White Screen with mailing code

updwebmaster · December 18, 2007

I have a custom mailing code and I can't figure out what's wrong. Here's the code:

<?php
if(isset($_POST['frm_action1']) && $_POST['frm_action1']==1)
{


$sender = "Uberpilotdudes.com";
$name = $_POST['Name'];
$date = $_POST['Date'];
$tags = $_POST['Tags'];
$oemail = $_POST['other_emails'];
$email = $_POST['Email'];
$today = date("l, F j, Y, g:i a") ;
$to = uberpilotdudes@bellsouth.net,$email
$body ="Submitted on: $today<br/>
Name: $name<br/>
Tags: $tags<br/>
When: $date<br/>
E-Mail: $email<br/>
Other E-mails: $oemail";

mail($to,"Application for Battle",$body,$sender);
$message = "The application has been sent successfully!<br/><br/><SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript">
<!--
window.setTimeout('CountDown()',100);
-->
</SCRIPT><FORM NAME="form1">
        <div class="style1">
          You are being redirected in
          <input type="text" name="clock" size="2" value="5" />
          seconds.
        </div>
      </FORM>";
}
else
{ 
$error = "There was an error sending the Application for Joining! Check the coding!";
mail(uberpilotdudes@bellsouth.net,"Error!",$error,$sender)
$message = "There was an error when sending the application! Please send your application information to our webmaster at: uberpilotdudes@bellsouth.net<br/>Please click <b><a href="../home.htm">HERE</a></b> to return to the UPD homepage. Sorry!";
}

?>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">

  <head>
    <script language="javascript">
      <!-- Original:  Corey (638@gohip.com ) -->
      <!-- Web Site:   http://six38.tripod.com -->
      <!-- This script and many more are available free online at -->
      <!-- The JavaScript Source!! http://javascript.internet.com -->
      <!-- Begin
var start=new Date();
start=Date.parse(start)/1000;
var counts=10;
function CountDown(){
	var now=new Date();
	now=Date.parse(now)/1000;
	var x=parseInt(counts-(now-start),10);
	if(document.form1){document.form1.clock.value = x;}
	if(x>0){
		timerID=setTimeout("CountDown()", 100)
	}else{
		location.href="../home.htm"
	}
}
//  End -->
</script>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="en-us" />
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>App for Battle Confirm</title>
<script type="text/javascript">
<!--
function FP_goToURL(url) {//v1.0
window.location=url;
}
// -->
</script>
<style type="text/css">
.style1 {
text-align: center;
}
</style>
</head>

<body style="color: #FFFFFF; background-color: #000000">

  <div class="style1">

    <center>
      <?php echo $message ?><br />
    </center>
  </div>
</body>

</html>

When I go to submit the form, all I get is a white screen. What's the problem?

trq · December 18, 2007

For starters, the email address you specify needs to be in quotes. Its meant to be a string.

$to = "uberpilotdudes@bellsouth.net,$email";

Turn on error_reporting, I'm sure there are many more.

updwebmaster · December 18, 2007

Thanks. I got rid of the error emailing and I put quotes around the $to variable, but it still won't work properly...

chigley · December 18, 2007

Why not turn error reporting back on and have a look at the remaining errors?

updwebmaster · December 18, 2007

where do you see the errors? The webpage goes white and doesn't show anything when it loads...

chigley · December 18, 2007

<?php

error_reporting(E_ALL);

?>

Stick that at the top of your PHP file.

PFMaBiSmAd · December 18, 2007

Fatal parse errors, of the type the code has, won't be shown by turning on error reporting in the file, because the code will never be executed when there is a parse error.

Check your web server log for errors or turn on full php error reporting in php.ini or a .htaccess file.

updwebmaster · December 18, 2007

wow. ok I'll take a look. All I wanted was for someone too look at my code to tell me what went wrong... If you guys want to view the form, it's here: http://www.uberpilotdudes.com/application_for_battle.htm . you can go ahead and submit some random form info if you want. It won't go through is the problem...

chigley · December 18, 2007

Have you inserted the error_reporting() line I showed you?

