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grpaint
10-09-2006, 03:19 PM
I'm having trouble sending all the information I need with a form. You can see the page at www.grpaint.com/estimate3.html

I can get the Contact info sent everytime but the Type of Est and How they heard about our company or best time for est does not send.

It will send if it is not in tables. But I need the tables to keep the format. The send script is PHP and I can provide a copy of that as well if needed.

Please help me out.

Thank you!

Mike
Fumigator
10-09-2006, 04:12 PM
You have two </form> tags but only one <form> tag.
grpaint
10-09-2006, 06:33 PM
I took out the other </form> but i still have the same problem.

Anymore suggestions please.

Or if someone would like to write me the code really quick for this form to be sent that would be awesome too.

Thank you,
boeing747fp
10-09-2006, 06:53 PM
show us your form.php code
grpaint
10-09-2006, 07:09 PM
Here it goes



<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"

"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" />
<title>Untitled Document</title>
</head>

<body>
<?php

//general contact info

$name = $_POST['name'];
$phonenumber = $_POST['phonenumber'];

//$data_order = $_POST['data_order'];

$address = $_POST['address'];
$city = $_POST['city'];
$zip = $_POST['zip'];
$email = $_POST['email'];
$phonenumber = $_POST['phonenumber'];
$besttime = $_POST['besttime'];

//estimate info

$estimateType[0] = $_POST['interior'];
$estimateType[1] = $_POST['exterior'];
$estimateType[2] = $_POST['deck'];
$estimateType[3] = $_POST['powerwash'];
$estimateType[4] = $_POST['gutter'];
$estimateType[5] = $_POST['newconstruction'];

$estimateName[0] = "-interior";
$estimateName[1] = "-exterior";
$estimateName[2] = "-deck";
$estimateName[3] = "-powerwash";
$estimateName[4] = "-gutter";
$estimateName[5] = "-newconstruction";

//how did you hear about us info
$hearfrom[0] = $_POST['flyer'];
$hearfrom[1] = $_POST['familycoupon'];
$hearfrom[2] = $_POST['phonead'];
$hearfrom[3] =$_POST['pastcustomer'];
$hearfrom[4] = $_POST['referred'];
$hearfrom[5] = $_POST['other'];


$hear[0] = "-flyer";
$hear[1] = "-family coupon";
$hear[2] = "-phone ad";
$hear[3] = "-past customer";
$hear[4] = "-".$_POST['referred2'];
$hear[5] = "-".$_POST['other2'];

//Best time for est
$estdate = $_POST['estdate'];
$esttime = $_POST['esttime'];


//organize Estimate Type
$c=0;
$c1=0;
$est[5];
while($c <= 5){
if($estimateType[$c] == "on")
{
$est[$c1]=$estimateName[$c];
$c1++;
}
$c++;
}
//organize hear from type
$hearfrom[5];
$c=0;
$c1=0;
$ad[5];
while($c <= 5){
if($hearfrom[$c] == "on")
{
$ad[$c1]=$hear[$c];
$c1++;
}
$c++;
}
$letterBody=
"customer's name: ".$name. "\n".
"\n".
"customer's phone number: ".$phonenumber."\n".
"\n".
"customer's address"."\n".
$address."\n".
$city.", ".$zip.
"\n".
"Email: ".$email."\n".
"\n".
"Phone Number: ".$phonenumber."\n".
"Best time for calling is ".$besttime."\n".
"Est Date: ".$estdate."\n".
"Est Time: ".$esttime."\n".
"\n".
"Requesting estimates in:\n".
$est[0]."\n".
$est[1]."\n".
$est[2]."\n".
$est[3]."\n".
$est[4]."\n".
$est[5]."\n".
"\n".
"The following customer was refered to you by"."\n".
$ad[0]."\n".
$ad[1]."\n".
$ad[2]."\n".
$ad[3]."\n".
$ad[4]."\n".
$ad[5]."\n";
$mailAddress = "grpaint@yahoo.com";
$subject = "A GRpaint quote request from ".$name;
//echo $letterBody;

if (mail($mailAddress, $subject , $letterBody))
{
echo("<p>Message successfully sent!</p>");
}
else
{
echo("<p>Message delivery failed...</p>");
}

