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[SOLVED] problem using form to obtain a list of email addresses


frijole

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I am trying to get a list of emails by having people enter their email into a text box and then send a SQL query to insert the email into the DB. I am not getting any PHP errors anymore. When i submit an email there is simply a blank page, and nothing in the DB.

 

<?php
/*Program:  email.php
*Desc:     PHP program that sends an email address to the DB for a mailing list.          
*/

if(ini_get("magic_quotes_gpc") == "1")
{
   $_POST['email'] = stripslashes($_POST['email']);
}

$host="localhost";
$user="removed";
$password="removed";

if(!empty($_POST['form']))
{
  mysql_connect($host,$user,$password);
  mysql_select_db(thinksna_email);
  $result = mysql_query($_POST['email']);

  if($result == false)
  {
     echo "<h4>Error: ".mysql_error($cxn)."</h4>";
  }
  else
  {
     $email = $_POST['email'];

mysql_query("INSERT INTO email (email, email_id, dateTime) VALUES ('$email', '' , NOW())") or die(mysql_error());

echo "'$email' was added to the list";

  }


?>

 

And here is the HTML page that displays the form:

 

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">

<html xml:lang="en">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html"; charset="UTF-8" />

<head>

<title>mypage.com</title>

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="web.css">

<link rel="Shortcut Icon" type="image" href="favicon.ico">

</head>

<body>

<form action="email.php" method="POST">
<input type="text" email="email">
<input type="submit" value="add my e-mail">
</form>

</body>

</html>

 

im not sure what to do because of the lack of errors.  :o

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I assume

  mysql_select_db(thinksna_email);

should be

  mysql_select_db('thinksna_email');

 

And to be safe, this line

    $email = $_POST['email'];

should be

     $email = mysql_real_escape_string($_POST['email']);

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Hi

 

Try this

 

<?php
/*Program:  email.php
*Desc:     PHP program that sends an email address to the DB for a mailing list.          
*/

if(ini_get("magic_quotes_gpc") == "1")
{
   		$email = stripslashes($_POST['email']);
} else {
   $email = $_POST['email'];
}

$host="localhost";
$user="removed";
$password="removed";

if(!empty($_POST['email']))
{
  $con = mysql_connect($host,$user,$password);
  $sel = mysql_select_db('thinksna_email');
  //$result = mysql_query($_POST['email']);

  if(!$con)
  {
     echo "<h4>Error: ".mysql_error($cxn)."</h4>";
  }
  else
  {
mysql_query("INSERT INTO email (email, email_id, dateTime) VALUES ('$email', '' , NOW())") or die(mysql_error());

echo "$email was added to the list";
  }
}

?>

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