I've adapted a simple contact form using php which works fine. However I now need to add an auto response email, so when the client has entered details into the form it not only sends me the details, but sends the client a html email response.
Can any of you kind clever people point me in the right direction on how to achieve this as I'm stuck. Below is the code I'm using; am I right in thinking I need to use another "if" statement to send auto reply?
Any help will be greatly appreciated
<?php
if(empty($_POST['name']) ||
empty($_POST['email']) ||
empty($_POST['phone']) ||
empty($_POST['message']) ||
!filter_var($_POST['email'],FILTER_VALIDATE_EMAIL))
{
echo "No arguments Provided!";
return false;
}
$name = strip_tags(htmlspecialchars($_POST['name']));
$email_address = strip_tags(htmlspecialchars($_POST['email']));
$phone = strip_tags(htmlspecialchars($_POST['phone']));
$message = strip_tags(htmlspecialchars($_POST['message']));
$to = 'andy#andydry.com';
$email_subject = "Website Contact Form: $name";
$email_body = "You have received a new message from your website contact
form.\n\n"."Here are the details:\n\nName: $name\n\nEmail:
$email_address\n\nPhone: $phone\n\nMessage:\n$message";
$headers = "From: noreply#yourdomain.com\n";
$headers .= "Reply-To: $email_address";
mail($to,$email_subject,$email_body,$headers);
return true;
?>
Send another email, but to the client, when the first email is sent successfully. That is assuming you're sending the client an email with different content than you're sending yourself when they use the contact form. Otherwise, use BCC.
Also, use a mail library such as Swiftmailer.
First off, a caveat: the php mail() function is prone to header-injection abuse, which can be used to force your mail server to spam emails on spammers behalf. Strictly filter incoming email addresses
As far as your question, you seem to be wanting to add a CC to your email of the customer's email address.
That is done through adding to the headers:
$headers .= "CC: ".$customer_email_address_sanitized_and_escaped."\r\n";
Related
I have a contact form on my website which sends an email to my account and an auto-response to the users who fills the form. I could able to send an auto-reply to non-Gmail accounts but not to Gmail accounts, it's not even sent to spam. I want to know is anything missing in the code, or any settings have to be changed, let me know
code is working fine with non-Gmail accounts
<?php
$email_to = 'mailme#example.com'; //your email
$business = 'company name.,'; //business name
//$topic = $_POST['topic'];
$name = $_POST['name'];
$email_from = $_POST['email'];
$subject = $_POST['subject'];
$message = $_POST['message'];
$autoResponse = true; //set to false if you don't want to send an auto reply
$autoResponseSubject = "Demo Contact Form";
$autoResponseMessage = "Hi, thank you for contacting us, we will get back to you soon.";
$autoResponseHeaders = "From: $business <$email_to>\r\n";
$autoResponseHeaders .= "Reply-To: $business <$email_to>\r\n";
$headers = "From: $name <$email_from>\r\n";
$headers .= "Reply-To: $name <$email_from>\r\n";
if(#mail($email_to,$subject, $message, $headers)){
if($autoResponse === true){
mail($email_from, $autoResponseSubject, $autoResponseMessage, $autoResponseHeaders);
}
echo '1';
} else {
echo '0';
}
?>
I am not getting any errors.
Google, Microsoft, and the like, only accept email from mail servers that fulfill a number of requirements. These requirements are changing over time. This has mainly to do with preventing spam.
Things start with SPF, which is rather simple, but the normal site providing documentation has been down since feb 2019. Have a look at Wikipedia instead.
The next thing is DKIM. Without it mail certainly won't been accepted by GMail.
Then there is also DMARC.
After all of this there is still no guarantee that your mail will be accepted. Your IP could be blacklisted.
As you can probably guess by now, running your own mail server is a lot of work. I've stopped doing it years ago. I now use a third party service for this.
I'm having an issue with a contact form. The email message is correctly sent but in my inbox appears as "From: anonymous#web.godns.net" and not "From: web#mywebsite.com", and goes directly to SPAM.
I've been looking for similar issues but no one gives the specific answer. I guess if the code is having a syntax mistake or it's a server problem.
