[RESOLVED] Problem with an email form

badgoat

Hi!

I am getting an unknown error with line 24 in this little email script. Can anyone see a glaring problem with it?

This is line 24: $formsend = mail("$recipient", "$subject", "$forminfo", "From: $email\r\nReply-to:$email");

<?

// write form results to file

$fp = fopen("form-results.txt", "a");
fwrite($fp, $_POST['name'] . "," .
			$_POST['phone'] . "," . 
			$_POST['email'] . "," .
			$_POST['comments'] . "," . 
			date("M-d-Y") . "\n");
fclose($fp);

// send form results through email
$recipient = "me@me.com";
$subject = "Web Form Results";
$forminfo = 
($_POST['name'] . "\r" .
$_POST['phone']  . "\r" .
$_POST['email'] . "\r" .
$_POST['comments'] . "\r\n" .
date("M-d-Y") . "\r\n\n");

$formsend = mail("$recipient", "$subject", "$forminfo", "From: $email\r\nReply-to:$email");
?>
<!-- end form -->
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<title>Untitled Document</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
</head>

<body>
<table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="5">
  <tr>
    <td> <p align="left">Thank you. You have successfully submitted the following information:</p>
	<p><? echo nl2br($forminfo); ?></p>
  </tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>

rikmoncur

I wonder what would happen if you removed

$formsend =

and just began with mail("blah blah...

badgoat

When I change line 24 to

mail("$recipient", "$subject", "$forminfo", "From: $email\r\nReply-to:$email");

I still get the unknown error, and the mail still doesn't send. Is it a problem in the \r\nReply-To: portion?

rikmoncur

could be.
the manual has examples:
http://uk.php.net/manual/en/function.mail.php

badgoat

I've tried ready-made email forms, tutorials from the web and from books, and none work.. They all give me this "unknown error". I wonder if there is something in the php.ini file that I need to change to allow for emails to be sent?

scoppc

I'm not sure whether this is an issue or not.
I guess, You should change $email to $_POST['email']

or you can do this:

$email=$_POST['email'];
$formsend=mail("$recipient", "$subject", "$forminfo", "From: $email\r\nReply-to:$email");

Hope that will fix the error.

badgoat

Hi scoppc,

Thanks! That changed my error. Now, the error is:

Server Error in c:\phpdev5\www\email\form-send.php on line 25

Am I forgetting something about enabling smtp, possibly?

irutgers

Would you please confirm that to digitally sign a form, the form must use openSSL??

Thank you,

Ian

scoppc

badgoat wrote:
Server Error in c:\phpdev5\www\email\form-send.php on line 25
Am I forgetting something about enabling smtp, possibly?

Well, I'm not really sure about SMTP, but worth a try. 🙂
Anyway, I've tried to recheck your code and found nothing wrong except for the one that I've suggested to be fixed. But... err... I really dont think u need Reply-to: there since it has the same value as From:.
U need Reply-to: only when the reply address is going to be different from the sender email address. 🙂

badgoat

Well, I fixed it. It's something local, because when I upload the script to a remote webhost and try it, it works fine. So apparently my host is set up correctly and I am not... lol

Anyways, I appreciate the help!

/just another thing for me to fix 😃