Interesting Dilema; PHPMail() Not working with includes..

monkeypaw201 · April 20, 2008

Hey guys;

I have a page with a form(form.php) that posts to another page (index.php?page=sent) the second page includes the script used to send the email. It works such that it sends the emails but it seems that the posted variables got lost somewhere... am i missing something?

Thanks

dptr1988 · April 20, 2008

Check your names for the form and input fields and make sure that they match the names that you are using to access the data in the php script. Try print_r($_POST); to display all of the data.

If you still can't get it, post the relevent parts of form.php and index.php

monkeypaw201 · April 20, 2008

Check your names for the form and input fields and make sure that they match the names that you are using to access the data in the php script. Try print_r($_POST); to display all of the data.

If you still can't get it, post the relevent parts of form.php and index.php

it outputs

Array ( )

the form.php code is

<form name="form1" method="post" action="http://www.domain.com/Dev/home.php?page=contact_send">
  <table width="100%" border="0">
    <tr>
      <td>Full Name:</td>
      <td><span id="sprytextfield1">
        <label>
        <input type="text" name="full_name" id="full_name">
        </label>
      <span class="textfieldRequiredMsg">You Must Enter Your Full Name!</span></span></td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>E-Mail Address:</td>
      <td><span id="sprytextfield2">
        <label>
        <input type="text" name="email" id="email">
        </label>
      <span class="textfieldRequiredMsg">You Must Enter Your E-Mail Address!</span></span></td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>Message:</td>
      <td><span id="sprytextarea1">
        <label>
        <textarea name="message" id="message" cols="45" rows="5"></textarea>
        </label>
      <span class="textareaRequiredMsg">You Must Enter A Message To Send!</span></span></td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td> </td>
      <td> </td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td colspan="2"><label>
        <div align="center">
          <input type="submit" name="button" id="button" value="Send Message">
        </div>
      </label></td>
    </tr>
  </table>
</form>

the send.php code is;

<?php
$EmailFrom = "noreply@" . substr($row_Settings['base_url'],0,11);
$EmailTo = "me@gmail.com";

//The subject can be overriden by simply replacing it below
$Subject = "";
$FullName = Trim(stripslashes($_POST['full_name'])); 
$Email = Trim(stripslashes($_POST['email'])); 
$Message = Trim(stripslashes($_POST['message'])); 
$Body = "Hello; \n\n You have recieved an email from ";
$Body .= "you website's contact form. The message is below for your convenience. \n\n ****************************** \nFull Name: ";
$Body .= $_POST['full_name'];
$Body .= "\n";
$Body .= "Email: ";
$Body .= $Email;
$Body .= "\n";
$Body .= "Message: ";
$Body .= $Message;
$Body .= "\n ****************************** \n\n This Is An Automatically Generated Message, Do Not Repond!";
$success = mail($EmailTo, $Subject, $Body, "From: <$EmailFrom>");
if ($success){
  echo "<center><em>Thank You " . $_POST['full_name'] . " , Your Message Has Been Sent!</em></center>";
}
else{
  echo "<center><em>There Was An Error Sending The Message, Please Try Again!</em></center>";
}
?>

It seems to not want to post across...

dptr1988 · April 20, 2008

Are you posting accross domains? Using the full URL in the action attribute of the form made me think that. I don't know if all browsers would like that. But that is just a guess. But I really don't have a clue if thats ok or not. Just an idea

Where did you put the print_r($_POST);? Which file? Which line?

monkeypaw201 · April 20, 2008

I printed in the send.php right below the <?php tag.

