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Help with PHP Email Code

 

I am currently designing a PHP website and i have been following some useful tutorials but one that i have followed i have come unstuck with and it wont work. If anyone could help me with the code below it would be a great help.

 

First of all we have the contact.html form

 

<html>
<head>
<title>Ajax Contact Form by Andrew Walsh</title>
<style type="text/css">
body {
margin:50px 0px; padding:0px;
text-align:center;
}

#contactarea {
width:350px;
margin:0px auto;
text-align:left;
padding:15px;
border:1px solid #333;
background-color:#eee;
font-weight: bold;
font-family: Verdana, Arial;
font-size: 12px;
}

#inputbox {
border: 1px solid #000;
width: 270;
padding: 2px;
font-weight: bold;
font-family: Verdana, Arial;
font-size: 12px;
}

#inputlabel {
font-weight: bold;
font-family: Verdana, Arial;
font-size: 12px;

}

#textarea {
border: 1px solid #000;
padding: 2px;
font-weight: bold;
font-family: Verdana, Arial;
font-size: 12px;
width:330;
}

#submitbutton {
border: 1px solid #000;
background-color: #eee;

}
</style>

<script language="javascript">

function createRequestObject() {
var ro;
var browser = navigator.appName;
if(browser == "Microsoft Internet Explorer"){
ro = new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP");
}else{
ro = new XMLHttpRequest();
}
return ro;
}

var http = createRequestObject();

function sendemail() {
var msg = document.contactform.msg.value;
var name = document.contactform.name.value;
var email = document.contactform.email.value;
var subject = document.contactform.subject.value;
document.contactform.send.disabled=true;
document.contactform.send.value='Sending....';

http.open('get', 'contact.php?msg='+msg+'&name='+name+'&subject='+subject+'&email='+email+'&action=send');
http.onreadystatechange = handleResponse;
http.send(null);
}

function handleResponse() {
if(http.readyState == 4){
var response = http.responseText;
var update = new Array();

if(response.indexOf('|' != -1)) {
update = response.split('|');
document.getElementById(update[0]).innerHTML = update[1];

}
}
}
</script>
</head>
<body>
<div id="contactarea">
<form name="contactform" id="contactform">
<span id="inputlabel">Name:</span>   <input type="text" name="name" id="inputbox">


<span id="inputlabel">Email:</span>    <input type="text" name="email" id="inputbox">


<span id="inputlabel">Subject:</span> <input type="text" name="subject" id="inputbox">


<span id="inputlabel">Message:</span>

<textarea name="msg" rows="10" id="textarea"></textarea>



<input type="button" value="Send Email" name="send" onclick="sendemail();" id="submitbutton">

</form>
</div>
</body>
</html>

Then we have the contact.php form

<?php
/*

Author: Andrew Walsh
Date: 30/05/2006
Codewalkers_Username: Andrew


This script is a basic contact form which uses AJAX to pass the information to php, thus making the page appear to work without any refreshing or page loading time.

*/

$to = "mike2fast135@hotmail.com"; //This is the email address you want to send the email to
$subject_prefix = ""; //Use this if you want to have a prefix before the subject

if(!isset($_GET['action']))
{
die("You must not access this page directly!"); //Just to stop people from visiting contact.php normally
}

/* Now lets trim up the input before sending it */

$name = trim($_GET['name']); //The senders name
$email = trim($_GET['email']); //The senders email address
$subject = trim($_GET['subject']); //The senders subject
$message = trim($_GET['msg']); //The senders message

mail($to,$subject,$message,"From: ".$email.""); //a very simple send

echo 'contactarea|Thank you '.$name.', your email has been sent.'; //now lets update the "contactarea" div on the contact.html page. The contactarea| tell's the javascript which div to update.
?>

From what i can gather the HTML form passes the information to the PHP form which then sends the information to your email address. I have changed the email address to the one that i want to use and have also tried using a different one incase it did not like the one i have chosen to use.

 

If anyone could help with this i would really appreciate it.

 

Thanks

 

 

   

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