[RESOLVED] Sendmail

[tvadon]

I have been having soooooo much trouble with this. I will place my html code then my php code. Please tell me what I am missing. I simply want my customers information to get sent to my email..... that's it!

HTML:

<td width="345">

<center>

<form method="post" action="sendmail.php">

<table>

<tr><td colspan=2><center><div align="center"><font size="6" color="#ff0000"><font size="5" color="#ff0000">
<strong>Enter your information below so that you can&nbsp;get immediate access to our list of&nbsp;BELOW MARKET&nbsp;handyman
deals in the Austin&nbsp;area!</strong></font>&nbsp;</font></div></center></td></tr>

<tr> <td> Email: </td> <td> <input name="email" type="text" value="" size="20"> </td></tr>

<tr> <td> First Name: </td> <td> <input name="firstname" type="text" value="" size="20"> </td></tr>

<tr> <td> Last Name:</td><td><input type="text" name="lastname" value="" size="20"></td></tr>

<tr> <td> Address:</td><td><input type="text" name="address" value="" size="20"></td></tr>

<tr> <td> City:</td><td><input type="text" name="City" value="" size="20"></td></tr>

<tr> <td> State:</td><td><input type="text" name="State" value="" size="20"></td></tr>

<tr> <td> Zip:</td><td><input type="text" name="zip" value="" size="20"></td></tr>

<tr> <td> Phone:</td><td><input type="text" name="phone" value="" size="20"></td></tr>

<tr> <td> Fax:</td><td><input type="text" name="fax" value="" size="20"></td></tr>

<tr> <td align="center" colspan="2"><input type="submit" name="submit" value="Free Instant Access!"></td></tr>

</table>

</form>

</center>

AND PHP:

<?php

$email = $REQUEST['email'] ;
$firstname .= $REQUEST['firstname'] ;
$lastname .= $REQUEST['lastname'] ;
$address .= $REQUEST['address'] ;
$city .= $REQUEST['city'] ;
$state .= $REQUEST['state'] ;
$zip .= $REQUEST['zip'] ;
$phone .= $REQUEST['phone'] ;
$fax .= $REQUEST['fax'] ;
$message .= $REQUEST['fax'];

mail( "[e-mail]", "Austin Buyer on the line!",
$message, "From: $email" );
header( "Location: http://www.wholesalehomesaustin.com/blog" );
?>

PLEASE HELP

[efficacious]

what kind of errors are you getting?

and why do you have your clients email as the 'FROM'

you should set your php email address (the one used to send email with php)

in your php.ini file so you don't have to write it out in code each time.

you'll also need to set the correct smtp information in the php.ini

even tho you are sending an email to yourself.. you cannot use your clients email as the 'FROM' email address.

the email the mail gets sent 'from' needs to be matched up with your smtp server.

[efficacious]

here is an example of an AUTO html emailer script that i use for newsletters

for($z=0;$z<=$Num_Clients-1;$z++)
{
	$Mail=mail($Client_Email[$z],$Subject,$Message[$z], "MIME-Version: 1.0\n"."Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1");

if($Mail)
{
	$No_Sent++;
}
else
{
	$No_Fail++;
}

echo("# of emails that failed: ".$No_Fail);

if($Mail && $No_Sent>=1)
{
	echo("You have successfully sent ".$No_Sent." news letters!");
}
}

[tvadon]

Here is my code for the sendmail php. First off, I have a simple form for my customers to fill out: email, firstName, lastName, address, city, state, zip, phone and fax. I want this information to be sent yo my email.....

<?php

$message .= $REQUEST ['email'] ;
$message .= $REQUEST ['firstName'] ;
$message .= $REQUEST ['lastName'] ;
$message .= $REQUEST ['address'] ;
$message .= $REQUEST ['city'] ;
$message .= $REQUEST ['state'] ;
$message .= $REQUEST ['zip'] ;
$message .= $REQUEST ['phone'] ;
$message .= $_REQUEST ['fax'] ;

mail( "[e-mail]", "Austin Buyer on the line!",
$message, "From: $email" );
header( "Location: http://www.MyWebsiteToForward.com" );
?>

And this is an example email result:

[e-mail]1234 West First St95422(555) 654-9432(800) 442-2343

I want to have it look like this:

[e-mail]
John Doe
1234 West First St
Placerville, CA 95422
[phone]
[phone]

Oh and if your wondering, no I couldn't get the city and state to work.
If you could, please tell me exactly what to fix... I suck at this.

Here is the revised html:

<form method="post" action="sendmail.php">

<table>

<tr> <td> Email: </td> <td> <input type="text" name="email" value="" size="20"> </td></tr>

<tr> <td> First Name: </td> <td> <input type="text" name="firstName" value="" size="20"> </td></tr>

<tr> <td> Last Name: </td> <td> <input type="text" name="lastName" value="" size="20"></td></tr>

<tr> <td> Address: </td> <td> <input type="text" name="address" value="" size="20"></td></tr>

<tr> <td> City: </td> <td> <input type="text" name="City" value="" size="20"></td></tr>

<tr> <td> State: </td> <td> <input type="text" name="State" value="" size="20"></td></tr>

<tr> <td> Zip: </td> <td> <input type="text" name="zip" value="" size="20"></td></tr>

<tr> <td> Phone: </td> <td> <input type="text" name="phone" value="" size="20"></td></tr>

<tr> <td> Fax: </td> <td> <input type="text" name="fax" value="" size="20"></td></tr>

<tr> <td align="center" colspan="2"><input type="submit" name="submit" value="Free Instant Access!"></td></tr>

</table>

</form>

[bretticus]

What platform are you using? Windows or Linux? Is this a server that you administer?

[bretticus]

Oh whoops, this is a formatting issue, not a delivery issue. Never mind on my first post.

You need line breaks:

<?php
$message .= $_REQUEST ['email'] . "\n";
$message .= $_REQUEST ['firstName'] . "\n" ;
$message .= $_REQUEST ['lastName'] . "\n" ;
$message .= $_REQUEST ['address'] . "\n" ;
$message .= $_REQUEST ['city'] . "\n" ;
$message .= $_REQUEST ['state'] . "\n" ;
$message .= $_REQUEST ['zip'] . "\n" ;
$message .= $_REQUEST ['phone'] . "\n" ;
$message .= $_REQUEST ['fax'] . "\n" ;

mail( "[e-mail]", "Austin Buyer on the line!",
$message, "From: $email" );
header( "Location: http://www.MyWebsiteToForward.com" );
?>

I think it's fair to warn you that not only will you get tons of spam off this form. Spammers will be able to use it to send spam to other people. Read Email Header Injection in PHP. To avoid getting spam from the form, you will need some kind of CAPTCHA test. Here's an example of PHP code that implements this test.

PHP is case sensitive, if you have a form field with the name of 'State' and you ask for the $_REQUEST element with the key of 'state', you will not get the 'State' value.

Finally, use $POST instead of $REQUEST.