[RESOLVED] Send to friend form

mrjoeblack

I managed to get this script for a send to friend page/form .... how would I get it working tho??

 <html>
	<head>
		<title>Recommend to a friend.</title>
		<link rel="stylesheet" href="template_css.css" type="text/css" />
		<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />	</head>
	<body class="contentpane">
		<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">
	function submitbutton() {
		var form = document.frontendForm;

	// do field validation
	if (form.email.value == "" || form.youremail.value == "") {
		alert( 'You must enter your valid e-mail and the valid e-mail to send to.' );
		return false;
	}
	return true;
}
</script>

<body>
<form action="recommend2.php" name="frontendForm" method="POST" onSubmit="return submitbutton();">
  <table cellspacing="2" cellpadding="2" border="0">
    <tr>
      <td colspan="2">Tell a friend</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td colspan="2">&nbsp;</td>

</tr>
<tr>
  <td width="130">Your friends e-mail:</td>
  <td><input type="text" name="email" class="inputbox" size="25"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
  <td height="27">Your name:</td>
  <td><input type="text" name="yourname" class="inputbox" size="25"></td>

</tr>
<tr>
  <td>Your e-mail:</td>
  <td><input type="text" name="youremail" class="inputbox" size="25"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
  <td colspan="2">&nbsp;</td>
</tr>

<tr>
  <td colspan="2"><input type="submit" name="submit" class="button" value="Send e-mail">
    &nbsp;&nbsp; <input type="button" name="cancel" value="Cancel" class="button" onClick="window.close();"></td>
</tr>
  </table>
  <input type="hidden" name="ID" value="">
</form>
	</body>
	</html>

Weedpacket

How is it broken?

mrjoeblack

I'm not sure what this bit is for...

  var form = document.frontendForm;

I think it needs some kind of js ??

It doesn't work as is.

dagon

you know there is no code for actully sending anything?

mrjoeblack

you know there is no code for actully sending anything?

yea thats the bit i need

dagon

well after 60 posts you should know enough to at least make an attempt at it.

fean0r

This will get you started, beware you ened to validate your data;

<?php
	// Error
	if (!$_POST["email"]) { echo "Error"; exit; }	
	if (!$_POST["yourname"]) { echo "Error"; exit; }
	if (!$_POST["youremail"]) { echo "Error"; exit; }	

// Validate / Parse
// ** You need to valid the submitted data here **

// Send Email
$headers  = "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";
$headers .= "Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\r\n";
$headers .="From: ".$_POST["yourname"]." <".$_POST["youremail"].">\r\n";
$headers .="Date: ".date("d/m/Y H:i")."\r\n";
if(!mail($_POST["email"],"Email Title","Email Message", $headers)) { echo "Error"; exit; }		
else { echo "Successful"; }
?>

mrjoeblack

This is what i have so far then hahaha, I really dont have any idea how to do this huh!!! ... I do know it's a mess and doesn't work.

 <html>


 <?php 

if (!$_POST["email"]) { echo "Error"; exit; }     
if (!$_POST["yourname"]) { echo "Error"; exit; } 
if (!$_POST["youremail"]) { echo "Error"; exit; }     

// Validate / Parse 
// ** You need to valid the submitted data here ** 

// Send Email 
$headers  = "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n"; 
$headers .= "Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\r\n"; 
$headers .="From: ".$_POST["yourname"]." <".$_POST["youremail"].">\r\n"; 
$headers .="Date: ".date("d/m/Y H:i")."\r\n"; 
if(!mail($_POST["email"],"Email Title","Email Message", $headers)) { echo "Error"; exit; }         
else { echo "Successful"; } 
?> 



<head>
	<title>Recommend to a friend.</title>
	<link rel="stylesheet" href="template_css.css" type="text/css" />
	<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />	</head>
<body class="contentpane">
	<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">		
	</script>


<body>
<form action="recommend2.php" name="frontendForm" method="POST" onSubmit="return submitbutton();">
  <table cellspacing="2" cellpadding="2" border="0">
    <tr>
      <td colspan="2">Tell a friend</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td colspan="2">&nbsp;</td>

</tr>
<tr>
  <td width="130">Your friends e-mail:</td>
  <td><input type="text" name="email" class="inputbox" size="25"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
  <td height="27">Your name:</td>
  <td><input type="text" name="yourname" class="inputbox" size="25"></td>

</tr>
<tr>
  <td>Your e-mail:</td>
  <td><input type="text" name="youremail" class="inputbox" size="25"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
  <td colspan="2">&nbsp;</td>
</tr>

<tr>
  <td colspan="2"><input type="submit" name="submit" class="button" value="Send e-mail">
    &nbsp;&nbsp; <input type="button" name="cancel" value="Cancel" class="button" onClick="window.close();"></td>
</tr>
  </table>
  <input type="hidden" name="ID" value="">
</form>
	</body>
	</html>

fean0r

The code I gave you should be on the page your submitting your data to: recommend2.php

mrjoeblack

Fean thanks for this so far...

ok that was dum of me... I sorted that and the forms work ok with the success form coming through. I dont see the email arrive at destination tho. I think I'm missing the email title and message lol. Would you agree?

mrjoeblack

fean, change that, i think I just got it to work ok, thanks for your help mate

It seems to be coming through slowly to the destination...took about an hour. Is that cos the mail server is slow, or do I have something setup wrong??

mrjoeblack

Ok yes I got this working, it seems the server it was on was very slow, but having moved it, it is working good now.

I could still use some help with the validation stuff .... and what does "parse" mean??

cheers