form to mail php error

bigdog988

hello,

I wrote a php processing from a tut on youtube. when I try to send the form it notifies me of an error and to check my logs. when I check my logs it tells me " Premature end of script headers"

here is my code

<?php


/* subject and email address */

$emailSubject = 'Request for email account';
$webMaster = '<email removed>';

/* gathering data variables */

$nameField = $_POST['name'];
$emailField = $_POST['email'];
$usernameField = $_POST['username'];
$reasonField = $_POST['reason']

$body = <<<EOD
<br><hr><br>
Email: $email <br>
Name: $name <br>
Username: $username <br>
Reason for request: $reason <br>
EOD;

$headers = "From: $email \r\n";
$headers .= "Content-type: text/html\r\n";
$success = mail($webMaster, $emailSubject, $body, $headers);


/* results rendered as HTML */

$theResults = <<<EOD
<html>
<head>
<title></title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<style type="text/css">
<!--
body {
	background-color: #f1f1f1;
	font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
	font-size: 12px;
	font-style: normal;
	line-height: normal;
	font-weight: normal;
	color: #666666;
	text-decoration: none;
}
-->
</style>
</head>

<div>
  <div align="left">Thank you for your interest! Your email will be answered very soon!</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
EOD;

echo "$theResults";

?>

thanks for your support.

rincewind456

You're missing a semi-colon after

$reasonField = $_POST['reason']

and you need to read the manual here about you're indenting of HEREDOC's and also the fact that you cannot have spaces tacked on to the end of the HEREDOC decleration line.

bigdog988

Okay so I added a semicolon to the end of reason. I also took a look at the documentation and what its telling me is there shouldn't be any spaces or indentation for the declarations. I'm not sure what that means but I'm assuming that the indentation of the variable are the issue. would that be a correct assumption?

rincewind456

bigdog988;10889187 wrote:
what its telling me is there shouldn't be any spaces or indentation for the declarations. I'm not sure what that means but I'm assuming that the indentation of the variable are the issue. would that be a correct assumption?

It also means no spaces after the declaration as well, in your case you have spaces after the start and end lines of the HEREDOC that are not allowed.

The indentation at the start of the line (before the variable name is ok.

bigdog988

Sorry I'm Real new to PHP. after googling HEREDOCS I understand that the deceleration is the <<< or <<<EOD. I double checked my code and there is no space after the <<<EOD and no space before EOD;. I look above to the code I posted here and it appears that it has a space but I am sure in my code there isn't.

is that the issue you saw or did I just take a swing and a miss.

after more research I understand HEREDOCS is something like:

<<<{any name}

code code

{any name};

right?

so I'm wonder since I have 2 EOD if that may be the issue? i tried changing them but still get an 500 error but might be on the right track?

rincewind456

2 or 20 HEREDOC's makes no difference.

In the code snippet you posted here, and that I then pasted into my text editor, there are spaces after

$body = <<<EOD
//and
EOD;
//and
$theResults = <<<EOD
//and it's matching
EOD;

in order for the HEREDOC to parse those spaces need to be got rid of, it may be that whatever you are using to edit with is adding them.

bigdog988

here is an updated version of my code:


<?php


/* subject and email address */

$emailSubject = 'Request for email account';
$webMaster = '<email removed>';

/* gathering data variables */

$nameField = $_POST['name'];
$emailField = $_POST['email'];
$usernameField = $_POST['username'];
$reasonField = $_POST['reason']

$body = <<<EOD
<br><hr><br>
Email: $email <br>
Name: $name <br>
Username: $username <br>
Reason for request: $reason <br>
EOD;

$headers = "From: $email \r\n";
$headers .= "Content-type: text/html\r\n";
$success = mail($webMaster, $emailSubject, $body, $headers);


/* results rendered as HTML */

$theResults = <<<EOD
<html>
<head>
<title></title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<style type="text/css">
<!--
body {
    background-color: #f1f1f1;
    font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
    font-size: 12px;
    font-style: normal;
    line-height: normal;
    font-weight: normal;
    color: #666666;
    text-decoration: none;
}
-->
</style>
</head>

<div>
  <div align="left">Thank you for your interest! Your email will be answered very soon!</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
EOD;

echo "$theResults";

?>

I removed the spaces and made sure they were gone.

I still get a Internal Server Error and after checking my logs it says😛remature end of script headers

rincewind456

And you still haven't put that semi-colon in 🙂

bigdog988

dang it... okay fixed that. I also have noticed again that when I put my code into this site even if I don't have a space it at the end of <<<EOD, this site adds em in. so if you see the spaces after you copy it in, let me reassure you there are no spaces.

rincewind456

It's not usually this site that adds spaces, it's usually the text editor being used. That said the last snippet you posted didn't have any spaces at the end of the HEREDOCS, so apart from that semi-colon it should all be ok.