Email form?

new_at_this · 07-04-2005, 11:43 PM

Hi,
Does anyone know of an "action=.PHP" (method="POST") code that with send the input results in an email (as text and you can name the subject of the email) to my email and when you click send, it sends it and takes you to a thank you page?

I have the form all made, I just need the PHP script to send it!

Thanks!

Serex · 07-05-2005, 12:16 AM

PHP Code:


			
if ($_POST['Submit'])

{

        // email data here

        // $var_name = $_POST['form_object_name'];

        

        $your_email = "you@provider.com";

        $subject = "Whatever You Want";

        

        $f_name    = $_POST['f_name']; 

        $l_name = $_POST['l_name']; 

        $email = $_POST['txtEmail'];

        $other = $_POST['other'];

        

        $body =    "First Name: " . $f_name . "<br>" .

                "Last Name: " . $l_name . "<br>" .

                "Email: " . $email .  "<br>" .

                "<br>" . 

                "Other: <br><br>" .

                $other;

        

        if (!isset($f_name) || !isset($l_name) || !isset($email) || !isset($other))

        {

            // check too see that all fields were entered

            echo "Not all fields filled out";

        }   

        else

        {                        

            mail($your_email, $subject, $body, "From: \"$f_name $l_name\" <$email>\nContent-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1");

            echo "Thankyou, your data has been submitted. We will contact you as soon as possible.";

        }



}

Ok. You can add the form action to whatever you like. lets say email.php. in email.php you can add the above, change all necessary fields, i just used some example ones. just woke up so if you have any problems post back and ill fix it

new_at_this · 07-05-2005, 01:36 AM

Thank you so so So much Serex!!!!! I tried it and it doesn't really work for me (and I changed the email to mine).

Is it ok to remove:

PHP Code:


			
// check too see that all fields were entered 

echo "Not all fields filled out";

So that it will send the form, even if some one doesn't fill in every filled?

Is there something I need to do to the HTML code to make it work?

Here's the HTML code:

Code:

<form method="POST" action=" the php code .php">

Your First Name:<BR>
<input name="Your First Name:" type="text" id="Your First Name:" value="" size="38" maxlength="100" class="fieldstyle">
<BR>
Your E-mail Address:<BR>
<input input name="Your E-mail Address:" type="text" id="Your E-mail Address:" size="38" maxlength="100" class="fieldstyle"">
<BR>
Your Website URL:</b><BR>
<input name="Your Website URL:" type="text" id="Your Website URL:" value="http://" size="38" maxlength="100" class="fieldstyle" value="http://" size="50">
<BR>
Your Favorite Thing:<BR>
<input name="Your Favorite Thing:" type="text" id="q[3]" value="" size="38" maxlength="100" class="fieldstyle" value="http://" size="50">
<BR>
The Country You Live In:<BR>
<input name="The Country You Live In:" type="text" id="The Country You Live In:" value="" size="38" maxlength="100" class="fieldstyle" value="http://" size="50">
<BR>
Your Comments:<BR>
<textarea input name="Your Comments:" type="text" id="Your Commentz:" size="30" rows="5" cols="40" wrap="virtual" maxlength="100" class="fieldstyle"></textarea>
<BR>
<input name="submit" type="submit" value="Join"> 
<input name="reset" type="reset" value="Clear">

</FORM>

And how do I get the code to take you to a HTML thank you page after you click send?

Thank you again so much!

Serex · 07-05-2005, 03:22 AM

Ok i see a few errors with your above form (i.e duplication with some fields, invalid naming ect) i fixed it up and came up with.

PHP Code:


			
<form name="form1" method="post" action="thankyou.php">

<table width="100%"  border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">

  <tr>

    <td width="12%">First Name </td>

    <td>

      <input name="name" type="text" id="name" size="38" maxlength="100">

    </td>

  </tr>

  <tr>

    <td>Email Address </td>

    <td><input name="email" type="text" id="email" size="38" maxlength="100"></td>

  </tr>

  <tr>

    <td>Website</td>

    <td><input name="website" type="text" id="website" value="http://" size="38" maxlength="100"></td>

