Help with an email form ?

VisionX

So, this is probably something really stupid, but Ive been racking my brain for hours trying to figure this out.

I simply want to add a check box that will send a copy of the email back to the person who filled out a form as a CC:

My form is,

<body> 
<p>Sales Level 2 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <a href="../billing/billinglevel2mailer.php">Billing Level 2</a> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <a href="../claims/claimslevel2mailer.php">Claims Level 2</a> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <a href="../adjusterinquiry/adjusterinquirymailer.php">Adjuster Inquiries</a></p> 
<table width="800" border="1" bordercolor="000000" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> 
  <tr> 
    <td width="175" align="left" valign="top" background="sidebarpattern.png"><img src="sidebar.png" width="175" height="525" /></td> 
    <td align="left" valign="top"> 
    <form 
    action="saleslevel2mailer_send.php" 
    method="post" 
    name="saleslevel2" 
    onsubmit="return validate(saleslevel2);"> 
    <table width="800" border="1" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0"> 
  <tr> 
    <td width="400" align="right" valign="top"><font color="#FF0000">*</font>Your Email Address:</td> 
    <td width="400" align="left" valign="top"><input name="emailfrom" type="text" id="emailfrom" value="Your Email Address" onclick="this.value='';"/></td> 
  </tr> 
    <tr> 
    <td align="right" valign="top"><font color="#FF0000">*</font>Clients Name:</td> 
    <td align="left" valign="top"><input name="name" type="text" id="name" value="Clients Name" onclick="this.value='';"/></td> 
  </tr> 
  <tr> 
    <td align="right" valign="top"><font color="#FF0000">*</font>Policy Number:</td> 
    <td align="left" valign="top"> 
      <input name="policynumber" type="text" id="policynumber" value="Policy Number" onclick="this.value='';"/></td> 
  </tr> 
  <tr> 
    <td align="right" valign="top"><font color="#FF0000">*</font>Clients Phone Number:</td> 
    <td align="left" valign="top"><input name="phonenumber" type="text" id="phonenumber" value="Phone Number" onclick="this.value='';"/></td> 
  </tr> 
  <tr> 
    <td align="right" valign="top"><font color="#FF0000">*</font>Reason for Escalation:</td> 
    <td align="left" valign="top"> 
    <select name="issue" size="1">       

    <option value="" selected="selected">Select A Reason</option> 
    <optgroup label="Gift Confirmation/VOID Issues"> 
      <option value="Gift Policy Not Activated">Gift Policy Not Activated/Extended</option> 
      <option value="Confirmation of Gift">Client Did Not Confirm Gift</option> 
      <option value="Gift Email Address Incorrect">Gift Email Address Incorrect</option> 
      <option value="Did not Receive Email">Did Not Receive Email</option> 
      <option value="Muiltiple Pets-Only One Email">Multiple Pets, Only got 1 EMail</option> 
      <option value="Server Issue">Server Issue</option> 
      <option value="Explanation/T&amp;C">Explanation/T&amp;C</option> 
      <option value="Confirmation/Extension Technical Error">Confirmation/Extension Technical Error</option> 
      </optgroup> 
    <optgroup label="Sales Issues"> 
      <option value="Automatic Renewal">Automatic Renewal Not Advised</option> 
      <option value="Waiting Period">Waiting Period Not Advised</option> 
      <option value="Processed Incorrectly">Processed Incorrectly</option> 
      <option value="Incorrect Information Given">Incorrect Information Given</option> 
      <option value="Explanation/T&amp;C">Explanation/T&amp;C</option> 
      </optgroup> 
    </select> 
    </td> 
  </tr> 
  <tr> 
    <td align="right" valign="top"><font color="#FF0000">*</font>Has the client purchased a policy with us already?:</td> 
    <td align="left" valign="top"> 
    <table width="150" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> 
      <tr> 
        <td align="right" width="50%">Yes</td><td align="left" width="50%"> 
          <input type="radio" name="purchased" value="Yes" id="purchased_0" /> 
            </td> 
      </tr> 
      <tr> 
        <td align="right">No</td><td align="left"> 
          <input type="radio" name="purchased" value="No" id="purchased_1" /> 
         </td> 
      </tr> 
    </table></td> 
  </tr> 
  <tr> 
    <td align="right" valign="top"><font color="#FF0000">*</font>Have you ensured all information in the system is current and correct?:</td> 
    <td align="left" valign="top"> 
      <table width="150" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> 
        <tr> 
          <td width="150" align="right">Yes</td><td align="left" width="50%"> 
      <input type="checkbox" name="infocheck" id="infocheck" value="Yes"/></td> 
        </tr> 
      </table></td> 
  </tr> 
  <tr> 
    <td align="right" valign="top">Notes or Additional Info.<br />(if necessary):</td> 
    <td align="left" valign="top"><textarea name="additionalinfo" id="additionalinfo" cols="55" rows="10"></textarea></td> 
  </tr> 
  </table><input type="submit" /> 
</form></td> 
  </tr> 
</table> 
</body>

and my page that does the mailing is...

