Help With PHP

[chey]

hello, i need some help with PHP. in fact, i know NUTS about PHP, and my asp knowledge has been returned to my teacher 2 years ago.

anyway, i need some basics first. my aim is to configure a command in a form, and when the form is validated, to actually send my email add the contents of the form.

sounds a bit too much for a beginner, but can anyone help?

[hackerkts]

Need more details about it.

[chey]

ok, right now i have this form here below...

[URL=http://img136.imageshack.us/my.php?image=anjel30ok.jpg][IMG]http://img136.imageshack.us/img136/9052/anjel30ok.th.jpg[/img][/URL]

and i just need to make sure when i click the 'subscribe' button, there would be an email sent to me.

[.josh]

okay your form should look something similar to this:
[code]
<form action = 'somewhere.php' method = 'post'>
  Name: <input type = 'text' name='name'><br>
  Email:  <input type = 'text' name='email'><br>
            <input type = 'submit' value='subscribe' name='submit'>
</form>
[/code]

okay so in somewhere.php you would have this:

[code]
<?php
  if ($_POST['submit']) {
      mail ('youremailaddress.com','subject here','message here');
  }
?>
[/code]

 

[chey]

ok, i can understand that... but the problem is, currently the form is linked to a js, that is, when submit is clicked, the data inserted will go to a database through the js function which looks like this.

[code]
function submitcombutton() {
var form = document.mosForm;

// do field validation
if (form.name.value == "") {
alert( "<?php echo _REGWARN_NAME;?>" );
} else if (form.email.value == "") {
alert( "<?php echo _REGWARN_MAIL;?>" );
} else {
form.submit();
}
}
[/code]

then, this is the front end side

[code]
<form method="post" action="<?php echo sefRelToAbs('index.php?option=com_anjel&Itemid=' . $Itemid . '&action=unregistered&task=addUnregistered'); ?>" name="mosForm" >
<table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="3">
<tr>
<td align="center"><?php echo _INPUT_NAME; ?></td>
<td><input type="text" name="name" value="" class="inputbox" /></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="center"><?php echo _INPUT_EMAIL; ?></td>
<td><input type="text" name="email" value="" class="inputbox" /></td>
</tr>
<?php
foreach ($letters as $letter) {
?>
<tr>
<td align="right"><input type="checkbox" name="<?php echo $letter->id; ?>" value="1" class="inputbox" /></td>
<td><span class="anjel_letter_names"><?php echo mosToolTip(addslashes(htmlentities($letter->list_desc)), addslashes(htmlentities($letter->list_name)), '', '', addslashes(htmlentities($letter->list_name)), '#', 1); ?></span></td>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
</tr>
<?php
} // end foreach
?>
    <tr>
    <td align="right"><input type="checkbox" name="receivehtml" value="1" class="inputbox" /></td>
        <td><?php echo _RECEIVE_HTML; ?></td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
                <td>&nbsp;</td>
      <td><input type="button" value="<?php echo _SUBSCRIBE; ?>" class="button" onclick="submitcombutton()" />
</td>
    </tr>
</table>
</form>
[/code]

so how am i supposed to implement these 2 codings together?

[chey]

i managed to get the email to be generated. but now i need help with changing the name of the person sending the email. it gives me a funny address. how do i do so???

also, the 'message here', i want the message in my email to look something like this:

You have a new subscriber:
Name: (name entered)
Email: (email entered)

i am not good with this php stuff, but so far, the code was:

[code]
if ($result) {
echo '<p>' . _UNREGISTEREDADDED . '</p>';
[/code]

and i added
[code]
mail ('myemail','New Subscriber For Newsletter','You Have a New Unregistered Subscriber:<br /> Name:'name'<br /> Email:'email'<br />');
[/code]

now, my problem is the last '', where that is what would appear in the email. so i need help with that only. the email is sent fine.
     

[kenrbnsn]

The line you showed for the mail() function is incorrect. It is much better to put all the information into variables:
[code]<?php
$to = 'your@email.address.here';
$subject = 'New Subscriber For Newsletter';
$body = "You Have a New Unregistered Subscriber:\n";
$body .= "Name: $nameEntered\n";
$body .= "Email: $emailEntered\n";
$headers = "From: $to\n";
mail($to,$subject,$body,$headers);
?>[/code]

Ken

[chey]

thanks a lot for you help! every thing goes thru, except the name now. *headdesks*

i really appreciate the help... though my php knowledge still sucks.

thanks once again ken :)