Designer needs help with PHP

[JoeLongstreet]

I am definitely not a PHP developer but I need a little help on a basic contact form I'm working on. Works ok so far, but I need to clean it up a little bit.

 

This single line is the main concern, where $message is the body section of the email sent:

 

$message = htmlspecialchars($_POST['name'] . '\n' . 'email' . '\n' . 'guests');

 

I thought the '\n' would make a new line in the sent email, but it didn't.

 

Also, the guests variable is a select/option thing in the contact form and it is not sending it's value in the $message.

 

Any help is much appreciated.

 

Thanks,

 

Joe

 

HTML Form:

<form id="rsvp" action="mail.php" method="post">

						<div id="buttons">
							<input class="button" id="rsvpButton" type="image" src="images/rsvpButton.png" />
						</div><!--buttons-->

						<div id="inputs">
							<label id="nameLabel" for="name">name</label>
							<input id="name" type="text" name="name" class="input" />					
							<label id="emailLabel" for="email">email</label>
							<input id="email" type="text" name="email" class="input" />				
							<label id="guestsLabel" for="guests">attending (including you)</label>
							<select id="guests" name="guests">
								<option value="1">1</option>
								<option value="2">2</option>
								<option value="3">3</option>
								<option value="4">4</option>
								<option value="5">5</option>
								<option value="6">6+</option>
							</select>
						</div><!--inputs-->
					</form>

 

PHP:

<?php
error_reporting(E_NOTICE);
function valid_email($str) {
	return ( ! preg_match("/^([a-z0-9\+_\-]+)(\.[a-z0-9\+_\-]+)*@([a-z0-9\-]+\.)+[a-z]{2,6}$/ix", $str)) ? FALSE : TRUE;
}

	if($_POST['name']!='' && $_POST['email']!='' && valid_email($_POST['email'])==TRUE) {
	$to = "email@email.net";
	$headers =  'From: '.$_POST['email'].''. "\r\n" .
	'Reply-To: '.$_POST['email'].'' . "\r\n" .
	'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion();
	$subject = "Addition to Wedding Guest List";
	$message = htmlspecialchars($_POST['name'] . '\n' . 'email' . '\n' . 'guests');
	if(mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers)) {
		echo 1; //SUCCESS
	}
	else {
		echo 2; //FAILURE - server failure
	}
}
else {
echo 3; //FAILURE - not valid email
}
?>

[Ayon]

not sure, but you could try this:

$message = htmlspecialchars($_POST['name'] . "\n" . $_POST['email'] . "\n" . $_POST['guests']);

[yami007]

yeah u should use double quotes ^^

[Maq]

yeah u should use double quotes ^^

 

Actually double or single it doesn't matter when using a dot to concatenate to the string.  If you're putting the variable straight in the string (not breaking out of it) then you must use double quotes or the variables will not interpolate.

 

As far as your linebreaks if your email is HTML you might have to use
instead of \n.  Anyway, this should include the number of guests and the email in your message.  Good luck.

 

 

      $to = "email@email.net";
      $headers =  "From: " . $_POST['email'] . "\r\n" .
      "Reply-To: " .$_POST['email'] . "\r\n" .
      "X-Mailer: PHP/" . phpversion();
      $subject = "Addition to Wedding Guest List";
      $message = htmlspecialchars($_POST['name'] . "\n email" . $_POST['email'] .  "\n guests" . $_POST['guests']);
      if(mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers)) {

[JoeLongstreet]

Thanks for all the help. Got it working good. Even put some jquery in it.

 

Thanks,

 

Joe

[Maq]

Thanks for all the help. Got it working good. Even put some jquery in it.

 

Thanks,

 

Joe

 

Great, you mind sharing the final solution for others with the same problem.

 

You should also mark this solved.