First and Last name with one array?

[plzhelpme]

Ok, I imagine this is pretty simple but I've tried everything I know and can't figure it out.

This is currently working fine: ("first" and "last" are the names of the fields on the form for First Name and Last Name)

<?php
$from = $_REQUEST['email'] ;

$fields = array();
$fields{"first"} = "First Name";
$fields{"last"} = "Last Name";

 $body = "We have received the following information:\n\n"; foreach($fields as $a => $b){    $body .= sprintf("%20s: %s\n",$b,$_REQUEST[$a]); }

  mail( "[e-mail]", "New Reservation",
    $body, "From: $from" );
  header( "Location: confirm.php" );
?>

What I want to be able to do is have a form with a field for First and Last name, then have the email send like:

Name: FIRST LAST

instead of

First Name: FIRST
Last Name: LAST

I've tried this :

$fields = array();
$fields{"first";"last"} = "Name";

AND

$fields = array();
$fields{"first"};{"last"} = "Name";

Niether are working... please help! Thanks 🙂

[cahva]

Wouldnt it be easier to just setup email template and not try to be clever.. Something like this:

$body= <<<EOF
We have received the following information:

Name:  {$_REQUEST['first']} {$_REQUEST['last']}
Email: {$_REQUEST['email']}
Foo:   {$_REQUEST['foo']}
Bar:   {$_REQUEST['bar']}

EOF;

mail( "[e-mail]", "New Reservation",$body, "From: {$from}" );
header( "Location: confirm.php" );

Your way of creating arrays is a little odd. In php world we use [ ] instead of { }. Anyway, another way of saving the contents from form to array and the iterating through fields would be something like this:

$fields = array(
	'Name' => $_REQUEST['first'].' '.$_REQUEST['last'],
	'Email' => $_REQUEST['email']
);

$body = "We have received the following information:\n\n";

foreach ($fields as $k=>$v)
{
	$body .= $k.": {$v}\n";
}

mail( "[e-mail]", "New Reservation",$body, "From: {$from}" );
header( "Location: confirm.php" );

BTW, do not use that script directly like that. That kind of script would be spammers favorite script as there is no checks and it would be very easy to send spam with it. So check the input that its valid.

[plzhelpme]

Great! thanks for your reply.

I was getting a parse error with your first example, but the second one works perfectly.

Thanks

[Weedpacket]

plzhelpme wrote:

I was getting a parse error with your first example,

How did you write it? There is no parse error in it as posted.

[plzhelpme]

<?php
$from = $_REQUEST['email'] ;

$body= <<<EOF
We have received the following information:

Name:  {$_REQUEST['first']} {$_REQUEST['last']}

EOF;


mail( "[e-mail]", "New Reservation",
$body, "From: $from" );
header( "Location: confirm.php" );
?>

i don't remember the exact error, but i think it said unexpected end at the last line. i'll try it again later and let you know