[SOLVED] Reverse Engineer Contact Page? huh?

[agentk]

Hi

I've been trying to reverse engineer a contact page.  Here is the script I've been working with: http://www.ibdhost.com/contact

 

Here is what I want it to do:

- Instead of sending me an email, I want it to send an email to the email adress the customer would enter

- I want to have a prewritten email/message in there somewhere (does not have to be displayed) which would include the customers name (ex: if customer entered "john" as name, the message would say something like: "Hi john ...")

 

Is this at all possible?  Is it at all possible to have the email come from my name and my email adress?

 

I love PHP Freaks and wouldn't go anywhere else with these kind of questions.  I hope I am not too far "out there" with this one.

 

Any and all help would be greatly appreciated!

[CaptainChainsaw]

yes that's all possible.  Have a look at mail headers using the mail() function.  For addressing the user personally, just change the message to something like:

 

$message = "Dear $_POST['name'], ........";  // untested.

 

 

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[PFMaBiSmAd]

Automatically sending out an email to any email address that gets provided to your form processing code will soon get your email server/domain banned by the major ISP's because your email server will send for anyone or any bot script that provides an email address.

 

At a minimum this will allow nuisance emails to be sent with your subject/message and if your code is not correctly validating the submitted data, will allow a bot script to send his subject/message to anyone through your mail server.

 

Why would you want or need to do this?

[agentk]

To answer your question, I need this for people who keep sending me the exact same question, so that all I have to do is: put in their name and email adress, hit submit and whola... they have received a response from me.

 

I am not too worried about the ISP because I doubt it will be 60 messages in an hour

 

I will try what you recommended, I sure hope that works!

[Guest Xanza]

It's not difficult - I'll even give you a hint... Use array's.

[agentk]

It's not difficult - I'll even give you a hint... Use array's.

 

array's?  You're talking to a complete newby here, lol

 

I am about to attempt the first suggestion that was given, see if I can figure this out.  Thanks again for all your help... I really hope this works... it could save me hours and hours of work.

[Guest Xanza]

What you're trying to do is really simple... Look into mail() and $_POST() on php.net... You'll get there.