Mail-form in php

Junior WebHelper Joined: 16 Nov 2003 Posts: 46

I created a mail form and it just won't work. He doesn't give an error, but when you try to send an e-mail I doesn't get receive one.

This is the form (PS. the variable names are Dutch!):

Code:

<FORM name="contact" action="./handle_form.php" method=post>
<FONT class="text_bold">Name</FONT><BR>
<INPUT type="text" name="naam" size=30><BR>
<FONT class="text_bold">E-mail</FONT><BR>
<INPUT type="text" name="email" size=30><BR>
<FONT class="text_bold">Comments</FONT><BR>
<TEXTAREA name="commentaar" cols="40" rows="7"></TEXTAREA><BR>
<INPUT type="submit" name="submit" size="30" value="Send">
<INPUT type="reset" name="reset" size="30" value="Reset">
</FORM>

This is the script that handles the form:

Code:

<?php
// verwerking form
$naam = trim ("$naam");
$email = trim ("$email");
$commentaar = trim ("$commentaar");
$email = "From: $email";
// verzenden form + message
if (mail ("contact@phryxus.nl", $naam, $email, $commentaar) ) {
print ("<FONT class=text_bold>$naam,</FONT><BR><FONT class=text>Thank you for sending your email! We will contact you as soon as possible.</FONT>\n");
} else {
print ("Your e-mail hasn't been send! Please try again.\n");
}
?>

THNKZ for your time,
Phryxus

Team Member Joined: 06 Jan 2002 Posts: 2564

Check out the PHP manual:

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

That's not the correct syntax for the mail() command Wink

Junior WebHelper Joined: 16 Nov 2003 Posts: 46

Ah, thnx! I'm still a rooky with PHP. Wink

Posted: Mon Jan 26, 2004 6:05 am (20 years, 2 months ago)

Also, you may need to find out from your server the mail function that they are using as for example, my server doesn't recognize the mail() function. I should use email () instead (see below)

Fast copy and paste to help you :

<?php
if (!empty($ton)){ //check if email address field is empty
$from="webmaster";
$sujet="A friend ($na) sent you this page ";
$msg="A friend ($na) has sent you this email. Follow the link below and blah blah";

if(!email($from,$ton,$sujet,$msg))
{echo "<span id=dSc>The email has not been send. Please contact the administrator.<br><a href='javascript:window.close()'>Close the window</a>.<hr align='center' noshade size='2' width='650'>";}

else {echo "<span id=dSc>The email has been sent. <br>";
echo "<a href='javascript:window.close()'>Close the window</a> or send this page to another person.<hr align='center' noshade size='2' width='650'>";}}

Tommy

Team Member Joined: 06 Jan 2002 Posts: 2564

Hosts who use that function are rare - I presume you are hosted at online.fr?

Posted: Mon Jan 26, 2004 7:13 am (20 years, 2 months ago)

>> Hosts who use that function are rare - I presume you are hosted at online.fr?

Indeed Daniel !

Que penses-tu de leur service ?
En tout cas leur prix bas toute concurrence (si je ne me trompe pas) ?

Tommy

Junior WebHelper Joined: 16 Nov 2003 Posts: 46

thnx 4 u're help. I've got him working Laughing

I'm not really sure what the problem was! I think the problem was that I didn't used the right possitions in my mail tag.

Team Member Joined: 06 Jan 2002 Posts: 2564

tomda: Ce que j'ai lu sur leur service n'était pas trop positif, alors j'ai préféré aller ailleurs, d'autant plus que j'ai besoins de services qui ne sont pas disponibles chez eux. Par ailleurs je n'ai pas le temps de modifier tous mes scripts pour utiliser la fonction email() (je ne vois pas pourquoi je m'amuserais à les modifier à chaque changement d'hébergeur!), donc hors de question d'aller chez eux. A mes débuts sur le web, j'y avais tout de même pensé Wink

. Enfin à part ça leur offre à l'air tout à fait correcte Smile

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Posted: Mon Jan 26, 2004 10:30 pm (20 years, 2 months ago)

Don't make me break out teh babelfish to translate all that (or even worse, attempt to translate it myself Very Happy

)

Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2004 8:35 am (20 years, 2 months ago)

Sorry for that Sfcommand... I now it is Embarassed

to have post in other language than English but we were speaking about the services of a French server.

Tommy