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I just created a new mail form in Dreamweaver. I am still quite green with php. I’m working on a form to mail script that I can’t seem to get right.
Here is the problem. When I run this little test script (named sendmail2.php) on my server just to make sure PHP is working OK for web email forms:
<?php
$email = $_REQUEST['email'] ;
$message = $_REQUEST['message'] ;
mail( "help@mydomain.com", "Feedback Form Results",
$message, "From: $email" );
header( "Location: http://www.mydomain.com/thankyou.html" );
?>
Which takes input from the following testmail.html page form:
<form method="post" action="sendmail2.php">
Email: <input name="email" type="text" /><br />
Message:<br />
<textarea name="message" rows="15" cols="40">
</textarea><br />
<input type="submit" />
</form> It works great, I get the senders email address and comment sent to my email address – account.
But the form I want to use my final design from Dreamweaver, is:
<form id="formEmail" name="formEmail" method="post" action="sendmail2.php">
<fieldset>
<legend>Account Info:</legend>
<label for="emailAddress">User Name:</label>
<input type="text" name="emailAddress" id="emailAddress" tabindex="10" />
<br />
<label for="pwd">Password</label>
<input type="text" name="pwd" id="pwd" tabindex="20" />
<br />
<label for="confirm">Confirm Password:</label>
<input type="text" name="confirm" id="confirm" tabindex="30" />
<br />
</fieldset>
<fieldset>
<legend>Personal Info</legend>
<br />
<label for="firstname">First Name:</label>
<input type="text" name="firstname" id="firstname" tabindex="40" />
<br />
<br />
<label for="lastname">Last Name:</label>
<input type="text" name="lastname" id="lastname" tabindex="50" />
<br />
<br />
<label for="region">What state do you live in?</label>
<select name="region" id="region" tabindex="60">
<option value="al">Alabama</option>
<option value="in">Indiana</option>
<option value="mich" selected="selected">Michigan</option>
<option value="oh">Ohio</option>
</select>
<br />
<p> How long have u been sawing?</p>
<label>
<input type="radio" name="WoodLength" value="newbie" id="WoodLength_0" tabindex="70" />
0-2 years</label>
<br />
<label>
<input type="radio" name="WoodLength" value="novice" id="WoodLength_1" tabindex="80" />
3-5 years</label></td>
<br />
<label>
<input type="radio" name="WoodLength" value="expert" id="WoodLength_2" tabindex="90"/>
6 plus years</label><br />
<p>What tools do you use most often?</p>
<br />
<input type="checkbox" name="shop" id="shop" tabindex="100" />
<label for="shop">Shopping</label>
<br />
<input type="checkbox" name="tools" id="tools" tabindex="120" />
<label for="tools">Tools</label>
<br />
<input type="checkbox" name="saws" id="saws" tabindex="130" />
<label for="saws">Saws</label>
<br />
<label for="Comments">Additional Comments</label>
<br />
<textarea name="Comments" id="Comments" cols="50" rows="10" tabindex="140"></textarea>
<br />
<input type="submit" name="submit" id="Submit" value="Join Mail List" tabindex="160" />
<br />
</fieldset>
</form>
…and when I use it with the associated sendmail2.php script:
<?php /*?>
<?php
$emailAddress = $_REQUEST['emailAddress'] ;
$pwd = $_REQUEST['pwd'] ;
$confirm = $_REQUEST['confirm'] ;
$firstname = $_REQUEST['firstname'] ;
$lastname = $_REQUEST['lastname'] ;
$region = $_REQUEST['region'] ;
$WoodLength = $_REQUEST['WoodLength'] ;
$shop = $_REQUEST['shop'] ;
$tools = $_REQUEST['tools'] ;
$saws = $_REQUEST['saws'] ;
$Comments = $_REQUEST['Comments'] ;
mail( "help@mydomain.com", "Feedback Form Results",
$message, "From: $email" );
header( "Location: http://www.mydomain.com/thankyou.html" );
?>
The email is received, but with a blank return email address and an empty message. None of the comments or form values get through - just a blank email sent to my address. Can anyone point me in the right direction – what am I doing wrong?
Note: That password field is not really a login password, I just wanted to use it for testing purposes.
Do I have to refrence the type and id attributes in the php script as well?
Thanks for any input.
// \n inside "" to start a new line, formats your email
$_SERVER['newEmailMessage'] ='Password: '.$pwd."\n";
// .= here will append the data to the existing in the given variable
$_SERVER['newEmailMessage'].='Confirm: '.$confirm."\n";
$_SERVER['newEmailMessage'].='First name: '.$firstname."\n";
$_SERVER['newEmailMessage'].='Last Name: '.$lastname."\n";
$_SERVER['newEmailMessage'].='Region: '.$region."\n";
$_SERVER['newEmailMessage'].='WoodLength: '.$WoodLength."\n";
and so on until you have all your data in one variable, formatted as required ( i could be wrong but i recall something about 80 chars per line in emails, anyone care to elaborate), then amend the mail function as follows:
mail("help@mydomain.com", "Feedback Form Results", $_SERVER['newEmailMessage'], "From: ".$emailAddress);
Just incase i would house the mail function in an if statement to check the result, that way if there is an error you can catch it and display a friendly message:
if(!mail( [code here] )){
echo "Failed";
}else{
echo "Sent";
}
<?php
$_SERVER['newEmailMessage']=NULL;
$emailAddress = $_REQUEST['emailAddress'];
$_SERVER['newEmailMessage'] .= $_REQUEST['pwd']."\n";
$_SERVER['newEmailMessage'] .= $_REQUEST['confirm']."\n";
$_SERVER['newEmailMessage'] .= $_REQUEST['firstname']."\n";
$_SERVER['newEmailMessage'] .= $_REQUEST['lastname']."\n";
$_SERVER['newEmailMessage'] .= $_REQUEST['region']."\n";
$_SERVER['newEmailMessage'] .= $_REQUEST['WoodLength']."\n";
$_SERVER['newEmailMessage'] .= $_REQUEST['shop']."\n";
$_SERVER['newEmailMessage'] .= $_REQUEST['tools']."\n";
$_SERVER['newEmailMessage'] .= $_REQUEST['saws']."\n";
$_SERVER['newEmailMessage'] .= $_REQUEST['Comments']."\n";
//echo $_SERVER['newEmailMessage'];
//exit;
if( !mail( "help@mydomain.com", "Feedback Form Results", $_SERVER['newEmailMessage'], "From: ".$emailAddress ) ){
header( "Location: failed.html" );
}else{
header( "Location: thankyou.html" );
}
?>
