Need help with a web page echo please.

[11Tami]

Hello, I am getting this error message on the following code.
Parse error: parse error, unexpected $ in the ending line  ?>
Its says it doesn't like the ending closing php tag. Is it looking for something else right before it or can someone see what is wrong? This code just get something out of a database and when it gets it, then it sends it and another input field to an email address. Hope someone can help. Thank you very much.

<?php
$con = mysql_connect("my","database","password")
OR die('Could not connect: ' . mysql_error());
mysql_select_db("database", $con) OR die(mysql_error());
if(!$_POST){?><form action="" method="post"><input type="text" size="12" name="websitename"
value="<?=$_POST['websitename']?>" />" /><input type="submit" value="submitting" /></form><?}
else{$modify = mysql_real_escape_string($_POST['websitename']);
$query = "SELECT websitename FROM tablename WHERE websitename = '$modify'";
$result = mysql_query($query) or die('Error with query' . mysql_error());
while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($result))
{
// and on to the sending form fields to an email address.
$mailto = $_POST['anemailaddress'];
$test = $_POST['$row'];
echo "<form action='".$_SERVER['PHP_SELF']."' method='post'>
<input type='text' name='$mailto' size=15>
<input type='text' name='$test' size=15>
<input type='submit' name='submit' value='Submitting' /></form>";
$subject = 'Email subject';
$uself = 0;
$headersep = (!isset( $uself ) ¦¦ ($uself == 0))? '\r\n' : '\n' ;
'The E-mail: $mailto\n' . 'Testing field: $test\n';
mail($mailto, $subject, $messageproper, 'From: \'$mailto\' <$mailto>' . $headersep . 'Reply-To: \'$mailto\' <$mailto>' . $headersep);}}";
echo "this line will work when the php self works, right now I get the last error message instead";
?>

[Psycho]

There's a lot of problems in that code. If you were to use proper formatting you would be able to see the errors very easily. Here is the reformatted code, I have identified at least 4 problems:
[code]<?php
$con = mysql_connect("my","database","password") OR die('Could not connect: ' . mysql_error());
mysql_select_db("database", $con) OR die(mysql_error());

if(!$_POST){
?>
  <form action="" method="post">
    <input type="text" size="12" name="websitename" value="<?=$_POST['websitename']?>" />
" /> <===============DELETE THAT
    <input type="submit" value="submitting" />
  </form>
<?php
}

else{
  $modify = mysql_real_escape_string($_POST['websitename']);
  $query = "SELECT websitename FROM tablename WHERE websitename = '$modify'";
  $result = mysql_query($query) or die('Error with query' . mysql_error());

  while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)) {
    // and on to the sending form fields to an email address.
    $mailto = $_POST['anemailaddress'];
    $test = $_POST['$row'];
    echo "<form action='".$_SERVER['PHP_SELF']."' method='post'>
          <input type='text' name='$mailto' size=15>
          <input type='text' name='$test' size=15>
          <input type='submit' name='submit' value='Submitting' /></form>";
    $subject = 'Email subject';
    $uself = 0;
    $headersep = (!isset( $uself ) ¦¦ ($uself == 0))? '\r\n' : '\n' ; <=====SHOULDN'T THAT BE ||
'The E-mail: $mailto\n' . 'Testing field: $test\n';  <===============WHAT IS THIS???
    mail($mailto, $subject, $messageproper, 'From: \'$mailto\' <$mailto>' . $headersep . 'Reply-To: \'$mailto\' <$mailto>' . $headersep);
  }
}
"; <===============DELETE THAT
    echo "this line will work when the php self works, right now I get the last error message instead";
?> [/code]

[11Tami]

How do you guys highlight the code like that. Thanks a lot. I saw that extra /> shortly before you gave it to me.
This is ok. '\n' ;
and I deleted all the test fields until I get it working better.
$test = $_POST['$row']; etc.
I am pretty sure I still need this before the brackets "; to close the first double quote found here  echo "<form action PHP SELF etc.