Its all on the same domain, everything is just so sunk into directories, i choose to use the domain for ease..you made me think about that too, so im going to try and remove the domain and just run it with a lot of ../'s

I'll post what happens

dptr1988 · April 20, 2008

I noticed that your action URL ends with 'home.php?page=contact_send' ( unless you are using mod_rewrite ) that means that the request is getting routed through 'home.php' before it finally gets to 'send.php' Double check that nothing else between home.php and send.php is overwriting the $_POST variable.

monkeypaw201 · April 20, 2008

Sadly enought, even running it with this code

<form name="form1" method="post" action="home.php?page=contact_send">
  <table width="100%" border="0">
    <tr>
      <td>Full Name:</td>
      <td><span id="sprytextfield1">
        <label>
        <input type="text" name="full_name" id="full_name">
        </label>
      <span class="textfieldRequiredMsg">You Must Enter Your Full Name!</span></span></td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>E-Mail Address:</td>
      <td><span id="sprytextfield2">
        <label>
        <input type="text" name="email" id="email">
        </label>
      <span class="textfieldRequiredMsg">You Must Enter Your E-Mail Address!</span></span></td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>Message:</td>
      <td><span id="sprytextarea1">
        <label>
        <textarea name="message" id="message" cols="45" rows="5"></textarea>
        </label>
      <span class="textareaRequiredMsg">You Must Enter A Message To Send!</span></span></td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td> </td>
      <td> </td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td colspan="2"><label>
        <div align="center">
          <input type="submit" name="button" id="button" value="Send Message">
        </div>
      </label></td>
    </tr>
  </table>
</form>

doesn't change anything... I also tried using the $_GET function just for curiosity sake..and.. i got a blank page instead of a n either success or error as in the send.php code ...

I'm sort of pulling my hair out, so if anyone has any suggestions, post them please

Thanks

Add-On ::

I noticed that your action URL ends with 'home.php?page=contact_send' ( unless you are using mod_rewrite ) that means that the request is getting routed through 'home.php' before it finally gets to 'send.php' Double check that nothing else between home.php and send.php is overwriting the $_POST variable.

I am not using mod_rewrite, but both scripts are getting includes on the home.php script, could that be a factor?

dptr1988 · April 20, 2008

Just for curiosity, try posting the form directly to 'send.php' to see if you get anything.

monkeypaw201 · April 20, 2008

Just for curiosity, try posting the form directly to 'send.php' to see if you get anything.

It ran perfectly.. so something is disrupting the code on home.php or one of its countless included scripts... to make things all the more confusing, there are no forms or anything that would interfere with a $_POST (that i can see/think of)

dptr1988 · April 20, 2008

Well I guess you know where to look now. If you have a good devlopment environment ( AKA linux :-) ), you can just run a search for '$_POST' or '$HTTP_POST_VARS ' through all of those include files that are included before yours and see if anybody was messing with them.

monkeypaw201 · April 20, 2008

i ran through them all and even removed the unnecessary files to run the contact form and still received the same results... is there any other way to post the variables without using GET? i don't want users to be able to mess with the code...

monkeypaw201 · April 20, 2008

1 more thing i tried

I attached the print_r($_POST) to home.php at the bottom and found out something interesting...

it displayed:

Array ( [full_name] => test => test [message] => test [button] => Send Message )

at the bottom... its gets passed but its not going into the form...

whats going on?!?!

dptr1988 · April 20, 2008

Yeah, that is strange.

Does 'send.php' get directly included by 'home.php' or is there another file between?

Are you absolutly sure that 'send.php' is not receiving anything in the $_POST array?

monkeypaw201 · April 20, 2008

Yes, the send.php output is

Array ( )

No, the file includes work like this:

home.php includes theme.php which contains the layout, the theme.php includes the send.php when its told to by the URL `page` value...

dptr1988 · April 20, 2008

Did you try a print_r($_POST); at the top and bottem of 'theme.php' ( and in the middle and and anywhere else you can think of)?

monkeypaw201 · April 21, 2008

Ok, wierd... the array displays correctly everywhere i put it until it gets to the send.php area... before and after..

Any suggestions

monkeypaw201 · April 21, 2008

bump

redarrow · April 21, 2008

try this as one page please...

just enter your email address m8....