//mail($mailAddress, "New Quote request from".$name , $letterBody);
?>
</body>
</html>
grpaint
10-10-2006, 01:16 PM
any ideas?
Fumigator
10-10-2006, 02:09 PM
Validate your html, (http://validator.w3.org/) see if that helps.
CFMaBiSmAd
10-10-2006, 07:01 PM
I think that the problem he is having is that when he tries to format the email as a HTML table, instead of plain text, that it does not work. I think that his form code works and when he sends the email as plain text it works.

To send the proper headers for a HTML email, check out example 4 at this link to the PHP manual - http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.mail.php
grpaint
10-10-2006, 07:38 PM
Still didn't work. Here is the messed up part about it all. I currently have the script at www.grpaint.com/estimate.html and it works fine. The second I put it into tables, it won't work just the contact information but nothing about the estimate type or how they heard about us.

Anymore ideas?

Mike
CFMaBiSmAd
10-10-2006, 07:58 PM
Still didn't work.What is working and what is not working? We can only see what you describe. Saying it didn't work does not help anyone here know what you see or what you are doing.

The second I put it into tablesWhat is the 'it" you are putting into a table?

Post the version of the code that does not work.
grpaint
10-10-2006, 08:15 PM
The parts that is wrong.

if you look at www.grpaint.com/estimate3.html you will see the form. (I've already posted the php)

When I have the form (on www.grpaint.com/estimate3.html) set inside of tables for formatting, when someone presses send it will only send me their name, address, phone..... but it won't send me the project type or how heard or best date, time for est.
CFMaBiSmAd
10-10-2006, 09:28 PM
After your first post, I copied and pasted the from code to my test server and tested it. Typing something into each field and putting a check in each box resulted in the following being sent to the form action = .php page:
Key: name, Value: a
Key: address, Value: b
Key: interior, Value: ON
Key: city, Value: c
Key: exterior, Value: ON
Key: zip, Value: d
Key: deck, Value: ON
Key: email, Value: e
Key: powerwash, Value: ON
Key: phonenumber, Value: f
Key: gutter, Value: ON
Key: besttime, Value: g
Key: newconstruction, Value: ON
Key: flyer, Value: ON
Key: estdate, Value: h
Key: familycoupon, Value: ON
Key: esttime, Value: i
Key: phonead, Value: ON
Key: pastcustomer, Value: ON
Key: referred, Value: ON
Key: referred2, Value: j
Key: other, Value: ON
Key: other2, Value: k
Key: required, Value: name,phonenumber
Key: data_order, Value: name, address, city, zip, email, phonenumber, besttime, interior, exterior, deck, powerwash, gutter, newconstruction, flyer, familycoupon, phonead, pastcustomer, referred, referred2, other, other2, estdate, esttime
Key: submit_to, Value: grpaint@yahoo.com
Key: automessage, Value: mymessage
Key: outputfile, Value: form1
Key: countfile, Value: form1
Key: emailfile, Value: form1
Key: form_id, Value: My Test Form
Key: ok_url, Value: http://www.grpaint.com/thankyou.html
Key: not_ok_url, Value: http://www.grpaint.com/error.htmlHave you confirmed that the $_POST variable array contains or does not contain everything?

Edit: Upon further review, looking at the values received in the actual data and comparing this with the .php code, you are testing for the value "on", but the form produces "ON" and the compare statements will fail.
CFMaBiSmAd
10-10-2006, 10:54 PM
I'll make a separate post with my findings -

I tried your "working" form code and it gives "on" values. These result from the default values from check boxes.

Whoever wrote your table based form, specifically put this coding in value="ON" which is what broke your .php form processing code. It is not the actual use of a table that caused it but a specific change in the checkbox statements...