When I do the ending like this without the last echo
$headersep); ";}}
I can finally get the last submit fields on the web page! Which at least makes it visible without the error messages finally. What I'm trying to do is get the form to send using this $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] instead of sending to a separate php form.

But for some reason the the last form won't send even if I put my own email address into the $mailto variable found here.
$mailto = 'mywebaddress@whatever.com';

So can anyone see a reason why the last form in this code won't send to an email, using this for the form action?
echo "<form action='".$_SERVER['PHP_SELF']."' method='post'>

Once I get it sending finally, I can figure out the rest. Thank you very much!

[11Tami]

Here's what I have right now.
[quote]<?php
$con = mysql_connect("my","database","password") OR die('Could not connect: ' . mysql_error());
mysql_select_db("database", $con) OR die(mysql_error());

if(!$_POST){
?>
  <form action="" method="post">
    <input type="text" size="12" name="websitename" value="<?=$_POST['websitename']?>"/>
    <input type="submit" value="submitting" />
  </form>
<?php
}

else{
  $modify = mysql_real_escape_string($_POST['websitename']);
  $query = "SELECT websitename FROM tablename WHERE websitename = '$modify'";
  $result = mysql_query($query) or die('Error with query' . mysql_error());

  while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)) {
    // and on to the sending form fields to an email address.
    $mailto = 'emailaddress@whatever.com';
    $another = $_POST['anotherfield'];
    echo "<form action='".$_SERVER['PHP_SELF']."' method='post'>
          <input type='text' name='$mailto' size=15>
          <input type='text' name='$another' size=15>
          <input type='submit' name='submit' value='Submitting' /></form>";
    $subject = 'Email subject';
    $uself = 0;
    $headersep = (!isset( $uself ) ¦¦ ($uself == 0))? '\r\n' : '\n' ;
    $messageproper = 'The E-mail: $mailto\n' . 'Another field: $another\n'; 
    mail($mailto, $subject, $messageproper, 'From: '$mailto\' <$mailto>' . $headersep . 'Reply-To: \'$mailto\' <$mailto>' . $headersep); ";}}
?>  [/quote]

[11Tami]

I'm stripping it down completely. The problem seems to be here. When open this in a browser it does not like the line with the POST.
$another = $_POST['anotherfield'];
The error message says. Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_ENCAPSED_AND_WHITESPACE, expecting T_STRING or T_VARIABLE or T_NUM_STRING
Does anyone know why the line with the $_Post won't parse correctly? Thanks.

<?php
echo "
$mailto = 'websitename@whatever.com';
<form action='".$_SERVER['PHP_SELF']."' method='post'>
<input type='text' name='$mailto' size=15>
<input type='text' name='$another' size=15>
<input type='submit' name='submit' value='Submitting' /></form>;
$another = $_POST['anotherfield'];
$subject = 'Email subject';
$uself = 0;
$headersep = (!isset( $uself ) ¦¦ ($uself == 0))? '\r\n' : '\n' ;
$messageproper = 'The E-mail: $mailto\n' . 'Another field: $another\n'; 
mail($mailto, $subject, $messageproper, 'From: '$mailto\' <$mailto>' . $headersep . 'Reply-To: \'$mailto\' <$mailto>' . $headersep);";
?> 

[chronister]

are you even getting to the else statement?? you have no action defined in the first form. Which means that hitting submit does nothing.

Why are you submitting a form and going to another form?? You may have a valid reason, but I cannot see why?

I find it easier to break out of php to do the html, and then jump back in like so....

[code]$another = $_POST["anotherfield"];
?>
<form action="<?=$_SERVER["PHP_SELF"] ?> " method="post">
          <input type="text" name="<?=$mailto ?>" size=15>
          <input type="text" name="<?=$another ?>" size=15>
          <input type="submit" name="submit" value="Submitting" /></form>
[/code]
That way, you keep your html clean and don't have to mess with escaping quotes and all that messy stuff. Helps keep code a little cleaner. Just my opinion though.

