[SOLVED] PHP and AJAX post request

[rvdb86]

hey guys hope some one can help me out.

 

I am submitting a form through ajax. The file sendform.php processes the data sent and sends it as an email. The problem is that the user enters their email address in to the email field on the form, which is used as the sender value in the email, but for some reason $_POST['email'] is blank.  ???

 

This is the AJAX part that send the form data to sendform.php:

makePOSTRequest('Scripts/sendform.php', poststr);

 

Any ideas would be really appreciated!

[KevinM1]

One line of code isn't enough to diagnose the problem.

[rvdb86]

Sorry,

 

This is the javascript:

   var http_request = false;
   function makePOSTRequest(url, parameters) {
      http_request = false;
      if (window.XMLHttpRequest) { // Mozilla, Safari,...
         http_request = new XMLHttpRequest();
         if (http_request.overrideMimeType) {
         	// set type accordingly to anticipated content type
            //http_request.overrideMimeType('text/xml');
            http_request.overrideMimeType('text/html');
         }
      } else if (window.ActiveXObject) { // IE
         try {
            http_request = new ActiveXObject("Msxml2.XMLHTTP");
         } catch (e) {
            try {
               http_request = new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP");
            } catch (e) {}
         }
      }
      if (!http_request) {
         alert('Cannot create XMLHTTP instance');
         return false;
      }
      
      http_request.onreadystatechange = alertContents;
      http_request.open('POST', url, true);
      http_request.setRequestHeader("Content-type", "application/x-www-form-urlencoded");
      http_request.setRequestHeader("Content-length", parameters.length);
      http_request.setRequestHeader("Connection", "close");
      http_request.send(parameters);
   }

   function alertContents() {
      if (http_request.readyState == 4) {
         if (http_request.status == 200) {
            //alert(http_request.responseText);
            result = http_request.responseText;
            document.getElementById('contact-cube').innerHTML = result;            
         } else {
            alert('There was a problem with the request.');
         }
      }
   }
   
   function get(obj) {
      var poststr = "Name=" + escape(encodeURI(document.getElementById("name").value )) 
  	+"&Telephone=" +
	escape(encodeURI( document.getElementById("telephone").value ))
	+"&Email=" +
	escape(encodeURI( document.getElementById("email").value ));


      makePOSTRequest('Scripts/sendform.php', poststr);
   }

 

And this is the sendform.php:

 

require_once "Mail.php";

$from = $_POST['name'] . " <".$_POST['email'].">";
$to = "Me <me@mel>";
$subject = "Subject";
$body = "Hi,\n\nHow are you?";

$host = "mail.host.co.il";
$username = "Usernamel";
$password = "Password";

$headers = array ('From' => $from,
  'To' => $to,
  'Subject' => $subject);
$smtp = Mail::factory('smtp',
  array ('host' => $host,
    'auth' => true,
    'username' => $username,
    'password' => $password));

$mail = $smtp->send($to, $headers, $body);

if (PEAR::isError($mail)) {
  echo("<p>" . $mail->getMessage() . "</p>");
} else {
  echo("<p>Message successfully sent!</p>");
}

[KevinM1]

Hmm...where is poststr being set?

[rvdb86]

Hmm...where is poststr being set?

to sendform.php

[KevinM1]

Hmm...where is poststr being set?

to sendform.php

 

Set, not sent .  Where/how is the poststr variable actually being assigned to?

[rvdb86]

Sorry miss read... here is the code that sets postr:

 

var poststr = "Name=" + escape(encodeURI(document.getElementById("name").value )) 
  	+"&Telephone=" +
	escape(encodeURI( document.getElementById("telephone").value ))
	+"&Email=" +
	escape(encodeURI( document.getElementById("email").value ));

[KevinM1]

Have you tried changing the sendmail.php code to:

 

$_POST['Email']

 

??

 

I ask, because the name component of the name-value pairs you send via the poststr variable all have their first letters as uppercase.

[rvdb86]

Nightslyr Thank you soo much! was a silly overlook on my case.. I guess I have been staring at the screen for to long!

 

Thanks!

[KevinM1]

Nightslyr Thank you soo much! was a silly overlook on my case.. I guess I have been staring at the screen for to long!

 

Thanks!

 

Hehe, no problem.  I've done the same thing many times myself.