Forms

[2RIP]

Well this question relates mostly to html.

How can i make a form that will send to my email?
not the <form action="mailto:email@host.com">

Maybe it posts in a cgi file first. Sorry i'm not sure what i'm doing because i don't know where to start first or how to make this.

[poirot]

<form action="script.php">

Then, script.php should process data and send it, with mail() or something like:

[a href=\"http://www.php.net/mail\" target=\"_blank\"]http://www.php.net/mail[/a]

[2RIP]

so for the script.php, this is what i would enter?:

SMTP mail()
smtp_port
sendmail_from
sendmail_path

Is that all that is required, or is there more to it. Also how would i turn it into the correct format of a script.. sorry i'm new to php codes. Can someone give examples of how it should look like?

[poirot]

No, but this shoud extract all data sent to the script and send it to your email:

[code]<?php

$to = 'youremail@yourdomain.com';
$subject = 'This is a message';
$message = "Message : \n\n";

foreach ($_POST as $key => $value) {
   $message .= $key . ': ' . $value . "\n";
}

mail($to, $subject, $message);

?>[/code]

Obviously you need:

[code]<form action="script.php" method="post">[/code]

[2RIP]

Thanks you very much, i got it work now.

And one more question(for now that is [img src=\"style_emoticons/[#EMO_DIR#]/laugh.gif\" style=\"vertical-align:middle\" emoid=\":laugh:\" border=\"0\" alt=\"laugh.gif\" /] )
How can i make it redirect to another page, since it becomes blank after submitting it.

[poirot]

After mail($to, $subject, $message); you can add a Location header:

[code]header("Location: http://www.sompage.com");[/code]

Or a link:

[code]echo 'Email Sent!<br />
<a href="somepage.htm">Redirect</a>';[/code]

Or even display a page:

[code]echo file_get_contents('somepage.htm');[/code]

[2RIP]

Oh yes, i was going to ask you in the previous post, but i forgot.

How can i set text in boxes required. So theres no spamming of submission. And if i have a form with Age option in it, how can i set it so visitors are required to enter ##s instead of alphabet?

[.josh]

you would make if statements on the posted variables, like

if (isset($_POST['blah'] && $_POST['blah'] != ' ' && is_numeric($_POST['blah'])) {
.
.
}

although with age, you might do better to have a dropdown box. that way the user can only select pre-formatted values. that is, they would HAVE to choose 1-100 or whatever, instead of entering in lkasf for age.