Form processing and sending email help

[matt]

Hello there,

I have created a contact us page to collect data. But I have problem to process the form and get it send to my email address, after many tries. :)
Because I need to get it done ASAP, so I really HOPE someone can help me out...
Please check out the link below, the contact us page is under "About Us".

Thanks a million,
matt

[a href=\"http://www.laubertecreatives.com\" target=\"_blank\"]My Webpage[/a]

[b]MOD EDIT(shoz): Topic modified[/b]
[quote]
DON'T Describe your question or problem as urgent, super important, must have by tommorrow etc...
[/quote]

[Houdini]

In order to help you it would help me and other to see the form or ever how you are generating the data that is to be processed as well as the processing page itself. There could be a simple answer but without seeing what you currently have it would not be possible to be of much more assistence.

[matt]

[!--quoteo(post=375547:date=May 20 2006, 07:16 PM:name=Houdini)--][div class=\'quotetop\']QUOTE(Houdini @ May 20 2006, 07:16 PM) [snapback]375547[/snapback][/div][div class=\'quotemain\'][!--quotec--]
In order to help you it would help me and other to see the form or ever how you are generating the data that is to be processed as well as the processing page itself. There could be a simple answer but without seeing what you currently have it would not be possible to be of much more assistence.
[/quote]



Hi,

Sorry, here is the code of the processing page:

<?php
$mail_to = "mattlau33@yahoo.com.sg";
$mail_subject="Online Inquery Form from Peakmore.com";
if ($name!="")
{
$mail_body .= "Message Sent From: ".$name."\n\n";
}
$mail_body .= $emailmessage;
if ($emailaddress!="")
{
if (mail($mail_to, $mail_subject, $mail_body, "From:$emailaddress"))
echo "Thank you.";
else
echo "Failed to send. Please try again.";
}
else
{
echo "You have not filled in your email address.";
}
?>

[Houdini]

OK after looking at the processing php there are a couple of question in order. Are register_globals turned on on your web server in PHP? What version of PHP is the server running (in case you don't know the firest).Could you also show the actual form and method?

There are logic flaws in your code that need correction for it to work properly. A quick and simple method would be to first determinne if...the user has entered an e-mail (isset() would work fine here) the user has actually pressed submit (give the submit button in the form a name and check if that [b]isset()[/b] before you do anything (prevent manipulation of the URL).

So it looks like a few samall logic changes as well as a method to validate the form with php are in order in this case. So with your indulgence then show your form, also I would suggest not putting your real e-mail in the post as it is not important to me but might be to others that could abuse it. Put a bogus or use [at] instead of [b]@[/b] since a spambot or other bot will attempt to use it.

[matt]

[!--quoteo(post=375556:date=May 20 2006, 08:00 PM:name=Houdini)--][div class=\'quotetop\']QUOTE(Houdini @ May 20 2006, 08:00 PM) [snapback]375556[/snapback][/div][div class=\'quotemain\'][!--quotec--]
OK after looking at the processing php there are a couple of question in order. Are register_globals turned on on your web server in PHP? What version of PHP is the server running (in case you don't know the firest).Could you also show the actual form and method?

There are logic flaws in your code that need correction for it to work properly. A quick and simple method would be to first determinne if...the user has entered an e-mail (isset() would work fine here) the user has actually pressed submit (give the submit button in the form a name and check if that [b]isset()[/b] before you do anything (prevent manipulation of the URL).

So it looks like a few samall logic changes as well as a method to validate the form with php are in order in this case. So with your indulgence then show your form, also I would suggest not putting your real e-mail in the post as it is not important to me but might be to others that could abuse it. Put a bogus or use [at] instead of [b]@[/b] since a spambot or other bot will attempt to use it.
[/quote]


Hi,
I am not sure whether the register_globals has turned on or not? (I didn't know about this in the first place as I am very knew to php :) Not sure the PHP version of the server either, but can be checked. I will attach the code of the actual form below.
Thanks for your advice of not putting the real e-mail address, appreciated that.
Anyhow, I am going offline now as it is late nite 4:15am here, and I really pooped :) I certainly HOPE you will help me on this and if you do not mind, will appreciate you would correspond via email, Thanks! matt

