php help

Junior WebHelper Joined: 20 Jan 2004 Posts: 2

I've created a contact form with flash and php. My php coding has been ok until I decided to add the date(). My php is:

<?php
$today = date("F j, Y, g:i a");
$to = "jdbinsulationsltd@f2s.com";
$subject = "Customer Enquiry";
$msg = "$today\n\nCompany: $company\nName: $name\n\n Enquiry: \n $enquiry\n";
mail($to, $subject , $msg, "From: JD Bruce Website\nReply-To: $emailinput\n");
?>

Problem is the email I receive from the php coding is wrong, see below. Why do I get everything that is in bold? The text inside the bold text is the message I wanna show only.

January 20, 2004, 6:03 pm

Company: asdasd
Name: asdasd

Enquiry:
<TEXTFORMAT LEADING="2"><P ALIGN="LEFT"><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE="12" COLOR="#333333">jdajdlasjdkalsjdlkasnd</FONT></P></TEXTFORMAT><TEXTFORMAT LEADING="2"><P ALIGN="LEFT"><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE="12" COLOR="#333333">dlffsd';lf';sdfsdfsdf</FONT></P></TEXTFORMAT>

Team Member Joined: 06 Jan 2002 Posts: 2564

What are you trying to do to the contents of your <textarea>? None of the code you posted should be inside it, at any rate, and that is why the browser is sending it back as content.

Junior WebHelper Joined: 20 Jan 2004 Posts: 2

Please can you elaborate on your findings! I'm new to php. How can I simplify code or alter to stop the problem.

Team Member Joined: 06 Jan 2002 Posts: 2564

Wherever the code is for the <textarea>, remove whatever's inside it (make a backup of the file before you make the changes though).

Posted: Fri Jan 23, 2004 5:10 pm (20 years, 2 months ago)

before doing sending the message. use strip_tags() function to removed all html/php tags and then send in email