need help here , php noob

[desidarkphpnoob]

oki so i made this forum in dreamveawer , and in "form action" i used a php script to send me the results in email and redirect them using a code i got from a member here , but the problem is i do get redirected but i dont get the email.. i dont know what the **** is wrong...

heres the code :

<?php
// Where email is sent
$to = '[e-mail]';
// From address
$from = '[e-mail]>' . "\r\n";
// page visitor is sent after email is sent
$redirectURL = 'confirmation.htm';
// subject of the message
$subject = 'Email Message from Your Web site';

// start the message
$message = 'This message was sent via the form on your web site:' . "\n";
$message .= '---------------------------------------------------' . "\n";
// loop through posted values and add them to the message:
foreach($POST as $key=>$value)
{
$msg.="1. Pakkealternativ: ".$POST['pakkealternativ']."<br>\n";
$msg.="2. Fornavn: ".$POST['Fornavn']."<br>\n";
$msg.="3. Etternavn: ".$POST['Etternavn']."<br>\n";
$msg.="4. Person Nummer: ".$POST['Person Nummer']."<br>\n";
$msg.="5. Adresse: ".$POST['adresse']."<br>\n";
$msg.="6. postnummer: ".$POST['postnummer']."<br>\n";
$msg.="7. poststed: ". $POST['poststed']."<br>\n";
$msg.="8. telefon nummer: ". $POST['telefonnummer']."<br>\n";
$msg.="9. email: ". $POST['email']."<br>\n";
$msg.="10. kode: ". $_POST['kode']."<br>\n";
}

// send the email
$send = mail($to, $subject,$message, $from);

// redirect the user:
$redirect = header('Location: ' . $redirectURL);
exit;
?>

any help is greatly appriciated ....

[hessian]

Are you getting an email with out all the data?

The only thing I see wrong with this is the Body of the message..

It is set as the Variable $message, but the meat of the message is $msg..

add above mail()

$message = $message." ".$msg;

[desidarkphpnoob]

i dont get any mail , i chekced if it was a problem on just my pc so i asked someone to try fill out the form from theyr comp but still i dent get any mail.... really bugging me ....cuz i need it working by friday

[ansarka]

<?php
// Where email is sent
$to = '[e-mail]';
// From address
$from = '<[e-mail]>' . "\r\n";
// page visitor is sent after email is sent
$redirectURL = 'confirmation.htm';
// subject of the message
$subject = 'Email Message from Your Web site';
// start the message
$message = 'This message was sent via the form on your web site:' . "\n";
$message .= '---------------------------------------------------' . "\n";
// loop through posted values and add them to the message:
$msg.="1. Pakkealternativ: ".$_POST['pakkealternativ']."<br>\n";
$msg.="2. Fornavn: ".$_POST['Fornavn']."<br>\n";
$msg.="3. Etternavn: ".$_POST['Etternavn']."<br>\n";
$msg.="4. Person Nummer: ".$_POST['Person Nummer']."<br>\n";
$msg.="5. Adresse: ".$_POST['adresse']."<br>\n";
$msg.="6. postnummer: ".$_POST['postnummer']."<br>\n";
$msg.="7. poststed: ". $_POST['poststed']."<br>\n";
$msg.="8. telefon nummer: ". $_POST['telefonnummer']."<br>\n";
$msg.="9. email: ". $_POST['email']."<br>\n";
$msg.="10. kode: ". $_POST['kode']."<br>\n";


// send the email
$send = mail($to, $subject,$message, $from);

// redirect the user:
$redirect = header('Location: ' . $redirectURL);
exit;
?>

In line nu 5 that is
$from = '[e-mail]>' . "\r\n";

change it to $from = '<[e-mail]>' . "\r\n";

even now also if it is not working

change it to
$from = '<[e-mail]>' . "\n";

This probably will work

[desidarkphpnoob]

nope still doesnt work.... =/

[ansarka]

hv you changed the \r\n in header to \n

[desidarkphpnoob]

yes

[ansarka]

DID you get any error message or any mail to your in box

[desidarkphpnoob]

no error message and no email in my box, thats the problem , i dont get any email there....

[joshuamd3]

$to = '[e-mail]';

that IS set as YOUR email correct?

[desidarkphpnoob]

yes

[Houdini]

Then that means that this is your website! domain.com and if there is an e-mail account at that site named webmaster then that is probably where the mail is going.

That site does already have php on it so if your site is not http://domain.com then the webmaster is getting all your email stuff. It also appears that this is an English speaking site and looking at your code it looks like Dutch or German.

[desidarkphpnoob]

yeah im the webmaster , ive got a site with fasthosts.co.uk ive got a single page inside my english site wich is norwegian for people to order some stuff throught the form , but ive checked my [email]webmaster@(mydomain).com[/email] account and ive never recieved any emails from the form... ive3 recieved emails from other people but the form never sends me any emails , ive tried four different scripts now and none of them work , so im pretty much without a clue on why it doesnt work , i do get redirected but i dont recieve any mail....

[Houdini]

what does the sendmail_from and so on have in the php.ini?

[mail function]
; For Win32 only.
SMTP = localhost
smtp_port = 25

; For Win32 only.
;sendmail_from = [e-mail]

; For Unix only.  You may supply arguments as well (default: "sendmail -t -i").
;sendmail_path =

; Force the addition of the specified parameters to be passed as extra parameters
; to the sendmail binary. These parameters will always replace the value of
; the 5th parameter to mail(), even in safe mode.
;mail.force_extra_parameters =

As best as I remember this is the default if you use the php.ini-recommended and use it as your php.ini so you will need to work with this on your server.

[hessian]

I cut and Pasted your code into my server and I get the email, I think Houdini has the right Idea, the problem is in your server config.

[desidarkphpnoob]

do i have to create a php ini file , or is it in the files i downloaded with the myadmin php stuff... im a noob at php so i dont have much of an idea...
i cant see a file named php.ini i see one called config.inc

[Houdini]

In the php folder is where the php.ini-dist and the php.ini-recommended, if you have not taken either of those and palced them so your php knows where to find them then it will use a set of defaults. So you can use one of those. You might do best to read this first though PHP install configuration

[desidarkphpnoob]

so i need to have php mysql and apache installed on my computor to make the form work on my domain. ??? i thought u could just ftp the mysql database with the html files and then just write the php codes and up them to the server and they would work with each other or sumthing.....

[joshuamd3]

desidarkphpnoob wrote:

so i need to have php mysql and apache installed on my computor to make the form work on my domain. ??? i thought u could just ftp the mysql database with the html files and then just write the php codes and up them to the server and they would work with each other or sumthing.....

no, most servers have apache and phpmysql are installed on the server

did you make a mysql database thru sql admin?

[Houdini]

What kind of server are you using on your domian.com server right now is it an apache, I already know that it has php becuase of surfing around some. So to see your environment write this code upload it to the server into the root directory and run it.

<?php
phpinfo();
?>

That should give a long list of tables that show your PHP install environment and some other information about how PHP is on your server. in particular you want to look for SMTP smtp_port and sendmail_from in the Configuration Core PHP which will be the second table. Just call the above code anthing yo like and type in http://domain.com/filename.php where filename is whatever you call the file you just copied and uploaded.