Email form confirmation page (review entered details)

[Cobby]

Hi all,

I am making a form using PHP for a website.

Just for example, say it was a form that asked for someones name and favourite number (fav number would be a select list), took them to a confirmation page where they could review what information they entered. And then, it would email off.

Normally when I have done an email form, I put form action="......./email.php" method="post".

But I want it to take them to a new page, saying what they have entered.
Then they click send or back (already got back working with javascript).

So i guess on the confirmation page, I need to do the PHP_SELF or whatever it is, but have never done this before.

Also, I want the message in the email to say something like:
$name 's favourite number is $favnumber.

I haven't done PHP for a while, and I have forgot how to integrate HTML in with it.

Can someone refer me to a tutorial or give me some ideas on what PHP I would need to have on the confirmation page.

Cheers,
Cobby

[Cobby]

Ok, well I have to confirmation page working, it shows the data the user entered in the previous form.

But when I click send, it doesn't actually send the email.

This is at the start of thje script

$firstname = $_POST['firstname'];
$surname = $_POST['surname'];
$phone = $_POST['phone'];
$email = $_POST['email'];
$guests = $_POST['guests'];
$addrees = $_POST['address'];
$postcode = $_POST['postcode'];
$address2 = $_POST['townsuburb'];
//Date
$day = $_POST['day'];
$month = $_POST['month'];
$year = $_POST['year'];

$message1 = $_POST['message'];

This is part of the form

<table>
  <tr>
    <td><form>
        <input type=button value="Back"
			onCLick="history.back()">
      </form></td>
    <td><form action="<?php echo $PHP_SELF;?>">
        <input type="submit" value="Send!" />
      </form></td>
  </tr>
</table>

Here is the mail() function

$message = include 'email.php';
$to = "my_email@is_private.com";
$suject = "Enquiry/Booking";

mail($to, $subject, $message);

And here is email.php, its basically a collection of data, and put into readable sentences.

<? echo $firstname ", " $surname ?> . has requested at a function addressed <? echo $address ", " $address2 ", " $postcode ?> on the <? echo $day ", " $month ", " $year?> and will have approximately <? echo $guests?> guests. <? echo $firstname ", " $surname ?> also said <? echo $meassage1 ?>.

<? echo $firstname?> can be contacted on:
Ph. <? echo $phone?>
E-mail: <? echo $email?>

[dagon]

can't do this:

$message = include 'email.php';

there are a couple of options but i would suggest

$message ="$firstname , $surname has requested at a function addressed $address $address2"; (etc)

that could in an include if desired

[bradgrafelman]

dagon wrote:

can't do this:

$message = include 'email.php';

Actually, you can, if the [man]include[/man]'d file [man]return/man's data instead of echo'ing it.