Need help with contact form/e-mailing

[groogruxking40]

hey all,

I have a form that allows the user to input the information
you can see it here- http://www.christiancouriernewspaper.com/blogbase/form.html

what I need it to do now is when the user clicks SUBMIT for all the information they just filled out be sent to me via e-mail

any ideas/help?

thanks

[dmacman1962]

Hi groog,

You will need access to an Exchange server (which I assume your business does).

If you do, you can send email from php, here is a post explaining it.

You can use the mail and POST functions.

With these, you can take all the POST'd data and send it via PHP to your email account.

In a nutshell, you can do something like this, with your POST data.

// this goes on the process page

// get all the POST data
$Title = $_POST['Title'];
$FirstName= $_POST['FirstName'];
$LastName= $_LastName['Title'];
$Datetime = date('m\-d\-Y g:i:s A');


$header = "From: yourdomain.com";
$subject = "Form submitted by " . $FirstName . " " . $LastName;
$email_to = "[e-mail]";
$message = "Your info goes here.";
$message = $message."\n"
. "Title: $Title\n"
. "FirstName: $FirstName\n"
. "LastName: $LastName\n"
. "Date Time: $Displaytime\n"

// open SMTP port to send emails
$fp = fsockopen(localhost, 25, $errno, $errstr, 30);

mail($email_to, $subject ,$message ,$header ) ;

// close fp port
fclose($fp);

That should do it for you (Note: I did not test this code for errors/omissions, but it should work).

Regards,
Don

[groogruxking40]

dmacman1962;10919444 wrote:

Hi groog,

You will need access to an Exchange server (which I assume your business does).

If you do, you can send email from php, here is a post explaining it.

You can use the mail and POST functions.

With these, you can take all the POST'd data and send it via PHP to your email account.

In a nutshell, you can do something like this, with your POST data.

// this goes on the process page

// get all the POST data
$Title = $_POST['Title'];
$FirstName= $_POST['FirstName'];
$LastName= $_LastName['Title'];
$Datetime = date('m\-d\-Y g:i:s A');


$header = "From: yourdomain.com";
$subject = "Form submitted by " . $FirstName . " " . $LastName;
$email_to = "[e-mail]";
$message = "Your info goes here.";
$message = $message."\n"
. "Title: $Title\n"
. "FirstName: $FirstName\n"
. "LastName: $LastName\n"
. "Date Time: $Displaytime\n"

// open SMTP port to send emails
$fp = fsockopen(localhost, 25, $errno, $errstr, 30);

mail($email_to, $subject ,$message ,$header ) ;

// close fp port
fclose($fp);

That should do it for you (Note: I did not test this code for errors/omissions, but it should work).

Regards,
Don

ok.. this part

// get all the POST data
$Title = $POST['Title'];
$FirstName= $POST['FirstName'];
$LastName= $_LastName['Title'];
$Datetime = date('m-d-Y g:i:s A');

I have different fields, some are dropdown boxes, some are check boxes.. how do i imbed those in??

I have

Church/Organization Name
Please Choose(drop box)
Name: First and Last
Address: Street Address, Address line 2, City, State/Province/Region
Postal/Zip Code
Ad Requested (drop box)
Months for ad to Run-- checkbox

please get back to me,

thanks

[groogruxking40]

dmacman1962;10919444 wrote:

Hi groog,

You will need access to an Exchange server (which I assume your business does).

If you do, you can send email from php, here is a post explaining it.

You can use the mail and POST functions.

With these, you can take all the POST'd data and send it via PHP to your email account.

In a nutshell, you can do something like this, with your POST data.

// this goes on the process page

// get all the POST data
$Title = $_POST['Title'];
$FirstName= $_POST['FirstName'];
$LastName= $_LastName['Title'];
$Datetime = date('m\-d\-Y g:i:s A');


$header = "From: yourdomain.com";
$subject = "Form submitted by " . $FirstName . " " . $LastName;
$email_to = "[e-mail]";
$message = "Your info goes here.";
$message = $message."\n"
. "Title: $Title\n"
. "FirstName: $FirstName\n"
. "LastName: $LastName\n"
. "Date Time: $Displaytime\n"

// open SMTP port to send emails
$fp = fsockopen(localhost, 25, $errno, $errstr, 30);

mail($email_to, $subject ,$message ,$header ) ;

// close fp port
fclose($fp);

That should do it for you (Note: I did not test this code for errors/omissions, but it should work).

