I am working on a website where you can provide contact details and submit it to a PHP page. These contact details will be sent to an email address using the native PHP mail() function. However, everything seems fine and works with the following code:
<?php
$salutation = $_GET["salutation"];
$name = $_GET["name"];
$plan = $_GET["plan"];
$desc = $_GET["desc"];
$to = "example#email.com";
$subject = $desc;
$msg = "
<html>
<body>
<p>Test body</p>
</body>
</html>
";
$headers = "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";
$headers .= "Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1\r\n";
mail($to, $subject, $msg, $headers);
?>
When you submit the form, the end of the URL bar changes to:
page.php?salutation=dhr&name=Kees+van+Voorthuizen&plan=basic&desc=Test+Description
As I said, this works properly and no errors were thrown.
But when I add an <input name="email" id="email" type="email"> to the contact details page inside the <form> tag and I submit the form using my own email address, the server returns an HTTP error 503. PHP code using the email input field:
<?php
$salutation = $_GET["salutation"];
$name = $_GET["name"];
$email = $_GET["email"]; // <--- The only thing that has changed
$plan = $_GET["plan"];
$desc = $_GET["desc"];
$to = "example#email.com";
$subject = $desc;
$msg = "
<html>
<body>
<p>Test body</p>
</body>
</html>
";
$headers = "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";
$headers .= "Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1\r\n";
mail($to, $subject, $msg, $headers);
?>
The URL now ends in:
page.php?salutation=dhr&name=Kees+van+Voorthuizen&email=my%40email.com&plan=basic&desc=Test+Description
I suspect that the error is being thrown when I include a period ('.') inside the email field. I've tried manually changing the URL bar using my%40emailcom instead of my%40email.com and it worked. Notice that I removed the period between email and com.
Any ideas?
Related
------THE CODE HAS BEEN MODIFIED SINCE FIRST POST------
For the life of me, I cannot get this to work. The page mentioned below will not recognise the email.php file in the root theme folder. I've tried everything!
Purpose: HTML contact form for a user to submit their details, PHP Script collects the users first name, last name and email address and in turn, redirects them to a thank you page.
Problem: HTML contact form displays fine, but when I click on "Okay, send me a voucher code!" it comes up with URL: http://charliesonlinestore.com/free-delivery-coupon-page/email.php with 'Nothing found', when it should be re-directing to a thank you page.
Here is the form code from HTML:
<div class="form">
<form method="post" name="landing-page" action="<?php echo get_template_directory_uri(); ?>/email.php">
First Name<br>
<input type="text" name="first_name"><br><br>
Last Name<br>
<input type="text" name="last_name"><br><br>
Email Address<br>
<input type="text" name="email"><br><br>
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="Okay, send me a voucher code!">
</form>
</div>
Here is my PHP Script code:
<?php
$first_name = $_POST['first_name'];
$last_name = $_POST['last_name'];
$email_from = $_POST['email'];
$to = 'charlie#charliesonlinestore.com';
$body = 'Here your email body text';
$subject = 'NEW Subscriber';
$headers = 'MIME-Version: 1.0' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'From: Lead Generator <Charlie#charliesonlinestore.com>' .
"\r\n";
$headers .= 'Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1' . "\r\n";
if($_POST['submit']){
if(mail($to, $subject, $headers)){
echo "mail send"; // change this later to your header location
}
else{
echo 'error sending mail';
}
}
else{
echo 'no post data';
}
?>
Confirmed points:
The email.php is in the root of the theme folder, storefront.
All items in the example are provided in the root folder, storefront.
When I tested this on local host (separate server), it worked fine and redirects without issues.
If you have any ideas on why this is happening then I would greatly appreciate it. I've almost completed my very own custom built contact form, lead generation and thank you page!
Just to note, I have checked previous posts and tried things such as putting a '/' infront of the PHP file name and also tried putting the file server address infront of the file name but to no avail.
Please help!
