); $name = preg_replace("/>/","]",$name); $name = preg_replace("/</","[",$name);

// Trim whitespace from user input
$message=trim($message);

// If user enters NO name
if($name==""){ $errorMes1="ERROR: You didn't write your name. "; $error=1; }

elseif($message==""){ $errorMes2="ERROR: You didn't write a message. "; $error=1; }

// Determine the length of the message
elseif (strlen($message) >= $maxSize) { $errorMes3="ERROR: Your message is too long. The maximum characters allowed is $maxSize. "; $error=1; }

// If all is well so far there are no errors
else
$error=0;

// If there IS data in the email field then check it
if ($from!=""){ $errorMes5="ERROR: You need to enter an email address. "; $error=1; }

// Check email address for certain charcters
elseif (!eregi("^.+@.+\..+$", $from))
{
$errorMes4="ERROR: Your email address contains errors. "; $error=1;
}

// If email address pass check then trim whitespace
else
$from=trim($from);

// If there has been an error then display the error
if ($error=="1"){
echo ("<title>SendMail Error</title>
<body> 
SendMail Error
 The following errors have occured: 
$errorMes1 $errorMes2 $errorMes3 $errorMes4 $errorMes5 $errorMesA $errorMesB $errorMesC 
 <a href=\"../contactMe.htm\" style=\"color:black\">Click here</a> to try again. </body></html>"); exit(0);
}

// If there has been no error then send mail
else if ($error=="0"){

// If webmaster wants mail sent in HTML format
if($HTMLmailFormat=="1") {
$message = preg_replace("/>/",">",$message); $message = preg_replace("/</","<",$message);

$body="$message 

--------------- SENDER INFORMATION ------------
 This message was sent to you by $name. 
$name's email address is: $from 
$name's IP address is: $ip ";
}

// If webmaster wants mail sent in plain text format
else{
$body="$message\n\n\n
--------------- SENDER INFORMATION ------------
\nThis message was sent to you by $name.\n
$name's email address is: $from\n
$name's IP address is: $ip \n";
}
$from="\"$name\" <$from>";

// Set headers based on content type (plain / HTML)
if($HTMLmailFormat=="1") $headers="Content-Type: text/html; charset=windows-1252\n";
else $headers="Content-Type: text/plain \n";
$headers.="From: $from \n";
$headers.="X-mailer: \"contactMe\n";

// Send mail
mail($to,$subject,$body,$headers);

// display mail sent message
echo (" <title>SendMail Notice: mail was successfully sent</title><body> 
Your mail has been successfully sent...Thank you
</body></html>"); exit(0);

// exit script
} exit(0);
?>

klik

Here is a function to validate an email address. You could try just calling this each time you need to validate an address.

function validate_email($email) 

{
  // First, we check that there's one @ symbol, and that the lengths are right
  if (!ereg("[^@]{1,64}@[^@]{1,255}", $email)) {
    // Email invalid because wrong number of characters in one section, or wrong number of @ symbols.
    return false;
  }
  // Split it into sections to make life easier
  $email_array = explode("@", $email);
  $local_array = explode(".", $email_array[0]);
  for ($i = 0; $i < sizeof($local_array); $i++) {
     if (!ereg("^(([A-Za-z0-9!#$%&'*+/=?^_`{|}~-][A-Za-z0-9!#$%&'*+/=?^_`{|}~\.-]{0,63})|(\"[^(\\|\")]{0,62}\"))$", $local_array[$i])) {
      return false;
    }
  }  

  if (!ereg("^\[?[0-9\.]+\]?$", $email_array[1])) { // Check if domain is IP. If not, it should be valid domain name
    $domain_array = explode(".", $email_array[1]);
    if (sizeof($domain_array) < 2) {
        return false; // Not enough parts to domain
    }
    for ($i = 0; $i < sizeof($domain_array); $i++) {
      if (!ereg("^(([A-Za-z0-9][A-Za-z0-9-]{0,61}[A-Za-z0-9])|([A-Za-z0-9]+))$", $domain_array[$i])) {
        return false;
      }
    }
  }
  return true;
}

Roger_Ramjet

Scanning your code< I can't find where you set the $to address, but I can see where you include it in the mail() fucntion parameters. Looks like nothing is in that field, which would also be an invalid email address.