Hi, I was looking at your

Greg K — Sun, 01 May 2011 19:04:31 +0000

Hi, I was looking at your site, I take it you got it working, as I did get a "Send Successful" message (or does it show that no matter what?) I was looking at your contact page.

If you are talking about a different page and/or need more help, let me know.

-Greg

PS. I see in terms of a world read forum, we are practically neighbors. I'm over in Upper Arlington.

I need help with the "mail()"

wbeaver — Mon, 25 Apr 2011 03:00:28 +0000

I need help with the "mail()" function so that I can cause a "Email Successful!" window to appear on top of my email info collection window when mail() comes back with "true". Application: 1) my main index.html uses a menu button to call "javascript popUp(URL)" which specifies index.php; 2) index.php uses "http://www.thnc.org/) by changing php names, but I cannot get it to appear after emails have been sent. Suggestions?

Replace (2) and ... "the rest

wbeaver — Mon, 25 Apr 2011 02:54:30 +0000

Replace (2) and ... "the rest of my post"...
2) index.php uses "http://www.thnc.org/) by changing php names, but I cannot get it to appear after emails have been sent.

Cute. I go to join your

wbeaver — Mon, 25 Apr 2011 02:52:25 +0000

Cute. I go to join your forum and you throw me under the bus, asking for "Input". OK, here goes.

Problem: I need to know more about the mail function so that I can cause a "Email Successful!" window to appear on top of my email info collection window when mail() comes back with "true".

Application:
1) my main index.html uses a menu button to call "javascript popUp(URL)" which specifies index.php;
2) index.php uses "http://www.thnc.org/) by changing php names, but I cannot get it to appear after emails have been sent.

Alright, this should work

kazimmerman — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 13:17:01 +0000

Alright, this should work for the email part:

<?php

if(isset($_POST['email'])) {
   
    // EDIT THE 2 LINES BELOW AS REQUIRED
    $email_to = // COMENTED OUT ON PURPOSE! "MYEMAILADDRESS";
    $email_subject = "Website enquiry";
   
   
    function died($error) {
        // your error code can go here
        echo "We are very sorry, but there are problems with the form you submitted.<br />";
        echo "These errors appear below.<br /><br />";
        echo $error."<br />";
        echo "Please go back and fix these errors.<br />";
        die();
    }
   
    // validation expected data exists
    if(!isset($_POST['name']) ||
        !isset($_POST['surname']) ||
        !isset($_POST['comments']) ) {
                //REMOVED THE NEED FOR AN EMAIL HERE
        died('We are sorry, but there appears to be a problem with the form your submitted.');       
    }
   
    $first_name = $_POST['name'];
    $last_name = $_POST['surname'];
    $email_from = $_POST['email'];
    $comments = $_POST['comments'];
   
    $error_message = "";
    $string_exp = "^[a-z .'-]+$";
  if(!eregi($string_exp,$first_name)) {
      $error_message .= 'The First Name you entered does not appear to be valid.<br />';
  }
  if(!eregi($string_exp,$last_name)) {
      $error_message .= 'The Last Name you entered does not appear to be valid.<br />';
  }
    $email_exp = "^[A-Z0-9._%-]+@[A-Z0-9.-]+\.[A-Z]{2,4}$";
  if(($email_from != "") && !eregi($email_exp,$email_from)) {
        //NOW THIS IS ONLY CHECKED IF THE EMAIL EXISTS
      $error_message .= 'The Email Address you entered does not appear to be valid.<br />';
  }
  if(strlen($comments) < 2) {
      $error_message .= 'The Comments you entered do not appear to be valid.<br />';
  }
 
   
  if(strlen($error_message) > 0) {
      died($error_message);
  }
    $email_message = "Form details below.\n\n";
   
    function clean_string($string) {
      $bad = array("content-type","bcc:","to:","cc:","href");
      return str_replace($bad,"",$string);
    }
   
    $email_message .= "First Name: ".clean_string($first_name)."\n";
    $email_message .= "Last Name: ".clean_string($last_name)."\n";
    $email_message .= "Email: ".clean_string($email_from)."\n";
    $email_message .= "Comments: ".clean_string($comments)."\n";
   
   
// create email headers
$headers = 'From: '.$email_from."\r\n".
'Reply-To: '.$email_from."\r\n" .
'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion();
@mail($email_to, $email_subject, $email_message, $headers);
}
?>

As for the checkbox, I don't believe you can use isset() to check it because it will throw an error if it is not checked. If you use the code you provided, the if statement will only validate if the checkbox value is set.

