Simple order PHP form to Email

wearetwo · #1 (**permalink**) 01-05-06, 03:36 AM

Hey guys,

I am pretty clueless when it comes to php. Yikes!

I am in need of a simple form script that will get the data one inputs in a form and email them to me. Specifically, this is the (HTML) form I have:

Code:

<form method="post" action="sendmail.php">

<b>information</b>

<p>

Name: <input type="text" size="7" name="name"> <p>

Phone Number: <input type="text" name="phone"> <p>

Email Address <input type="text" name="email"> <p>

<hr>

<b>Further information</b><p>

Country: 

<SELECT NAME="state" SIZE="1">
<OPTION SELECTED>Blue
<OPTION>Red
<OPTION>Yellow
<OPTION>Green
<OPTION>Black
<OPTION>Orange
<OPTION>Purple
</SELECT>

<p>

Number : <input type=text size=2 name="purchase"><p>

URL: http://<input type=text name="link"><p>

Image File: <INPUT TYPE="file" NAME="attachedfile" MAXLENGTH=50 ALLOW="text/*" ><p>

<b>Extra Comments</b><p>

<TEXTAREA NAME="comment" ROWS=6 COLS=40>
</TEXTAREA>

<hr>

<INPUT TYPE="submit">
<INPUT TYPE="reset">

</form>

I have tried to use "php mail(" function but apparently php mail function can't have more than five variables...

I did this,

PHP Code:


			
<?

  $email = $_REQUEST['namel'] ;

  $message = $_REQUEST['phone'] ;

  $message = $_REQUEST['email'] ;

  $message = $_REQUEST['state'] ;

  $message = $_REQUEST['purchase'] ;

  $message = $_REQUEST['link'] ;

  $message = $_REQUEST['attachedfile'] ;

  $message = $_REQUEST['method'] ;

  $message = $_REQUEST['comment'] ;



  mail("email@email.com",$name,$phone,$email,$state,$purchae,$link,$method,$comment);



?>

followed by mail( which spewed me many errors,

basically, is there a way to get all the data and have them mailed at to me? the "names" I have is

name=name
name=phone
name=email
name=state
name=purchase
name=link
name=attachedfile
name=method
name=comment

Thanks very much

johndapunk · #2 (**permalink**) 01-05-06, 04:56 AM

Dunno if this will at all help you (kinda practice for me also, but here is the source i worked out.)

Code:

<html>
<head>
</head>
<body>
<form action="answer.php" method="post">
Name: <input type="text" name="name"><br>
Age: <input type="text" name="age"><br>
Email: <input type="text" name="email"><br>
<input type="submit" value="submit">
</form>
</body></html>

Code:

<?php
	$to = "johndapunk@gmail.com"; 
	$useremail = $_POST['email'];
	$name = $_POST['name'];
	$age = $_POST['age'];
	$subject= "subject here";
			
			$message="
			$name has done something.
			
			<table border=1 bgcolor=black>
			<tr bgcolor=76A5D5>
			<th width=125><font color=white>Age</font>
			
			<tr>
			<td><font color=white>".$age."
			
			</table>
			Thanks
			
			";
			
			$headers = "FROM: '$name' <$useremail>\r\n";
			$headers .= "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";
			$headers .= "Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\r\n";

			mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);

echo ("Should be successful.");
?>

Also depends on whether you have a mailserver to connect to (as i do not, so I could not get a 100% reading of whether those scripts will work or not.) Although, I believe they should work... other then the fatal error I got for not being able to connect to a mailserver at localhost, all parse errors were buffed out.

Enjoy, and good luck.

olaf · #3 (**permalink**) 01-05-06, 06:05 AM

or try this easy to use php snippet:

http://www.finalwebsites.com/snippets.php?id=3

wearetwo · #4 (**permalink**) 01-05-06, 06:29 AM

Thanks john! That worked perferctly! yay!

One thing though, in my form one of the input type is a file attatchment, ie.

Code:

Attatchment: <INPUT TYPE="file" NAME="attachedfile" MAXLENGTH=50 ALLOW="text/*" >

How will I get this attatchment to mail it self to my email?

thanks very much!

olaf · #5 (**permalink**) 01-05-06, 06:35 AM

Hi,

sending files bij mail via a webform is much more complicated:

Check in this direction:

1. form submit
2. file upload
3. build mimemail

On my website is an example script how to send an e-mail with one attachement.

johndapunk · #6 (**permalink**) 01-05-06, 12:21 PM

Great, glad to be of service.

Bonzo · #7 (**permalink**) 01-05-06, 03:22 PM

A thing to keep in mind is the header injection problem going around at the moment.

I would search around a bit to find more information on it but one thing to do ( as I understand it ) is to :

PHP Code:


			


$useremail = $_POST['email'];

$useremail = preg_replace("/\r/", "", $useremail);

$useremail = preg_replace("/\n/", "", $useremail);

Which is supposed to help by stopping the spammer exploiting that field of your form?

Anthony

wearetwo · #8 (**permalink**) 01-06-06, 04:28 AM

Quote:

Hi,

sending files bij mail via a webform is much more complicated:

aww. thats terrible news!

It is possible though...is it? via php?

I'd appreciate if someone can come up with a very simple uploading form!

olaf · #9 (**permalink**) 01-06-06, 04:33 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by wearetwo

aww. thats terrible news!

It is possible though...is it? via php?

I'd appreciate if someone can come up with a very simple uploading form!

of course it's possible, first read this about the upload: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&l...rm&btnG=Search

and then try this article over writing a mime mail script: http://www.phpbuilder.com/columns/ka...07.php3?aid=69