<?php


if ($_POST['submit']){

if($_GET['page']=="contact_send"){

	$FullName = Trim(stripslashes($_POST['full_name'])); 
        $Email = Trim(stripslashes($_POST['email'])); 
        $Message = Trim(stripslashes($_POST['message'])); 

$to = 'bob@barnyard.com';

$subject = 'Testing mail!';


$mes = "Hello; \n\n You have recieved an email from ";
$mes .= "you website's contact form. The message is below for your convenience. \n\n ****************************** \nFull Name: ";
$mes .= $full_name;
$mes .= "\n";
$mes .= "Email: ";
$mes .= $Email;
$mes .= "\n";
$mes .= "Message: ";
$mes .= $Message;
$mes .= "\n ****************************** \n\n This Is An Automatically Generated Message, Do Not Repond!";

$message = $mes;

$headers = "From: server@barnyard.com\r\n" .
        'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion() . "\r\n" .
        "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n" .
        "Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8\r\n" .
        "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit\r\n\r\n";

// Send
if(mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers)){

echo "<center><em>Thank You " . $_POST['full_name'] . " , Your Message Has Been Sent!</em></center>";

}else{
  
echo "<center><em>There Was An Error Sending The Message, Please Try Again!</em></center>";
}
  }
   }
?>

<form method="POST" action="<?php echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] ?>?page=contact_send">

<table width="100%" border="0">
    <tr>
      <td>Full Name:</td>
      <td><span id="sprytextfield1">
        <label>
        <input type="text" name="full_name" id="full_name">
        </label>
      <span class="textfieldRequiredMsg">You Must Enter Your Full Name!</span></span></td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>E-Mail Address:</td>
      <td><span id="sprytextfield2">
        <label>
        <input type="text" name="email" id="email">
        </label>
      <span class="textfieldRequiredMsg">You Must Enter Your E-Mail Address!</span></span></td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>Message:</td>
      <td><span id="sprytextarea1">
        <label>
        <textarea name="message" id="message" cols="45" rows="5"></textarea>
        </label>
      <span class="textareaRequiredMsg">You Must Enter A Message To Send!</span></span></td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td> </td>
      <td> </td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td colspan="2"><label>
        <div align="center">
          <input type="submit" name="submit" id="button" value="Send Message">
        </div>
      </label></td>
    </tr>
  </table>
</form>

monkeypaw201 · April 21, 2008

it does work, but it goes to the full URL of the page (Dev/Pages/Contact/send.php) instead of still displaying home.php?page=contact is the only way around this to use a META redirect? or is there another way?

Thanks

monkeypaw201 · April 21, 2008

bump

monkeypaw201 · April 21, 2008

Is it possible to place the PHP in the form action? or would that just send things screwy??

kenrbnsn · April 21, 2008

Please show us the code that you're using to include the files.

Ken

monkeypaw201 · April 21, 2008

ok, so home.php code:

<?php require_once('Connections/ManageYourVA.php'); ?>
<?php
if (!function_exists("GetSQLValueString")) {
function GetSQLValueString($theValue, $theType, $theDefinedValue = "", $theNotDefinedValue = "") 
{
  $theValue = get_magic_quotes_gpc() ? stripslashes($theValue) : $theValue;

  $theValue = function_exists("mysql_real_escape_string") ? mysql_real_escape_string($theValue) : mysql_escape_string($theValue);

  switch ($theType) {
    case "text":
      $theValue = ($theValue != "") ? "'" . $theValue . "'" : "NULL";
      break;    
    case "long":
    case "int":
      $theValue = ($theValue != "") ? intval($theValue) : "NULL";
      break;
    case "double":
      $theValue = ($theValue != "") ? "'" . doubleval($theValue) . "'" : "NULL";
      break;
    case "date":
      $theValue = ($theValue != "") ? "'" . $theValue . "'" : "NULL";
      break;
    case "defined":
      $theValue = ($theValue != "") ? $theDefinedValue : $theNotDefinedValue;
      break;
  }
  return $theValue;
}
}

mysql_select_db($database_ManageYourVA, $ManageYourVA);
$query_Settings = "SELECT * FROM settings WHERE id = 12";
$Settings = mysql_query($query_Settings, $ManageYourVA) or die(mysql_error());
$row_Settings = mysql_fetch_assoc($Settings);
$totalRows_Settings = mysql_num_rows($Settings);

mysql_select_db($database_ManageYourVA, $ManageYourVA);
$query_menu = "SELECT * FROM menu WHERE active = 'Yes'";
$menu = mysql_query($query_menu, $ManageYourVA) or die(mysql_error());
$row_menu = mysql_fetch_assoc($menu);
$totalRows_menu = mysql_num_rows($menu);

mysql_select_db($database_ManageYourVA, $ManageYourVA);
$query_Page = "SELECT * FROM page WHERE active = 'Yes' AND url_title = '$_GET

