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Hello!

 

I don't have a clue about php really...

 

I use a simple form_mail script which has always worked fine on various web sites but it doesn't work on a new site I'm working on.  I'm getting 'undefined index' errors in every text field.  I'm wondering if it needs tweaking to work with php5?

 

Here's the script in its entirety... pretty basic.

 

<?php 
// modify the two lines below 
$emailAddress = "fred@site.co.uk";  // your email address 
$thankyouPage = "http://www.site.co.uk";  // put in a url (or relative page) to go to a Thank You page 
// modify the two lines above 
session_start(); 
if (!empty($_POST)) { 
  foreach ($_POST as $key=>$value) { 
      $_POST[$key] = stripslashes($_POST[$key]); 
    $_POST[$key] = htmlspecialchars($_POST[$key],ENT_QUOTES); 
  } 
} 
if (isset($_POST['send']) AND isset($_SESSION['msgCount'])) { 
  if (!preg_match("(^[-\w\.]+@([-a-z0-9]+\.)+[a-z]{2,4}$)i",$_POST['email'])) $alert = "You have entered an invalid email address."; 
  if ($_SESSION['msgCount'] >= "3") $alert = "Only 3 messages can be sent per session."; 
  if (empty($alert)) { 
    $_SESSION['msgCount']++; 
    putenv('TZ=EST5EDT'); // eastern time 
    $headers  = 'MIME-Version: 1.0' . "\r\n"; 
    $headers .= 'Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1' . "\r\n"; 
    $headers .= "From: <".$_POST['email'].">\r\n"; 
    $message = "<table cellpadding='5' border='1'>"; 
    foreach ($_POST as $key => $value) 
      if (!preg_match("(^send)",$key)) { 
        $value = wordwrap($value,65,"<br />"); 
        $message .="<tr><td><b>$key</b></td><td>$value</td></tr>"; 
      } 
    $message .= "</table>";     
    $message .= "<br />Time of the message: ".date(" F d  h:ia")."<br />"; 
    $message .= "IP Address: ".$_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']."<br />"; 
    $message .= "Hostname: ".gethostbyaddr($_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'])."<br />"; 
    $subject = $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST']." Message"; 
    mail($emailAddress,$subject,$message,$headers); 
    if (!empty($thankyouPage)) { 
      header('location: '.$thankyouPage); 
      die(); 
    } 
    unset($_POST); 
    $alert = "Your message has been sent."; 
  } 
} 
if (!isset($_SESSION['msgCount'])) $_SESSION['msgCount'] = 0; 
?> 
<html> 
<head> 
</head> 
<body> 
<form method="post" action="<?php echo $_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME']; ?>"> 
<div style="text-align: center; width: 500px; margin: 50px auto 0px auto; border: solid 1px black;"> 
<br> 
Send us a message<br><br> 
your name<br><input type="text" style="width: 330px;" name="name" value="<?php echo $_POST['name']; ?>" maxlength="50"><br><br> 
your email address<br><input type="text" style="width: 330px;" name="email" value="<?php echo $_POST['email']; ?>" maxlength="50"><br><br> 
your message<br><textarea name="content" style="width: 330px; height: 100px;" rows="6" cols="80"><?php echo $_POST['content']; ?></textarea> 
<br><br> 
<input type="submit" name="send" value="submit"> 
<br /><br />  
</div> 
</form> 
<?php if (isset($alert)) echo "<script type='text/javascript'>alert('$alert');</script>";  ?> 
</body></html>

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Well, I've been given some advice on a different forum which has removed all the error messages in the text boxes (all I had to do was add some @ symbols before some of the variables).  So now it looks like it works... except the email doesn't come through!  I've checked and send_mail is allowed on the server.

 

Here's the new modified code (and by the way I have ensured it goes to my email address - I just changed it here for obvious reasons):

<?php
// modify the two lines below
$emailAddress = "fred@website.co.uk";  // your email address
$thankyouPage = "http://www.website.co.uk";  // put in a url (or relative page) to go to a Thank You page
// modify the two lines above
session_start();
if (!empty($_POST)) {
  foreach ($_POST as $key=>$value) {
  	$_POST[$key] = stripslashes($_POST[$key]);
    $_POST[$key] = htmlspecialchars($_POST[$key],ENT_QUOTES);
  }
}
if (isset($_POST['send']) AND isset($_SESSION['msgCount'])) {
  if (!preg_match("(^[-\w\.]+@([-a-z0-9]+\.)+[a-z]{2,4}$)i",$_POST['email'])) $alert = "You have entered an invalid email address.";
  if ($_SESSION['msgCount'] >= "3") $alert = "Only 3 messages can be sent per session.";
  if (empty($alert)) {
    $_SESSION['msgCount']++;
    putenv('TZ=EST5EDT'); // eastern time
    $headers  = 'MIME-Version: 1.0' . "\r\n";
    $headers .= 'Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1' . "\r\n";
    $headers .= "From: <".$_POST['email'].">\r\n";
    $message = "<table cellpadding='5' border='1'>";
    foreach ($_POST as $key => $value)
      if (!preg_match("(^send)",$key)) {
        $value = wordwrap($value,65,"<br />");
        $message .="<tr><td><b>$key</b></td><td>$value</td></tr>";
      }
    $message .= "</table>";    
    $message .= "<br />Time of the message: ".date(" F d  h:ia")."<br />";
    $message .= "IP Address: ".$_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']."<br />";
    $message .= "Hostname: ".gethostbyaddr($_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'])."<br />";
    $subject = $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST']." Message";
    mail($emailAddress,$subject,$message,$headers);
    if (!empty($thankyouPage)) {
      header('location: '.$thankyouPage);
      die();
    }
    unset($_POST);
    $alert = "Your message has been sent.";
  }
}
if (!isset($_SESSION['msgCount'])) $_SESSION['msgCount'] = 0;
?>
<html>
<head>
</head>
<body>
<form method="post" action="<?php echo $_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME']; ?>">
<div style="text-align: center; width: 500px; margin: 50px auto 0px auto; border: solid 1px black;">
<br>
Send us a message<br><br>
your name<br><input type="text" style="width: 330px;" name="name" value="<?php echo @$_POST['name']; ?>" maxlength="50"><br><br>
your email address<br><input type="text" style="width: 330px;" name="email" value="<?php echo @$_POST['email']; ?>" maxlength="50"><br><br>
your message<br><textarea name="content" style="width: 330px; height: 100px;" rows="6" cols="80"><?php echo @$_POST['content']; ?></textarea>
<br><br>
<input type="submit" name="send" value="submit">
<br /><br /> 
</div>
</form> 
<?php  if (isset($alert)) echo "<script type='text/javascript'>alert('$alert');</script>";  ?>
</body></html>

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