I have a problem when sending a form via email using the PHP Mail function. This is the code that I'm using:
$name = $_POST['name'];
$last_name = $_POST['last_name'];
$company = $_POST['company'];
$email = $_POST['email'];
$country = $_POST['country'];
$phone = $_POST['phone'];
$message = $_POST['message']); //This comes from the form
$formcontent="Name: $name $last_name <br> Company: $company <br> Email: $email <br> Country: $country <br> Telephone: $phone <br><br> Message: $message";
$mailheader = 'MIME-Version: 1.0' . "\r\n";
$mailheader .= 'Content-type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable' . "\r\n";
$mailheader .= 'From: ' . $email . "\r\n";
mail("my#email.com", "subject", $formcontent, $mailheader) or die("Error!");
This is a form that will be sending spanish and special characters, like ñ, accents, ç, etc...
The problem is that, if I use it like this, it works fine in Firefox 3.6.3, but when using the form in Internet Explorer 8, the special characters that sends are all messed up (like ç instead of a ç). However, if I add utf8_encode to the variables in the $formcontent, then it works in IE, but it stops working in Firefox, showing stuff like η instead of ç.
What can I do to make it work regardless of the browser? Any help would be much appreciated!
EDIT:
I've noticed that, if I echo the $formcontent variable before sending it with mail, if I'm using Firefox, the special characters are already messed-up. How can I avoid the browsers interfering with what's being sent? Please I'm totally clueless right now!!! I don't know what to change to have something working. Even if it's a dumbed down version, is there any alternative to have PHP Mail working with special characters in both browsers?
Basically you need to make sure that every charset on your page is the same. Make sure the page has a utf-8 charset aswel. Since you're sending it in utf8 the input must come from utf8 aswell.
Could you perhaps show us the code of the page (or a live demo) where the mail is being made?
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I'm trying to send a message to the email a user provides in the contact form. The problem is the message never gets sent, but I always arrive at a blank page where my php code is located. Nothing warns me of any error in my code. Can anyone explain why this is happening and offer a solution to the problem?
<form action="site.php" method="POST">
<input
type="text"
class="form"
name="email"
placeholder="Your email address"
/>
<button class="submit" type="submit">Join Waitlist</button>
</form>
<?php
if (isset($_POST["submit"]))
{
$mailTo = $_POST["email"];
$mailFrom = "Dumele";
$message = "https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1lpj2XnKW4HT_qHFfGwpUxcvzPmK2USZ0MGSDP0XCqfg/edit";
$subject = "Welcome to Dumele";
$txt = "Thank you for your interest in Dumele. We're glad to have
you join our network and mission to enhance the technological
innovation of our African diaspora. Below is a link to a survey
we would like you to answer so we can better assist you.\n\n".message;
$headers = "From: ".mailFrom;
(mail($mailTo, $subject, $txt, $headers));
header("Location: index.php?mailsend");
}
?>
First of all make sure you enabled error reporting. You can check another Stackoverflow question and it's answers here about it.
As I see in your code you have syntax errors. You didn't place $ sign before variable names. For example you typed $headers = "From: ".mailFrom; instead of $headers = "From: ".$mailFrom; Let's fix it:
<?php
if (isset($_POST["submit"]))
{
$mailTo = $_POST["email"];
$mailFrom = "Dumele";
$message = "https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1lpj2XnKW4HT_qHFfGwpUxcvzPmK2USZ0MGSDP0XCqfg/edit";
$subject = "Welcome to Dumele";
$txt = "Thank you for your interest in Dumele. We're glad to have
you join our network and mission to enhance the technological
innovation of our African diaspora. Below is a link to a survey
we would like you to answer so we can better assist you.\n\n".$message;
$headers = "From: ".$mailFrom;
(mail($mailTo, $subject, $txt, $headers));
header("Location: index.php?mailsend");
}
Now with the mail() function of PHP; some servers disables mail() function for security purposes. If so; you can use SMTP to securely send your emails. To use SMTP in PHP of course you need additional processes but some free software packages and libraries like PHPMailer or SwiftMailer can help you about it.
This is looking for a form value with the name "submit":
if (isset($_POST["submit"]))
But there's no form element in the HTML with that name. So this will always be false. Give your submit button that name:
<button class="submit" type="submit" name="submit">Join Waitlist</button>
It shouldn't necessarily need a value, it would just default to an empty string. But it needs a name in order for the browser to send anything at all with that key.
As an aside, your mail server may reject the message since this is not really an email address:
$mailFrom = "Dumele";
For completeness... It looks like your PHP variables are also syntactically incorrect. Variable names need to begin with a $. For example, this:
$headers = "From: ".mailFrom;
Should be this:
$headers = "From: ".$mailFrom;
The same error would need to be corrected anywhere you're mis-using variable names.
Use value attribute in button tag. You are testing
if(isset($_post['submit']))
But what is submit? You should use value attribute and give a value submit i.e. Submit
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I am getting some data from a html form and sending them by email with PHP.
