Sending blank email forms

klr7475

I'm totally new to PHP and I'm attempting to put together my first form on my website using Dreamweaver CS3. I watched a tutorial, downloaded the necessary code, replaced my variables within, linked it, and uploaded all of it. I am able to view my website/form online, fill in all the information needed, but when I hit submit, I'm prompted to "open, save, or cancel" the PHP file. I hit cancel, and within a few minutes I've received an email in my inbox from "UnknownSender@UnknownSender.com" with all of my body information, but everything I typed in the fields from the website is blank.

Any suggestions?

thanks!

here's my code below:

<?php

/ Subject and Email Variables /

$emailSubject = 'Online Order Submission';
$webMaster = 'klr7475@aol.com';

/ gathering data variables /

$nameField = $_POST['name'];
$emailField = $_POST['email'];
$paddressField = $_POST['paddress'];
$cszField = $_POST['csz'];
$altphoneField = $_POST['altphone'];
$daddressField = $_POST['daddress'];
$townField = $_POST['town'];
$rentalcompanyField = $_POST['rentalcompany'];
$housenameField = $_POST['housename'];
$deliverydayField = $_POST['deliveryday'];
$ddateField = $_POST['ddate'];
$yearField = $_POST['year'];
$grocerystore = $_POST['grocerystore'];
$grocerylistField = $_POST['grocerylist'];

$body = <<<EOD

<br><hr><br>
Name: $name <br>
Email: $email <br>
Permanent Address: $paddress <br>
City State Zip: $csz <br>
Cell Phone: $altphone <br>
Delivery Address: $daddress <br>
Town: $town <br>
Rental Company: $rentalcompany <br>
Rental House Name: $housename <br>
Delivery Day: $deliveryday <br>
Delivery Date: $ddate <br>
Year: $year <br>
Preferred Grocery Store: $grocerystore <br>
Grocery List: $grocerylist <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>Your Taste My Time - An Outer Banks Grocery Delivery Service</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<style type="text/css">

</style>
</head>

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

Krik

You have confused yourself I am guessing here.

The form field "email" sent data to the code bellow via "$POST['email']" you then set $emailField to equal $POST['email']. So $emailField has the data from the "email" form field, not $email. In fact "$email" is not even set. If you were posting that data to a database or another page for display you would get errors.

All the variables in

Name: $name <br>
Email: $email <br>
Permanent Address: $paddress <br>
City State Zip: $csz <br>
Cell Phone: $altphone <br>
Delivery Address: $daddress <br>
Town: $town <br>
Rental Company: $rentalcompany <br>
Rental House Name: $housename <br>
Delivery Day: $deliveryday <br>
Delivery Date: $ddate <br>
Year: $year <br>
Preferred Grocery Store: $grocerystore <br>
Grocery List: $grocerylist <br>

are not set.

Use the following variables instead.

$nameField = $_POST['name'];
$emailField = $_POST['email'];
$paddressField = $_POST['paddress'];
$cszField = $_POST['csz'];
$altphoneField = $_POST['altphone'];
$daddressField = $_POST['daddress'];
$townField = $_POST['town'];
$rentalcompanyField = $_POST['rentalcompany'];
$housenameField = $_POST['housename'];
$deliverydayField = $_POST['deliveryday'];
$ddateField = $_POST['ddate'];
$yearField = $_POST['year'];
$grocerystore = $_POST['grocerystore'];
$grocerylistField = $_POST['grocerylist'];

Also so it doesn't say "UnknownSender@UnknownSender.com" change the variable in

$headers = "From: $email\r\n";

djjjozsi

and use empty or isset functions to check if the required fields has set, then use the mail.

klr7475

i have definitely confused myself!! thanks for your help...but i'm still getting blank emails. even if i fill in all the info on the website...it just sends a blank email. i think i already had $headers = "From: $email\r\n"; in my code but that didn't help either. if i used the variables you suggested...do they just repeat what is already written in the above text? also, when i replace with what you suggested and hit submit....it doesn't take me to my final page and still sends a blank email...???

djjjozsi

change:

$nameField = $_POST['name'];
$emailField = $_POST['email'];
$paddressField = $_POST['paddress'];
$cszField = $_POST['csz'];
$altphoneField = $_POST['altphone'];
$daddressField = $_POST['daddress'];
$townField = $_POST['town'];
$rentalcompanyField = $_POST['rentalcompany'];
$housenameField = $_POST['housename'];
$deliverydayField = $_POST['deliveryday'];
$ddateField = $_POST['ddate'];
$yearField = $_POST['year'];
$grocerystore = $_POST['grocerystore'];
$grocerylistField = $_POST['grocerylist'];

into

$name = $_POST['name'];
$email = $_POST['email'];
$paddress = $_POST['paddress'];
$csz = $_POST['csz'];
$altphone = $_POST['altphone'];
$daddress = $_POST['daddress'];
$town = $_POST['town'];
$rentalcompany = $_POST['rentalcompany'];
$housename = $_POST['housename'];
$deliveryday = $_POST['deliveryday'];
$ddate = $_POST['ddate'];
$year = $_POST['year'];
$grocerystore = $_POST['grocerystore'];
$grocerylist = $_POST['grocerylist'];

klr7475

thanks i'll try that...so this is my code now:

<?php

/ Subject and Email Variables /

$emailSubject = 'Online Order Submission';
$webMaster = 'klr7475@aol.com';

/ gathering data variables /

$name = $_POST['name']; 
$email = $_POST['email']; 
$paddress = $_POST['paddress']; 
$csz = $_POST['csz']; 
$altphone = $_POST['altphone']; 
$daddress = $_POST['daddress']; 
$town = $_POST['town']; 
$rentalcompany = $_POST['rentalcompany']; 
$housename = $_POST['housename']; 
$deliveryday = $_POST['deliveryday']; 
$ddate = $_POST['ddate']; 
$year = $_POST['year']; 
$grocerystore = $_POST['grocerystore']; 
$grocerylist = $_POST['grocerylist'];

$body = <<<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

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

is there a reason now why after i hit submit it prompts me to another page that says "enter website" instead of my "thank you page"?

also...now i'm getting no emails....

djjjozsi

in the form, set the action tag into the file which process the values.

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

where process.php is the file where you process the form.

klr7475

thank you thank you thank you...

djjjozsi

that's nice if its working, but lets handle that there are robots which could send repetitive emails if you don't check if the visitor comes from your domain,
if a user has sent a letter , could not able to send more then 5/hour.

And please set this forum thread REsolved if you think its done.

Hello,jjozsi