[SOLVED] Send Form to e-mail

[Firstaka]

I would like to be able to send the form to an e-mail address but I can't seem to figure out how. The webpage can be found here with the contact section that needs to be edited to the right:

 

http://orientwatchusa.com/index-4.html

[gevans]

To send form data to an email address you're going to need to use a server side script such as PHP.

[Firstaka]

Would this work?

 

 

<?PHP 

$to = "you@your.com"; 
$subject = "Results from your Request Info form"; 
$headers = "From: Form Mailer";  
$forward = 0; # redirect? 1 : yes || 0 : no 
$location = "thankyou.htm"; 

$date = date ("l, F jS, Y"); 
$time = date ("h:i A"); 

$msg = "Below is the result of your feedback form. It was submitted on $date at $time.\n\n"; 

if ($_SERVER['REQUEST_METHOD'] == "POST") {
foreach ($_POST as $key => $value) { 
	$msg .= ucfirst ($key) ." : ". $value . "\n"; 
}
}
else {
foreach ($_GET as $key => $value) { 
	$msg .= ucfirst ($key) ." : ". $value . "\n"; 
}
}

mail($to, $subject, $msg, $headers); 
if ($forward == 1) { 
    header ("Location:$location"); 
} 
else { 
    echo "Thank you for submitting our form. We will get back to you as soon as possible."; 
} 

?>

[gevans]

Yes that should work, but you can easily get spam messages, and it doesn't check to ensure that the email sent. But it's safe to put onlnie and try.

[Firstaka]

Okay what would you suggest to make it more secure? Also, As you can probably guess I didnt write the original source So I am bit confused how to actually implement this.

[gevans]

My recommendation would be as follows (for the easiest way to sort the problem);

 

Change the current form code bellow;

               <form id="form" action="" enctype="multipart/form-data">
           		 <div class="form">
                    	<div class="indent-form"><input type="text" value="name" /></div>
                        <div class="indent-form"><input type="text" value="e-mail" /></div>
                        <div class="indent-form"><input type="text" value="phone" /></div>
                        <p>
                          <textarea cols="2" rows="2">message</textarea>

                        <a class="link" href="mailto:info@orientwatchusa.com" onclick="document.getElementById('form').submit()">Send<img src="images/link_marker.gif" alt="" /></a></p>
                        <p> </p>
           		 </div>
               </form>

 

to this

               <form id="form" action="contact_send.php">
           		 <div class="form">
                    	<div class="indent-form"><input name="name" type="text" value="name" /></div>
                        <div class="indent-form"><input name="email" type="text" value="e-mail" /></div>
                        <div class="indent-form"><input name="phone" type="text" value="phone" /></div>
                        <p>
                          <textarea name="message" cols="2" rows="2">message</textarea>

                        <input type="submit" value="Submit" name="submit" /></p>
                        <p> </p>
           		 </div>
               </form>

 

This will sort out your contact form,

 

The code bellow should be copied and pasted into notepad (or any other text editor) and saved as contact_send.php

<?php
$to = "you@your.com";
$subject = "Results from your Request Info form";
$headers = "From: Form Mailer"; 

$date = date ("l, F jS, Y");
$time = date ("h:i A");

$msg = "Below is the result of your feedback form. It was submitted on $date at $time.\n\n";

if(!isset($_REQUEST['name']) || empty($_REQUEST['name'])) die('You must fill in all details');
else $msg .= "Name: {$_REQUEST['name']}\n"

if(!isset($_REQUEST['email']) || empty($_REQUEST['email'])) die('You must fill in all details');
else $msg .= "Email: {$_REQUEST['email']}\n"

if(!isset($_REQUEST['phone']) || empty($_REQUEST['phone'])) die('You must fill in all details');
else $msg .= "Phone: {$_REQUEST['phone']}\n"

if(!isset($_REQUEST['message']) || empty($_REQUEST['message'])) die('You must fill in all details');
else $msg .= "Message: {$_REQUEST['message']}\n"

if(mail($to, $subject, $msg, $headers)) echo "Thank you for submitting our form. We will get back to you as soon as possible.";
else echo "There was a problem sending your email, please try again later.";
?>

 

This should work, but it was off the top of my head. If you have any questions or it doesn't work let me know

[Firstaka]

Thank you. It looks right but I can't try it right now. I will post tomorrow if I have any problems

[Firstaka]

So I uploaded the info to the site and when I click on the submit button I am redirected to a blank page. Any ideas?

[gevans]

did you upload contact_send.php to your server?

[Firstaka]

Yes

 

[gevans]

Ok, check the following line is in properly;

<form id="form" action="contact_send.php">

 

If it's the same and it still doesn't work navigate to the contact_send.php page in your browser without using the form;

 

http://www.yourdomain/contact_send.php

 

Let me know what it says.

[Firstaka]

http://www.orientwatchusa.com/index-4-test.html

[Firstaka]

Blank Page

[gevans]

sorry, me being silly - <form id="form" action="contact_send.php" method="post">

 

Also does your server support php?

[gevans]

<?php
$to = "you@your.com";
$subject = "Results from your Request Info form";
$headers = "From: Form Mailer"; 

$date = date ("l, F jS, Y");
$time = date ("h:i A");

$msg = "Below is the result of your feedback form. It was submitted on $date at $time.\n\n";

if(!isset($_REQUEST['name']) || empty($_REQUEST['name'])) die('You must fill in all details');
else $msg .= "Name: {$_REQUEST['name']}\n"

if(!isset($_REQUEST['email']) || empty($_REQUEST['email'])) die('You must fill in all details');
else $msg .= "Email: {$_REQUEST['email']}\n";

if(!isset($_REQUEST['phone']) || empty($_REQUEST['phone'])) die('You must fill in all details');
else $msg .= "Phone: {$_REQUEST['phone']}\n";

if(!isset($_REQUEST['message']) || empty($_REQUEST['message'])) die('You must fill in all details');
else $msg .= "Message: {$_REQUEST['message']}\n";

if(mail($to, $subject, $msg, $headers)) echo "Thank you for submitting our form. We will get back to you as soon as possible.";
else echo "There was a problem sending your email, please try again later.";
?>

[Firstaka]

Did you change something?

[gevans]

Yes, have you uploaded the new script? what's it doing now?

[Firstaka]

Not yet. I am waiting for an update on another page to finish

[Firstaka]

New script same problem

[Firstaka]

How would I know if the server accepts PHP?

[Firstaka]

I Did a quick test and I think so. Look Here:  http://www.orientwatchusa.com/PHPTEST.PHP

[gevans]

Yes, PHP is ok,

 

add the following to the start of you php page (contact_send.php)

 

ini_set('error_reporting', E_ALL);

 

This will print any errors in the code

[Firstaka]

I was able to figure it out. THANKS SO MUCH!