Form to Mail

[jalen]

I have a form that user's fill out and when click submit supposedly it would send me all his message to my email.

 

but there seems to be a problem and is not working as it should.  anyone have any clues as to why, please let me know.  thanks.

[.josh]

The problem is on line 37.

[jalen]

what do you mean problem is on line 37?

[.josh]

pretty self-explanatory... there's a problem, and it's on the 37th line of your code.

[jalen]

It doesn't show any error message it will display sent thank you etc. but when I go to my mail I don't see it sent.

 

and you didn't see my code how you know is line 37?

[.josh]

obviously because I'm psychic.

[jalen]

but there is no error, it says thank you your message is sent. 

 

[MadTechie]

obviously because I'm psychic.

 

Yes, we know that CV, but for anyone else they would need to see the code to have a clue.. shame we're not all psychic ~Sighs~.

[jalen]

Im not sure if it has anything to do with the php mail function in the ini file?

[MadTechie]

CV, can you help us here, of course not being psychic myself, i have no useful information to work with

[.josh]

Please deposit 25 cents.

[elis]

Jalen, Please post your code.

[jalen]

here is the code thx

 

 

<form action="FormToEmail.php" method="post">
<table border="1" bgcolor="yellow" cellspacing="5">
<tr><td>Email address</td><td><input type="text" size="30" name="my_email"></td></tr>
<tr><td>Name</td><td><input type="text" size="30" name="name"></td></tr>
<tr><td>Email address</td><td><input type="text" size="30" name="email"></td></tr>
<tr><td valign="top">Comments</td><td><textarea name="comments" rows="6" cols="30"></textarea></td></tr>
<tr><td> </td><td><input type="submit" value="Send"></td></tr>
</table>
</form>


<?php


$my_email = "myemail";





$errors = array();



if(count($_COOKIE)){foreach(array_keys($_COOKIE) as $value){unset($_REQUEST[$value]);}}



function recursive_array_check_header($element_value)
{

global $set;

if(!is_array($element_value)){if(preg_match("/(%0A|%0D|\n+|\r+)(content-type:|to:|cc:|bcc:)/i",$element_value)){$set = 1;}}
else
{

foreach($element_value as $value){if($set){break;} recursive_array_check_header($value);}

}

}

recursive_array_check_header($_REQUEST);

if($set){$errors[] = "You cannot send an email header";}

unset($set);


if(isset($_REQUEST['email']) && !empty($_REQUEST['email']))
{

if(preg_match("/(%0A|%0D|\n+|\r+|:)/i",$_REQUEST['email'])){$errors[] = "Email address may not contain a new line or a colon";}

$_REQUEST['email'] = trim($_REQUEST['email']);

if(substr_count($_REQUEST['email'],"@") != 1 || stristr($_REQUEST['email']," ")){$errors[] = "Email address is invalid";}else{$exploded_email = explode("@",$_REQUEST['email']);if(empty($exploded_email[0]) || strlen($exploded_email[0]) > 64 || empty($exploded_email[1])){$errors[] = "Email address is invalid";}else{if(substr_count($exploded_email[1],".") == 0){$errors[] = "Email address is invalid";}else{$exploded_domain = explode(".",$exploded_email[1]);if(in_array("",$exploded_domain)){$errors[] = "Email address is invalid";}else{foreach($exploded_domain as $value){if(strlen($value) > 63 || !preg_match('/^[a-z0-9-]+$/i',$value)){$errors[] = "Email address is invalid"; break;}}}}}}

}



if(!(isset($_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER']) && !empty($_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER']) && stristr($_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'],$_SERVER['HTTP_HOST']))){$errors[] = "You must enable referrer logging to use the form";}



function recursive_array_check_blank($element_value)
{

global $set;

if(!is_array($element_value)){if(!empty($element_value)){$set = 1;}}
else
{

foreach($element_value as $value){if($set){break;} recursive_array_check_blank($value);}

}

}

recursive_array_check_blank($_REQUEST);

if(!$set){$errors[] = "You cannot send a blank form";}

unset($set);



if(count($errors)){foreach($errors as $value){print "$value<br>";} exit;}

if(!defined("PHP_EOL")){define("PHP_EOL", strtoupper(substr(PHP_OS,0,3) == "WIN") ? "\r\n" : "\n");}



function build_message($request_input){if(!isset($message_output)){$message_output ="";}if(!is_array($request_input)){$message_output = $request_input;}else{foreach($request_input as $key => $value){if(!empty($value)){if(!is_numeric($key)){$message_output .= str_replace("_"," ",ucfirst($key)).": ".build_message($value).PHP_EOL.PHP_EOL;}else{$message_output .= build_message($value).", ";}}}}return rtrim($message_output,", ");}

