Help with send me copy of form

coopera

Hi iam new to php and need help:

I am trying to create a checkbox function so that if selected it will also copy the sender in on the request, code below:

<?php session_start();
require_once('db.php');
include('functions.php');
//checkLogin('1 2');

if(isset($_POST['register']))
{
	if($_POST['username']!='' && $_POST['email']!='' && valid_email($_POST['email'])==TRUE  && $_POST['question']!='') 
	{		
			$email= $_POST['email'];
			$toEmail = "xxxx@xxxx.com";
			$username= $_POST['username'];
			$question= $_POST['question'];
			$priority= $_POST['priority'];
			$headers = 	'From: [email]xxxx@xxxx.com[/email]' . "\r\n" .
    					'Reply-To:' . $email . "\r\n" .
    					'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion();
			$subject = "MIS Support";
			$message = "Name: $username

Email: $email
Priority: $priority
Question: $question";
if(mail($toEmail, $subject, $message, $headers))
{//we show the good guy only in one case and the bad one for the rest.
$msg = 'Support Request Sent Successfully. Support will be in touch shortly.';
}
else {
$error = 'Failed to send the support email out. Please try again or contact <a href="mailto:xxxx@xxxx.com">xxxx@xxxx.com</a>';
}
}
else {
$error = 'There was an error in your data. Please make sure you filled in all the required data and you provided a valid email address';
}
}
?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">

<div id="bodyContainer">

<div id="bodyHeader">MIS SUPPORT</div>


<div id="bodyContent"><br />
<?php if(isset($msg)){ echo $msg;} else {//if we have a mesage we don't need this form again.?>
<form action="<?=$SERVER['PHP_SELF']?>" method="post">
<div style="width:80px; float:left; padding-top:5px">Name: </div>
<div><input type="text" id="username" name="username" size="32" value="<?php if(isset($POST['username'])){echo $POST['username'];}?>" /></div>
<br />
<div style="width:80px; float:left; padding-top:5px">Email: </div>
<div><input type="text" id="email" name="email" size="32" value="<?php if(isset($POST['email'])){echo $POST['email'];}?>" /></div>
<br />
<div style="width:80px; float:left; padding-top:5px">Question: </div>
<div><textarea name="question" cols="24" rows="6" id="question"><?php if(isset($POST['question'])){echo $_POST['question'];}?></textarea>
</div>
<br />
<div style="width:80px; float:left; padding-top:5px">Priority: </div>
<div><select name="priority" id="priority" style="width:218px">
<option value="Low" selected="selected">Low</option>
<option value="Medium">Medium</option>
<option value="High">High</option>
</select></div>
<div style="padding:10px 0px 0px 80px">
<p><label>
<input type="checkbox" name="checkbox" value="checkbox" />
<em>Send a copy to my email</em></label></p>
<p><label><input type="submit" name="register" value="Submit" /></label></p>
</div><br />

</form>
<? } ?>

</body>
</html>

Any help would be great!! thanks in advance!!

Rodney_H_

Hi, Coopera:

Welcome to PHPBuilder.com. It looks like this is your first post, so, let's see what you have going for ya', shall we??

You have this: <input type="checkbox" name="checkbox" value="checkbox" />

I am a big fan of naming form fields relevantly, so I would suggest changing that to:

So:

$headers = 'From: xxxx@xxxx.com' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'Reply-To:' . $email . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion();
// if they want to be CC'd
if(isset($_POST['copyMe']))
{
    $headers .= 'Cc:' . $email . "\r\n";
}

The thing to remember that this is usually a big place where email forms are exploited, and spammers know how to turn this situation into send out an email to a hundred people on your dime...

Make sure you check for spaces and commas in the user input values for their email address, or you could be opening a can of worms...

That would be your "valid_email($_POST['email'])" function.

HTH

coopera

Rodney, thankyou for your help. Below is the code as it is not working on the CC side of things, am i missing something?

php code:

$email= valid_email($POST['email']);
$toEmail = "acooper@magswitch.com.au";
$username= $POST['username'];
$question= $POST['question'];
$priority= $POST['priority'];
$headers = 'From: enquiries@magswitch.com.au' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'Reply-To:' . $email . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion();
// if they want to be CC'd
if(isset($_POST['copyMe']))
{
$headers .= 'Cc:' . $email . "\r\n";
}
$subject = "MIS Support";
$message = "Name: $username

<input type="checkbox" name="copyMe" value="checkbox" />
<em>Send a copy to my email</em></label></p>

and no luck,

please help