It tooks a little time before i saw it. The problem is your mail function. The php mail function needs a message before headers. And you replace your $header variable instead of extending it.
<?php
$name = $_POST['name'];
$email = $_POST['email'];
$to = 'charlie#charliesonlinestore.com';
$body = 'Here your email body text';
$subject = 'NEW Subscriber';
$headers = 'MIME-Version: 1.0' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'From: Your name <Charlie#charliesonlinestore.com>' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1' . "\r\n";
if($_POST['submit']){
if(mail($to, $subject, $body, $headers)){
echo "mail send"; // change this later to your header location
}
else{
echo 'error sending mail';
}
}
else{
echo 'no post data';
}
?>
I modified the following script. Everything seems to work except the person who submits the form('to2') gets an email with ('message2' - with single space lines) followed by ('message' - with double space lines).
The recipients of ('message') works as it should in that they only get ('message' - with single space lines).
MY OBJECTIVE is for ('to2') only to receive ('message2') without being followed by ('message'). I tried positioning mail('message2') string in different locations of the scripts' logic, but, I keep getting the same results or broken. Any help with logic is appreciated.
Here is the script...
<?php
session_start();
?>
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
<meta name="viewport" content="width=500">
<title>EXAMPLE</title>
</head>
<body>
<?php
if(isset($_POST['Submit'])) {
$ip_address = $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'];
$Subject = 'TEST';
$Subject2 = 'SUCCESS';
$A1 = $_POST['A1'];
$Name = $_POST['Name'];
$Phone = $_POST['Phone'];
$Email = $_POST['Email'];
$message = $_POST['message'];
$message2 = $_POST['message2'];
// Type in your Email address to receive the mail
$to = 'me#example.com';
$to2 = $Name.' <'.$Email.'>';
if($Name == "" or $Phone == "" or $Email == "" ) {
echo 'One or more fields has not been filled out.<br>
Click on your browser back button once and try again.';
}
elseif(!filter_var($Email, FILTER_VALIDATE_EMAIL)) {
echo 'The Email address could not be validated.<br>
Click on your browser back button once and verify your Email address.';
}
else { // All checks passed
$headers = "From: ".$Name." <".$Email.">\r\n";
$headers .= "Bcc: [VENDOREMAILS]\r\n";
$headers .= "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";
$headers .= "Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8\r\n";
$headers2 = "From: Support <me#example.com>\r\n";
$headers2 .= "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";
$headers2 .= "Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8\r\n";
$message = "
Subject: $Subject<br>
Question: $A1<br>
Name: $Name<br>
Phone: $Phone<br>
Email: $Email
";
$message2 = "
Subject: $Subject2<br>
Question: $A1<br>
Name: $Name<br>
Phone: $Phone<br>
Email: $Email
"
.nl2br($message);
$sendMail = mail($to, $Subject, $message, $headers);
if($sendMail) {
echo "THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUBMISSION";
mail($to2, $Subject2, $message2, $headers2);
}
else {
echo "An error occured and the mail could not be sent.<br>
Please try again";
}
}
}
else {
header("location:example.html");
}
?>
</body>
</html>
Remove the code
.nl2br($message);
from the end of the definition of $message2. I think that should do it.
Forgive me, I am new at this and the different php I have tried hasn't really worked at all. I've found examples for Natural Language forms, but none with working PHP and I'm familiar with PHP when used with traditional forms, but I'm having problems putting the two together.
The general form layout goes like this:
My name is [your name].
Today, I am [whatchya gonna do?].
I'm doing this because [c'mon,why?].
It's important that I [what you said you'd do] because [the big picture].
Shoot me an email with my awesome new declaration at [your email]
Button 1 (sends email)
Button 2 (copies all text and input fields to clipboard -- not as important right now)
Button 1, I want to send a copy to myself with a hard coded email address and also send a copy to the user with the email address they've entered.
