Problem coding to send an email

hbradshaw

Hello:

I have a basic contact form with three items to fill in: name, email, and message.

After the form is submitted, I was successful in writing a script which presents a confirmation page to the user.

I also need this script to send an email. I tried a number of different things and with everything I tried I came up with a different result. One time I received no email. Another version printed the information from the form twice on the confirmation page. Plus, the left navigation bar was wider than it should be. My final attempt, gave me an email which showed all the info appearing twice, a confirmation page with all the info appearing twice, and a left nav bar wider than it should be.

Help! Can someone point me in the right direction on how to modify my script so I can send an email and keep my confirmation page as is? I would like the email to have the information formatted as in the confirmation page.

There was one option I didn't try, yet, and I'm not sure if it would even work. Rather than placing all functions in the one script, do you think if I create a seperate PHP script that just handles the email part and then include it into my main script?

Here's the URL for the contact form so you can see what the confirmation page should look like: http://www.metalroofingtools.com/contact-us.htm.

Also, here is my script which is currently running correctly but does not send an email.

<?php
include ('header.php');
?>
<?php
$name=$POST['name'];
$email=$POST['email'];
$message=$_POST['message'];
?>
<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse" bordercolor="#111111" width="100%" id="AutoNumber8">
<tr>
<td width="4%"> </td>
<td width="62%"> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="4%"> </td>
<td width="62%">
CONFIRMATION</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="4%"> </td>
<td width="62%"> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="4%"> </td>
<td width="62%">
Thank you for
contacting MetalRoofingTools.com.  Your request for information
was submitted.
A representative will
contact you to discuss your needs.  A confirmation email was
sent to you.

<?php
echo "<table border='0' width='60%'>";
echo "<tr>";
echo "<td width='40%'>";
echo "Contact Name:</td>";
echo "<td width='60%'>";
echo $name;
echo "</td></tr>";
echo "<tr>";
echo "<td width='40%'>";
echo "Email Address:</td>";
echo "<td width='60%'>";
echo $email;
echo "</td></tr>";
echo "<tr>";
echo "<td width='40%'>";
echo "Message:</td>";
echo "<td width='60%'>";
echo $message;
echo "</td></tr>";
echo "<tr>";
echo "<td width='40%'>";
echo "</td>";
echo "<td width='60%'>";
echo "</td></tr>";
echo "</table>";
?>

        <p align="left">&nbsp;</td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td width="4%">&nbsp;</td>
        <td width="62%">&nbsp;</td>
      </tr>
    </table>
    <p align="left">
    &nbsp;</td>
    <td width="3%" height="294">&nbsp;</td>
  </tr>
  </table>
</td>

</tr>
<?php
include ('footer.php');
?>

Any help would be greatly appreciated? I've looked at so many different methods of coding email and I feel like I'm chasing my tail. No pun intended.

🙂

Thank you in advance.

bretticus

You should be able to simply use the mail function right after you get the $email variable. Maybe you should post your code with the attempt to send mail.

bike5

I'm sure if you search these forms for the mail function there will be plenty of examples. mail()

hbradshaw

Thank you for the replies. I checked out the link on the mail() function and I was able to get my script to work with one little exception.

For some reason, the information that was posted did not pass into the message part of the email. The $email variable posted and passed to the "To:" portion of the email. Also, all the variables posted and passed to my confirmation page which appears after the email coding.

Can someone help me out with that?

Here's the entire code:

<?php
include ('header.php');
?>
<?php
$name=$POST['name'];
$email=$POST['email'];
$comment=$_POST['comment'];

// recipients
$to = $email;

// subject
$subject = 'Request For Information';

// message
$message = '
<html>
<head>
<title>Confirmation</title>
</head>
<body>
Your request for information was submitted. A representative will contact you to discuss your business needs.
<table>
<tr>
<td width="60%">Contact Name:</td><td></td><td>$name</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="60%">Email Address:</td><td></td><td>$email</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="60%">Message:</td><td></td><td>$comment</td>
</tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>
';

// To send HTML mail, the Content-type header must be set
$headers = 'MIME-Version: 1.0' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1' . "\r\n";

// Additional headers
$headers .= 'From: MetalRoofingTools.com <info@summitwebcrafters.com>' . "\r\n";
//$headers .= 'Cc: info@summitwebcrafters.com' . "\r\n";
//$headers .= 'Bcc: info@summitwebcrafters.com' . "\r\n";

// Mail it
mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);

?>
<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse" bordercolor="#111111" width="100%" id="AutoNumber8">
<tr>
<td width="4%"> </td>
<td width="62%"> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="4%"> </td>
<td width="62%">
CONFIRMATION</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="4%"> </td>
<td width="62%"> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="4%"> </td>
<td width="62%">
Thank you for
contacting MetalRoofingTools.com.  Your request for information
was submitted.
A representative will
contact you to discuss your needs.  A confirmation email was
sent to you.

<?php
echo "<table border='0' width='60%'>";
echo "<tr>";
echo "<td width='40%'>";
echo "Contact Name:</td>";
echo "<td width='60%'>";
echo $name;
echo "</td></tr>";
echo "<tr>";
echo "<td width='40%'>";
echo "Email Address:</td>";
echo "<td width='60%'>";
echo $email;
echo "</td></tr>";
echo "<tr>";
echo "<td width='40%'>";
echo "Message:</td>";
echo "<td width='60%'>";
echo $comment;
echo "</td></tr>";
echo "<tr>";
echo "<td width='40%'>";
echo "</td>";
echo "<td width='60%'>";
echo "</td></tr>";
echo "</table>";
?>

        <p align="left">&nbsp;</td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td width="4%">&nbsp;</td>
        <td width="62%">&nbsp;</td>
      </tr>
    </table>
    <p align="left">
    &nbsp;</td>
    <td width="3%" height="294">&nbsp;</td>
  </tr>
  </table>
</td>

</tr>
<?php
include ('footer.php');
?>

Thank you in advance.