TheFilmGod · December 18, 2007

The screen goes white it means the php parser crashed.

So error reporting won't work -

helraizer · December 18, 2007

Fatal parse errors, of the type the code has, won't be shown by turning on error reporting in the file, because the code will never be executed when there is a parse error.

Check your web server log for errors or turn on full php error reporting in php.ini or a .htaccess file.

Add


<?php

error_reporting(E_ALL);

ini_set('display_errors', true);

?>

This will show all types of errors, including fatal errors.

Sam

updwebmaster · December 18, 2007

ok the error reporting didn't work... what now?

chigley · December 18, 2007

Look in your server error log.

PFMaBiSmAd · December 18, 2007

We are not here to debug the php syntax errors in your code, one at a time. It will take you are very long time to produce any working code if you are relying on a forum to find your syntax errors.

So, no. No one here is going to look through your code and tell you what when wrong until you have code that at least executes.

Edit: Since those two lines of code in the file will never be executed when there is a parse error, error reporting won't be turned on by them.

chigley · December 18, 2007

On a quick look at the code, I can see dozens of simple errors. I'd suggest you either start from scratch, or go through it line by line.

TheFilmGod · December 18, 2007

There is a debate on:

error reporting vs. not using it

YOU CAN NOT use error reporting in this situation. The parser crashed and when somethings crashes it surely won't give you errors - unless its a microsoft product.

helraizer · December 18, 2007

There is a debate on:

error reporting vs. not using it

YOU CAN NOT use error reporting in this situation. The parser crashed and when somethings crashes it surely won't give you errors - unless its a microsoft product.

Being a microsoft product is probably what caused it to crash.

@ the OP.

Change

$message = "The application has been sent successfully!<br/><br/><SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript">
<!--
window.setTimeout('CountDown()',100);
-->
</SCRIPT><FORM NAME="form1">
        <div class="style1">
          You are being redirected in
          <input type="text" name="clock" size="2" value="5" />
          seconds.
        </div>
      </FORM>";

To

$message = "The application has been sent successfully!<br/><br/><SCRIPT LANGUAGE='JavaScript'>
<!--
window.setTimeout('CountDown()',100);
-->
</SCRIPT><FORM NAME='form1'>
        <div class='style1'>
          You are being redirected in
          <input type='text' name='clock' size='2' value='5' />
          seconds.
        </div>
      </FORM>";

Then change

mail(uberpilotdudes@bellsouth.net,"Error!",$error,$sender)
$message = "There was an error when sending the application! Please send your application information to our webmaster at: uberpilotdudes@bellsouth.net<br/>Please click <b><a href="../home.htm">HERE</a></b> to return to the UPD homepage. Sorry!";

To

mail("uberpilotdudes@bellsouth.net","Error!",$error,$sender);
$message = "There was an error when sending the application! Please send your application information to our webmaster at: uberpilotdudes@bellsouth.net<br/>Please click <b><a href='../home.htm'>HERE</a></b> to return to the UPD homepage. Sorry!";

After that, there are no more immediate errors. See if it works.

Sam

Wolphie · December 19, 2007

This is how i'd generally write a client contact form:

<?php
error_reporting(E_ALL);
ini_set('display_errors', true);

switch($_GET['do'])
{
  default:
   $form = '<form method="post" action="?do=send">';
   $form .= '<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">';
   $form .= '<tr><td>Your Email:<input type="text" name="email" /></td></tr>';
   $form .= '<tr><td>Subject: <input type="text" name="subject" /></td></tr>';
   $form .= '<tr><td>Message: <textarea cols="5" rows="10" name="message"></textarea></tr></tr>';
   $form .= '<tr><td><input type="submit" value="Send" /></td></tr>';
   $form .= '</table>';
   $form .= '</form>';
  break;

  case 'send':
   $to = 'youremail@domain.com';
   $from = 'From: ' . $_POST['email'];
   $subject = $_POST['subject'];
   $message = $_POST['message'];
   mail($to, $subject, $message, $from);
  break;
}
?>

Change that around a bit and you should be fine.

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