Form to Email

Andy Rivers · December 20, 2011

I have a simple form which when a person fills out will send the results to a specified email address and display a thank you page to the visitor and finally redirect to another page. Everything seems to work except the results do not get sent to the email - can anyone help?

I think it might be to do with the checkboxes - how are these processed to email?

Here is the Code:

The Form - survey.html

----------------------------

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 

Transitional//EN" 

"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-

transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; 

charset=utf-8" />
<title>Untitled Document</title>
<style type="text/css">
<!--
table {
background-color: #9C9;
}
-->
</style>
</head>

<body>
<form id="form1" name="form1" method="post" 

action="check.php">
  <table width="500" border="0" cellspacing="2" 

cellpadding="2">
    <tr>
      <td><label for="name2">Name:</label></td>
      <td><input type="text" name="name" id="name2" 

/></td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>Continent</td>
      <td><p>
        <label>
          <input type="radio" name="continent" 

value="Asia" id="continent_0" />
          Asia</label>
        <br />
        <label>
          <input type="radio" name="continent" 

value="Europe" id="continent_1" />
          Europe</label>
        <br />
        <label>
          <input type="radio" name="continent" 

value="Africa" id="continent_2" />
          Africa</label>
        <br />
        <label>
          <input type="radio" name="continent" 

value="North America" id="continent_3" />
          North America</label>
        <br />
        <label>
          <input type="radio" name="continent" 

value="South America" id="continent_4" />
          South America</label>
        <br />
        <label>
          <input type="radio" name="continent" 

value="Antarctica" id="continent_5" />
          Antarctica</label>
        <br />
        <label>
          <input type="radio" name="continent" 

value="Australia" id="continent_6" />
          Australia</label>
        <br />
      </p></td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>Favourite Color</td>
      <td><p>
        <label>
          <input type="checkbox" name="color[]" 

value="Orange" id="color_0" />
          Orange</label>
        <br />
        <label>
          <input type="checkbox" name="color[]" 

value="Yellow" id="color_1" />
          Yellow</label>
        <br />
        <label>
          <input type="checkbox" name="color[]" 

value="Blue" id="color_2" />
          Blue</label>
        <br />
        <label>
          <input type="checkbox" name="color[]" 

value="Red" id="color_3" />
          Red</label>
        <br />
        <label>
          <input type="checkbox" name="color[]" 

value="Other (Please Specify)" id="color_4" />
          Other (Please Specify)</label>
        <label for="othercolor"></label>
        <input type="text" name="othercolor" 

id="othercolor" />
        <br />
      </p></td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td><label for="comments">Your 

Comments:</label></td>
      <td><textarea name="comments" id="comments" 

cols="45" rows="5"></textarea></td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td><label for="submit"></label>
      <input type="submit" name="submit" id="submit" 

value="Submit" /></td>
      <td> </td>
    </tr>
  </table>
  <p> </p>
</form>
</body>
</html>

The PHP - check.php

----------------------

<?php 
/*Subject and Email Variables*/
$emailSubject = 'check.php'; 
$webMaster = 'substituteyouremailhere';


/*Gathering Data Variables*/
$name = $_POST['name'];
$continent = $_POST['continent'];
$color = $_POST['color'];
$othercolor = $_POST['othercolor'];
$comments = $_POST['comments'];

$body = <<<EOD
<br><hr><br>
Visitors Name: $name<br>
Visitors Continent: $continent<br>
Visitors Favourite Color: $color<br>
Other Favourite Color: $othercolor
EOD;

$headers = "From: $email\r\n";
$headers .= "Content-type: text/html\r\n";
$success = mail($webMaster, $emailSubject, $body, 

$headers);

/* Results rendered as HTML */
$theResults = <<<EOD
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; 

charset=utf-8" />
<title>Thanks - Survey Complete</title>
<meta http-equiv="refresh" 

content="5;URL=http://www.google.com">
</head>
<body>
     <p>Success - Thanks for completing the Form - We 

will get back to you soon!</p>
</body>
</html>
EOD;
echo "$theResults";
?>

Any help would be great - thanks ;-)

iPixel · December 20, 2011

Are you sure your web server is setup to send out emails?

try

if($success = mail(.....))

Pikachu2000 · December 20, 2011

Where is $email defined? You're apparently sending a blank From: header. Most often the From: header should be set to a valid email address associated with the server.

Andy Rivers · December 21, 2011

Hey iPixel, Pikachu2000:

Yes - the server is set up to receive e-mails. I am using an online service which has worked in the past with no problems. Just for the online I have set the specified email as some text, in reality I include a valid email - although this would be a hotmail, gmail type address - would that matter?

/*Subject and Email Variables*/
$emailSubject = 'check.php'; 
$webMaster = 'substituteyouremailhere';

It is again referenced towards the end with the following php code:

$headers = "From: $email\r\n";
$headers .= "Content-type: text/html\r\n";
$success = mail($webMaster, $emailSubject, $body, $headers);

Thanks for the suggestions, Andy ;-)

AyKay47 · December 21, 2011

to reiterate previously mentioned material. Where are you declaring the value of $email before using it here

$headers = "From: $email\r\n";

also, if the mail() function is returning false, it will be returning an error. Are you receiving any errors? make sure error_reporting is E_ALL or 1

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