email form

wood1e

Hi,

I am trying to sort out a php email form on my webpage...I am working on my pc, and haven;t uploaded the page yet..

I have looked at a small tutorial...but I can't seem to get it to work. I created a feedback.htm, which is saved on my desktop, and a sendmail.php saved to my htdocs file in the Apache folder.

When I click send, I get the page cannot be displayed...

If I save my feenback.htm to the htdocs file, I click send and the .php file wants to download, ie I get a window that asks if I want to save, or open the file...

The code I have used from the tutorial for sendmail.php,
is

<?
$email=$REQUEST['email'];
$message=$REQUEST['message'];

mail("info@synaxisolutions.co.uk", "Feedback form results",
$message, "Form:$email");
header ("Location: [url]http://www.example.com/thankyou.htm[/url]");

and the forms code for feedback.htm is

 <fieldset>
 <legend>Contact form</legend>

 <label for="enquiryname"><span>Name: <strong class="red_text">*</strong></span></label>
    <input type="text" name="enquiryname" id="enquiryname" value="" size="32" /><br />

    <label for="enquiryemail"><span>Email Address: <strong class="red_text">*</strong></span></label>
 <input type="text" name="enquiryemail" id="enquiryemail" value="" size="32" /><br />

 <label for="enquirytelephone"><span>Telephone:</span></label>
 <input type="text" name="enquirytelephone" id="enquirytelephone" value="" size="32" /><br />

 <label for="enquiryaddress1"><span><strong>Address Line 1:</strong> <strong class="red_text">*</strong></span></label>
 <input type="text" name="enquiryaddress1" id="enquiryaddress1" size="32" value="" /><br />

 <label for="enquiryaddress2"><span>Address Line 2:</span></label>
 <input type="text" name="enquiryaddress2" id="enquiryaddress2" size="32" /><br />

 <label for="enquirytown"><span>Town: <strong class="red_text">*</strong></span></label>
 <input type="text" name="enquirytown" id="enquirytown" size="32" /><br />

 <label for="enquirypostcode"><span>Postcode: <strong class="red_text">*</strong></span></label>
 <input type="text" name="enquirypostcode" id="enquirypostcode" value="" size="8" /><br />

 <label for="enquirycomments" class="textarea"><span>Comments or questions <strong class="red_text">*</strong></span></label>
    <textarea name="enquirycomments" id="enquirycomments" cols="50" rows="10"></textarea><br />

 <label for="enquirynewsletter" class="right"><span><input type="checkbox" name="enquirynewsletter" id="enquirynewsletter" value="checkbox" /></span></label>
 <div class="comment">Tick if you wish to receive David Mundell's email newsletters</div></p>

 <label style="border:none;"><span></span></label>
 <input class="button" type="submit" value="Send" name="submit" class="submit" />

    </fieldset>

</form>

Anyhelp would be greatly appreciated...

wempy

You probably need to set up apache to process php files rather than send them to the client.

Look up the AddType directive (and maybe also the DirectoryIndexes directive) in the Apache manual - or read a tutorial on installing php for apache.

wood1e

Just checked those and they are fine....Any other suggestion?

bradgrafelman

If you're being asked to download the PHP file when viewing from your webserver, then those settings are NOT set up correctly.

Paste ALL lines in Apache's .conf file that have to do with PHP (AddType or AddHandler, for example).

If you are unsure what to look for, you can attach (and I mean attach, not post the contents of, due to the lengthiness of the .conf file) the entire .conf file to your next post so we can take a peek at your current settings.

wood1e

Many thanks have attached file

C:\Program Files\Apache Group\Apache2\conf\httpd.conf and .txt file

bradgrafelman

Try copying the php4apache2.dll to the 'modules' folder in the installation folder of Apache2, and also copy 'php4ts.dll' to the same folder (the Modules folder).

Then, for the "LoadModule" reference, change it to:

LoadModule php4_module modules/php4apache2.dll

You also have redundant lines; change this:

AddType application/x-httpd-php .php .phtml
AddType application/x-httpd-php-source .phps
AddType application/x-httpd-php .php
AddType application/x-httpd-php .php3
AddType application/x-httpd-php .phtml

to this:

AddType application/x-httpd-php .php .phtml
AddType application/x-httpd-php-source .phps
AddType application/x-httpd-php .php3

Give that a shot and let us know.

wood1e

Hi,

I made the adjustments you stated, and did a restart of Apache after as well....and once again same problem, either click send from my desktop page, and page doesn;t exist. Or try the version of the feedback.htm I have in the Htdocs, and click send, and I get a windows message do I wish to cave open or cancel...

I have an SMTP server running as well?

wood1e

I have just noticed that I have PHP4ts.DLL in my Winnt folder should that be deleted if I know have the file in my modules folder?

Also I have just tried to run feedback form again, and got these error meassages:

Notice: Undefined index: email in C:\Program Files\Apache Group\Apache2\htdocs\sendmail.php on line 2

Notice: Undefined index: message in C:\Program Files\Apache Group\Apache2\htdocs\sendmail.php on line 3

Warning: mail(): SMTP server response: 550 Invalid recipient: info@synaxisolutions.co.uk in C:\Program Files\Apache Group\Apache2\htdocs\sendmail.php on line 6

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at C:\Program Files\Apache Group\Apache2\htdocs\sendmail.php:2) in C:\Program Files\Apache Group\Apache2\htdocs\sendmail.php on line 7

bradgrafelman

So wait. You can manually type in the sendmail.php and it loads the page (even though you get those errors you mentioned)? But, when you POST data from the HTML page to the PHP page, you are asked to open or save the .php file?

Sounds like you have an Apache setting that's not allowing POST or something weird like that. Anyone else agree?

wood1e

Sorry no I have now got it to load, and give those errors....

bradgrafelman

How long is sendmail.php ? If it's not too long, can we see the contents? If it's long, paste the first 5-8 lines.

wood1e

This is sendmail.php...with my email address in it...

<?
$email=$REQUEST['email'];
$message=$REQUEST['message'];

mail("info@synaxisolutions.co.uk", "Feedback form results",
$message, "Form:$email");
header ("Location: [url]http://www.example.com/thankyou.htm[/url]");

dnast

Not sure if this has anything to do with anything, but did you notice that your header says "Form"??

bradgrafelman

That, and there should be a space between the colon and the email address.

Also, reading the error message... "Invalid recipient"... are you sure it's not a configuration error on the SMTP server? Does your SMTP server require authentication?