$message = build_message($_REQUEST);


$message = stripslashes($message);

$subject = "FormToEmail Comments";

$headers = "From: " . $_REQUEST['email'];

mail($my_email,$subject,$message,$headers);

?>


<html>

<head>
</head>

<body bgcolor="yellow" text="#000000">

<div>
<center>
<b>Thank you <?php print stripslashes($_REQUEST['name']); ?></b>
<br>Your message has been sent
</center>
</div>

</body>
</html>

 

[.josh]

13 posts before code was posted. That must be some kind of world record.

 

Stupid question:

 

$my_email = "myemail";

 

you just changed it to "myemail" for the purposes of posting here, and that is not what you really have in your code, right?

[MadTechie]

Also your code will always say sent as you don't check if mail was sucessful

change

mail($my_email, $subject, $message, $headers)

to

if(!mail($my_email, $subject, $message, $headers))
{
trigger_error("Email Failed!",  E_USER_WARNING);
//die("ERROR SENDING");
}

[.josh]

well I c/p'd your code and changed that line to my email address and it sent it just fine.  So...

 

p.s.-

 

judging by the context of your email body I suspect what you are wanting to do is this:

 

$my_email = $_POST['my_email'];

 

 

[MadTechie]

So..

try a simple test

if(mail('[email protected]', 'My Subject', "Hello"))
{
echo "sent";
}else{
echo "failed";
}

 

if that fails check your PHP.INI setup

SMTP, if your account require authentication then try phpmailer()

[jalen]

you just changed it to "myemail" for the purposes of posting here, and that is not what you really have in your code, right?

 

yea that was my personal email in replacement.

[jalen]

Ok, I changed what you guys said, and these are the two things I changed and is giving me an error message.  Failed.  Do you know why?

 

if(mail('myemailhere', 'My Subject', "Hello"))
{
echo "sent";
}else{
echo "failed";
}

$my_email = $_POST['my_emai herel'];

[jalen]

how do you check your php ini and SMTP to fix this? thx

[.josh]

$my_email = $_POST['my_emai herel'];

 

your form has an input field with the name of "my_email"  and the form method is "post" so when I put

 

$my_email = $_POST['my_email'];

 

That's exactly how it should appear.  I assumed that that's how it should be, seeing as how the variable is coincidentally named the same as the form input field name, and you don't seem to be making use of that field anywhere else in your script... But you are saying you had your physical email there, so I'm going to *assume* that that wasn't the problem to begin with.... right?

[MadTechie]

Open your PHP.ini file and check the following

[mail function]
SMTP = localhost 
smtp_port = 25

 

SMTP should be the mail server and the smtp_port should be its port!

 

if your account require authentication then try phpmailer()

[PFMaBiSmAd]

To find out why the mail() function call failed (so that you can address the actual problem, rather than guessing), add the following two lines of code (for debugging purposes only, remove them later) immediately after your first opening <?php tag -

 

ini_set("display_errors", "1");
error_reporting(E_ALL);

[jalen]

That's exactly how it should appear.  I assumed that that's how it should be, seeing as how the variable is coincidentally named the same as the form input field name, and you don't seem to be making use of that field anywhere else in your script... But you are saying you had your physical email there, so I'm going to *assume* that that wasn't the problem to begin with.... right?

 

yea!

[jalen]

Open your PHP.ini file and check the following

Code: [select]

[mail function]

SMTP = localhost

smtp_port = 25

 

SMTP should be the mail server and the smtp_port should be its port!

 

this is what I have in my php ini for these:

 

[mail function]

; For Win32 only.

SMTP = localhost

smtp_port = 25

 

 

To find out why the mail() function call failed (so that you can address the actual problem, rather than guessing), add the following two lines of code (for debugging purposes only, remove them later) immediately after your first opening <?php tag -

 

Code: [select]

ini_set("display_errors", "1");

error_reporting(E_ALL);

 

 

this is what I have after putting this code at beginning of <?php

 

Notice: Undefined index: myemail in C:\Apache\htdocs\FormToEmail.php on line 82

 

Warning: mail() [function.mail]: Failed to connect to mailserver at "localhost" port 25, verify your "SMTP" and "smtp_port" setting in php.ini or use ini_set() in C:\Apache\htdocs\FormToEmail.php on line 196

failed