This is a little messy right now, as I am simply trying to get it to work... again, I have no included PHP because at this point -- I've confused myself so much that I don't know what to include.
<form method="post" action="todayiam.php">
<div class="naturallanguageform">
<div class="nlfinner">
<p class="line">
<span class="copy">My name is </span>
<span class="inputcontainer"><input class="textinput" name="name" value="" placeholder="[your name]">.</span>
<span class="copy">Today, I am </span>
<span class="inputcontainer"><input class="textinput" name="todayiam" value="" placeholder="[whatchya gonna do?]">.</span>
<span class="copy">I'm doing this because </span>
<span class="inputcontainer"><input class="textinput" name="why" value="" placeholder="[c'mon, why?]">.</span>
<span class="copy"> It's important that I </span>
<span class="inputcontainer"><input class="textinput" name="whatusaid" value="" placeholder="[what you said you'd do]"></span>
<span class="copy"> because </span>
<span class="inputcontainer"><input class="textinput" name="because" value="" placeholder="[the big picture]">.</span>
</p>
<span class="copy">Shoot me an email with my awesome new declaration at</span>
<span class="inputcontainer"><input class="textinput" name="email" value="" placeholder="[your email]"></span>
<p class="line">
<button class="button">Send to E-mail</button>
</p>
<p class="line">
<button class="button">Copy to post in comments</button>
</p>
</div>
</div>
</form>
Any assistance will be greatly appreciated.
Update:
<?php
// from the form
$name = trim(strip_tags($_POST['name']));
$email = trim(strip_tags($_POST['email']));
$message = htmlentities($_POST['todayiam']);
// set here
$subject = "Contact form submitted!";
$to = 'email#gmail.com';
$body = <<<HTML
$message
HTML;
$headers = "From: $email\r\n";
$headers .= "Content-type: text/html\r\n";
// send the email
mail($to, $subject, $body, $headers);
// redirect afterwords, if needed
header('Location: index.html');
?>
Another update
I have changed $headers = "From: $email\r\n"; to $headers = "From: email#gmail.com" . "\r\n" ; to set a static from address (my support email) and the email is still identifying as from CGI Mailer. I have verified that it's not a caching issue and the correct files are being used.
<?php
if (isset($_POST['name'], $_POST['todayiam'], $_POST['why'], $_POST['whatusaid'], $_POST['because'], $_POST['email']) {
// We enter this statement only if all the fields has been properly defined, this to avoid getting undefined index
$name = $_POST['name'];
$todayIam = $_POST['todayiam'];
$why = $_POST['why'];
$whatYouSaid = $_POST['whatusaid'];
$because = $_POST['because'];
$email = $_POST['email'];
// We define the variables for using in mail()
$to = 'email#gmail.com';
$to .= ', '.$email; // You wanted them to recieve a copy
$subject = "Contact form submitted!";
// You can put a lot more headers, check out the mail() documentation
$headers = "From: email#gmail.com" . "\r\n" ;
$headers .= "Content-type: text/html\r\n";
// Compose a $message from all the variables
$message = "My name is $name. ";
$message .= "Today, I am $todayIam.";
$message .= "I'm doing this because $why.";
$message .= "It's important that I $whatYouSaid";
$message .= "because $because.";
if (mail($to, $subject, $message, $header)) {
// Mail was successfully sent! Do something here
}
}
?>
Before you posted your answer, I was working on this script:
<?php
// from the form
$name = trim(strip_tags($_POST['name']));
$email = trim(strip_tags($_POST['email']));
$message = htmlentities($_POST['todayiam']);
// set here
$subject = "Contact form submitted!";
$to = 'email#gmail.com';
$body = <<<HTML
$message
HTML;
$headers = "From: $email\r\n";
$headers .= "Content-type: text/html\r\n";
// send the email
mail($to, $subject, $body, $headers);
// redirect afterwords, if needed
header('Location: index.html');
?>
The $email = trim(strip_tags($_POST['email'])); field was pulling the user's email and using it for the sent from as noted in the $header... so it was working fine. With the new script, that you posted, I can't get it to work with my hard coded email OR the user's email as the FROM. Initially, I really wanted to understand what the differences were between the script, why one worked and the other didn't, but now... I'd really just like my email to be hard coded as the FROM. I'll worry about the differences later. As I said before, I really have tried to get this to work in many different forms... I am sure it's something simple that I am over looking as a novice to PHP. Thanks.
