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Hi Everyone,

I am really, really new to PHP so, I'll need baby steps and a lot of hand holding to get through this.

 

Where I work I get Service Requests from grade school teachers for help with their classroom computers. When I started my job, it was a mess of scraps of paper from principals stuck in my mail box, unintelligible emails, and phone calls. I desperately needed to get a way for teachers to contact me that would help me organize my work. I wanted it all to come in email, and I needed some basic info to be consistantly present.

 

I put a form together so I could get consistent information from them without having to go back and ask stuff like, "What building are you in?" "What's your room number?" etc.

 

I've cut and pasted a lot of bits and pieces from different tutorials to build the form to email script I'm using now. I'm amazed at how well it works, considering I didn't really learn anything during my frantic attempt to build it.

 

 

The problem is with special characters.

I really don't know what I'm doing, so I don't know how to fix it.

 

In the Request part of the form, a teacher or principal with write something like this:

 

Can someone check into the specs for the program "Writing with Symbols" by Mayer Johnson.

 

But, in my email, i'll get something like this:

 

Can someone check into the specs for the program "Writing with Symbols" by Mayer Johnson.

 

I can get by with that, and I have, but sometimes I need to forward info to other people and I'd like it to look better.

 

Everyone, thank you in advance for your help.

Sincerely,

Dan Gildea

ScaryHouse

 

Here is my Frankenstein's monster of a Form to Email script:

 

<?php

$code = check_input($_POST['code'],"Please go BACK and choose your building!");

$room = check_input($_POST['room'],"Please go BACK and enter your room #!");

$name = check_input($_POST['name'],"Please go BACK and enter your name!");

$email = check_input($_POST['email']);

if (!preg_match("/([\w\-]+\@[\w\-]+\.[\w\-]+)/",$email))

{

    die("Please go BACK and enter a valid email address!");

}

$request = check_input($_POST['request'],"Please go BACK and describe your problem!");

?>

 

 

 

<?php

$header = "From: $email\r\nReply-To: $email\r\n";

$recipient = "cservice@kidsroe.org";

$subject  = "$code-$room $name";

$message  = "$code-$room $name

 

$request

";

 

mail($recipient, $subject, $message, $header);

?>

 

<html>

<body>

Your message was successfully sent!<br />

You wlll be contacted soon.

</body>

</html>

 

 

 

<?php

function check_input($data, $empty='')

{

    $data = trim($data);

    $data = stripslashes($data);

    $data = htmlspecialchars($data);

    if ($empty && strlen($data) == 0)

    {

        die($empty);

    }

    return $data;

}

?>

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