  </tr>

  <tr>

    <td>Fabourite Thing </td>

    <td><input name="textfield" type="text" size="38" maxlength="100"></td>

  </tr>

  <tr>

    <td>Country</td>

    <td><input name="textfield2" type="text" size="38" maxlength="100"></td>

  </tr>

  <tr>

    <td>&nbsp;</td>

    <td>&nbsp;</td>

  </tr>

  <tr>

    <td valign="top">Comments</td>

    <td><textarea name="comments" cols="40" rows="5" id="comments"></textarea></td>

  </tr>

  <tr>

    <td valign="top">&nbsp;</td>

    <td>&nbsp;</td>

  </tr>

  <tr>

    <td valign="top"><input type="submit" name="Submit" value="Submit"></td>

    <td><input name="Reset" type="reset" id="Reset" value="Reset"></td>

  </tr>

</table>

</form>

So you would replace that with your above HTML. And then you create a seperate page called thankyou.php and in there you would place the following

PHP Code:


			
<?php

if ($_POST['Submit'])

{

        // email data here

        // $var_name = $_POST['form_object_name'];

        

        $your_email = "you@provider.com";

        $subject     = "Whatever You Want";

        

        $name         = $_POST['name']; 

        $email         = $_POST['email']; 

        $website    = $_POST['website'];

        $comments    = $_POST['comments'];

        $fav_thing    = $_POST['fav_thing'];

        $country    = $_POST['country'];

        

        $body = "<strong>First Name:</strong> " . $name . "<br>" .

                "<strong>Email Address:</strong> " . $email . "<br>" .

                "<strong>Country:</strong> " . $country .  "<br>" .

                "<strong>Website: </strong>" . $website .  "<br>" .

                "<strong>Favourite Thing: </strong>" . $fav_thing .  "<br>" .

                "<br>" . 

                "<strong>Comments:</strong> <br>" . $comments;

               

            mail($your_email, $subject, $body, "From: \"$name\" <$email>\nContent-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1");

            echo "Thankyou, your data has been submitted. We will contact you as soon as possible.";

}

?>

any more questions. just ask

new_at_this · 07-05-2005, 04:14 AM

OMG!!!!!!!!! THANK YOU SOOOOOOOO MUCH!!!!!!! You ROCK!!!! It works!!!! Yes!!!!!!!!

You have no idea how much this helps!! Yay!!! Thank you again so much!!!

new_at_this · 07-06-2005, 01:47 PM

How do I make this work?:

PHP Code:


			
$Body .= <strong>"Name:\n"</strong>; 

$Body .= "$Name"<br>; 

$Body .= <strong>"Email:\n"</strong>; 

$Body .= "$EmailFrom"<br>; 

$Body .= <strong>"Message:\n"</strong><br>; 

$Body .= "$Message"<br>;

How do I get "Name:\n" in bold and underlined? and then have a <br> (or something) after it, in php?

So it turns out in the email like this?:
Name:
"$Name"
Email:
"$Email"
Message:
"$Message"

Thanks again!

XBleed · 07-06-2005, 02:15 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by new_at_this

How do I make this work?:

PHP Code:


			
$Body .= <strong>"Name:\n"</strong>; 

$Body .= "$Name"<br>; 

$Body .= <strong>"Email:\n"</strong>; 

$Body .= "$EmailFrom"<br>; 

$Body .= <strong>"Message:\n"</strong><br>; 

$Body .= "$Message"<br>;

How do I get "Name:\n" in bold and underlined? and then have a <br> (or something) after it, in php?

So it turns out in the email like this?:
Name:
"$Name"
Email:
"$Email"
Message:
"$Message"

Thanks again!

PHP Code:


			
$Body .= <strong><u>"Name:\n"</u></strong><br />;

new_at_this · 07-06-2005, 02:25 PM

I try this:

PHP Code:


			
$Body .= <strong><u>"Name:\n"</u></strong><br />;

$Body .= "$Name"<br>;

And I get an error!

Serex · 07-06-2005, 03:19 PM

PHP Code:


			
$Body .= "<strong><u>Name:</u></strong><br>";

$Body .= $Name;

make sure your $Body is 'initialised'. Before you can use .= there needs to be a = somewere. ie:

PHP Code:


			
$Body = "";

$Body .= "<strong><u>Name:</u></strong><br>";

$Body .= $Name;

new_at_this · 07-06-2005, 06:38 PM

Thanks Serex! It worked!

I tested the form and it looks great!...
But does anyone know why, when someone doesn't enter an email address in the email input, the message doesn't send? An error doesn't come up or anything, the message just doesn't show up in my inbox.

I used to have an account at AllForms.com and now it says:

"This Account Has Been Suspended"
"Please contact the billing/support department as soon as possible."

And I know it's not for me! I've tried to get to the site through another computer and got the same thing! I think somethings wrong with their server!?

