FormToEmail script help!

[rascald]

Hi there,

 

I'm currently building a website for my bother-in-law who lives in Germany, I have set up a contact form using a script I have used a thousand times but for some reason it's not working on his server...is it because it is German?  Any help will be great....Thank you.

 

Here is the script:

 

<?php

 

$my_email = "name@yourdomain.com";

 

/*

 

Enter the continue link to offer the user after the form is sent.  If you do not change this, your visitor will be given a continue link to your homepage.

 

If you do change it, remove the "/" symbol below and replace with the name of the page to link to, eg: "mypage.htm" or "http://www.elsewhere.com/page.htm"

 

*/

 

$continue = "/";

 

/*

 

Step 3:

 

Save this file (FormToEmail.php) and upload it together with your webpage containing the form to your webspace.  IMPORTANT - The file name is case sensitive!  You must save it exactly as it is named above!  Do not put this script in your cgi-bin directory (folder) it may not work from there.

 

THAT'S IT, FINISHED!

 

You do not need to make any changes below this line.

 

*/

 

$errors = array();

 

// Remove $_COOKIE elements from $_REQUEST.

 

if(count($_COOKIE)){foreach(array_keys($_COOKIE) as $value){unset($_REQUEST[$value]);}}

 

// Check all fields for an email header.

 

function recursive_array_check_header($element_value)

{

 

global $set;

 

if(!is_array($element_value)){if(preg_match("/(%0A|%0D|\n+|\r+)(content-type:|to:|cc:|bcc:)/i",$element_value)){$set = 1;}}

else

{

 

foreach($element_value as $value){if($set){break;} recursive_array_check_header($value);}

 

}

 

}

 

recursive_array_check_header($_REQUEST);

 

if($set){$errors[] = "You cannot send an email header";}

 

unset($set);

 

// Validate email field.

 

if(isset($_REQUEST['email']) && !empty($_REQUEST['email']))

{

 

if(preg_match("/(%0A|%0D|\n+|\r+|:)/i",$_REQUEST['email'])){$errors[] = "Email address may not contain a new line or a colon";}

 

$_REQUEST['email'] = trim($_REQUEST['email']);

 

if(substr_count($_REQUEST['email'],"@") != 1 || stristr($_REQUEST['email']," ")){$errors[] = "Email address is invalid";}else{$exploded_email = explode("@",$_REQUEST['email']);if(empty($exploded_email[0]) || strlen($exploded_email[0]) > 64 || empty($exploded_email[1])){$errors[] = "Email address is invalid";}else{if(substr_count($exploded_email[1],".") == 0){$errors[] = "Email address is invalid";}else{$exploded_domain = explode(".",$exploded_email[1]);if(in_array("",$exploded_domain)){$errors[] = "Email address is invalid";}else{foreach($exploded_domain as $value){if(strlen($value) > 63 || !preg_match('/^[a-z0-9-]+$/i',$value)){$errors[] = "Email address is invalid"; break;}}}}}}

 

}

 

// Check referrer is from same site.

 

if(!(isset($_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER']) && !empty($_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER']) && stristr($_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'],$_SERVER['HTTP_HOST']))){$errors[] = "You must enable referrer logging to use the form";}

 

// Check for a blank form.

 

function recursive_array_check_blank($element_value)

{

 

global $set;

 

if(!is_array($element_value)){if(!empty($element_value)){$set = 1;}}

else

{

 

foreach($element_value as $value){if($set){break;} recursive_array_check_blank($value);}

 

}

 

}

 

recursive_array_check_blank($_REQUEST);

 

if(!$set){$errors[] = "You cannot send a blank form";}

 

unset($set);

 

// Display any errors and exit if errors exist.

 

if(count($errors)){foreach($errors as $value){print "$value<br>";} exit;}

 

if(!defined("PHP_EOL")){define("PHP_EOL", strtoupper(substr(PHP_OS,0,3) == "WIN") ? "\r\n" : "\n");}

 

// Build message.

 

function build_message($request_input){if(!isset($message_output)){$message_output ="";}if(!is_array($request_input)){$message_output = $request_input;}else{foreach($request_input as $key => $value){if(!empty($value)){if(!is_numeric($key)){$message_output .= str_replace("_"," ",ucfirst($key)).": ".build_message($value).PHP_EOL.PHP_EOL;}else{$message_output .= build_message($value).", ";}}}}return rtrim($message_output,", ");}

 

$message = build_message($_REQUEST);

 

$message = $message . PHP_EOL.PHP_EOL."-- ".PHP_EOL."";

 

$message = stripslashes($message);

 

$subject = "FormToEmail Comments";

 

$headers = "From: " . $_REQUEST['email'];

 

mail($my_email,$subject,$message,$headers);

 

?>

 

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">

 

<html>

 

<head>

<title>Contact Form</title>

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">

</head>

 

<body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000">

 

<div>

<center>

<b>Thank you <?php print stripslashes($_REQUEST['name']); ?></b>

<br>Your message has been sent

<p><a href="<?php print $continue; ?>">Click here to continue</a></p>

<p> </p>

</center>

</div>

 

</body>

</html>

[PFMaBiSmAd]

The most apparent problem is that the From: address in the email header must be a valid email address hosted at the sending mail server to both get the sending mail server to send it and to get most receiving mail servers to accept it. You would want to put the arbitrary email address that was entered in a form into a Reply-to: address.

 

For debugging purposes, if you set error_reporting to E_ALL and display_errors to ON, the mail() function might return some information that would help.