PHP form problem - a newbie question

[drog1998]

HI there,

 

i'm using a flash and php form.

 

The problem lie in the PHP I only seem to get the field titles (Name and telephone) coming through and not the data they contain.

 

Could somebody tell me what i'm doing wrong?

 

<?php
$sendTo = "[email protected]";
$subject = "An enquiry";

$headers = "From: " . $_POST["firstName"] ." ". $_POST["lastname"] . "<" . $_POST["email"] .">\r\n";
$headers .= "Reply-To: " . $_POST["email"] . "\r\n";

$headers .= "Return-path: " . $_POST["email"];
$message = "telephone: ".$strtelephone."\r\n";
$message .= "message: ".$strmessage."\r\n";

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

?>

 

thank you

[trq]

What exact data are you getting and not getting? Your problem isn't exactly described very well.

[drog1998]

ok no problem.

 

All i get through are the words...

 

telephone:

message:

 

What I want to happen is for my website to send the data from the fields labeled telephone and message in a website.

 

so in a perfect world come thorough looking something like this...

 

telephone: 9999 9999

message: hi drog1998

 

thanks again

 

[trq]

Where are $strtelephone and $strmessage defined?

[drog1998]

i'm using Flash and each input text box has a variable name attached to it.

 

So telephone and message are 2 of the text fields boxes.

 

Not knowing much about PHP i've pasted the code in from somewhere else in the hope of getting it working.

[trq]

The examples you have been using are obviously VERY old code that relied on register globals being on. This has been off by default for over 7 years.

 

The data you require will be within the $_POST array. eg $_POST['strtelephone'] & $_POST['strmessage'].

[drog1998]

wow 10 years!

 

would you mind reposting the with the new code in so i can see where it goes.

 

I apologise as i'm very new to this.

 

many thanks.

[trq]

wow 10 years!

 

I edited my post, I think its more like 7 years.

 

Anyway, instead of $strtelephone use $_POST['strtelephone'].

[drog1998]

i couldn't get that to work 

 

have i got the syntax right?

 

<?php
$sendTo = "[email protected]";
$subject = "An enquiry";
$headers = "From: " . $_POST["firstName"] ." ". $_POST["lastname"] . "<" . $_POST["email"] .">\r\n";
$headers .= "Reply-To: " . $_POST["email"] . "\r\n";
$headers .= "Return-path: " . $_POST["email"];
$message = "telephone: ". $_POST['strtelephone']"\r\n";
$message .= "message: ". $_POST['strmessage']"\r\n";
mail($sendTo, $subject, $message, $headers);

?>

[PFMaBiSmAd]

Find out what data your form is sending. Add the following lines for debugging purposes (remove them when you are done) -

echo "<pre>";
echo "GET:";
print_r($_GET);
echo "POST:";
print_r($_POST);
echo "</pre>";

[drog1998]

Still nothing with this code.

 

<?php
$sendTo = "[email protected]";
$subject = "An enquiry";
$headers = "From: " . $_POST["firstName"] ." ". $_POST["lastname"] . "<" . $_POST["email"] .">\r\n";
// next include a replyto
$headers .= "Reply-To: " . $_POST["email"] . "\r\n";
$headers .= "Return-path: " . $_POST["email"];
$message = "telephone: ". $_POST['strtelephone']"\r\n";
$message .= "message: ". $_POST['strmessage']"\r\n";
mail($sendTo, $subject, $message, $headers);

echo "<pre>";
echo "GET:";
print_r($_GET);
echo "POST:";
print_r($_POST);
echo "</pre>";

?>

[PFMaBiSmAd]

Define: still nothing?

 

What output did you get?

 

You are expecting someone who is not standing right next to you to help you with what your code is doing. If you don't state or post what results you did get, no one can possibly help you. 

 

Based on your symptom of 'still nothing' it is likely that your form is invalid and isn't sending anything to your form processing code.

[trq]

You do have a few syntax errors in there now too... these two lines.....

 

$message = "telephone: ". $_POST['strtelephone']"\r\n";
$message .= "message: ". $_POST['strmessage']"\r\n";

 

should be....

 

$message = "telephone: ". $_POST['strtelephone'] . "\r\n";
$message .= "message: ". $_POST['strmessage'] . "\r\n";

[drog1998]

ok what i meant by nothing was that i'm still getting an email through with just the words.

 

telephone:

message:

 

here's the code again which i updated with thorpes corrections

 

<?php
$sendTo = "[email protected]";
$subject = "An enquiry";

$headers = "From: " . $_POST["firstName"] ." ". $_POST["lastname"] . "<" . $_POST["email"] .">\r\n";
$headers .= "Reply-To: " . $_POST["email"] . "\r\n";

$headers .= "Return-path: " . $_POST["email"];
$message = "telephone: ". $_POST['strtelephone'] . "\r\n";
$message .= "message: ". $_POST['strmessage'] . "\r\n";

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

?>

 

any suggestions?

[trq]

any suggestions?

 

Yes. Stick with PFMaBiSmAd's suggestion and post the output of....

 

echo "<pre>";
echo "GET:";
print_r($_GET);
echo "POST:";
print_r($_POST);
echo "</pre>";

[drog1998]

a dumb question but where do i collect the data from? should it come through in an email?

[PFMaBiSmAd]

LOL, the two lines of code that thorpe pointed out with errors in them would have prevented your php code from executing at all. If you received emails while using the code that contained those two errors, then the code you are actually using on your server is not the code you have been posting.

 

I'm thinking that using a page with a flash form on it would probably not show any output from the php code. If you are receiving some of the form data in the email but not those two values, it is either due to your form not sending the data to the php code or due to a field name mis-match.

 

What is the actual code of your form page and what are the exact (keeping in mind that computers only do exactly what their code tells them to do and a spelling error or capitalization difference would prevent this from working) field names it is sending?

 

I seriously recommend getting this to work with a HTML form first, then do any extras like using a flash form.

 

Also, if this is gong to be used for real (not just an assignment in a programming class), you MUST validate, in your form processing code, any of the form data that is being put into the header field to prevent hackers from sending their email through your mail server.