Please Help Me !!! I 'll Be Very Greatful !!!

[longinlos]

I 'm building my personal website , I 'm gonna put 2 text boxes on my site so that anyone visits my website can leave their name and their email address there , and after they click "submit" or "send" , those information will be sent to my email address ... but someone said I need to know pHp to do that , but I don't ... so is there anyone here can help me the pHp code ? I 'll be very greatful !!!
Sincere , Long

[Hawkmoon]

If you know how to create an HTML form then this is super easy to do. PHP has a built-in function for sending mail. You can check out the function and some sample code at:

http://us4.php.net/manual/en/function.mail.php

[longinlos]

Thank you very much for replying to me , but honestly , I 'm using Dreamweaver to build my website , and I don't know much about the code , I only know some stuff to build a simple website and use some other scripts from the internet ... , so my problem is what should I do after I create 2 text boxes named "name" and "email address" and a "send" button ? How can I use pHp to get the value in those boxes and automatically sent to my mail box ?
If you know the code , can you show me ? ... Thank you very much !!!
Long

[Hawkmoon]

Here's the code...and in exchange you have to do something nice for a complete stranger today

There are a million different variations on this but the following code will work if:
1. You place it in a file name "index.php"
2. You change the variable $yourEmail to equal whatever your real email address is
3. Upload the file to a PHP web server with an SMTP port for outgoing mail enabled
4. Open the file in a browser and submit the form

-Hawkmoon

PHP Code:

<?
error_reporting (E_ALL ^ E_NOTICE);
$action     = $_REQUEST["action"];
$yourEmail = "you@yourdomain.com";
$email       = $_POST["email"];
$username = $_POST["username"];

if($action=="sendEmail") {
  if(mail($yourEmail, "Email Subject Line", "The email for $username is $email")) {
    $str .= "Email Successful";
  } else {
    $str .= "Email Failure";
  }
}

$str .= "<form action='index.php?action=sendEmail' method='post'>";
  $str .= "<input type='text' name='username' value='{$username}'>";
  $str .= "<input type='text' name='email' value='{$email}'>";
  $str .= "<input type='submit' value='Send Email'>";
$str .= "</form>";

echo($str);
?>

[longinlos]

Thank you so much , Hawkmoon ! Hopefully it works well ! I 'll try it !
Best regards !
Long

[Spookster]

Originally Posted by longinlos

I 'm building my personal website , I 'm gonna put 2 text boxes on my site so that anyone visits my website can leave their name and their email address there , and after they click "submit" or "send" , those information will be sent to my email address ... but someone said I need to know pHp to do that , but I don't ... so is there anyone here can help me the pHp code ? I 'll be very greatful !!!
Sincere , Long

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[longinlos]

To Spookster : I 'm sorry about that , I didn't know the rules !


To Hawkmoon : I'm sorry to waste your time again , but it still doesn't work !
The first thing I wonder is how can I know if the server support SMTP port or not , I 'm gonna use a free domain of www.netfirms.com , is that OK or I have to register a monthly paid domain ?
Another problem is that I don't have any idea about the pHp code or any other as well ... I put those 2 text boxes and the button in my index.html , and as you said , I have to create a file index.php and put the code in the body tag , is that right ? , so how can I connect those 2 files together ? I mean how can I give the button the function to use the php code to send email after being pressed ?
Thank you again , Hawkmoon !
Best regards ! Long

[Hawkmoon]

Hey there... you REALLY need to learn some basics before you start asking tons of questions. I will make this as simple as possible:

1. Create a new file called index.php in Dreamweaver
2. Change the view from Design to Code in Dreamweaver
3. Copy the code below and paste it into the code section of index.php
4. Put your email address between the quotes where I wrote "CHANGE ME TO YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS"
5. Save the file to a webserver
6. Access the file through a browser

That's it. You don't need to create the form or text boxes or any of that. The code I sent you has that. I'd really encourage you to pick up a beginner HTML or PHP book and start learning some of the basics.

Have fun
-Hawkmoon

PHP Code:

<html>
<body>
<? 
error_reporting (E_ALL ^ E_NOTICE); 
$action     = $_REQUEST["action"]; 
$yourEmail = "CHANGE ME TO YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS"; 
$email       = $_POST["email"]; 
$username = $_POST["username"]; 

if($action=="sendEmail") { 
  if(mail($yourEmail, "Email Subject Line", "The email for $username is $email")) { 
    $str .= "Email Successful"; 
  } else { 
    $str .= "Email Failure"; 
  } 
} 

$str .= "<form action='index.php?action=sendEmail' method='post'>"; 
  $str .= "<input type='text' name='username' value='{$username}'>"; 
  $str .= "<input type='text' name='email' value='{$email}'>"; 
  $str .= "<input type='submit' value='Send Email'>"; 
$str .= "</form>"; 

echo($str); 
?>
</body>
</html>