This is the PHP file:
<?php
// Check for empty fields
if(empty($_POST['name']) || empty($_POST['email']) || empty($_POST['phone']) || empty($_POST['message']) || !filter_var($_POST['email'], FILTER_VALIDATE_EMAIL)) {
http_response_code(500);
exit();
}
$name = strip_tags(htmlspecialchars($_POST['name']));
$email = strip_tags(htmlspecialchars($_POST['email']));
$phone = strip_tags(htmlspecialchars($_POST['phone']));
$message = strip_tags(htmlspecialchars($_POST['message']));
// Create the email and send the message
$to = "myemail#gmail.com";
$subject = "Mensaje Web de >> $name";
$body = "Recibiste mensaje a través del formulario en la web.\n"."Estos son los datos:\n\nNombre y Apellido: $name\n\nEmail: $email\n\nTeléfono: $phone\n\nTexto del mensaje:\n$message";
$headers= "From: web#mywebsite.com" . "\r\n" .
"Reply-To: $email \r\n" .
'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion();
if(!mail($to, $subject, $body, $headers))
http_response_code(500);
?>
Does anyone figure out what's wrong here?
Thank you,
Alejandra | aleare.design
It may solve your problem or not but it's always a good idea to set a proper sender address. In good old mail() that needs to be done with the $additional_parameters parameter and the syntax is -f followed by an email address with no display name:
mail($to, $subject, $body, $headers, '-fweb#mywebsite.com')
Additionally, make sure that your local SMTP server allows sending messages in the name of web#mywebsite.com. If it doesn't, perhaps you need to get another server and make use of authentication, something that mail() doesn't allow.
In any case, it's really hard to get email right with this function since you need to do everything by yourself and email protocol is not trivial. For instance, I think your code is vulnerable to email headers injection. It's easier to just use a third-party library like Swift Mailer or PHPMailer.
P.S. What are you trying to accomplish with strip_tags(htmlspecialchars())? This will just make user input unreadable for not obvious gain.
This might help you, I don't get it why you put so many text in the header
// Create the email and send the message
$to = "youremail#yourdomain.com"; // Add your email address inbetween the " " replacing username#yourdomain.com - This is where the form will send a message to.
$subject = "Website Contact Form: $name";
$body = "You have received a new message from your website contact form.\n\n"."Here are the details:\n\nName: $name\n\nEmail: $email\n\nPhone: $phone\n\nMessage:\n$message";
$header = "From: noreply#adamar.com\n"; // This is the email address the generated message will be from. We recommend using something like noreply#yourdomain.com.
$header .= "Reply-To: $email"; // this is to automatically reply to your correspondent email rather than your noreply email, I separate it from your header.
also mind to change the variable $headers to $header? Maybe it might help. Wish all the best of it. Cheers!
I have found something wrong in my website when I try to send an e-mail through the mail() function. The mail is not sent and I have this error message:
PHP Warning: mail() has been disabled for security reasons in
/home/natureex/public_html/mail/contact_me.php on line 24
This is my code:
<?php
// Check for empty fields
if(empty($_POST['name']) || empty($_POST['email']) || empty($_POST['phone']) || empty($_POST['message']) || !filter_var($_POST['email'],FILTER_VALIDATE_EMAIL))
{
echo "No arguments Provided!";
return false;
}
$name = strip_tags(htmlspecialchars($_POST['name']));
$email_address = strip_tags(htmlspecialchars($_POST['email']));
$phone = strip_tags(htmlspecialchars($_POST['phone']));
$message = strip_tags(htmlspecialchars($_POST['message']));
// Create the email and send the message
$to = 'geral#aaa.pt'; // Add your email address inbetween the '' replacing yourname#yourdomain.com - This is where the form will send a message to.
$email_subject = "Website Contact Form: $name";
$email_body = "You have received a new message from your website contact form.\n\n"."Here are the details:\n\nName: $name\n\nEmail: $email_address\n\nPhone: $phone\n\nMessage:\n$message";
$headers = "From: info#aaa.pt\n"; // This is the email address the generated message will be from. We recommend using something like noreply#yourdomain.com.
$headers .= "Reply-To: $email_address";
mail($to,$email_subject,$email_body,$headers);
return true;
?>
The line 24 is this one:
mail($to,$email_subject,$email_body,$headers);
I have contact my host and they said this:
Please be informed that, for security reasons, all email submissions
via PHPmailer must be authenticated. If you want to send e-mail via
PHP, you must have an e-mail account associated with it.
My site is here: vectormaid.com
I used a bootstrap template I liked with an existing contact form that only needed my email to work. I want to add a file upload to this form. I've already designed the button to my liking, and it functions well (you can select multiple files and they show as being selected within the form).
