feedback form

[ROCKINDANO]

Hi everyone, i am working on a feedback form and its not sending the email. can someone help?

 

this is what i have:

this is the form page. feedbackform.php

    <div id="middle">
	<form method="post" action="processfeedback.php">
        	<p>Your Name:<br /><input type="text" name="custname" /><br />
            Your Email: <br /><input type="text" name="email" /><br />
            Your Feedback: <br /><textarea name="feedback" cols="50" rows="10"></textarea><br />
            what department:  Solid Waste: <input type="radio" name="searchtype" checked="checked" value="solid" />
            Public Works:  <input type="radio" name="searchtype" value="public" /><br /><br /></p>
            <input name="submit" type="submit" value="submit" /><input type="reset" name="Reset" value="Clear Fields" />            
        </form>
    </div><!-- END OF MIDDLE CONTAINER -->

 

 

this is the processfeedback.php

    	<?php
		//create short variable names
		$custname = $HTTP_POST_VARS['custname'];
		$email = $HTTP_POST_VARS['email'];
		$feedback = $HTTP_POST_VARS['feedback'];

		if (!ereg('^[a-zA-Z0-9_\-\.]+@[a-zA-Z0-9\-]+\.[a-zA-Z0-9\-\.]+$', $email))
		{
			print "that is not a valid email address. Please return to the previous page and try again.";
		}
		$toaddress = '[email protected]';
		if(eregi('test', $feedback)) 
			$toaddress = '[email protected]';
		else  if(eregi('test', $feedback))
			$toaddress = '[email protected]';

		$subject = 'Feed Back from website';
		$mailcontent = 'Customer Name: '.$custname."\n"
						.'Customer email: '.$email."\n"
						."Customer's feedback: \n".$feedback."\n";
		$fromaddress = 'From: [email protected]';

		mail($toaddress, $subject, $mailcontent, $fromaddress);
	?>

[mikesta707]

one thing I spotted

 

if(eregi('test', $feedback)) 
            $toaddress = '[email protected]';
         else  if(eregi('test', $feedback))
            $toaddress = '[email protected]';

 

this block tests the same thing twice, but has two different outcomes. Perhaps its sending an email to an address you don't expect it to because of this. Also, I think eregi() is deprecated

[ROCKINDANO]

well i took that out and still does not send anything. Is there a better way of checking the email field?

[mikesta707]

well how exactly are you testing it. It seems that you just check if the feedback response has the word "test" in it, and if so it sends to a specific email address.

 

 

Oh on a completely unrelated note. the following code:

if (!ereg('^[a-zA-Z0-9_\-\.]+@[a-zA-Z0-9\-]+\.[a-zA-Z0-9\-\.]+$', $email))
         {
            print "that is not a valid email address. Please return to the previous page and try again.";
            #insert a die() or an exit() command here if you want to terminate the script
         }

 

doesn't do anything but print its not a valid email address. if you want to stop it, use an exit() or something.

 

 

back on topic, what email address should it be send to? try writing

 

if (mail($toaddress, $subject, $mailcontent, $fromaddress)){
echo "Success!";
}
else {
echo "Epic Fail";
}

 

instead of just

 mail($toaddress, $subject, $mailcontent, $fromaddress); 

 

and see what happens

[ROCKINDANO]

well i am trying to test out using my own email. it has to send it to the "$toaddress = '[email protected]'; by default.

 

now if it finds the word test in the email it should send it to the [email protected].

 

but it doesn't pass where it checks if its a valid email part and dies.

[ROCKINDANO]

well i tried that " if (mail($toaddress, $subject, $mailcontent, $fromaddress)){

echo "Success!";

}

else {

echo "Epic Fail";

} "

 

and if goes to the else part "Epic fail".

[nysmenu]

What exactly are you getting in your inbox?

[newbtophp]

Replace your old processfeedback.php with:

 

<?php
//Customer Name
$custname = $_REQUEST['custname'] ;

//Customers Email
$email = $_REQUEST['email'] ;

//Customers Feedback
$message = $_REQUEST['feedback'] ;


//Subject
$subject = "Feed Back from website";


//You (to address)
$to = "[email protected]";

$headers = "From: $email";

$sent = mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers) ;

if($sent)
{print "W000t! It works!"; }
else
{print "Damn! It dont work"; }
?>

[ROCKINDANO]

Well tried that code and still won't send the email. its been a few days and this one is really killing me. any help?

 

Do i need to turn on a settings in PHP or Apache?