Need help with mailing list form FAST!!!

likegluelikecre

My Mailing List form doesn't work, I got this error...

Warning: Unexpected character in input: '\' (ASCII=92) state=1 in /home/content/s/w/e/sweb09/html/mailinglist.php on line 8

Warning: Unexpected character in input: '\' (ASCII=92) state=1 in /home/content/s/w/e/sweb09/html/mailinglist.php on line 9

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING, expecting T_VARIABLE or '$' in /home/content/s/w/e/sweb09/html/mailinglist.php on line 9

Here's the code I used for the mailing list form...

I uploaded the php file in the root directory of the site, here's the code for mailinglist.php...

<?
$to="xporcellx@gmail.com";
$subject="Contact From Your Website";
$message=$_REQUEST[message];
mail($to,$subject,$message);
?>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Message Sent</title>
</head>
<body>
Thank you... Your message has been sent.
</body>
</html>

What am I doing wrong? Thanks!

halojoy

I have no idea where is Line 9
as you have only posted 6 lines of php code

The only thing I would change is the use of $REQUEST
From a post form we always recommend $POST
Even if it will probably not solve anything on line 9
this is my suggestion for change

<?php  // changed
$to      = "xporcellx@gmail.com";
$subject = "Contact From Your Website";
$message = $_POST['message'];   // changed
mail($to, $subject, $message);
?>