PHP forms

Vader_wolf

I just created a site, and need some help. I have a html form built in and I want the form to send emails with out the use of a default email such as outlook. I have also created a email link thatopens up a form that I want to function the same way.

I have never used PHP before to help me complete the action. I looked on line for a good code to use but get confused with how they are set up, and how to add it to visual to allow it to work correctly.

Can someone please help??

Emma

What code to you currently have?

Vader_wolf

Emma;11026639 wrote:
What code to you currently have?

Right now i am using below code, got the mailer to work partially, but mail is not being forwarded to the client

<form action="/webformmailer.php" method="post"> 
<input type="hidden" name="redirect" value="index.html" />
<input type="hidden" name="subject" value="CustomerFocus.org Submission from Contact Page" />
<fieldset>
<legend id="mail">Request Information - <b>Bold</b> fields are required.</legend> 
    <table>
    <tr>
        <td>
        <label for="name" class="required">Name: </label>
        </td>
        <td>
		    <input type="text" id="name" name="name" value="" title="name"/>
        </td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td>
	    <label for="company" class="required">Company: </label>
        </td>
        <td>
		    <input type="text" id="company" name="company" title="company"/>
        </td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td>
	    <label for="address" class="required">Address: </label>
        </td>
        <td>
		    <input type="text" id="address" name="address" title="address"/>
        </td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td>
	    <label for="phone" class="required">Phone: </label>
        </td>
        <td>
		    <input type="text" id="phone" name="phone" title="phone"/>
        </td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td>
	    <label for="email" class="required">Email: </label>
        </td>
        <td>
		    <input type="text" id="email" name="email" title="email"/>
        </td>
    </tr>
    </table>
</fieldset>
<textarea name="comments" cols="40" rows="10">
Type comments here.</textarea> <br/> <br/>

<input type="submit" name="submit" value="submit"/>
<input type="hidden" name="form_order" value="alpha"/> <input type="hidden" name="form_delivery" value="hourly_digest"/> <input type="hidden" name="form_format" value="html"/> </form>

sneakyimp

You have only shown us your form. Your form submits to webformmailer.php which we have not seen -- this is the PHP code and it's where the magic happens. Can you post that? Make sure you use the code formatting tags or it's hard to follow what's going on. Also, don't post any sensitive information like email addresses or passwords if you can help it.

Vader_wolf

The php code is where i am having the issue, not sure how to build it,

I have this code

<?php
$to = "someone@example.com";
$subject = "";
$message = "";
$from = "someonelse@example.com";
$headers = "From:" . $from;
mail($to,$subject,$message,$headers);
echo "Mail Sent.";
?>

But get lost at this point, not sure how to finish creating it. Somethings is missing, not sure where to go from here, this is my first mail.php i am creating.

sneakyimp

Your script looks like well-formed PHP but it's got a blank $subject and $message and, more importantly, it makes no effort to utilize the values that are being submitted to it by your HTML form.

Note that method of your <form> is "post":

<form action="/webformmailer.php" method="post">

This means that in your script (webformmailer.php) you should be looking for the submitted values in a variable called $_POST. This variable is a superglobal variable. This just means that this variable is available at every level of your PHP code: at the top level of the script, within classes, within functions, etc. You can always reference it if you must but you may choose not to do so for code organization and/or security reasons.

$POST is an array and should contain the input values of any data submitted to your script. E.g., if you have defined a named input in your form:

<input type="hidden" name="form_order" value="alpha"/>

when you submit the form to your PHP script, your script can access the contents of the input named form_order by referring to $_POST["form_order"] like so:

echo "The value submitted for form_order is " . $_POST["form_order"];

I'm not sure how you want to email yourself that submitted data, but you'll need to combine all the various form inputs in some way into a single variable (such as $message in your sample script) and then mail it off. A couple of things that are important:
1) you have to be careful when taking user input and feeding it to a mail command, ESPECIALLY if you determine who receives the mail based on the user input. It's important to validate the data to make sure it's what it should be
2) Sometimes it can be difficult to get mail delivered. The [man]mail[/man] function just returns TRUE or FALSE depending on whether your server "accepts it for delivery". This does not necessarily mean your server will even bother to mail it, much less delivery it properly. It may get caught in a spam filter or something.

Vader_wolf

OK I was able to get the script working, godaddy has a standard php scrip they use, and i am learning they are useless for any type of issue with their site.

what happens now, is that the form returns the information out of order. it is placing the fields in alphabetical order,

here is my script

not sure how to correct it

can someone help

<fieldset>
<legend id="mail">Request Information - <b>Bold</b> fields are required.</legend>
<table>
<tr>
<td>
<label for="name" class="required">First Name: </label>
</td>
<td>
<input type="text" id="FirstName" name="FirstName" value="" title="FirstName"/>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<label for="name" class="required">Last Name: </label>
</td>
<td>
<input type="text" id="LastName" name="LastName" value="" title="LastName"/>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<label for="company" class="required">Company: </label>
</td>
<td>
<input type="text" id="company" name="company" title="company"/>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<label for="address" class="required">Address: </label>
</td>
<td>
<input type="text" id="address" name="address" title="address"/>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<label for="phone" class="required">Phone: </label>
</td>
<td>
<input type="text" id="phone" name="phone" title="phone"/>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<label for="email" class="required">Email: </label>
</td>
<td>
<input type="text" id="email" name="email" title="email"/>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</fieldset>

<fieldset>
<legend>Message Body</legend>
<label for="comments"></label>
<textarea name="comments" rows="15" cols="55" id="comments" title="comments"> </textarea> <br/>
<label for="kludge"> </label> <br/>
<input type="submit" value="Send" id="submit" />
</fieldset>

Weedpacket

The form data would be submitted with the fields in the same order that they appear in the document. But that doesn't really matter, since you would get each field using its name - and that would be the same whatever the order. See sneakyimp's post for more details.

Vader_wolf

I have been making adjustments to see how tings will display,

here is how the form is delivered after mailed.

comments
company

email

FirstName
LastName

phone

subject

submit submit

not like the script calls for

First Name:

Last Name:

Company:

Address:

City:

State:

Zip Code:

Phone:

Email:

Weedpacket

What appears in the mail depends on what the script you're writing did to generate it (the contents of [font=monospace]$message[/font] in your earlier post).

annaharris

Which version of php are you using to implement this code ?