'";
$Page = mysql_query($query_Page, $ManageYourVA) or die(mysql_error());
$row_Page = mysql_fetch_assoc($Page);
$totalRows_Page = mysql_num_rows($Page);
?>
<?php
include_once("Themes/" . $row_Settings['theme_directory'] . "theme.php");

?>
<?php
mysql_free_result($Settings);

mysql_free_result($menu);

mysql_free_result($Page);
?>

the theme.php code:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<title><?php echo $row_Settings['airline_name']; ?></title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
<meta name="keywords" content="">
<meta name="description" content="">
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="<?php echo $row_Settings['base_url'] . $row_Settings['directory'] . "Themes" . $row_Settings['theme_directory']; ?>Style/style.css" />
<?php include_once($row_Settings['base_url'] . $row_Settings['directory'] . "Includes/overview.php"); ?>

</head>
<body class="hasOneColumn noSidebar">

<div id="fw-container">
<div id="fw-head">

   <h1 id="fw-title"><a href="<?php echo $row_Settings['base_url'] . $row_Settings['directory']; ?>home.php"><?php echo $row_Settings['airline_name']; ?></a></h1>
   <h2 id="fw-smalltitle"></h2>
   <div id="logo-div" class="fw-logo"></div>
</div>


<div id="fw-blockContainer">
   <div id="fw-mainnavwrap">
     <div id="fw-nav-menu">
       <ul>
<?php
if(!$row_menu['location'] == "top"){}else{

mysql_select_db($database_ManageYourVA, $ManageYourVA);
$query_menu_items = "SELECT * FROM menu_links WHERE location = 'top' AND active = 'Yes' ORDER BY `order` ASC";
$menu_items = mysql_query($query_menu_items, $ManageYourVA) or die(mysql_error());
$row_menu_items = mysql_fetch_assoc($menu_items);
$totalRows_menu_items = mysql_num_rows($menu_items);

do { ?>
<li><A class="section" href="home.php?page=<?php echo $row_menu_items['link']; ?>"><?php echo $row_menu_items['name']; ?></A></li>
<?php } while ($row_menu_items = mysql_fetch_assoc($menu_items));

}
?>
       </ul>

     </div>
   </div>

<div id="fw-bigcontain">
  

  <div id="fw-columnContainer">
    <div id="fw-leftColumn">
      
    </div>
  
    <div id="fw-mainColumn">
      <div class="fw-paragraph">

  <div class="fw-paragraphtop"></div>
  <h3 class="fw-title"><?php echo $row_Page['title']; ?></h3>
  <div class="fw-text">
    <p><?php 
if($row_Page['custom'] == "Yes")
{ 
include_once($row_Settings['base_url'] . $row_Settings['directory'] . "Pages/Custom/" . $row_Page['custom_link']); 
} 
elseif($row_Page['custom'] == 'AO')
{ 
include_once($row_Settings['base_url'] . $row_Settings['directory'] . "Pages/Add_Ons/" . $row_Page['custom_link']); 
} 
else
{ 
echo $row_Page['content']; 
} 
?></p></div>

  <div class="fw-paragraphbottom"></div>
  </div>
    </div>  
    
    <div id="fw-rightColumn">
        
    </div>
  </div>
</div>

<div id="fw-sidebar">
   <div id="fw-sidebarbegin"></div>
     {ParagraphsSidebar}  
   <div id="fw-sidebarend"></div>

</div>
   <div class="clears">
</div>
</div>

<div id="fw-footer">
   <p class="fw-footertext"><?php echo $row_Settings['copyright']; ?></p>
<span class="powered_by">Powered By My Script</span> 
</div>
</div>

</body>
</html>

the form and the send code in the first or second posts...

Any help would be appreciated.. im lost on what the problem is..

monkeypaw201 · April 21, 2008

bump

monkeypaw201 · April 21, 2008

anyone? i feel like there's an easy explanation that no-one has thought of (me included)

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