You are not closing the echo right. you have echo " ....... then </form>;

It does not like that, because you have not closed the echo but have given a line terminator ;

Try my suggestion, seperate your html and php code like I have above... you will have fewer errors like this.

[11Tami]

Thanks that makes sense, never thought of it. I tried this to simplify it even more and finally got rid of the usual php errors. Tell me if I did correctly what you were trying to get me to do. The submit button appears with the form field now finally. But when I enter anything into the form field and click on submit it says web page can't be found and this is in the browser search bar. %22.$_SERVER[     whatever that means. I think it means instead of staying on the same php page while sending the email the browser is looking for a web page named
%22.$_SERVER['PHP_SELF']. Any way to get past that?

This code is supposed to read the code from its own page instead of another elsewhere, and then send to an email with whatever is in the form field when the submit button is pushed. Still not working. Can someone tell me how to get this line to work <form action='".$_SERVER['PHP_SELF']."' method='post'>
so it doesn't have to call a form from a separate page? Or maybe you can see something else wrong in the following code.

<?php
$mailto = 'website@whatever.com';
$another = $_POST['another']; 
$subject = 'Email subject'; 
$headers = "From: '$another'" . "\n" . 
$messageproper = 'Another field: $another\n'; 
mail('$mailto','$subject',$messageproper,$headers);
?>
<form action='".$_SERVER['PHP_SELF']."' method='post'>
<input type='text' name='$another' size=15>
<input type='submit' name='submit' value='Submitting' /></form>

Regarding the previous one I was using with the form at the top, with the way its set up the action does send, I only started having problems when I got to this part.
The reason why I am trying to do it this way is just to get the echo messages when the email is sent to appear on the page it is sending from. If anyone knows of another way such as using <?php 
include('sendemail.php');

Pleae let me know. Thank you very much.

[chronister]

[code]<form action="<?=$_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] ?>" method='post'>
<input type='text' name="<?=$another ?> " size=15>
<input type='submit' name='submit' value='Submitting' /></form>[/code]


The <?=  ?> is a short hand for <? echo  ?>

So you are trying to simply display the info sent in a confirmation section?? Is that right?

If so, you don't need the additional form. All you have to do is ...

Once the form is submitted, you are grabbing the data sent, and placing it in a variable. Just echo that variable on the page without the form information again.

Simply put in an if /else statement.

[code]<?php if(!$_POST['Submit']){ // this says, if $_POST['Submit'] don't exist, form has not been submitted.
// form has not been submitted, display the form now

// show form here.

}else{ // form has been submitted, process form and display confirmation page now.


//set all fields to easier variables
//run mail function and send email
// display confirmation to user that it has been sent.


}[/code]

[NickG21]

when putting up your posts, highlight your code and click the "#" sign at the top of this form.  that wraps your code in tags and displays it like that

[11Tami]

Chronister, thank you for tapping into what I am trying to do even though I am having a hard time explaining it. All I am trying to do is get the echo, submission successful, type message to appear when the form is sent. But to show up on the web page itelf! Not the usual white echo page. So I'll take a look at what you gave me and see if it will work. Thanks a lot!

[11Tami]

OK I'm trying it, look like I'll need to put the "if" submit, on the bottom but I still need the form. Because the submit button is what sends the field to the email.

[code]<?php
while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($result))
//other stuff up here that works fine. That pops up this form.
{
$mailto = 'emailaddress@whatever.com';
echo "<form action='".$_SERVER['PHP_SELF']."' method='post'>
<input type='text' name='sendingfield' size=15>
<input type='submit' name='submit' value='submit' /></form>;
$another = $_POST['sendingfield']; //field that sends to email when submit is pushed'
$subject = 'Subject' for email;
$uself = 0;
$sep = (!isset( $uself ) ¦¦ ($uself == 0))? '\r\n' : '\n' ; //puts fields into email correctly.
$messageproper = 'Filled field listed in email field: $another\n'; 
mail($mailto, $subject, $messageproper, 'From:' . $sep . 'Reply-To:' . $sep);"}
if ($_POST['submit']){echo 'email sent';}}
?>  [/code]

[chronister]

Here is the code I have for an email form. You can view this form on www.levancc.com?id=contact (once I get things fixed... I transplanted the site and its broke...but will be fixed soon.)

