simple email submission

websime · January 22, 2008

hey, first post here, not a phpfreak, just getting me toes wet =]

so, I want to accomplish a simple thing here...

http://www.namastenutrition.net/mock.html

That is just a jpg of the site I am coding, but you can see the field on the left side I am working with.

This is what I am trying to do:

1. User enters their email address

2. User clicks Sign Up!

3. User is sent to index_thanks.html

4. Users e-mail address is emailed to my e-mail address.

I know this is realllly simple, I have implemented a contact.php page successfully, but when I try to edit it down, I get errors.

If anyone can help me out here, it would be most appreciated!!!

Thanks,

sime

revraz · January 22, 2008

Read this

http://www.phpfreaks.com/forums/index.php/topic,6264.0.html

then post the required info.

mike177 · January 22, 2008

Honestly if you want a mailing list you should create a database and just have the mail address added along with there name ect. Then use your mailing client to send a mass message rather than having them send you their email address add that to you contacts list.

It's honestly a simply registration form, a little basic error checking and database connection. I could help you with some of the coding if you want send me a PM and I'll get back to you.

jonahpup · January 22, 2008

Hi there,

For something simple like this, I usually use a basic 2 page submission form... something like the following...

signup.php

<html>
<head>
<title>Signup</title>
</head>

<body>
<form action="thanks.php" method="post">
	<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
		<tr>
			<td>
			Name:</td>
			<td>
			<input type="text" name="name" /></td>
		</tr>
		<tr>
			<td>
			Email Address:</td>
			<td>
			<input type="text" name="email" /></td>
		</tr>
		<tr>
			<td colspan="2">
			<input type="submit" name="Submit" value="Submit" /> | <input type="reset" name="Reset" value="Start Again" /></td>
		</tr>
	</table>
</form>
</body>
</html>

and then for error checking and email submission I use

thanks.php


<?php

if(!isset($_POST['Submit']))
	{
	header( 'location: http://www.domain.com/signup.php' );  //this just stops people being able to goto thanks.php 
	// and submit blank forms
	}
	else{

//gather info from previous page
$name = $_POST['name'];
$email = $_POST['email'];

//check that fields are not blank
if(empty($name))
	{ echo("Name field is blank.  Please enter your name");
	}
if(empty($email))
	{ echo("Email field is blank.  Please enter your email");
	}

//check for valid email address function
function CheckMail($email)
	{
		if (eregi("^[0-9a-z]([-_.]?[0-9a-z])*@[0-9a-z]([-.]?[0-9a-z])*\.[a-z]{2,4}$", $email)) { return true; }
		else { return false; }
	}

	if(!empty($name) && !empty($email))
		{
			if(CheckMail($email) == false) // if email address is invalid
				{
				echo("Ut Oh... your email address is broken... please fix it!");
				}
			if(CheckMail($email) == true) // if email address is valid
				{
					//send info via email.
					$sendTo = "youremail@yourdomain.com";  // your email address
					$subject = "new email submission"; //subject of email
					$message = "
						<html><head><title>New Email Submission</title></head>
						<body>
						<p>Name: $name</p>
						<p>Email Address: $email</p>
						</body>
						</html>
						";

					$header = "FROM: <$email>\r\nContent-type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1\r\n"; 
					mail($sendTo, $subject, $message, $header);

					echo("Thank you for your submission.  You will now be added to our database");	
				}
		}


}
?>

I find this piece of code works really well... and because it sends emails in html you can play around with it and customise it however you want...

Hope this helps...

hamza · January 22, 2008

My php.ini setting are this

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

[mail function]

; For Win32 only.

SMTP = mail.technology-uprising.com

smtp_port = 25

; For Win32 only.

sendmail_from = ahtasham82@gmail.com

And error is

not able to connect to mail server

please help me i want to send a simple email using php mail function

thanks

websime · January 22, 2008

Hey jonahpup

I went with your code setup and it pretty much worked great! Thanks.

It seemed to take the info okay and it sent the 'success' message to the browser window.

The only glitch is that it did not send the e-mail to me with the entered information!

Do I need to do anything thru the hosting account? set up a database or anything?

Thanks, also, can anyone tell me why I cannot send private messages??

Hi there,

For something simple like this, I usually use a basic 2 page submission form... something like the following...

signup.php

<html>
<head>
<title>Signup</title>
</head>

<body>
<form action="thanks.php" method="post">
	<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
		<tr>
			<td>
			Name:</td>
			<td>
			<input type="text" name="name" /></td>
		</tr>
		<tr>
			<td>
			Email Address:</td>
			<td>
			<input type="text" name="email" /></td>
		</tr>
		<tr>
			<td colspan="2">
			<input type="submit" name="Submit" value="Submit" /> | <input type="reset" name="Reset" value="Start Again" /></td>
		</tr>
	</table>
</form>
</body>
</html>

and then for error checking and email submission I use

thanks.php


<?php

if(!isset($_POST['Submit']))
	{
	header( 'location: http://www.domain.com/signup.php' );  //this just stops people being able to goto thanks.php 
	// and submit blank forms
	}
	else{

//gather info from previous page
$name = $_POST['name'];
$email = $_POST['email'];

//check that fields are not blank
if(empty($name))
	{ echo("Name field is blank.  Please enter your name");
	}
if(empty($email))
	{ echo("Email field is blank.  Please enter your email");
	}

//check for valid email address function
function CheckMail($email)
	{
		if (eregi("^[0-9a-z]([-_.]?[0-9a-z])*@[0-9a-z]([-.]?[0-9a-z])*\.[a-z]{2,4}$", $email)) { return true; }
		else { return false; }
	}

	if(!empty($name) && !empty($email))
		{
			if(CheckMail($email) == false) // if email address is invalid
				{
				echo("Ut Oh... your email address is broken... please fix it!");
				}
			if(CheckMail($email) == true) // if email address is valid
				{
					//send info via email.
					$sendTo = "youremail@yourdomain.com";  // your email address
					$subject = "new email submission"; //subject of email
					$message = "
						<html><head><title>New Email Submission</title></head>
						<body>
						<p>Name: $name</p>
						<p>Email Address: $email</p>
						</body>
						</html>
						";

					$header = "FROM: <$email>\r\nContent-type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1\r\n"; 
					mail($sendTo, $subject, $message, $header);

					echo("Thank you for your submission.  You will now be added to our database");	
				}
		}


}
?>

I find this piece of code works really well... and because it sends emails in html you can play around with it and customise it however you want...

Hope this helps...

revraz · January 22, 2008

You can't PM until you get 10 posts.

Check your error log for a mail error and make sure mail is supported.

websime · January 23, 2008

You can't PM until you get 10 posts.

Check your error log for a mail error and make sure mail is supported.

Well, that advice got me looking into the issue thru the hosting CP and found a form mail .asp solution that go daddy offers, which did exactly what I was looking for and nothing more.

This one is solved for now but I will be getting in touch via PM as soon as I can to discuss mailing lists!

thanks to everyone for being helpful and kind.

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