Email Script

[paulgain]

Hi Everyone,

 

I have wrote a Flex website and on the site I have a "Contact us" page. On this page is a form (no HTML) for the user to fill in their details, I also validate their details before sending them off. I do not want to use a HTML form as it's ugly.

 

I am using a HTTP POST to send the users details to my PHP Script for processing. I want the script to simply pull out the users details and then email me. I have seen plenty of examples of using a HTML form and corresponding mail script, but like i've already said I don't want to use a HTML form.

 

I have set up an Apache web server and configured PHP and it all works as expected when I call phpInfo(). I need help with the script as I have no experience in PHP whatsoever. I would like to do the following:

 

(1) Pullout the users details which are "firstname", "lastname" "contactnumber" "emailaddress" and "message".

(2) Email me with those details, that's it. 

 

I would like a response to indicate success/failure but not as a HTML page.

 

Cheers

 

Paul

 

 

[Garethp]

if (isset($_REQUEST['email']))
//if "email" is filled out, send email
  {
  //send email
  $email = $_REQUEST['email'] ;
  $subject = $_REQUEST['subject'] ;
  $message = $_REQUEST['message'] ;
  mail( "[email protected]", "Subject: $subject",
  $message, "From: $email" );
  echo "Thank you for using our mail form";
  }

 

It's pretty straightforward, you should be able to figure it out from there

[paulgain]

Thanks for the quick reply,

 

If I call the script from my dev environment where does echo echo out to, if you see what I mean.

 

Regards

 

Paaul

[Garethp]

Echo means display. So if you access it from a browser, it will show it. If you call it with a HTTPRequest, that text will be the response. Get it?