[RESOLVED] contact form to email help

[holdencaulfield]

Hi I am a newbie to php and have a script (below) to send my contact form results to my email address. Can anyone help with the code I should insert to check that a valid Email address has been used (the one listed below seems to show if certain characters are missing such as @ but doesn't show an error if things like ? are entered) and also the code needed to stop spammers entering multiple email addresses into my form to send spam. Sorry if this is really obvious but I am new to php!

Thanks
HC

<?php

// Pick up the form data and assign it to variables
$title = $_POST['title'];
$name = $_POST['name'];
$email = $_POST['email'];

/* If e-mail is not valid show error message */
if (!preg_match("/([\w\-]+\@[\w\-]+\.[\w\-]+)/", $email))
{
    show_error("Please enter a valid email address");
}


$phone = $_POST['phone'];
$address = $_POST['address'];
$heard_from = $_POST['heard_from'];
$heard_other = $_POST['heard_other'];
$style = $_POST['style'];
$material = $_POST['material'];
$garagedoorframe = $_POST['garagedoorframe'];
$enquiry_details = $_POST['enquiry_details'];

// Build the email (replace the address in the $to section with your own)
$to = '[e-mail]';
$subject = "Contact form enquiry";
$message = "Title:$title,

Name:$name, 

Phone:$phone,

Address: $address,

Heard from: $heard_from,

Heard other: $heard_other,

Style: $style,

Material: $material,

Garage door frame: $garagedoorframe, 

Enquiry details: $enquiry_details,";
$headers = "From: $email";

// Send the mail using PHPs mail() function
mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);

// Redirect
header("Location: success.htm");

?>

[bradmasterx]

Please code your php code in

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[halojoy]

hi
i would change the finish to

// Send the mail using PHPs mail() function
// succe=false or true; = return values from mail() function
$succe = mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);

// Redirect
if($succe)
{
    header("Location: success.htm");
    exit(); // make sure to end php; just in case, a good habbit ..
}
else
{
    // end php, with a message of failure
    exit("Sorry. Mail was not sent. Go Back, try again");
}

But same time we should not trust $succe value, too much.
It is just an indication was no error.
From the PHP Manual for mail: [man]mail/man

http://docs.php.net/mail

Return Values
Returns TRUE if the mail was successfully accepted for delivery, FALSE otherwise.

It is important to note
that just because the mail was accepted for delivery,
it does NOT mean the mail will actually reach the intended destination.

regars 🙂
halojoy

[bradmasterx]

it returned true and worked for me 😃

[holdencaulfield]

Sorry BradmasterX, i've edited it now!

Thanks Halojoy, I shall give it a try!