mike2fast Posted March 31, 2011 Share Posted March 31, 2011 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 Posts: 1 Joined: Thu Mar 31, 2011 12:03 pm Top Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maq Posted March 31, 2011 Share Posted March 31, 2011 In the future, please put tags around your code. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mike2fast Posted March 31, 2011 Author Share Posted March 31, 2011 Sorry thanks for the input. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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