Right, so after a bit of discussion from comments, I decided to post an answer instead, giving a bit more detail where it's more readable.
Your PHP code is missing the combination of all fields into $message. This can easily be done, as you can put a variable inside a string in PHP. I'll show you how. I'm also going to show you how you can avoid undefined indexes.
<?php
if (isset($_POST['name'], $_POST['todayiam'], $_POST['why'], $_POST['whatusaid'], $_POST['because'], $_POST['email']) {
// We enter this statement only if all the fields has been properly defined, this to avoid getting undefined index
$name = $_POST['name'];
$todayIam = $_POST['todayiam'];
$why = $_POST['why'];
$whatYouSaid = $_POST['whatusaid'];
$because = $_POST['because'];
$email = $_POST['email'];
// We define the variables for using in mail()
$to = 'email#gmail.com';
$to .= ', '.$email; // You wanted them to recieve a copy
$subject = "Contact form submitted!";
// You can put a lot more headers, check out the mail() documentation
$headers = "From: $email\r\n";
$headers .= "Content-type: text/html\r\n";
// Compose a $message from all the variables
$message = "My name is $name. ";
$message .= "Today, I am $todayIam.";
$message .= "I'm doing this because $why.";
$message .= "It's important that I $whatYouSaid";
$message .= "because $because.";
if (mail($to, $subject, $message, $header)) {
// Mail was sucsessfullly sent! Do something here
}
}
?>
I am working on a mailer and form. In my form I have a dropdown menu that is populated from a database. The table in the database has 3 columns: id, facility, and email. I need the mailer side to look at the facility and change $mailto to the corresponding email address from the database. I am really new and this has had me stumped for two days.
Dropdown from form.php:
$queryData = "SELECT * FROM facilities";
$result = mysql_query($queryData);
?>
<select id="cust_Facility" name="cust_Facility">
<?php
while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result))
{
?>
<option value=<?php echo($row['id']); ?>><?php echo($row['facility']); ?></option>
<?php
}
?>
</select>
<?php
?>
Form:
$emailSubject = 'Toner Request';
$mailto = '';
$email = 'Toner Sending Service';
$facilityField = mysql_real_escape_string($_POST['cust_Facility']);
$queryEmail = "SELECT * FROM facilities WHERE ";
$result = mysql_query($queryEmail);
if (isset($facilityField)) {
echo "Facility is set";
}
$body = <<<EOD
<br><hr><br>
Customer Information<br>
<br>
Facility: $facilityField <br>
EOD;
$headers = "From: $email\r\n"; // This takes the email and displays it as who this email is from.
$headers .= "Content-type: text/html\r\n"; // This tells the server to turn the coding into the text.
$success = mail($mailto, $emailSubject, $body, $headers); // This tells the server what to send.
?>
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
</head>
<body>
<h2>Success!</h2>
</body>
</html>
When I hit submit on my form it echoes $facilityField as expected. I don't know what to add after that to make it change $mailto based on what value is in $facilityField. When I set $mailto manually I receive the email as expected.
New mail:
<?php
include('db.inc');
$emailSubject = 'Toner Request';
$mailto = '';
$email = 'Toner Sending Service';
$facilityField = mysql_real_escape_string($_POST['cust_Facility']);
$queryEmail = "SELECT email FROM facilities WHERE facility = '".$facilityField."'";
$result = mysql_fetch_assoc($queryEmail);
echo "$result\n";
if (isset($facilityField)) {
echo "Facility is set";
}
$body = <<<EOD
<br><hr><br>
Facility: $facilityField <br>
EOD;
$headers = "From: $email\r\n"; // This takes the email and displays it as who this email is from.
