HTML form/PHP processor desperation....tearing hair out...heeeelp!!!

billvell

Dear All,

This is my first post on the forum and I'm pretty much a novice with PHP, so please humour me....

Ok, I have a totally HTML website with a contact form on every page.

All of my usual form-processing scripts won't process the form as my host (www.streamline.net) require that an 'email from' field is specified (i.e. my email address from them, so that they know that your form isn't processing spam etc).

This may sound pretty straightforward, but I've spent 2 days trying the most obvious solutions, which still haven't worked. The customer support from the host has been utterly laughable - I appreciate they aren't there to support millions of scripts...however - they offer an 'example php form processor script on their help pages. This didn't work originally, but I've since got it to work. However, when a form is submitted, the actual body of the email message that arrives will only display one form field and I can't work out how tohave all 6 or 7 form fields displayed on the same form field. Below is the html form;

                             <form action="********.php">
	 <p>Name *<br />
	<input name="name" type="text" size="22"/>
	<br />
	Tel. Number *<br />
	<input name="number" type="text" size="22"/><br />
	Email *<br />
                           <input name="email" type="text" size="22"/><br />
	Comments / Nature of Enquiry<br />
	<textarea name="message" cols="25" rows="3"></textarea>
	<br />
	<br />
	<input type="submit"/>
                            </form>

and the php script is....;

<?php

mail("***@********.co.uk", "Email Subject Line",

$REQUEST[message], "From: $REQUEST[email]",

"-f*@*********.co.uk".$_REQUEST[email]);

header( "Location: http://www.*************.co.uk/thankyou.html" );

The above PHP will just display the 'message' field.............any ideas how I can refer to the other ones within the same email?

Any advice massively appreciated...

Cheers

Bill

billvell

...sorry...slightly emotional message before - I might have missed the point a bit!

Basically, the php script I posted does work. I just need to know how to 'tack on' the other fields from my form (i.e. tel number, name etc etc) with minimal alterations to the script, as whatever I do to change the script seems to knacker it!!!

Cheers

efficacious

Well I don't fully understand what this script is for or doing.

I'm assuming its a html form that your trying to send through email.

Which is very very simple really.

$Message="
<html>
<head><title>YOUR FORM</title></head>
<body>
<form action='yourpage.php' method='post'>
<input name='FirstInput' type='text' value='' />
<input name='SecondInput' type='text' value='' />
</form>
</body
</html>
";

$Mailer = mail(to, subject, $Message, headers, parameters);

if($Mailer)
{
echo("SUCCESS!")
}
else
{
echo("MAIL FAILED!!");
}

efficacious

plz in the future use the CODE tags around your code that you post.. for legibility purposes.

jkurrle

Like efficacious, I'm not sure exactly what you are trying to do, so I'll try and cover some simple form basics and see what helps and what doesn't.

First, when you are doing a form tag, you need to show what method you are going to use POST or GET. Example:

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

This tells me how to retrieve this data in my receiving PHP script. Since the data is coming in via POST, I would retrieve each variable into my processing script like thus:

$variable_1=$_POST['variable_name'];

Remember that GET passes the information along via the url, example: http://www.somesite.com?variable_1=some_value , whereas POST sends the data more securely via a server mechanism. Also, GET is limited in space, by the size of the browser's URL buffer.

As far as your ISP requiring your email on every form submission, simply use an html "input type=hidden" tag and put in your email address along with the tag name your ISP requires.

I hope this helps...