[RESOLVED] Dont understand the empty value

allthatcash

Hello...very new to php.....clueless in fact. Please see the code below and tell me where the isset , trim ect goes....I read the links in the other post but couldnt figure it out....i put an isset in there...but the message kept sending anyway. I even tried and if($whatever="") { echo "please input" } but the email was sent anyway.

<html><head></head>
<?php

// ASSIGN VARIABLES TO THE EMAIL

$to = "email@me.com" ;
$from = "POST[from]" ;
$subject = "POST[subject]" ;
$message = "_POST[message]" ;

?>
<body><center>
<fieldset style= "border: 10px ridge #3399FF; color: #000000 ; width: 350px ;">
<legend style="color: #ff0000; font-family: arial; font-size: 14pt;">
<b>Send Us A Message</b>
</legend>
<form method = "post" action="email-sent.php">
Subject :       <input type="text" name="subject"><br>
Your Email : <input type="text" name="from"><br>
Message : <textarea name="message" rows="10" cols="40" class="txtarea" id="message"></textarea><br>
<font color="blue" face="arial"><b>Include you correct contact information<br>
so we can get back in touch with you.
</font></b>
<br><input type="submit" name="submit" value="Send Email">
</form></center>

</body></html>

NogDog

You'll need some sort of conditional block that only does the mail() if there are no errors. You could do something like setting an error flag variable:

$error = FALSE;
$fromEmail = trim($_POST['email']);
if($fromEmail === "")
{
   $error = TRUE;
   echo "<p>You must enter an email address.</p>\n";
}
if(!$error)
{
   // do the mail() stuff here
}

allthatcash

That's cool....Thank you!