This form allows selecting between 3 recipients, and based on which one, it puts the email address together. There are 2 different domains that point to this site. www.levancc.com and www.handsofgracemassage.com. So I had to discern between which person gets mail at which domain.

You should be able to simply copy and paste the code, make a few changes for your site and go.. Hopefully there are not any errors.  :D


[code]<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<title>Untitled Document</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
</head>
<body>
<table width="90%" border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="10" class="border">
  <tr>
    <td>
      <table width="320" height="278" border="0" align="center">
        <tr>
          <td width="377" height="274" align="center" valign="top" >
 
  <?php if(!$_POST['submit'])
{
?>
                              <!-- form not submitted yet, display form now --><br>
        <table width="393" border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="border">
<form action="<?=$_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] ?> " method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data" name="form1" >
          <tr>
            <td width="85%" align="center" valign="middle" class="border"><p>Name* <br>
                <input name="name" type="text" id="name">
              </p>
              <p>&nbsp;</p></td>
          </tr>
          <tr>
            <td height="22" align="center" valign="middle" class="border"> <p>Email* <br>
                <input name="email" type="text" id="email">
              </p>
              <p>&nbsp;</p></td>
          </tr>
          <tr>
            <td height="52" align="center" valign="middle" class="border"><p>Select Recipient*<br>
                <select name="towho">
<option>Select One</option>
<option value="levan">Dr. Levan</option>
<option value="sandra">Sandra Grace</option>
<option value="allison">Allison</option>
  </select>
                <br>
                <br>
            </p></td>
          </tr>
          <tr>
            <td align="center" valign="middle" class="border"><p>Message*<br>
                <textarea name="message" cols="40" rows="4" wrap="VIRTUAL" id="message"></textarea>
              </p>
              <p>&nbsp;</p></td>
          </tr>
          <tr>
            <td align="center" valign="middle" class="border">
<input name="sent" type="hidden" id="sent" value="1"> <input type="submit" name="submit" value="submit" >
          </td>
 
      </tr>
         
        </form>
  </table>
<br>
<?php }
else {
// Form has been submitted, process it now 
// Set $recipient variable as array -- set array id's.
$towho=$_POST['towho'];

if($towho==levan){
$domain=levancc.com
}
if($towho==sandra || $towho==allison){
$domain==handsofgracemassage.com
}
$recipient[levan]="Dr.Levan";
$recipient[sandra]="Sandra";
$recipient[allison]="Allison";
$errorlevel="0";
//Check Required Fields
if($message=="" OR $_POST[name]=="" OR $_POST[email]=="" ){
  //error-- blank field -- display message and button
  echo "You left one or more required fields blank<br>";
  $errorlevel++;
  }
  //check if recipient was selected
if($towho=="Select One" ){
  //error -- no recipient -- display message and button
  echo "You did not select a recipient<br>";
  $errorlevel++;
  };

//put email address together
$emailname="$recipient[$towho]";
$fulladdress= "$emailname@$domain";
$body ='
<table width="50%" border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
    <tr>
    <td  bgcolor="#000066" ><font color="#FFFFFF">From: </font></td>
    <td align="center">'. $name .' </td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td bgcolor="#000066" ><p><font color="#FFFFFF">Email:</font></p></td>
    <td align="center">.' $email.'</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td bgcolor="#000066" ><font color="#FFFFFF">Message </font></td>
    <td align="center"> .'$message.' </td>
  </tr>
</table>
';
?>