How do I add the php functionality to get the file upload portion to work? Everything else sends in an email just fine, so I know the form is working minus the file upload.
Here's my php for the form:
<?php
// Check for empty fields
if(empty($_POST['name']) ||
empty($_POST['email']) ||
empty($_POST['phone']) ||
empty($_POST['message']) ||
!filter_var($_POST['email'],FILTER_VALIDATE_EMAIL))
{
echo "No arguments Provided!";
return false;
}
$name = strip_tags(htmlspecialchars($_POST['name']));
$email_address = strip_tags(htmlspecialchars($_POST['email']));
$phone = strip_tags(htmlspecialchars($_POST['phone']));
$message = strip_tags(htmlspecialchars($_POST['message']));
// Create the email and send the message
$to = 'artwork#vectormaid.com'; // Add your email address inbetween the '' replacing yourname#yourdomain.com - This is where the form will send a message to.
$email_subject = "Website Contact Form: $name";
$email_body = "You have received a new message from your website contact form.\n\n"."Here are the details:\n\nName: $name\n\nEmail: $email_address\n\nPhone: $phone\n\nMessage:\n$message";
$headers = "From: noreply#vectormaid.com\n"; // This is the email address the generated message will be from. We recommend using something like noreply#yourdomain.com.
$headers .= "Reply-To: $email_address";
mail($to,$email_subject,$email_body,$headers);
return true;
?>
I have been looking at this for hours now, and I can't figure out why this won't work. I'm trying to send an email using the mail function. For some reason this page works when hosted by iPage, but not by Godaddy. What is the reason for this?
The PHP:
<?php
// Run code if button pressed
if (isset($_POST['submit'])) {
// Makes sure all fields are filled
if (!$_POST['name'] | !$_POST['email'] | !$_POST['message'] ) {
?><script>alert('You forgot to fill in a field');window.location = "http://example.com/contact.php";</script>
<?php
exit;
}
// From the form
$name = trim(strip_tags($_POST['name']));
$email = trim(strip_tags($_POST['email']));
$message = htmlentities($_POST['message']);
$to = 'email#gmail.com';
$subject = "Contact form submitted!";
$body = <<<HTML
$message
HTML;
$headers = "From: $email\r\n";
$headers .= "Content-type: text/html\r\n";
// send the email
mail($to, $subject, $body, $headers);
?><script>alert('Thanks! I will try to get back to you as soon as possible.');window.location = "http://example.com/contact.php";</script><?php
}
?>
You need to look at your if condition you need || to do a OR
<?php
// Run code if button pressed
if (isset($_POST['submit'])) {
// Makes sure all fields are filled
if (empty($_POST['name']) || empty($_POST['email']) || empty($_POST['message']) ) {
?>
<script>alert('You forgot to fill in a field');
window.location = "http://example.com/contact.php";
</script>
<?php
exit;
}
You are setting From email id $email from user Input, that means its not configured at your server, add a Reply-To header to $email
$headers = "From: youremail#yourdomain.com \r\n";
$headers .= 'Reply-To: '.$email. "\r\n" .
$headers .= "Content-type: text/html\r\n";
Final note, I would suggest you to use Swift Mailer or PHP Mailer to make it simple
For people having trouble sending email on GoDaddy's servers, here's whats going on:
To prevent spam, GoDaddy's servers refuse to send your mail if your using a certain domain (see below for the list). So to solve the specific problem here, I had to change the domain I was using, so $to = 'email#gmail'; is now $to = 'email#something-else.com';
Here is GoDaddy's explanation and the list of blacklisted domains:
Forms are popular on websites; they let customers share their information with you, whether it’s for a newsletter or to register an account. Often times, these forms email a confirmation of the visitor’s submission to to you or the visitor submitting the information. Did you know that all email, even if it’s sent from a hosting account, must have information entered in the From value, though?
You can make that From value a particular email address, too. This lets you create a professional-looking email for your customers or something that’s easy to categorize for yourself.
However, we have to be careful with what users can specify as their From value to combat spamming attempts. Here’s a list of email address domain names we don’t let our customers use as the From value of their forms:
gmail.com
aol.com
aim.com
yahoo.com
hotmail.com
live.com
msn.com
If your email form uses one of these domain names for its From email address, our server will not send the email.