Thankyou very much for

benjy — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 10:43:53 +0000

Thankyou very much for taking the time.. However, I get the error message:
"we are very sorry......... Email is not valid" !!

As for the checkbox, I tried it a while ago, but again, it threw up an error if it wasn't checked. If it was checked, I had confirmation in my email..

Going from memory, I placed code here:

// validation expected data exists
if(!isset($_POST['name']) ||

!isset($_POST['checkbox']) ||

and here:

$email_message .= "Checkbox: ".clean_string($checkbox)."\n";

Hope you can assist further.

Alright, this should allow

kazimmerman — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 16:48:13 +0000

Alright, this should allow users to leave the email field blank:

<?php


if(isset($_POST['email'])) {
    
    // EDIT THE 2 LINES BELOW AS REQUIRED
    $email_to = // COMENTED OUT ON PURPOSE! "MYEMAILADDRESS";
    $email_subject = "Website enquiry";
    
    
    function died($error) {
        // your error code can go here
        echo "We are very sorry, but there are problems with the form you submitted.<br />";
        echo "These errors appear below.<br /><br />";
        echo $error."<br />";
        echo "Please go back and fix these errors.<br />";
        die();
    }
    
    // validation expected data exists
    if(!isset($_POST['name']) ||
        !isset($_POST['surname']) ||
        !isset($_POST['comments']) ) {
                //REMOVED THE NEED FOR AN EMAIL HERE
        died('We are sorry, but there appears to be a problem with the form your submitted.');        
    }
    
    $first_name = $_POST['name']; 
    $last_name = $_POST['surname'];
        //THIS WILL TELL YOU THE EMAIL OR THAT THE EMAIL WASN'T PROVIDED
    if (isset($_POST['email'])) {
    $email_from = $_POST['email'];
    }
    else {
    $email_from = "Email not given";
    }
    $comments = $_POST['comments']; 
    
    $error_message = "";
    $string_exp = "^[a-z .'-]+$";
  if(!eregi($string_exp,$first_name)) {
      $error_message .= 'The First Name you entered does not appear to be valid.<br />';
  }
  if(!eregi($string_exp,$last_name)) {
      $error_message .= 'The Last Name you entered does not appear to be valid.<br />';
  }
    $email_exp = "^[A-Z0-9._%-]+@[A-Z0-9.-]+\.[A-Z]{2,4}$";
  if(isset($_POST['email']) && !eregi($email_exp,$email_from)) {
        //NOW THIS IS ONLY CHECKED IF THE EMAIL EXISTS
      $error_message .= 'The Email Address you entered does not appear to be valid.<br />';
  }
  if(strlen($comments) < 2) {
      $error_message .= 'The Comments you entered do not appear to be valid.<br />';
  }
  
    
  if(strlen($error_message) > 0) {
      died($error_message);
  }
    $email_message = "Form details below.\n\n";
    
    function clean_string($string) {
      $bad = array("content-type","bcc:","to:","cc:","href");
      return str_replace($bad,"",$string);
    }
    
    $email_message .= "First Name: ".clean_string($first_name)."\n";
    $email_message .= "Last Name: ".clean_string($last_name)."\n";
    $email_message .= "Email: ".clean_string($email_from)."\n";
    $email_message .= "Comments: ".clean_string($comments)."\n";
    
    
// create email headers
$headers = 'From: '.$email_from."\r\n".
'Reply-To: '.$email_from."\r\n" .
'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion();
@mail($email_to, $email_subject, $email_message, $headers);  
?>

I left comments about what I did. As for the checkbox problem, I'm not sure what you need. Have you added it to the PHP? Because I see nothing in the file you provided about a checkbox value...