<p align="center">&nbsp;</p>
<table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="15">
  <tr>
    <td colspan="2" align="center" valign="top"><strong><em>The following information has been submitted:</em></strong></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td width="172" height="88" align="right" valign="middle"><strong>Name:</strong></td>
    <td width="233" valign="bottom"><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </strong>$name</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td height="91" align="right" valign="middle"><strong>Email:&nbsp;&nbsp;</strong></td>
    <td valign="bottom"><strong>&nbsp; </strong>$email</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td height="129" align="right" valign="middle"><strong>Message:&nbsp;&nbsp;</strong></td>
    <td valign="bottom"><strong>&nbsp; </strong>$message </td>
  </tr>
</table>
<p align="center"><strong><em><br>
</em></strong></p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>

<?
//send mail to selected recipient
// Always set content-type when sending HTML email
$headers = "MIME-Version: 1.0" . "\r\n";
$headers .= "Content-type:text/html;charset=iso-8859-1" . "\r\n";
$headers .= "From: $_POST[name] <$_POST[email]>";
if ($errorlevel==0){
mail("$fulladdress" , "Message from Web Form", $body, "$headers");

}
};
?> 
  </td>
        </tr>
      </table>
    </td>
  </tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>
[/code]

[11Tami]

What happens when it sends, does it give a message on the same page it sends from? I can't see it. Thanks.

[chronister]

yes, in the else part of the page, it gathers data from the form, then puts together email address for the person it's sending to sends email and at the same time displays a "the following information has been sent"

EDIT: Removed URL so as not to have my friends email loaded up with junk.

It is fixed now

-------------------- Here is the body of the email message-----------------------------------
[code]$body ='
<table width="50%" border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
    <tr>
    <td  bgcolor="#000066" ><font color="#FFFFFF">From: </font></td>
    <td align="center">'. $name .' </td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td bgcolor="#000066" ><p><font color="#FFFFFF">Email:</font></p></td>
    <td align="center">.' $email.'</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td bgcolor="#000066" ><font color="#FFFFFF">Message </font></td>
    <td align="center"> .'$message.' </td>
  </tr>
</table>
';
?>[/code]
-----------------------  Here is the confirmation part -------------------------------------
[code]<p align="center">&nbsp;</p>
<table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="15">
  <tr>
    <td colspan="2" align="center" valign="top"><strong><em>

The following information has been submitted:
</em></strong></td>

  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td width="172" height="88" align="right" valign="middle"><strong>Name:</strong></td>
    <td width="233" valign="bottom"><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </strong> <?=$name ?></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td height="91" align="right" valign="middle"><strong>Email:&nbsp;&nbsp;</strong></td>
    <td valign="bottom"><strong>&nbsp; </strong><?=$email ?></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td height="129" align="right" valign="middle"><strong>Message:&nbsp;&nbsp;</strong></td>
    <td valign="bottom"><strong>&nbsp; </strong><?=$message ?> </td>
  </tr>
</table>
<p align="center"><strong><em><br>
</em></strong></p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>[/code]

[11Tami]

Thanks I'm still looking right at it but don' t see how the "the following information has been submitted" is launched. I see where it is located but don't see what is connecting to it.

Reason I am asking is I asked here how to include an echo in the same page when something is submitted. Thank you very much.

[chronister]

I don't have this page using a database at all, so I am simply taking the information that is inputted in my form, setting the $_POST['  '] variables into friendly variables e.g. $name, $email, $message and putting those in my email chunk of code and emailing them as well as simply displaying them back to the user.

Create a new page with the following code.

[code]


<html>
<head>
<title>Untitled Document</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
</head>
<body>
<center>
<?
if(!$_POST['Submit']){ ?>  <!-- notice how I break out of the php to display the html -->


Form has not been submitted... so we show the form            <br><br>

<form name="form1" method="post" action="<?=$_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] ?>">
<!-- jumped back into php for the action part then out again --> 

  Input1  <input name="input1" type="text" id="input1"><br>

  Input2  <input name="input2" type="text" id="input2"><br>

  Input3  <input name="input3" type="text" id="input3"><br><br>

  <input type="submit" name="Submit" value="Submit">

</form>


<?                                          // jumped back into php for the processing
} //end if statement

else{  // form has been submitted, so now we process it.

echo 'You Submitted The Following Information<br><br><br><br>';


$input1=$_POST['input1'];    //set friendly variable name for data recieved
$input2=$_POST['input2'];  //set friendly variable name for data recieved
$input3=$_POST['input3'];  //set friendly variable name for data recieved

echo '<b>Input 1:</b> '. $input1.'<br><br>'; // display what was entered in input1
echo '<b>Input 2:</b> '. $input2.'<br><br>'; // display what was entered in input2
echo '<b>Input 3:</b> '. $input3.'<br><br>'; // display what was entered in input3

/*

You would then put the mail processing part here and have it send the information that was submitted above.

