Email form

ashley526

I am having a problem with an email form... When it's submitted it leaves out the email part, and it when you try to reply through email it goes to their name and not their email. I've tried changing the mailheaders to $email but it still didn't reply correctly either... infact it still put the name as the reply... basically it'll try to send it back to my own mail server with the address something like this: FirstName Lastname@smtp.mail.com

Here is my code:

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

// stuff from POST array (form) 
$firstname=$_POST['firstname']; 
$lastname=$_POST['lastname']; 
$address=$_POST['address']; 
$city=$_POST['city']; 
$state=$_POST['state']; 
$zipcode=$_POST['zipcode']; 
$email=$_POST['email']; 
$phone=$_POST['phone'];
$messagetext=$_POST['messagetext']; 
$response=$_POST['response']; 

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

$message="Date/Time: $date \n";
$message.="First Name: $firstname \n";
$message.="Last Name: $lastname \n";
$message.="Address: $address \n";
$message.="City: $city \n";
$message.="State: $state \n";
$message.="Zip Code: $zipcode \n";
$message.="Phone: $phone \n";
$message.="Email: $email \n";
$message.="Message: $messagetext \n";
$message.="How they want you to contact them: $response \n";

$mailheaders="From: $firstname $lastname\r\n"; 

$success=mail("mail@mail.com", "Contact Form Submission", $message, $mailheaders); 

if ($success) { 
echo " <html><body bgcolor=\"#ffffff\"><div align=center><font color=\"#000000\" size=5 face=\"Century Gothic\"><pre>Thank you for your submission! "; 
echo "We will contact you shortly.</pre>"; 
} else { 
echo "<pre>There was an error processing your email. Could you please go back and try"; 
echo " again? Thanks! </pre></font></div></body></html>"; 
} 
?>

Anyone know why this isnt' working? I've used this basic form before on another site and it works perfectly??

Thank you so much!!!!

Ashley

bodzan

FirstName Lastname @ smtp.mail.com part isn't set anywhere that I can see...

What you set as a from header is just FirstName Lastname...

Is that even close to the problem or I just didn't get the issue here?

ashley526

Originally posted by bodzan
FirstName Lastname @ smtp.mail.com part isn't set anywhere that I can see...

What you set as a from header is just FirstName Lastname...

Is that even close to the problem or I just didn't get the issue here?

In the mail headers it comes out from: firstname lastname. (not those actual words but the actual names) The email address entered however doesnt not show up.

This is what you get as the email from the form:

Date/Time: Fri, 27 May 2005 12:59:57 -0400
First Name: Firstname
Last Name: Lastname
Address:

City:

State:

Zip Code:

Phone: 5555555555
Email:

Message: Test
How they want you to contact them: Email

The address wasn't put it so that's fine being blank, but the email was put in and it doesn't show up. When you try to reply to this email it send it to: "firstname lastname@smtp.mail.com" Pretty much just like that... only since firstname and last name is seperated it sends it to lastname@smtp.mail.com. I am using mail.com as an example. It sends it back to my email server.

kburger

I think this is what's tripping you up:

$mailheaders="From: $firstname $lastname\r\n"; 

$success=mail("mail@mail.com", "Contact Form Submission", $message, $mailheaders);

$mailheaders should be something like

"From: $email\r\nReply-To: $email";

but make sure your HTML form field is named 'email' and that it's filled out.

ashley526

$mailheaders should be something like
"From: $email\r\nReply-To: $email";
but make sure your HTML form field is named 'email' and that it's filled out. [/B]

When I do this it has nothing as the sender, and nothing as the reply... 😕

$mailheaders="From: $email\r\nReply-To: $email";

ashley526

Bah I found it... LOL

I had to make it say $emailaddress instead of email as I have another "Email" thing on the form.

But the reply-to: did help me out a lot!!

Thanks!