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TheGuyRyan

I am having a very hard time with this... I did a search and found some stuff, from there I rebuilt mine but I am still not getting results. Could someone please help me out. I just want to make a simple work order request.

My html is as fallows:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> 

<html> 
<head> 
<title>TestForm</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
</head> 
<body> 

<p><form action="TestSendForm.php" method="post">Name: 
<input type="text" name="text1"></p>

<p>Request:
<input type="text" name="text2"></p> 

<input type="submit" name="Submit" value="submit"> 
</form> 
</body> 
</html>

My PHP file looks like this

<?php
}

$text1  = $_POST['text1'];
$text2  = $_POST['text2'];


$sendto = "director@company.co";
$subject = "test";
$notes = "";


$headers .="test form \n\n";
$headers .= "From: $text1. \n";
$headers .= "Request: $text2. \n";

mail($sendto, $subject, $notes, $headers);

}

exit;

?>

Please note both are in the same directory, and the file names are correct. Im sorry it seems like this has been asked 100 times, but for some reason I keep missing something. I am skipping the "verify" part for now, I just want to get it to send the info along first then from there I will work on making it more user friendly. Thank you for putting up with my noob-ness 🙂

PS everything you see is exactly how the files look I copied everything

NogDog

First: in the php file you have some spurious "}" braces that do not appear to belong (and should be throwing a parse error if error-reporting is turned on).

Second: "test form \n\n" is not a valid mail header, nor is "Request:" (as far as I know). Also, the usual header separator is "\r\n". (On a few systems, you may need to change it to just "\n", but try the "\r\n" for now.)

Third: the "From:" address usually needs to be a valid email address on the server, so you normally cannot use the user-supplied value. Instead, put it in a Reply-To header.

See if this is any better:

<?php
ini_set('display_errors', 1);
error_reporting(E_ALL);
// you can comment out the above lines if you want, once everything is working

$text1  = $_POST['text1'];
$text2  = $_POST['text2'];

$sendto = "director@company.co";
$subject = "test";
$notes = $text2;

$headers = "From: director@company.co\r\n";
$headers .= "Reply-To: $text1";

mail($sendto, $subject, $notes, $headers);
?>

halojoy

you have no starttags but 2 endtags

functionname { // starttag

} // endtag

if ( $today ) { // starttag

echo 'not tomorrow';

} // endtag

In your second script, remove thos two '}'
or create some matching STARTTAG
because they have no startag to match them

Aalso use in beginning, when debug php script ALWAYS
error_reporting ( E_ALL ); // DEBUG, remove after you got script working

try this:

<?php

error_reporting ( E_ALL ); // DEBUG, remove this line after script is working


// Test if anything was posted to this page, from POST form
// check if variable $_POST['text1']  IS set,  has got a value
if ( isset( $_POST['text1']))  {   // START TAG

$text1  = $_POST['text1'];
$text2  = $_POST['text2'];

$sendto =  "director@company.com";
$subject =  "test";
$notes =     "my notes can be put here";

// CREATE a STRING variable $headers; start with an empty string variable
$headers="";

// ".="  means add to an EXISTING string, 
//         if not variable $headers was created before,
//         this command will give, display a DEBUG error_reporting() NOTICE
$headers .= "<b>test form</b> \n\n";
$headers .= "From: $text1 \n";
$headers .= "Request: $text2 \n";

mail( $sendto, $subject, $notes, $headers );

 exit ( 'mail was sent' );   // stop script with a confirmation message

} // ENDIF  endtag



//                 ELSE nothing POSTED , variable $_POST['text1'] was NOT set
else  {  //START ELSE

 exit ( 'nothing was posted, so  not sent anything' );    // give error info

} // END ELSE



?>

hop it work
halojoy
🙂

halojoy

also you can change this line:

to this:

<input type="submit" name="sendmailthis" value="SUBMIT This Form">

... because value is what will be written ON BUTTON

cheers
halojoy
🙂