13 replies to this topic

[SebbieHE]

Hello. Please could someone tell me where to put MY email address so that when they send the message, I receive the email?


<?php
$owner_email = $_POST["owner_email"];
$headers = 'From:' . $_POST["email"];
$subject = 'A message from your site visitor ' . $_POST["name"];
$messageBody = "";

if($_POST['name']!='nope'){
$messageBody .= '<p>Visitor: ' . $_POST["name"] . '</p>' . "\n";
$messageBody .= '<br>' . "\n";
}
if($_POST['email']!='nope'){
$messageBody .= '<p>Email Address: ' . $_POST['email'] . '</p>' . "\n";
$messageBody .= '<br>' . "\n";
}else{
$headers = '';
}
if($_POST['state']!='nope'){
$messageBody .= '<p>State: ' . $_POST['state'] . '</p>' . "\n";
$messageBody .= '<br>' . "\n";
}
if($_POST['phone']!='nope'){
$messageBody .= '<p>Phone Number: ' . $_POST['phone'] . '</p>' . "\n";
$messageBody .= '<br>' . "\n";
}
if($_POST['fax']!='nope'){
$messageBody .= '<p>Fax Number: ' . $_POST['fax'] . '</p>' . "\n";
$messageBody .= '<br>' . "\n";
}
if($_POST['message']!='nope'){
$messageBody .= '<p>Message: ' . $_POST['message'] . '</p>' . "\n";
}

if($_POST["stripHTML"] == 'true'){
$messageBody = strip_tags($messageBody);
}

try{
if(!mail($owner_email, $subject, $messageBody, $headers)){
throw new Exception('mail failed');
}else{
echo 'mail sent';
}
}catch(Exception $e){
echo $e->getMessage() ."\n";
}
?>

[Jessica]

If you look up mail() in the manual you can see what the arguments are. The first one is the email address to send the mail to.

[SebbieHE]

See. I put my email address there and the form still didn't work. Any advise?

[Jessica]

Why don't you show us THAT code.

[SebbieHE]

What do you mean by 'THAT'? The actual form?

[SebbieHE]

The form code is below.




<form action="send_form.php" id="ContactForm">
<div class="success"> Contact form submitted!&nbsp;I will be in touch soon.</div>
<fieldset class="left">
<div class="block">
<label class="name">
<span class="title1">Name:</span>
<span class="bg"><input type="text" value="" class="input"></span>
<span class="error">*This is not a valid name.</span> <span class="empty">*This field is required.</span> </label>
<label class="email">
<span class="title1">Email:</span>
<span class="bg"><input type="email" value="" class="input"></span>
<span class="error">*This is not a valid email address.</span> <span class="empty">*This field is required.</span></label>

<label class="phone">
<span class="title1">Phone:</span>
<span class="bg"><input type="tel" value="" class="input"></span>
<span class="error">*This is not a valid number.</span> <span class="empty">*This field is required.</span> </label>
</div>

<div class="block">
<label class="message">
<span class="title1">Message:</span>
<span class="bg"><textarea rows="1" cols="2"></textarea></span>
<span class="error">*The message is too short.</span> <span class="empty">*This field is required.</span> </label>
</div>
<div class="formButtons">
<div class="formBtn">
<a href="#" data-type="submit" class="moreButton">Send</a>
</div>
<div class="formBtn">
<a href="#" data-type="reset" class="moreButton">Clear</a>
</div>
</div>
</fieldset>
</form>

[Jessica]

The code where you put in your email. You should always post your latest code when you want help with it. Code that's two iterations old...wastes our time.

[SebbieHE]

The actual latest code:


<?php
$owner_email = $_POST["sebbieharrisonevans@gmail.com"];
$headers = 'From:' . $_POST["email"];
$subject = 'A message from your site visitor ' . $_POST["name"];
$messageBody = "";

if($_POST['name']!='nope'){
$messageBody .= '<p>Visitor: ' . $_POST["name"] . '</p>' . "\n";
$messageBody .= '<br>' . "\n";
}
if($_POST['email']!='nope'){
$messageBody .= '<p>Email Address: ' . $_POST['email'] . '</p>' . "\n";
$messageBody .= '<br>' . "\n";
}else{
$headers = '';
}
if($_POST['state']!='nope'){
$messageBody .= '<p>State: ' . $_POST['state'] . '</p>' . "\n";
$messageBody .= '<br>' . "\n";
}
if($_POST['phone']!='nope'){
$messageBody .= '<p>Phone Number: ' . $_POST['phone'] . '</p>' . "\n";
$messageBody .= '<br>' . "\n";
}
if($_POST['fax']!='nope'){
$messageBody .= '<p>Fax Number: ' . $_POST['fax'] . '</p>' . "\n";
$messageBody .= '<br>' . "\n";
}
if($_POST['message']!='nope'){
$messageBody .= '<p>Message: ' . $_POST['message'] . '</p>' . "\n";
}

if($_POST["stripHTML"] == 'true'){
$messageBody = strip_tags($messageBody);
}

try{
if(!mail($owner_email, $subject, $messageBody, $headers)){
throw new Exception('mail failed');
}else{
echo 'mail sent';
}
}catch(Exception $e){
echo $e->getMessage() ."\n";
}
?>

[Jessica]

See, that's a lot more useful. Could have saved 5 or so posts.




$_POST is an array. When you do $_POST['field_name'] you are looking for the value of the $_POST array at the field_name key.
$owner_email = $_POST["sebbieharrisonevans@gmail.com"]; is looking for a posted field with the name of your email address. 




If you had error reporting on and set to show notices, you'd see this is wrong.

[SebbieHE]

I use notepad++. What software would you recommend? Thank you for the help by the way.

[Jessica]

Your problem has absolutely nothing to do with your text editor.

Are you trying to learn PHP, or just change the form and then not learn more PHP?

[SebbieHE]

Trying to learn.

[thara]

when you post your code again please place it inside code tag by clicking on the button '<>' in your editor

It will help others to read your code easily

Edited by thara, 30 January 2013 - 12:49 PM.

[Jessica]

You need to put your email address as a string, and assign it to the variable. Go read the PHP manual.