Form to email php script nightmare

[tribeka]

Hi there

 

I'm a designer trying to use a bit of php to process a form but am having problems getting it to work.

 

If you visit http://www.scavengers-uk.com/request.html you'll see my form. Another file (also on the server) called sendmail.php is supposed to process the data and email it to [email protected] and then return the visitor to thanks.php.

 

The code of sendmail.php is

 

    <?php

   

    mail("[email protected]", "Feedback Form results", $_REQUEST[message], "From: $_REQUEST", 

    "[email protected]".$_REQUEST);

   

    header( "Location: http://www.scavengers-uk.com/thanks.php" );

   

  ?>

 

So far so good. The email gets sent to my email address but only with the data from the field [message]. Whenever I try to add some more fields from my form e.g. $_REQUEST[name] etc, the whole things stops working.

 

I'm pretty close to begging for help. I've been working on this for a week, tried numerous scripts, forums, books but nothing fixes it. I would be extremely grateful for a bit of guidance

 

cheers

 

James

 

 

[ninedoors]

Are you looking for a recreation of the form to be sent to you? Like this:

 

Name:

 

Contact Number:

 

Email:

 

Address:

 

Town:

 

Postal Code:

 

Message:

 

If so that can be done quite easily.

[tribeka]

That would be perfect!

[ninedoors]

Ok try this!

 

<?php
$message = 
"Name: ".$_REQUEST['name']."<br>
<br>
Email: ".$_REQUEST['email']."<br>
<br>
Contact Number: ".$_REQUEST['contact']."<br>
<br>
Address: ".$_REQUEST['address']."<br>
<br>
Town: ".$_REQUEST['town']."<br>
<br>
Postal Code: ".$_REQUEST['postalcode']."<br>
<br>
Message: ".$_REQUEST['message']."<br>
<br>
";
     
    mail("[email protected]", "Feedback Form results", $message, "From: $_REQUEST",       "[email][email protected]".$_REQUEST[email]);
     
    header( "Location: http://www.scavengers-uk.com/thanks.php" );
     
   ?>

 

It isn't the pettiest thing in the world but it should work.  Remember you need to change the $_REQUEST[name of variable] for each textbox to what ever you have named it on your form.

 

[tribeka]

Thanks for that script. Unfortunately it didn't work!

 

I ensured that the value in the braces after ".$_REQUEST[]." was the same name as the fields in my form but nothing.Not even an email this time.

 

Cheers

 

James

[nitation]

@ Poster,

 

What about trying this;

 

<?php
$msg = "Sender's Name:\t$_POST[name]\n";
$msg .= "Sender's E-Mail:\t$_POST[email]\n";
$msg .= "Sender's Comment:\t$_POST[comment]\n\n";

$mailheaders = "From: Message From My Website <[email protected]>\n";
$mailheaders .= "Reply-To: $email\n\n";

mail("[email protected]", "Contact Form", $msg, $mailheaders);

echo "<H3 align=center>Thank you, $_POST[name] </H1>";
echo "<P align=center>One of our consultants will get back to you shortly</P>";

?>

[iversonm]

i would highly recommend not using $_REQUEST[]

it is just pure laziness and its unsafe

 

use $_POST or $_GET depending on what your dealing with

[tribeka]

Thanks Nitation

 

That didn't work either. I suspect I'm missing something really obvious as I have tried about 5 scripts kindly volunteered by forum users and none seem to work, although I think I'm copying them verbatim and making the appropriate changes (email address etc)

 

My site is uploaded to a Linux server. I'm putting the PHP files in the same directory (htdocs) as the html files.

 

Any ideas as to what I might be doing wrong would be appreciated.

 

Many thanks

 

James