*/

}; // end else statement

?>
</center>
</body>
</html>



[/code]

Name this file anything you want and play with it until you see exactly what it's doing. I have the form processing and confirmation code in the same spot.  I am simply wrapping the whole page in an if / else statement.

if the form not submitted, then show the form.. else its been submitted, so process it and display confirmation.

Notice how I jump in and out of php as needed. I find it makes for cleaner code. You end up with a few more <?  ?> tags, but I find it easier to weed through those than a bunch of  \"

[11Tami]

Gosh good idea, I am sick of those parsing errors myself. Ok thanks for the prompts I'll study it and see if I can incorporate it into what I need. Thanks a whole lot.

I might have a few small questions to understand better once I study fully so please check back. I really want to get my problem solved. Looks like a lot of other people are tired of the same echo problems, can't believe all the people viewing this thread.

[chronister]

we're popular  ;D


if you need to feel free to email me, my address is in my profile.

[11Tami]

LOLOL, thanks a lot!

Hey this might work too, maybe you can use it for something. It can probably be modified with your technique and without all the slashes.
<?php
    if($_POST['text']=="")
    {
               echo "<form method=\"post\" action=\"{$_SERVER['PHP_SELF']}\">";
               echo "<p><input type=\"text\" name=\"text\"><p><input type=\"submit\" value=\"submit\"></p></form>";
     }
     else
     {
              echo $_POST['text'];
              echo "<form method=\"post\" action=\"{$_SERVER['PHP_SELF']}\">";
              echo "<p><input type=\"text\" name=\"text\"><p><input type=\"submit\" value=\"submit\"></p></form>";
 
     }
?>

[chronister]

again, why are you doing a form in both parts of the statement??

I see no reason to show a form after a form has been submitted except when errors are found, and you are giving the user a chance to correct the errors and re-submit.



In the code you gave, your echoing the data that is submitted , and are displaying another form .

No need to show a form after a submit of a form... except in the instance I gave above.

[11Tami]

Its pretty cool. Try it online. You'll see what it does. It can be modified as needed but it echo's everything always on the same exact page. Not saying its better than yours, its just interesting. Here's the version separating the html from the php.

<?php
if($_POST['text']=="")
{
?><form method="post" action="<?php echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']; ?>">
<p><input type="text" name="text"><p><input type="submit" value="submit"></p></form>
<?php
}
else
    {
echo $_POST['text'];
?>
<form method="post" action="<?php echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']; ?>">
<p><input type="text" name="text"><p><input type="submit" value="submit"></p></form>
<?php
}
?>

[chronister]

Essentially is what you are doing is the same thing I showed you. Instead of checking to see if the $_POST['Submit '] var exists, you are checking to see if the $_POST['text'] var is not blank
instead. I still cannot figure why you are doing a form on your confirmation section.

It is not necessary except in the case of errors and giving a user the option to resubmit.

I would stay with checking if the $_POST['Submit'] var exists, and then use

[code]if($_POST['text'==""]){
$error[]="Please enter text in the text field"
};
// check and see if other fields are blank and if they are, set error array with message for that box.

[/code]
//use foreach loop to display any errors

[code]while(count($error) > 1){
foreach($error as $message){
echo $message.'<br>';
}; //end foreach

}// end while loop

[/code]

You don't want to base whether your form was submitted or not on the fact of is the text field blank... Maybe they did submit, and just did not fill in that field. Check form submission using the name of your button. 'Submit' or whatever you name it