Wolverine68 Posted August 15, 2011 Share Posted August 15, 2011 Can't get a simple request form with mail() function to work. When clicking on the Submit button, it goes to the feedback.php file but just shows a blank page. It doesn't display the "Thank you, your request has been submitted" message along with the date and time which I included in the coding. HTML form: <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html> <head> <title>Request Form</title> </head> <body background="#EEEEEE"> <h3 align="center">Request to Add to E-Mail List</h3> <div> <form action="feedback8.php" method="post"> <p><font color="blue">If you'd like to be added to the e-mail list, simply fill in your name and e-mail address, then click "Submit"</font></p> <hr width="100%"> <p>Name:     <INPUT TYPE="text" SIZE="35" name="name"></p> <p>E-mail:    <INPUT TYPE="text" SIZE="35" name="email"></p> <br><br> <input type="submit" name="submit" value="Submit"><br><br> <hr width="100%"> </div> </body> </html> PHP file: <?php $formBody="Name:$name\nEmail:$email"; $headers = "From:$email"; if ($submit) { mail("me@yahoo.com", "Add to E-mail List Request", $formBody, $headers); } if ($submit) { print "Thank you. Your request has been submitted <br /> <br />"; print "Current date and time :"; print date("F j, Y g:i A T"); } ?> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cssfreakie Posted August 15, 2011 Share Posted August 15, 2011 Try the following: <?php /* some error checking */ error_reporting(E_ALL); ini_set("display_errors", 1); if(isset($_POST['submit']) // if someone presses submit && !empty($_POST['name']) // and name is filled in && !empty($_POST['email'])){ // and email is filled in // $name = $_POST['name']; //added these $email = $_POST['email']; // added these $formBody="Name: $name\nEmail:$email"; $headers = "From: $email"; // if(mail("me@yahoo.com", "Add to E-mail List Request", $formBody, $headers)){ //email print "Thank you. Your request has been submitted <br /> <br />"; print "Current date and time :"; print date("F j, Y g:i A T"); }else{ // if the email didn't process echo 'oops something went wrong'; } } ?> The key this with forms is that you validate. Are the values as expected? (make sure you have a read on something called email header injection) Also, notice i am using a $_POST variable. since your form method is 'post' we require to use those values. edit: also make sure you look at the examples given in the manual:http://php.net/manual/en/function.mail.php Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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