E-mailing a whole filled form as HTML

Anon

Hi there,

I am looking for some advice on my project I am wanting to do...

Let me first state that I am very new to PHP, and I've had no previous programming language knowledge apart from HTML.

So my project is... I have a HTML page, with a form, when the user fills out the form and clicks submit I want it to be sent to a email address, but I don't just want values to be sent. I want the actual page the user has filled out, including all the data the user typed in to be sent to the email address as a HTML Document (strickly how it would look in the browser).

I have talked to a couple of the guys at work, one mentioned using XML and XSL to convert it into a HTML document ready for email, and the other recommended just doing it straight in PHP.

So please if anyone could point me in some direction of where to find information to learn how to do this I will be grateful. Any other help such as which way I should programme this project would also be appreciated.

Cheers.

Regards,
Jared.

Anon

let's say on the page with the form, you've got firstname, lastname and email. You would make the form's action to a this page, modifying a few things:

<?
$to = 'sendittome@somewhere.com';
$subject = 'My Subject';
$from = 'fromme@anywhere.com';
$mailcontent = '
<BODY><FORM action="http://site.com/page.php" method="post">
First Name:<INPUT type=text name="firstname" value="'.$firstname.'"><BR>
Last Name:<INPUT type=text name="lastname" value="'.$lastname.'"><BR>
Email:<INPUT type=text name="email" value="'.$email.'"><BR>
<INPUT type="submit">
</FORM></BODY>';
$headers = 'Content-type: text/html\nFrom: '.$from;
mail($to, $subject, $mailcontent, $headers);
?>