$headers .= "Content-type: text/html\r\n"; // This tells the server to turn the coding into the text.
//$success = mail($mailto, $emailSubject, $body, $headers); // This tells the server what to send.
?>
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
</head>
<body>
<h2>Success!</h2>
</body>
</html>
I made the changes above according to my understand of Pogrindis' comment. It doesn't echo $result. It just gives me the echo "Facility is set" and "Success!". What am I still missing?
The final working code:
$queryEmail = "SELECT email FROM facilities WHERE facility = '$facilityField'";
$result = mysql_query($queryEmail);
$result = mysql_fetch_assoc($result);
$mailto = $result['email'];
Your body is not in a a string. You should be getting an error.
Your $body var should be something llike :
$body = "<<<EOD
<br><hr><br>
Customer Information<br>
<br>
Facility:". $facilityField ."<br>
EOD";
Then you will be able to use it in your mail function.
At the moment however if the facilty is not set it is still trying to send the email. So an undefined error will occur.
Cleaning if your If statement should help with this.
if (isset($facilityField)) {
echo "Facility is set";
$body = "<<<EOD
<br><hr><br>
Customer Information<br>
<br>
Facility:". $facilityField ."<br>
EOD";
$headers = "From: $email\r\n"; // This takes the email and displays it as who this email is from.
$headers .= "Content-type: text/html\r\n"; // This tells the server to turn the coding into the text.
$success = mail($mailto, $emailSubject, $body, $headers); // This tells the server what to send.
}
else
echo "Please set facility. "
?>
Something a bit more verbose as to what is going on would be helpful also.
Also your $mailto; at the top of the page is not defined.
If you have it on the form you should have an email input (to send to this email.) Or if it to you like a contact page it should be set.
if(isset($_POST['emailFormName']))
$mailto = $_POST['emailFormName'];
The mailto is now set from the form input called emailFormName.
As your update asked how to populate the mailto based on the facility.
You should be using
$mailto = $_POST['cust_Facility'];
Trying to write a contact form script only my following page isnt processing...
<?php
$rpname = $_POST['name'];
$rpnumber = $_POST['phone'];
echo $rpname;
echo $rpnumber;
$rpname = $_POST['name'];
$rpnumber = $_POST['phone'];
$to = "liam#.co.uk"; // CHANGE THIS TO EMAIL YOU WANT
$subject = "Phonecall Request"
//begin of HTML message
$message = "
Phone call request -
From : $rpname,
Number: $rpnumber
";
$headers = "MIME-Version: 1.0rn";
$headers .= "Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1rn";
$headers .= "From: Website Enquiry";
if (isset($rpname))
{
// now lets send the email.
mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);
$page='index.html';
header('Location:'.$page);
header('Location: ' . $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'] . '?e=Message Sent!');
} ?>
Ive tried to echo the variables at the top but im getting a blank page with no source...
You need a semicolon (;) after $subject = "Phonecall Request".
You would have caught this error yourself if your configuration had error reporting enabled. Do this is in your php.ini file. This will most likely be located in /etc/php5/cgi/. Add the following lines:
display_errors = On
error_reporting = E_ALL
If you don't have access to this on your server, you can add it on a per-document basis, by including the following line at the beginning of each PHP document:
ini_set('display_errors', '1');
error_reporting(E_ALL);
I think you have a copy error on that lines:
$headers = "MIME-Version: 1.0rn";
$headers .= "Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1rn";
$headers .= "From: Website Enquiry";
it should be this:
$headers = "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";
$headers .= "Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\r\n";
$headers .= "From: Website Enquiry";
The rn makes no sense exept you want \r\n which is a linebreak.