PHP Form Output

php_dapper

I am new to PHP coding and am trying to write code to format form output in an e-mail message. I have created a large form accessed on http://www.pinesofsarasota.org/employment_opportunites.htm. You need to click on the very small character at the bottom right of the page to go into the form itself. What I would like to do is have the user's input sent in an e-mail to a human resource (HR) person in a format much like the form itself. If that isn't possible, I would like the output to be as user-friendly as possible.

I think sending the form submittal to HR by e-mail is the way to go. However, maybe setting up the form results to create a file might be a suitable alternative. I don't know how to do the latter and would appreciate any help at all.

Thank you

tripwater

Well you can basically copy and paste your HTML code for your form and place it into a var on the post page (you would need to get rid of the form elements and use the post vars though)


//####################################################################################
		//####################################################################################
//now we build our email
$to 		= //the to  EmailAddress goes here
$subject 	= //what appears in the subject line of the email goes here
$header  	= "From: <From email address goes here>\nMIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";
$header    .= "Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\r\n";//leave alone

$message    = "This is where your HTML code would go to display your form results";



//**************************************** email ***********************************************************

$from = " '-fFromEmail' ";//leave the -f put the from email address after it without spaces



mail($to, $subject, $message, $header,$from)//put any error trapping code here if you like


	//****************************************end of email *******************************************************

Hope this helps

tripwater

BTW clicked on your link and got

Not Found
The requested URL /employment_opportunites.htm was not found on this server.

php_dapper

I just tried clicking on it (http://www.pinesofsarasota.org/employment_opportunities.htm) and it worked???????????????

tripwater

well now it is working....got to love it. 🙂

php_dapper

Please excuse my ignorance as I am a newbie. When you refer to "var" are you referring to "$message" in the mail function?? If so can I put all the html code into $message as is?

Also I don't understand the "$from" variable. I thought the mail function only used four parameters? Could you please explain the "$from" variable more fully?

Thanks mucho

tripwater

Yes when I was referring to var I was talking about $message. You can put all of your html and php code inside it to make the email look anyway you need. Of course you would need to access your form entries that the user posted by accessing the post variables like $HTTP_POST_VARS["firstname"] or the short hand if your web server is setup for it.

the mail function has optional parameters for additional headers

You can read more here http://us2.php.net/function.mail

php_dapper

Many thanks for all your help!!!