Magnolia — Thu, 09 Mar 2006 18:23:37 +0000

or not putting the php after the ?> when using a linux server which doesnt require it and then moving it to another server which does - just makes your heart sink

Found it in the end though - took me all of oooooo over an hour

Busy — Thu, 09 Mar 2006 09:24:21 +0000

Good luck, with assignments they only usually cover the basics, but you are on the right track learning from the source.
If you do get stuck or don't understand just ask away, plenty of folks ready to offer friendly advice to help you out.

Learning from your mistakes is good, finding that missing ; or ' or " can cause nightmares but helps you to not do it again in a hurry lol

Magnolia — Thu, 09 Mar 2006 07:45:14 +0000

Quote: which will stop all email once you get your first thousand lol (yeah happened to me once, finally got them all disabled after getting 1700 emails)

I can see the error in the ways of this

This is an assignment for my course so it will never be used in real time. I am a hobby user who is just creeping in at the very bottom with no knowledge apart from a little common sense - and I do mean a little

I will sit and work through your suggestions this weekend. I know so little that at first glance it didnt mean a great deal but breaking it down and with the help of my friend google I will learn more and improve my scripting

Thanks again for your help and comments.

Oh yes - next week we are moving onto MySQL :eek:

Busy — Wed, 08 Mar 2006 21:42:09 +0000

_post = from a form internally
_get = from a form via url (?this=that&do=stuff)
_request = _get, _post, _session ...

A good way to learn/use the mail function is contact form (of course), tell a friend, complain/advise/contact a seperate department depending on topic (use drop down list to choose who and with use of SWITCH change the subject, message and even autoreply message) ...

Can also use it for database query faults (if(!$db) send mail), not advised to do this, but if you want to, set it up as a function and return the function on error, this way if the server or host is at fault you can disable the function, which will stop all email once you get your first thousand lol (yeah happened to me once, finally got them all disabled after getting 1700 emails)

Magnolia — Wed, 08 Mar 2006 17:19:07 +0000

Thanks Busy - I will look at _POST and see what it does. I did forget to say that the form has a validation script on it before the submit button will work.

Busy — Wed, 08 Mar 2006 09:19:02 +0000

Instead of _REQUEST use _POST, will stop BBC injections, also some validation on email address should be done for same reason.

good on ya