On AllForms.com you could not enter an email, the form came from a no-respond email address, not from the person emailing through the form!
But now because I'm not using AllForms.com, the emails come from the persons email! But what if that person doesn't have an email?
Is there a way I can have the forms come from my email and not the email entered? I know it sounds weird, but is it possible?

Thanks!

AaronW · 07-06-2005, 07:55 PM

This one's more re-usable without much customization: it gathers the list of variables and just e-mails the whole thing to you in a two-columned table of "Property | Value".

PHP Code:


			
<?php

    // Configuration

    $method  = $_POST;           // $_GET or $_POST

    $to      = 'you@domain.com'; // Send e-mail to this address

    $from    = $method['email']; // 'From:' line

    $subject = 'Subject';        // Subject of e-mail

    $send_to = 'success.php';    // Where to send them afterwards

    

    // Package and mail it

    function to_rows ($array)

    {

        $str = '';

        foreach ($_POST as $key => $value)

        {

            // Turn the field name into something legible

            $key = ucwords (preg_replace (array ('/([a-z])([A-Z])/', '/[_-]/'), array ('\1 \2', ' '), $key));

            

            // If this is an array[] field, recurse

            if (is_array ($value))

            {

                $str .= to_rows ($value);

            }

            else

            {

                $str .= '

                    <tr>

                        <th scope="row">'.$key.'</th>

                        <td>'.$value.'</td>

                    </tr>

                ';

            }

        }

        return $str;

    }

    

    $body = '

        <html>

            <head>

                <title>Form Results</title>

            </head>

            <body>

                <table>

                    <thead>

                        <th>Property</th>

                        <th>Value</th>

                    </thead>

                    <tbody>

                        '.to_rows ($method).'

                    </tbody>

                </table>

            </body>

        </html>

    ';

    

    $headers = '

        MIME-Version: 1.0

        From: '.$from.'

        X-Mailer: MyMailer v1.1

        X-Priority: 1

        X-MSMail-Priority: High

        Content-Type: text/html;charset=iso-8859-1

    ';

    

    mail ($to, $subject, $body, $headers);

?>

new_at_this · 07-06-2005, 08:10 PM

Thanks AaronW! I have the form all ready to use, I just need to know this:

If you don't enter an email address in the email input, the form isn't sent! What if someone doesn't have an email address? Is there any way the forms can be sent even without an email entered in the email input?

Like from my address?

Thanks!

new_at_this · 07-06-2005, 09:06 PM

Will this work?:

PHP Code:


			
mail($subject, $body, "From: \"$name \" < my email here >\nContent-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1");

So that the form comes from my email address?

delinear · 07-06-2005, 09:10 PM

Where you declare the $from field - just insert a check to see if the field is empty, if it is then fill it with the email of your choice:

PHP Code:


			
$from = $method['email']; // 'From:' line 

if(empty($from)) {

    $from = 'your@email.address';

}

That should do it. Technically you shouldn't need a from address but I guess it doesn't like it when the from header is there but not completed.

new_at_this · 07-06-2005, 09:21 PM

Ok, I'm really need at PHP and used to HTML!

So add ad that here?:

PHP Code:


			
<?php 

if ($_POST['Submit']) 

{ 

        // email data here 

        // $var_name = $_POST['form_object_name']; 

         

        $your_email = " my email"; 

        $subject     = "New Message"; 

         

        $name         = $_POST['name'];  

        $email         = $_POST['email'];  

        $website    = $_POST['website']; 

        $favthing    = $_POST['favthing']; 

        $country    = $_POST['country']; 

         

        $body = "<strong><u>Your First Name:</u></strong><br>" . $name . "<br><br>" . 

                "<strong><u>Your E-mail Address:</u></strong><br>" . $email . "<br><br>" . 

                "<strong><u>Your Website URL:</u></strong><br>" . $website .  "<br><br>" . 

                "<strong><u>Your Favorite Thing:</u></strong><br>" . $favthing .  "<br><br>" . 

                "<strong><u>The Country You Live In:</u></strong><br>" . $country .  "<br><br>" .

                "<strong><u>IP Address:</u></strong> <br>" . $REMOTE_ADDR . 

                "<br><br><br><br><br><br>" .

                "<strong>_______________________________________________</strong>" .

                "<br><br><br>"; 

                

header("location: http://"); 

mail($your_email, $subject, $body, "From: \"$name \" <$email>\nContent-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"); 



$from = $method['$email']; // 'From:' line 

if(empty($from)) { 

    $from = ' my email '; 

}

?>

I like the form the way it is, I just need to know, do I have the bottom part right? Sorry!