web19976 Posted October 26, 2009 Share Posted October 26, 2009 Hello, I'm creating a PHP email form, and for this particular server, I have to use SMTP Authentication. They hosting service sent me this link: http://email.about.com/od/emailprogramm ... cation.htm Anyway, I have the form created, and I created the PHP file called mail.php. I finally got it to where it does send me an email, but the message is completely blank. My form has four fields, which are: name, email, telephone, and message, so these should each be emailed to me when the form is filled out. Thank you in advance if anyone can look this over. Here is my PHP code: <?php require_once "Mail.php"; $from = "Jane Doe <jane.doe@gmail.com>"; $to = "JD <jim.doe@gmail.com>"; $subject = "Request to contact me"; $name = "name:\n"; $email = "email:\n"; $phone = "phone:\n"; $message = "message:\n"; $host = "smtp.gmail.com"; $username = "jane.doe"; $password = "blackcat35"; $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 { print "<meta http-equiv=\"refresh\" content=\"0;URL=received.htm\">"; } ?> And here is my HTML form: <form method="POST" action="mail.php"> <p>Fields marked (*) are required</p> <p><strong>Name:* </strong><br> <input name="name" type="text" size="40" maxlength="50" id="name" /> <p><strong>Email:* </strong><br> <input name="email" type="text" size="40" id="email"> <p><strong>Telephone:</strong><br> <input name="message" type="text" size="40" maxlength="30" id="message" /> <p><strong>Message:* </strong><br> <textarea name="message" cols="40" id="message"></textarea> <p><input type="submit" name="submit" value="Submit"> <input type="reset" name="Clear" id="Clear" value="Reset" /> </form> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
obay Posted October 26, 2009 Share Posted October 26, 2009 you have two form elements named "message".. one is an <input>, the other one a <textarea>. there should only be one. also, you just gave everyone your password lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
obay Posted October 26, 2009 Share Posted October 26, 2009 the email sent is blank because here: $mail = $smtp->send($to, $headers, $body); you didn't initialize the value of $body, so it sends a blank email Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
web19976 Posted October 26, 2009 Author Share Posted October 26, 2009 Thank you both so much! I did have message twice, so I fixed that. And the reason the email was blank was because I didn't intialize body, you were right. In case anybody finds this of help in the future... I did so by making a series of $body .= $_REQUEST['name']; $body .= "\n"; $body .= $_REQUEST; etc. for each field. that n is for the line break. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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