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<title>Contact Us</title>
<style type="text/css">
<!--
body {
background-color: #FFFFFF;
}
.headline1 {
font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 16px;
font-style: normal;
line-height: normal;
font-weight: bold;
font-variant: normal;
color: #246892;
}
.headline2 {
font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 14px;
font-style: normal;
line-height: normal;
font-weight: bold;
font-variant: normal;
color: #246892;
}
.headline3 {
font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 12px;
font-style: normal;
line-height: normal;
font-weight: bold;
font-variant: normal;
color: #246892;
}
.bodytext {
font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 10px;
font-style: normal;
line-height: normal;
font-weight: normal;
font-variant: normal;
color: #333333;
}
.footertext {
font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif;
font-size: 9px;
font-style: normal;
line-height: normal;
font-weight: normal;
font-variant: normal;
color: #000000;
}
.linkhierarchy {
font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 12px;
font-style: normal;
line-height: normal;
font-weight: normal;
font-variant: normal;
text-transform: uppercase;
color: #999900;
}
.linkhierarchy1 { font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 9px;
font-style: normal;
line-height: normal;
font-weight: normal;
font-variant: normal;
text-transform: uppercase;
color: #999900;
}
a:link {
color: #999900;
text-decoration: none;
}
a:visited {
text-decoration: none;
color: #999999;
}
a:hover {
text-decoration: underline;
color: #CCCC99;
}
a:active {
text-decoration: none;
}
.livery {
font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 24px;
font-style: normal;
line-height: normal;
font-weight: bold;
font-variant: normal;
color: #76B9CA;
}
-->
</style></head>

<body>
<table width="810" border="0">
<tr>
<th height="40" scope="row"><table width="810" height="66" border="0">
<tr>
<th scope="col"><img src="images/HomePageTopBar.jpg" width="799" height="70"></th>
</tr>
</table></th>
</tr>
</table>
<table width="814" height="600" border="0">
<!--DWLayoutTable-->
<tr>
<td height="50" colspan="2" valign="top"><!--DWLayoutEmptyCell-->&nbsp;</td>
</tr>
<tr>
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<param name="movie" value="images/PeakmoreMenu.swf">
<param name="quality" value="high">
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<td width="621" rowspan="2" valign="top"><p class="linkhierarchy1">About us &gt; <a href="profile.htm">Profile</a> / Contact us</p>
<form action="contactus_action.php" method="post" name="inquery_form" class="bodytext" id="inquery_form">
<p>Your inquery and feedback is important to us. Please fill in the fields below:</p>
<table width="550" border="0" cellspacing="10" cellpadding="0">
<!--DWLayoutTable-->
<tr>
<td width="142" class="bodytext"><div align="right">* Name:</div></td>
<td width="378"><input name="textfield" type="text" class="bodytext" size="30" maxlength="40"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="bodytext"><div align="right">* Company:</div></td>
<td><input name="textfield" type="text" class="bodytext" size="40" maxlength="50"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><div align="right">Address:</div></td>
<td><input name="textfield" type="text" class="bodytext" size="60" maxlength="100"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><div align="right">City:</div></td>
<td><input name="textfield" type="text" class="bodytext" size="30" maxlength="30"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
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<option value="Zimbabwe">Zimbabwe</option>
</select></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><div align="right">* Telephone:</div></td>
<td><input name="textfield" type="text" class="bodytext" size="30" maxlength="30"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><div align="right">* E-mail:</div></td>
<td><input name="textfield" type="text" class="bodytext" size="40" maxlength="40"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td height="3"></td>
<td rowspan="3"><p>
<textarea name="textfield" cols="60" rows="10" class="bodytext"></textarea>
</p>
<p>
<input type="submit" name="Submit" value="Submit">
</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>* indicates mandatory field </p></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td height="182" valign="top"><div align="right">Inquery:</div></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td height="3"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td height="34">&nbsp;</td>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
</tr>
</table>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
</form> <p class="linkhierarchy1">&nbsp;</p></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="183" height="289">&nbsp;</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td height="23">&nbsp;</td>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
</tr>
<tr align="center">
<td height="162" colspan="2" valign="top"><img src="images/HomePageBottomBar.jpg" width="799" height="160"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td height="9"></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
</table>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
</body>
</html>

[Houdini]

OK this is not tested but try it out so far you have no results and this will at least give you and others something to work with
[code]<?php
if(isset($_POST[email])){
$name=$_POST['name'];
$mail_to = "mattlau33@yahoo.com.sg";
$mail_subject="Online Inquery Form from Peakmore.com";
$mail_body = "Message Sent From: ".$name."\r\n<br />";
$mail_body .= wordwrap({$_POST['emailmessage']},72,"<br />\r\n");
    if (mail($mail_to, $mail_subject, $mail_body, "From:$emailaddress")){
        echo "Thank you.";
    }
    else
    {
        echo "Failed to send. Please try again.";
    }
}
else
{
echo "You have not filled in your email address.";
}
?>[/code]Also when posting code to forums select the code with your mouse and click the BB code for code or place [ code ] code in here and [ /code ] minus the spaces to present your code as I have it is much easier to read.