Regards,
Don

I got this error message

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_VARIABLE in /home/jfisco01/Christiancouriernewspaper.com/blogbase/emailsendform.php on line 23

here is my code

// this goes on the process page 

// get all the POST data 
$church_or_organization_name = $_POST['Church_or_Organization_Name']; //Church_or_Organization_Name
$please_choose_one = $_POST['please_choose_one']; //Please_Choose_One
$name = $_POST['name']; //Name
$first = $_POST['first']; //First
$last = $_POST['name']; //Last
$address = $_POST['address']; //Address
$street_address = $_POST['street_address']; //Street_Address
$address_line_2 = $_POST['address_line_2']; //Address_Line_2
$city = $_POST['city']; //City
$state_province_region = $_POST['state_province_region']; //State_Province_Region
$postal_zip_code = $_POST['postal_zip code']; //Postal_Zip_Code
$country = $_POST['country']; //Country
$ad_requested = $_POST['ad_requested']; //Ad_Requested
$month_for_ad_to_run = $_POST['month_for_ad_to_run']; //Month_for_Ad_to_Run
$Title = $_POST['Title']; 
$FirstName= $_POST['FirstName']; 
$LastName= $_LastName['Title']; 
$Datetime = date('m\-d\-Y g:i:s A'); 


$header = "From: ChristianCourierblog.com"; 
$subject = "Form submitted by " . $FirstName . " " . $LastName; 
$email_to = "[e-mail]"; 
$message = "Your info goes here."; 
$message = $message."\n" 
. "Title: $Title\n" 
. "FirstName: $FirstName\n" 
. "LastName: $LastName\n" 
. "Date Time: $Displaytime\n" 

// open SMTP port to send emails 
$fp = fsockopen(localhost, 25, $errno, $errstr, 30); 

mail($email_to, $subject ,$message ,$header ) ; 

// close fp port 
fclose($fp); 

[dmacman1962]

I have different fields, some are dropdown boxes, some are check boxes.. how do i imbed those in??

Looking at your form names, I would suggest changing them to something that you will know what it means when you see it.

IE: change

<input id="element_1" name="element_1" maxlength="255">

to:

<input id="ChurchName" name="ChurchName" maxlength="255">

And for the checkboxes (these are an array, so you will need to get all that they select, not just one value. And you should start them with 0, and go to 11, since you have 12 items).

Then on your process page "emailsendform.php', you will get each field from the forms page.

// get all the POST data
$ChurchName= $_POST['ChurchName'];
$FirstName= $_POST['FirstName'];
$LastName= $_LastName['Title'];

foreach ($_POST['AdRequested'] as $ads) { //Set the elements in the array
	$AdRequested0 = $ads[0];
	$AdRequested1 = $ads[1];
	$AdRequested2 = $ads[2];
	$AdRequested3 = $ads[3];
	$AdRequested4 = $ads[4];
	$AdRequested5 = $ads[5];
	$AdRequested6 = $ads[6];
	$AdRequested7 = $ads[7];	
	$AdRequested8 = $ads[8];	
	$AdRequested9 = $ads[9];	
	$AdRequested10 = $ads[10];	
	$AdRequested11 = $ads[11];	
}

$Datetime = date('m\-d\-Y g:i:s A');

The Upload a file field is a whole different issue. You would need to add a temp directory to hold it on your server and a bunch of other settings.

You might want to look at phpmailer. Here is a post with someone else trying to do the same thing.

Don

[scrupul0us]

Also

1) theres absolutely no data validation done on any of these so expect bots to have a field day

2) theres absolutely no js or server side processing to force required fields so again, expect bots to have a field day

3) you don't need access to an exchange server, you just need to make sure the settings in PHP.ini are configured properly so mail() works

suggestions:

1) validate the data and kick the user back if it fails validation (you can force required fields doing this as well)

2) make sure the file uploader only allows certain extensions to be uploaded else someone could upload a PHP file and compromise your server

3) use captcha (recaptcha is popular)