The issue is that i am getting weird characters because the language that the user writes in the form is Czech.
For example the name Anežka becomes Anežka
This is the code i have for my php which being used for sending the email.
<?php
if(isset($_POST['submit'])){
$to_alex = "myemail#honeywell.com"; // this is your Email address
$first_name = $_POST['fname'];
$first_name=mb_convert_encoding($first_name, "UTF-8", "ISO-8859-1");
$last_name = $_POST['lname'];
$email = $_POST['email'];
$skola = $_POST['vysoka_skola'];
$obor = $_POST['obor'];
$prace = $_POST['prace'];
$phone_num=$_POST['phone_number'];
$linkedin=$_POST['linkedin'];
$oponenta=$_POST['oponenta'];
$vedouciho=$_POST['vedouciho'];
$files = $_FILES['myfile']['name'];
$kategorie = $_POST['kategorie'];
//echo gettype($files);
$all_thesis_string="";
$all_vedouciho_string="";
for($index=0;$index<count($_FILES['myfile']['name']);$index++){
$all_thesis_string.=$_FILES['myfile']['name'][$index].","; //create a string with all bachelor attachments of user
}
for($index=0;$index<count($_FILES['vedouciho_files']['name']);$index++){
$all_vedouciho_string.=$_FILES['vedouciho_files']['name'][$index].","; //create a string with all vedouciho attachments of user
}
for($index=0;$index<count($_FILES['oponenta_files']['name']);$index++){
$all_vedouciho_string.=$_FILES['oponenta_files']['name'][$index].","; //create a string with all oponenta attachments of user
}
$subject = "Form submission of ".$first_name." ".$last_name;
$message = "User Details: \n\n Jméno: $first_name \n Příjmení: $last_name \n Email: $email \n Telefon: $phone_num \n Linkedin: $linkedin \n Vysoká škola: $skola \n Studijní obor: $obor \n Odkaz na bakalářskou práci: $prace \n Kategorie: $kategorie \n Posudek oponenta: \n $oponenta \n Posudek vedouciho: \n $vedouciho \n Bakalářská práce: $all_thesis_string \n Vedouciho files: $all_vedouciho_string";
$headers = "From:" . $first_name;
mail($to_alex,$subject,$message,$headers);
echo '<span style="color:#AFA;text-align:center;"><strong>"Přihláška úspěšně odeslána. Děkuji "</strong></span>';
//include 'upload.php';
// You can also use header('Location: thank_you.php'); to redirect to another page.
}
?>
I have tried mb_convert_encoding in my last attempt but still i have the issue.
You need to tackle possible issues on both input and output stages of your program:
make sure, the browser knows, that you want UTF-8: It needs the tag <meta charset="utf-8"> somewhere in the <head> of your HTML. Otherwise it is possible, that it falls back to some legacy encoding when sending form data back to you.
make sure, e-mail clients know, that you send UTF-8 to them. They, too, will fall back to legacy encodings without explicitly telling them. Try adding these headers to the mail:
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
If you want UTF-8 in the subject and/or To fields, you need a separate way of quoting. I suggest you take a look at the excellent PHPMailer package that will handle all that for you.
I have a strange problem with my PHP contact form, every 15 minutes or so I get a blank email and receive them though the day?! When I fill out the form I get the details sent to me at once and all of the fields are filled out fine.
I use PHP for the form and the jQuery validate for the validation, the form works and so does the validation but since I am not strong with PHP maybe it's the process that's not right?
form.php - from: https://1stwebdesigner.com/php-contact-form-html/
<?php
$name = $_POST['name'];
$email = $_POST['email'];
$phone = $_POST['phone'];
$call = $_POST['call'];
$website = $_POST['website'];
$priority = $_POST['priority'];
$type = $_POST['type'];
$message = $_POST['message'];
$formcontent=" From: $name \n Phone: $phone \n Call Back: $call \n Website: $website \n Priority: $priority \n Type: $type \n Message: $message";
$recipient = "youremail#here.com";
$subject = "Contact Form";
$mailheader = "From: $email \r\n";
mail($recipient, $subject, $formcontent, $mailheader) or die("Error!");
echo "Thank You!";
?>
I had to take the form down as I receive so many mails a day. The $recipient was set to my email but left it as a dummy address for this post.
As per your code snippet. It's nothing to do with 15 mins blank email issue. Your form might been targeted with some bot or malicious script. However, it's really simple form. There are several standard practices for forms but for starters, you may be looking into following links to get the whole idea.
https://www.w3schools.com/php/php_form_complete.asp
https://www.w3schools.com/php/showphp.asp?filename=demo_form_validation_complete
When you are done with this reading, you should be looking into javascript Form Validation and Capcha integration. Once you are comfortable with Javascipt Validation, you migh jump to Jquery Validation or jQuery Validation plugins.
