$message = 'This message was sent via the form on your web site:' . "\n"; HELP!

Jazzy_Girl

Hello, I have wracked my brain and the internet to try to find the answer to this question. I have a form which is working fine except I need it to put an auto message into my email.

For instance. The form is a usual form, the execution part of the form is php that goes on the server.

This is the part I need help with. Whatever is filled into the form goes to my email address just fine. But I need to include an auto message that is sent to the emal address as well. Here is a string I found that perhaps might work but I am doing something wrong.

$message = 'This message was sent via the form on your web site:' . "\n";

My form area is called "message." What do I need to do to achieve what I am looking for, the just above doesn't work. Thanks a lot. Jaz

Weedpacket

The above doesn't do anything except put a string into a variable. Post the code you have that emails the form information and we'll be able to point out where and how it should go.

Jazzy_Girl

Well I sure hope you can help. Getting dog tired from reading all these quips without any answers. This php stuff can really be annoying. Like your hat. 🙂

Here is my simple code.

<?
$message = $_REQUEST['message'];
mail("myemailaddress@myemailaddress", "Sent From My Web Site Form",
$message, "From: $My official html page with the from it it." );
header( "Location: http://www.mywebsite/thankyou.html" );
if (empty($message)) {
header( "Location: http://www.mywebsite/error.html" );
}

And all I need is some sort of code that adds an auto message to my email body, along with what was entered in the form. Thanks. JG

ClarkF1

You can append the $message variable so it includes the auto text.

$message = $_REQUEST['message'];
$automessage = 'This message was sent via the form on your web site:' . "\n";

$emailmessage = $automessage.$message;

and then use the mail function sending $emailmessage rather than $message.

Jazzy_Girl

Gosh that sounds real good but need helping understanding the last sentence. Can you please show me the code for using the mail function to do this...for the last sentence? Then I'll try it and see if it works. Also on the sentence above it, I really don't understand how the \n command works if somone could please explain it to me. I've looked everywhere for a good definition of it with examples with no luck. Thanks, JG

ClarkF1

Instead of

mail("myemailaddress@myemailaddress", "Sent From My Web Site Form",
$message, "From: $My official html page with the from it it." );

use

mail("myemailaddress@myemailaddress", "Sent From My Web Site Form",
$emailmessage, "From: $My official html page with the from it it." );

The \n command is a line-break like the <br> in HTML

The \n command would prevent a email like this:

This message was sent via the form on your web site:Information from form

Instead you'll get:

This message was sent via the form on your web site:
Information from form

Jazzy_Girl

Thank you very much!