Need some help.

[Toggles]

Hello, I'm making a website for my CS clan and I want to make an application page.  My friend told me that requires php.  I want people fill in there information, like Name, In-Game Name, Years Playing, Time Playing in server, and Why you want to join.  So after they fill that in, I would like to it e-mail me and 3 other.  First question is, is that possible to have it e-mail more than one person?  And second, if it is possible could I get some help setting it up?

Thanks in advance

Toggles

[Nhoj]

Try something like this:

[code]<?
if (isset($_POST['submit'])) {
// BEGIN - Make the inputs safe
$_POST['name'] = preg_replace('|[^a-zA-Z]|', '', $_POST['name']);
$_POST['age'] = preg_replace('|[^0-9]|', '', $_POST['age']);
$_POST['email'] = preg_replace('|[^a-zA-Z0-9.@]|', '', $_POST['email']);

// Run some checks
if (empty($_POST['name'])) {
echo "Sorry, but you cannot leave your name blank";
} else if (empty($_POST['age'])) {
echo "sorry, but you cannot leave your age blank";
} else if (empty($_POST['email'])) {
echo "Sorry, but you cannot leave your e-mail blank";
} else if (strpos($_POST['email'], "@") === FALSE || strpos($_POST['email'], ".") === FALSE) {
echo "Sorry, but you must enter a valid e-mail.";
} else {
// Notify the user that they have applied
echo "You have successfully applied to our clan, thank you.";

// Send notification to the clan leaders
$subject = "YOUR CLAN NAME: Player Application";
$message = "Dear Clan leader,<br />You have just had a new player apply to your clan with the following information:
<br /><b>Name:</b> ".$_POST['name']."
<br /><b>Age:</b> ".$_POST['age']."
<br /><b>E-Mail:</b> ".$_POST['email'];

$headers  = 'MIME-Version: 1.0'."\r\n";
$headers .= 'Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1'."\r\n";
$headers .= "From: [email protected]";
mail("[email protected], [email protected], [email protected]", $subject, $message, $headers);
}
} else {
?>
<form action="<?= $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']; ?>" method="post" name="apply">
<input name="name" type="text" />
<input name="age" type="text" />
<input name="email" type="text" />
<input name="submit" type="submit" value="Submit" />
</form>
<?
}
?>[/code]

[Toggles]

Thank you, I was reading a little about PHP and do I have to have an SQL database?  And where do I add that text?  I put it in the coding, and it just came up like text on the page.

[Nhoj]

Nope 8) - You don't need mySQL for this.

EDIT: You need to make a new page named something like, 'apply.php' and put the information in that page.

If you've done that and you are still only seeing a bunch of text, that means your server doesn't have PHP installed.

[Toggles]

How would I get my current template on that page?  I was to lazy to make one, so I downloaded one for now until I get more time to make one.

*Edit* Nevermind figured out how, just saved that template as a .php and added that text, I openned it in my browser and got this.

[IMG]http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b193/toggles/apply.jpg[/img]

[Nhoj]

You need to change the e-mails to real e-mails, edit the following text snippets.
[b]E-Mail that it comes from:[/b]
[code]From: [email protected][/code]

[b]E-Mail to send to:[/b]
[code][email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected][/code]

Forgot to mention, your server (PHP) also needs to support the mail() function.

[Toggles]

So for the From e-mail, I need to make an account that will sent it from?

[Nhoj]

Usually you can use the default one set on your server, such as [email protected], just change the yourdomain.com part.

[Toggles]

Ok, thanks a lot for your help, I really appreciate it.