Above links are not really end of the world but you shall at least get the idea for basic form submission process.
Hope this helps.
i'm using ajax contact form, downloaded from: http://youhack.me/2010/07/22/create-a-fancy-contact-form-with-css-3-and-jquery/
Everything works ok except UTF as i can't use cyrilic symbols when submitting.
The php:
$name = $_POST['name']; // contain name of person
$email = $_POST['email']; // Email address of sender
$web = $_POST['web']; // Your website URL
$body = $_POST['text']; // Your message
$receiver = "receiver#domain.com" ; // hardcorde your email address here - This is the email address that all your feedbacks will be sent to
if (!empty($name) & !empty($email) && !empty($body)) {
$body = "Name: {$name}\n\nSubject: {$web}\n\nMessage: {$body}";
$send = mail($receiver, 'Contact from domain.com', $body, "From: {$email}");
if ($send) {
echo 'true'; //if everything is ok,always return true , else ajax submission won't work
}
}
It uses jquery.validationEngine-en for validation.
My html already has "Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" in header.
I'm new to php and jquery, so i would appriciate some guidance to make UTF-8 work when submitting.
Thanks :)
Edit: When i try to use cyrilic chars (čšćđ) on a required field i get ajax input error "Please use letters only". If i submit the form with cyrilic chars on a non-required field, i receive and email, all letters show ok except cyrilic, which are like this: Å¡.
Edit 2: When i set the recipient to gmail (webmail), cyrilic chars show up ok, except in one field, where Ajax doesnt let me use them (regex from Reinder answer).
When i set recipient in outlook (local) and submit the form, none of the cyrilic chars don't show up ok, example: ÄĹĄ oÄa ĹĄ ÄŽŠÄÄ
SOLVED Thanks to Reinder for guide and David! Will solve it today :)
having looked at the plugin you're using, I think this has to do with the validation regex inside jquery.validationEngine-en.js
when the validation is set to 'onlyLetter' it will check using
/^[a-zA-Z\ \']+$/
and none of your characters čšćđ are allowed here...
you need to create a language validation javascript for the language you're using and change that regular expression. For example, have a look at this post
The next thing is to check the encoding of your PHP file and your headers.
Place this at the top of your PHP code
header("Content-type: text/html; charset=utf-8");
Check if the values are correctly displayed when just outputting them in PHP, like so:
echo $name;
If they are correctly displayed in the browser and it's just the email that's incorrectly displaying the characters, then you need to pass an encoding header to the email too
example:
$headers = "From: $name <$email>\n";
$headers .= "Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8\n";
$body = "Name: {$name}\n\nSubject: {$web}\n\nMessage: {$body}";
$send = mail($receiver, 'Contact from domain.com', $body, $headers);
have a look at the mail function on the PHP.NET website
Rather than use the default PHP mail() function, I've found this come in handy when working with Japanese:
http://bitprison.net/php_mail_utf-8_subject_and_message
I'm building a simple order system and want to send an email after the form is submitted. My PHP code looks similar to this:
$name=$_POST["orderName"];
$company=$_POST["orderCompany"];
$email=$_POST["orderEmail"];
$phone=$_POST["orderPhone"];
$headers = "From: $email\r\n" .
$item1=$_POST["orderItem1"];
$qty1=$_POST["orderQty1"];
$item2=$_POST["orderItem2"];
$qty2=$_POST["orderQty2"];
$item3=$_POST["orderItem3"];
$qty3=$_POST["orderQty3"];
$date = date("l, F j Y, G:i") ;
$message="Message sent: $date \n\n
Name: $name\n
Company: $company\n
Email: $email\n
Phone: $phone\n\n
Order:\n
$item1 \tx$qty1\n
$item2 \tx$qty2\n
$item3 \tx$qty3\n";
mail("sales#company.com", "Order", $message, $headers);
That works fine, except in the body of the email I get the value of $item1 string at the very beginning, before the "Message sent..." - just like I added it to the $message (which I don't as far as I can see).
Where you have this:
$headers = "From: $email\r\n" .
you want this instead:
$headers = "From: $email\r\n";
Otherwise, you're concatenating whatever comes on the next line (which happens to be the definition for $item1) to the end of $headers. Although that's not technically valid (i.e., the content is part of the message headers and not body), most e-mail clients will effectively shrug and show it anyway.
Please, please, please add some sanitizing to your POST variables before going with this in production.
Let's see here:
$email=$_POST["orderEmail"];
$headers = "From: $email\r\n";
mail("sales#company.com", "Order", $message, $headers);
I could send a POST request where "orderEmail" contains:
"helo#helo.lv\r\n
From: viagra#farmacety.net\r\n
BCC: victim1#domain1.com, victom2#domain3.com"
etc. and your harmless form would work great for me sending spam to the whole world. This site suggects:
if ( ereg( "[\r\n]", $name ) || ereg( "[\r\n]", $email ) ) {
[... direct user to an error page and quit ...]
}