Can PHP use posts from another web page?

adaykin

Say for example I have two web pages, index.html, and mail.php

On index.html I have the following code:

<form action="mail.php" method="POST">
<table summary="Contact Information" cellspacing="6">
<tr>
<td valign="top">Name: &nbsp;</td>
<td><input type="text" name="name" size="34" maxlength="34" /></td>
</tr>
</table>
</form

And on Mailer.php I have:

require_once ('index.html');
$message = "Hello, my name is $_POST['name']";
mail('my email', 'a subject', $message);

nemonoman

hcw you tried this? It should work. That's exactly what the ACTION attribute of the form is meant for.

adaykin

I have tried it on xampp, and so far it doesn't seem to be working, I hardcoded my email address in, and nothing. I guess I would need to really put it on my webserver to really test it.

adaykin

I did upload it to my web server and it isn't working, I got the same results when I had it on xampp...

nemonoman

It may be that your server doesn't have mail() enabled, or that the mail server info is not correct. Also, something in index.html may not be right.

Also on closer inspection I see that this line of your code will break.

$message = "Hello, my name is $_POST['name']";

CHANGE TO:
$message = "Hello, my name is ".$_POST['name'];

ALSO: you call
mail.php
as your action

but you say in your message:
Mailer.php says...

So are your files named right? is it mail.php OR Mailer.php??

That wasn't your question, however. Your question was if you could pass a parameter input on one page to a different page.

To prove this can be done, change the code of
mail.php
to
<?php
$message = "Hello, my name is ".$_POST['name'];
die($message);
?>

adaykin

I tried that on xampp and on my web server. I could not get it to work, which leads me to believe that my mail() function is not working. I will email my hosting provider which uses linux. I use windows and I looked at my php.ini file and I am not sure how to configure it for windows mail.