php session and mailto help!

[shawnm]

Hey Everyone,

I was hoping someone could help me out with a little PHP problem. Like many posters, I'm new to the PHP game. What I'm trying to accomplish is to gather information on 3 different forms spread across 3 pages, then process all of the info together and send it as an email to my email address. What I've done so far is linked the 3 pages, making the action on form1 to post to page2.php, etc. On the second and third pages (containing the second and third forms) I've included the following code:

 

session_start();

if(!$_SESSION['ses_request']){$_SESSION['ses_request'] = $_REQUEST;}else{$_SESSION['ses_request'] = array_merge($_SESSION['ses_request'],$_REQUEST);}

 

My submit button on the third form is set to POST to sendmail.php. I've copied the code in the sendmail.php file below:

 

<?

$ForwardTo="myemail@hotmail.com";

$card=$_REQUEST['cardbutton'];

$myclue=$_REQUEST['myclue'];

$mymessage=$_REQUEST['mymessage'];

$name=$_REQUEST['name'];

$address1=$_REQUEST['address1'];

$address2=$_REQUEST['address2'];

$address3=$_REQUEST['address3'];

$city=$_REQUEST['city'];

$state=$_REQUEST['state'];

$zipcode=$_REQUEST['zipcode'];

mail($ForwardTo, "New Order from $name",$card, $myclue, $mymessage, $name, $address1, $address2, $address3, $city, $state, $zipcode);

header("Location: ThankYou.html");

?>

 

When I go to the site and fill out the form everything seems to work fine. The Thank You page even comes up fine, but I don't receive an email with the info. Cah anybody help with this??

 

Thank you in advance.

 

Shawn

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[drisate]

your mail has to muc stuff the normal fountion is used this way

 

<?php

 

$Name = "Da Duder"; //senders name

$email = "email@adress.com"; //senders e-mail adress

$recipient = "PersonWhoGetsIt@emailadress.com"; //recipient

$mail_body = "The text for the mail..."; //mail body

$subject = "Subject for reviever"; //subject

$header = "From: ". $Name . " <" . $email . ">\r\n"; //optional headerfields

 

mail($recipient, $subject, $mail_body, $header); //mail

?>

[shawnm]

Ah I see.

 

How can I fix this?

[shawnm]

Ok so I tried combining some variables as follows but it still doesn't work:

 

<?

$ForwardTo="myemail@hotmail.com";

$card=$_REQUEST['cardbutton'];

$myclue=$_REQUEST['myclue'];

$mymessage=$_REQUEST['mymessage'];

$name=$_REQUEST['name'];

$address1=$_REQUEST['address1'];

$address2=$_REQUEST['address2'];

$address3=$_REQUEST['address3'];

$city=$_REQUEST['city'];

$state=$_REQUEST['state'];

$zipcode=$_REQUEST['zipcode'];

$subject = "New order for $name";

$mailmessage = "$card $myclue $mymessage $name $address1 $address2 $address3 $city $state $zipcode";

mail($ForwardTo, $subject, $mailmessage);

header("Location: ThankYou.html");

?>

 

Any suggestions???

Thanks

 

 

[BlueSkyIS]

the fact that you are not receiving the email may not be an issue with PHP code, but an issue of whether your host supports this functionality and/or whether the message is being tagged as spam and stopped.

 

for testing, i suggest that you try something besides a hotmail account.

 

also:

 

mail($ForwardTo, $subject, $mailmessage) or die("mail failed.");

[shawnm]

I've checked with my hosting company and everything is fine there. They think there has to be something wrong with my code. Can anybody help?

thanks