PHP forms?

Mokothemonkey · September 4, 2009

This is my php code:

<?php
 $email = $_REQUEST['email'] ;
 $message = $_REQUEST['message'] ;

 mail( "myname@example.com", "Feedback Form Results",
   $message, "From: $email" );
 header( "Location: http://www.example.com/thankyou.html" );
?>

My html:

form method="post" action="sendmail.php">
<p><label for="name">Name</label> <input type="text" id="name" /></p>
<p><label for="email">Email</label> <input type="text" id="e-mail" /></p>
<p><label for="message">Message</label> <textarea id="message" cols="30" rows="10"></textarea></p>
<p><input type="submit" value="submit" style="margin-left: 150px" /> </p></form>

When I click submit, it goes to the /thankyou.html, but I do not receive the mail in my myname@example.com inbox? Does it take a while to send or is my code wrong? Thanks!

Byron · September 4, 2009

You didn't give your text fields a name.

<input type="text" id="name" />
<input type="text" id="email" />

Should be:

<input type="text" name="name" id="name" />
<input type="text" name="email" id="email" />

You could put both the php and html on one page if you wanted by using an if statement. Saves you from having to make two pages.

<?php
if ( $_REQUEST[email] && $_REQUEST[message] )
{
$email = $_REQUEST['email'];
$message = $_REQUEST['message'];
mail( "me@heliohost.org", "Feedback Form Results", $message, "From: $email" );
header( "Location: http://www.example.com/thankyou.html" );
exit;
}
?>

<html>
<head>
<title></title>
</head>
<body>

<!-- DO NOT SPECIFY FORM ACTION -->
<form method="post" action="">
<p><label for="name">Name</label> <input type="text" name="name" /></p>
<p><label for="email">Email</label> <input type="text" name="email" /></p>
<p><label for="message">Message</label> <textarea name="message" cols="30" rows="10"></textarea></p>
<p><input type="submit" value="submit" style="margin-left: 150px" /> </p></form>
</body>
</html>

Byron · September 4, 2009

See if you like this "Contact Me" emailer. Go ahead and try it, everything works except I disabled the mail function for the demo page.

http://byrondallas.heliohost.org/temp/email_form.php

Upload to your site if you want:

http://byrondallas.heliohost.org/temp/email_form.txt

I think I posted the same script for you the other day but I didn't realize I had my table data alignment off. This should be fixed now.

Mokothemonkey · September 5, 2009

See if you like this "Contact Me" emailer. Go ahead and try it, everything works except I disabled the mail function for the demo page.
http://byrondallas.heliohost.org/temp/email_form.php

Upload to your site if you want:
http://byrondallas.heliohost.org/temp/email_form.txt

I think I posted the same script for you the other day but I didn't realize I had my table data alignment off. This should be fixed now.

Thanks a bunch. Will try it out

Hmm...

I added everything, but when I click "send" it doesn't appear in my inbox. Here is my contact form

Byron · September 5, 2009

Hmm...
I added everything, but when I click "send" it doesn't appear in my inbox. Here is my contact form

You need to rename your page with a .php extension instead of an html extension.

Contact.php

Mokothemonkey · September 5, 2009

Hmm...
I added everything, but when I click "send" it doesn't appear in my inbox. Here is my contact form

You need to rename your page with a .php extension instead of an html extension.

Contact.php

Now I get a: "500 Internal Server Error"

Byron · September 5, 2009

Now I get a: "500 Internal Server Error"

Your contact form is working for me and I even sent you a message.

Mokothemonkey · September 5, 2009

Now I get a: "500 Internal Server Error"

Your contact form is working for me and I even sent you a message.

Really? I never got it.

I double checked and the email in the code is correct.

Bill · September 5, 2009

I sent you a message... I can see your contact form

I was wondering, why don't you use a CMS like Joomla Or PHPNuke, It would make your site look better...

Mokothemonkey · September 5, 2009

Yeah, it looks fine now - but it won't actually send to my email address

EDIT:

I got this error log yesterday:

[05-Sep-2009 08:26:53] PHP Warning:  mail() [<a href='function.mail'>function.mail</a>]: Could not execute mail
delivery program '/usr/sbin/sendmail -t -i' in /home/replay/public_html/Contact.php on line 6

[05-Sep-2009 08:26:53] PHP Warning:  Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at 
/home/replay/public_html/Contact.php:6) in /home/replay/public_html/Contact.php on line 7

Byron · September 5, 2009

Yeah, it looks fine now - but it won't actually send to my email address

Did you check your spam folder? I copied your source code yesterday while it was an html page and tried it on my site and used my email address instead so I know it works ok.

Replace the php part on your email form with this and see if that helps. Don't forget to change the email address to yours.

<?php
if ( $_REQUEST[email] && $_REQUEST[message] )
{
$name = $_REQUEST['name'];
$email = $_REQUEST['email'];
$message = $_REQUEST['message'];
$headers  = "From: $name <$email>\n";  
$headers .= "Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1\n";
mail( "your_email@yahoo.com", "Replay Band Inquiry", $message, $headers );
header( "Location: http://replayband.heliohost.org/Contact.php" );
exit;
}
?>

Mokothemonkey · September 5, 2009

Yeah, it looks fine now - but it won't actually send to my email address

Did you check your spam folder? I copied your source code yesterday while it was an html page and tried it on my site and used my email address instead so I know it works ok.

Replace the php part on your email form with this and see if that helps. Don't forget to change the email address to yours.
<?php
if ( $_REQUEST[email] && $_REQUEST[message] )
{
$name = $_REQUEST['name'];
$email = $_REQUEST['email'];
$message = $_REQUEST['message'];
$headers  = "From: $name <$email>\n";  
$headers .= "Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1\n";
mail( "your_email@yahoo.com", "Replay Band Inquiry", $message, $headers );
header( "Location: http://replayband.heliohost.org/Contact.php" );
exit;
}
?>

Hmm.. Works with my yahoo! account, but not my shaw.

Now I just need it to work with my_email@shaw.ca

Byron · September 5, 2009

Hmm.. Works with my yahoo! account, but not my shaw.
Now I just need it to work with my_email@shaw.ca

You need to conact shaw.ca and ask them if they are blocking heliohost and ask them how to correct it.

Mokothemonkey · September 5, 2009

Hmm.. Works with my yahoo! account, but not my shaw.
Now I just need it to work with my_email@shaw.ca

You need to conact shaw.ca and ask them if they are blocking heliohost and ask them how to correct it.

Ok - Thanks for all the help!

Everything should be working fine now.

sauravrawal · October 21, 2009

Hey, guys ,is there any scope of receiving mail via PHP scripts.If not,in future releases?

PHP forms?

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