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sug15 · February 3, 2008

Hey. I just coded this simple email script. I am a beginner to html.

I have 2 problems. The first is that It will not recognize the <br /> as breaks. it just displays them in the email as "</br >". For example, if the user types "Gloss Metal" for a theme name, and then "Harry J" for developer name, and clicks submit, the email will be outputed as "Gloss Metal<br />Harry J".

The second problem is that it is giving me this When I click submit:

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/content/s/u/g/sug15/html/sendmail.php:6) in /home/content/s/u/g/sug15/html/sendmail.php on line 19

However, the email is still sent.

Here is the code for my HTML page (index.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>Theme Upload</title>
</head>
<body>
<h2>Add your theme to our database
</h2>
<form method="post" action="sendmail.php">
  <p>Your Email:
  <br> 
    <input name="email" type="text" />
  </p>
  <p>
  Theme's name:
  <br />
    <input name="tname" type="text" size="35" />
  </p>
  <p>Developer's name:    
    <br>
    <input name="dname" type="text" size="35" />
    </p>
    <p>Theme's description:
      <br>
      <textarea name="desciption" cols="45" rows="3"></textarea>
    </p>
      <p>Screenshot link 1:    
    <br>
    <input name="ss1" type="text" size="40" />
  <p>Screenshot link 2:    
    <br>
    <input name="ss2" type="text" size="40" />
    </p>
    <p>Screenshot link 3:    
    <br>
    <input name="ss3" type="text" size="40" />
    
    <blockquote>
      <p>
        <input type="submit" /> 
         <input name="" type="reset" value="Reset" />
        </p>
    </blockquote>
</form>
 
</body>
</html>

Here is the code for my PHP page:

<!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">
<body>
 
<p>
  <?php
  $email = $_REQUEST['email'] ;
  $tname = $_REQUEST['tname'] ;
  $dname = $_REQUEST['dname'] ;
  $description = $_REQUEST['description'] ;
  $ss1 = $_REQUEST['ss1'] ;
  $ss2 = $_REQUEST['ss2'] ;
  $ss3 = $_REQUEST['ss3'] ;
  $return = ("<br />");
  $message = $tname . $return . $dname . $return . $description . $return . $ss1 . $return . $ss2 . $return . $ss3;
 
  mail( "12345@email.com", "Theme",
    $message, "From: $email" );
  header( "Location: http://website.com/thanks.html" );
?>
 
</body>
</html>

And the thanks.html is just a simple html page.

Help, please.

toplay · February 4, 2008

Don't output the HTML at the top of your script before using mail() and header(). See pinned topic:

http://www.phpfreaks.com/forums/index.php/topic,37442.msg146490.html#msg146490

See "Example#4 Sending HTML email" at:

http://us3.php.net/manual/en/function.mail.php

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