Simple fix..I think

heapster123

Here is my html code:

      <form id="myForm" action="" method="post">
            <fieldset>
              <legend>Contact Me</legend>
              <label for="emailName">Name:</label>
              <input name="emailName" type="text" id="emailName"  value="" />
              <label for="emailFrom">Email:</label>
              <input name="emailFrom" type="text" id="emailFrom"  value="" />
              <label for="emailMessage">Message:</label>
              <textarea name="emailMessage" cols="30" rows="9"  id="emailMessage"></textarea>
              <button type="submit" id="submit">Send</button>
              <input type="hidden" name="submitted" id="submitted" value="true" />
              <div id="loadingImage"></div>
            </fieldset>
          </form>

Here is the PHP code:

<?php
  $name = $_REQUEST['name'] ;
  $email = $_REQUEST['email'] ;
  $message = $_REQUEST['message'] ;

  mail( "mailto:example@example.com", "Feedback Form Results",
    $message, "From: $email" );
  header( "Location: http://www.example.com" );
?>

I am getting emails, which is more than I was getting yesterday BUT the mail comes with no message and the sender is "Nobody"...

I am very new to PHP (as you can tell)
Thanks in advance

heapster123

this is the actual first line of code that I have:

I realized in the original post, that was not correct.

bradgrafelman

A few issues I see:

You reference external variables 'name', 'email', and 'message' yet none of those appear in your form. You have to use the exact name of the form elements - not just part of them.
You never use $name anywhere in the code.
You should never use a user-supplied e-mail address in the 'From' header - this is a great way to get yourself labeled as an open mail relay and blacklisted from many mail servers. The 'From' header should always contain an e-mail address on the domain from which you're sending the e-mails.

If you really want to incorporate the user's e-mail address, consider using the Reply-To header (or something similar) instead.
I'm not sure how you're getting e-mails (unless PHP is correcting this mistake for you), but "mailto:" is not valid syntax for an e-mail address (that's just a pseudo-protocol that browsers can interpret and launch your default e-mail program).

steamPunk

try the following

$name = $_POST['emailName'] ;
$email = $_POST['emailFrom'] ;
$message = $_POST['emailMessage'] ; 

// and

 mail( "example@example.com"

does that work ?

heapster123

bradgrafelman: I am getting the emails there is just no content. You got me on that one.

steamPunk: I tried that code but I am getting the same results..UGH

Any other ideas? I really want to try and work through this one ( with your help of course), hoping it will give me a better understanding of PHP

Thanks again!

bradgrafelman

Show us a new copy of your code.

Also, comment out the header() redirect so that you remain on the same page as the mail() call and can output some debugging information. For example, do a [man]print_r/man on $_REQUEST to output its contents - do you see the information you're trying to use?

EDIT: Also, is display_errors set to On and error_reporting set to E_ALL?

heapster123

Here is my code:

<?php
$name = $POST['emailName'] ;
$email = $POST['emailFrom'] ;
$message = $_POST['emailMessage'] ;

mail( "xxxxx@yahoo.com.com", "Feedback Form Results",
$message, "From: $email" );
header( "Location: http://www.xxxxxx.com" );
?>

Thanks

nevvermind

Ahem. :glare:

bradgrafelman;10962738 wrote:
Also, comment out the header() redirect so that you remain on the same page as the mail() call and can output some debugging information. For example, do a [man]print_r/man on $REQUEST [now $POST] to output its contents - do you see the information you're trying to use?

EDIT: Also, is display_errors set to On and error_reporting set to E_ALL?

heapster123

I have no clue how to do any of that..sorry

nevvermind

Run this instead of your code (you can revert at any time by deleting the lines I've added), and copy/paste the output in a new post:

<?php
error_reporting(E_ALL);
ini_set('display_errors', 'On');

$name = $_POST['emailName'] ;
$email = $_POST['emailFrom'] ;
$message = $_POST['emailMessage'] ;

print_r($_POST);
//mail( "xxxxx@yahoo.com.com", "Feedback Form Results", $message, "From: $email" );
//header( "Location: http://www.xxxxxx.com" );
?>

heapster123

Thanks for all your help...nevvermind, when I used that code I was getting the same results..so I knew it was pulling the code from another source. So, I called the hosting company and as it turns out when I called yesterday morning, the tech put some php code in for testing purposes that overrode anything I did..

Again thanks so much for all your help!!