PHP post varieable problem - please help

[karenkane]

I need a bit of help with this.

 

What I am attempting to do is create an unsubscribe page that takes an email address entered into a php form and emails that to me so that I can manually remove it from our list.

 

the thing is that I want a custom submit button that just so happens to be a image.

 

Here is the page (Unsubscribe.php) code for the form:

 

 

<form method="post" action="unsub.php">
    <div style="text-align: center;">
        <span style="font-weight: bold;">Email Address </span> 
        <input size="35" name="EmailAddress">     <br>
    </div>

        
    <a href="unsub.php"><img style="border: 0px solid ; width: 150px; height: 35px;" alt="" ;="" src="Images/bg_button.gif"></a>
</form>

 

And here is the mailer script (unsub.php) code:

 

<?php
error_reporting (E_ALL ^ E_NOTICE);

include("Unsubscribe.php");

$from = $_POST['EmailAddress'];


$to = "[email protected]";
$subject = 'Email Blast Unsubscribe Request';

$headers  = 'MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n';
$headers .= 'Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\r\n';
$headers .= 'Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64\r\n';


$message = $from ." has requested not to recieve future Newsletters.";


# Attempt to send email
if(mail($to, $subject, $message, "From: $from", $headers))
  echo "Your request to unsubscribe has been sent!";
else
  echo "Your request to unsubscribe has failed, please try again in a little while!";
?> 

 

 

 

Here is my problem, I know I am doing someting wrong with the post, as in its not getting submitted, but I cant figure out how to fix this. Can someone please help?

 

 

 

[gevans]

it's a html/javascript problem

 

<form id="uns_form" method="post" action="unsub.php">
    <div style="text-align: center;">
        <span style="font-weight: bold;">Email Address </span>
        <input size="35" name="EmailAddress">     <br>
    </div>

       
    <a href="#" onclick="document.getElementById('uns_form').submit();"><img style="border: 0px solid ; width: 150px; height: 35px;" alt="" src="Images/bg_button.gif"></a>
</form>

[Brian W]

plain links don't submit forms. buttons or JavaScript can.

 

[gevans]

Yea sorry, I should've given you more info, not just change your code. Brian W is right!

[Maq]

OR:

 

[Brian W]

I think this would also work... but am not 100%

<form method="post" action="unsub.php">
    <div style="text-align: center;">
        <span style="font-weight: bold;">Email Address </span>
        <input size="35" name="EmailAddress">     <br>
    </div>
<input type="submit" value="Submit" style="border:0px solid; width:150px; height:35px; background:url(Images/bg_button.gif);"/>
</form>

 

[premiso]

I think this would also work... but am not 100%

<form method="post" action="unsub.php">
    <div style="text-align: center;">
        <span style="font-weight: bold;">Email Address </span>
        <input size="35" name="EmailAddress">     <br>
    </div>
<input type="submit" value="Submit" style="border:0px solid; width:150px; height:35px; background:url(Images/bg_button.gif);"/>
</form>

 

 

I think this would also work too:

<form method="post" action="unsub.php" name="unsub" id="unsub">
    <div style="text-align: center;">
        <span style="font-weight: bold;">Email Address </span>
        <input size="35" name="EmailAddress">     <br>
    </div>
<img src="Images/bg_button.gif" onClick="document.unsub.submit();" />
</form>

 

Not to say either is better, but yea. With the onClick function anything is possible. The only downside is that this version you need to have javascript enabled vs Brian's you do not.

[Brian W]

with my version

<input type="submit" value="Submit" style="border:0px solid; width:150px; height:35px; background:url(Images/bg_button.gif);"/>

you could add some javascript to ask them to confirm which is nice and if they don't have javascript enabled, the button simply just works without confirmation. unnecessary but cute...lol    going above and beyond!

[karenkane]

Oh my gosh, you guys are so wonderful thanks so much.

 

I added this and it works now! :-)

 

 

 

<input type="submit" value="Submit" style="border:0px solid; width:150px; height:35px; background:url(Images/bg_button.gif);"/>

[BloodyMind]

Why don't you guys click on solved at the bottom of the screen so you can give some space to the unsolved problems and inform ppl

 

thanks

[Maq]

Why don't you guys click on solved at the bottom of the screen so you can give some space to the unsolved problems and inform ppl

 

thanks

 

I used to say the same thing, it's a hopeless cause...