PHP Code:
<?php 
//$name = $_POST["email"]; 
$name = $_POST["name"]; 
$policynumber = $_POST["policynumber"]; 
$phonenumber = $_POST["phonenumber"]; 
$issue = $_POST["issue"]; 
$purchased = $_POST ["purchased"]; 
$infocheck  = $_POST ["infocheck"]; 
$additionalinfo = $_POST ["additionalinfo"]; 

$email_to = "SalesLevel2@example.com"; // Who the email is to 
$email_from = $_POST['emailfrom']; // Who the email is from 
$email_subject = $policynumber.' - '.$issue; // The Subject of the email 

$email_message = "Sales Level 2,". 
$email_message = "\n\nPolicy Number: " .$policynumber. 
$email_message = "\nClients Name: " .$name. 
$email_message = "\nPhone Number: " .$phonenumber. 
$email_message = "\nReason(s): " .$issue. 
$email_message = "\nPurchased Already: " .$purchased. 
$email_message = "\nAll info correct?: " .$infocheck. 
$email_message = "\n\nAdditional Information: " .$additionalinfo. "\n\n\n\n". // Message that the email has in it 

$headers = "From: ".$email_from; 

$ok = @mail($email_to, $email_subject, $email_message, $headers); 

if($ok) { 
echo "<font face=verdana size=2><center>Your message has been sent<br> to Sales Level 2<br> 
Click <a href=\"#\" onclick=\"history.back();\">here</a> to go back</center>"; 

} else { 
die("Sorry but the email could not be sent. Please go back and try again!"); 
} 
?>

Id love to know what I am missing here, or where Ive gone wrong... But be gentle, lol, this is my first time playing with PHP...

big_nerd

Try this:

Adjust your form similar to below:

  <tr>
    <td align="right" valign="top" colspan="2"><input type="checkbox" name="ccme" id="ccme" value="yes" />Please CC Me with the details of this email</td>
  </tr>
  </table><input type="submit" />

Then append to your code (PHP)

if (isset($_POST['ccme']) && $_POST['ccme'] === 'yes') {
     $ccok = @mail($email_from, $email_subject, $email_message, $headers); 
}

You can add the if ($ccok) if you would like to confirm to the user that a copy has been sent to their address. I would add that in below:

echo "<font face=verdana size=2><center>Your message has been sent<br> to Sales Level 2<br>
Click <a href=\"#\" onclick=\"history.back();\">here</a> to go back</center>";

Note: I just added the parts that should work, so if you already have the checkbox in there, sorry 🙂 (in a rush)

VisionX

Sooo... I was able to get this working last night with help from here, and elsewhere. lol.

<?php
//$name = $_POST["email"];
$name = $_POST["name"];
$policynumber = $_POST["policynumber"];
$phonenumber = $_POST["phonenumber"];
$issue = $_POST["issue"];
$purchased = $_POST ["purchased"];
$infocheck  = $_POST ["infocheck"];
$additionalinfo = $_POST ["additionalinfo"];

//checkbox value readout
$mailcc = $_POST['sendmetoo'];

$email_to = "XXX@XXX.com"; // Who the email is to
$email_from = $_POST['emailfrom']; // Who the email is from
$email_subject = $policynumber.' - '.$issue; // The Subject of the email

//here you can define whatever you want to...
$headers  = "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";
//$headers .= "Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1\r\n";
$headers .= "Content-type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8\r\n";
$headers .= "To: <".$email_to.">\r\n";
$headers .= "From: ".$email_from."\r\n";

//we control if sendmetoo is checked...
if($mailcc == 'sendtome'){
       $headers .= "Cc: ".$email_from."\r\n";
}
//$headers .= "Bcc: noone@nowhere.com\r\n";

$email_message = "Sales Level 2,";
$email_message .= "\n\nPolicy Number: " .$policynumber;
$email_message .= "\nClients Name: " .$name;
$email_message .= "\nPhone Number: " .$phonenumber;
$email_message .= "\nReason(s): " .$issue;
$email_message .= "\nPurchased Already: " .$purchased;
$email_message .= "\nAll info correct?: " .$infocheck;
$email_message .= "\n\nAdditional Information: " .$additionalinfo;
"\n\n\n\n". // Message that the email has in it

//$headers = "From: ".$email_from;

$ok = @mail($email_to, $email_subject, $email_message, $headers);

if($ok) {
echo "<font face=verdana size=2><center>Your message has been sent<br>
to Sales Level 2<br>
Click <a href=\"#\" onclick=\"history.back();\">here</a> to go back</center>";

} else {
die("Sorry but the email could not be sent. Please go back and try again!");
}
?>

BUT, it created a new little problem... I will create a new thread for it, but basically, it is changing any ' in the email recieved to \' -- I was looking online and I saw something about stripslashes... But I dont understand how this works exactly? All the examples I saw were using HTML, but my email sends as plain text currently.

wyattstorch42

The entire purpose of stripslashes() is to remove the backslashes PHP sometimes adds in excess when escaping marks. It certainly applies in this situation.

$ok = @mail(stripslashes($email_to), stripslashes($email_subject), stripslashes($email_message), stripslashes($headers));

bradgrafelman

wyattstorch42 wrote:
remove the backslashes PHP sometimes adds in excess when escaping marks.

PHP never "sometimes" does anything - it always does exactly what it's told. If you're getting extra backslashes, the solution isn't to throw calls to stripslashes() everywhere shotgun-style, it's to stop telling PHP to add the backslashes in the first place.

wyattstorch42

bradgrafelman;10970576 wrote:
PHP never "sometimes" does anything - it always does exactly what it's told. If you're getting extra backslashes, the solution isn't to throw calls to stripslashes() everywhere shotgun-style, it's to stop telling PHP to add the backslashes in the first place.

Sorry. I don't have access to php.ini in my server environment, and my host forbids me from using ini_set(). I don't know if there's any other way to set stuff like that within the script, but I never worked with stuff like that. I'm not at all familiar with PHP settings and installation and stuff.

bradgrafelman

Sounds like you need a new host, then, unless you can use .htaccess files to set PHP-related directives.

The problem with [man]ini_set/man is that you can't alter PHP directives which take effect before your script is even invoked/executed (such as in the case of magic_quotes_gpc, which automatically prepends single quotes with backslashes on all incoming data).