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PHP E-mail setting ??? After bending over backwards, I managed to finally get my form validation done, which seems working perfectly well.
After failing to work with e-mail, I wonder if anyone around could help me little towards e-mail so that as soon as someone presses "Submit" button, I get the entire form's message sent to me through an e-mail.
I've typed the e-mail related code right at the bottom of the form, although, I disabled the code so at least you can see the form since right now, it's showing some error message with the use of curly bracket ({).
I guess this e-mail related code should go somewhere up around the comment:
"// If there's NO error at all, along with displaying the filled fields"
I've typed in the comment all over the form, so as to make it easier to read & understand & knowing what's happening where.
I wish to receive the comment submitted on "j4mes_bond25@yahoo.co.uk".
Following is my "contact.php" code:
After failing to work with e-mail, I wonder if anyone around could help me little towards e-mail so that as soon as someone presses "Submit" button, I get the entire form's message sent to me through an e-mail.
I've typed the e-mail related code right at the bottom of the form, although, I disabled the code so at least you can see the form since right now, it's showing some error message with the use of curly bracket ({).
I guess this e-mail related code should go somewhere up around the comment:
"// If there's NO error at all, along with displaying the filled fields"
I've typed in the comment all over the form, so as to make it easier to read & understand & knowing what's happening where.
I wish to receive the comment submitted on "j4mes_bond25@yahoo.co.uk".
Following is my "contact.php" code:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<title>Personal Website</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="style.css"/>
</head>
<body>
<?php // include("menu.inc");?>
<div id="centerContent">
<p>
<?php
// If the form has been posted, analyse it:
if ($_POST) {
foreach ($_POST as $field => $value) {
$value = trim($value);
}
// Creating Variables
$inquiry=$_POST['inquiry'];
$title=$_POST['title'];
$first_name=$_POST['first_name'];
$last_name=$_POST['last_name'];
$email=$_POST['email'];
$phone=$_POST['phone'];
$message=$_POST['message'];
$reply=$_POST['reply'];
$contact=$_POST['contact'];
// Create empty ERROR variables
$error = ""; // for fields left BLANK
$errorflag = ""; // for fields with INVALID data entered
// Check for field/fields that is/are left BLANK
if (($first_name == "") || ($last_name == "") || ($email == "") || ($phone == "") || ($message == "")) {
$error = "Please fill in all fields!";
}
else {
// Validate First Name (including ERRORS such as (1) field left BLANK (2) field with INVALID data entered
if (ctype_alpha($first_name) == FALSE) {
$error = "Please enter a valid name <span class='italic'>(Alphabets only)</span>";
$errorflag= "first_name";
}
// Validate Last Name (including ERRORS such as (1) field left BLANK (2) field with INVALID data entered
else if (ctype_alpha($last_name) == FALSE) {
$error = "Please enter a valid last name <span class='italic'>(Alphabets only)</span>";
$errorflag="last_name";
}
// Validate E-mail (including ERRORS such as (1) field left BLANK (2) field with INVALID data entered
else if ((strpos($email, "@") == FALSE)||
(strpos($email, ".") == FALSE) ||
(strpos($email, " ") != FALSE)) {
$error = "Please enter a valid e-mail address";
$errorflag="email";
}
// Validate Contact No. (including ERRORS such as (1) field left BLANK (2) field with INVALID data entered
else if (is_numeric($phone) == FALSE) {
$error = "Please enter a valid contact number <span class='italic'>(must contain numbers only)</span>";
$errorflag="phone";
}
}
// Confirmation Message seen AFTER filling the form and pressing "Submit" button (whether there's an error or not)
if ($error != "") { echo "<b><span class='colorText'>Error Occured: </b>" . $error."</span>" ; } // If there's an error along with displaying the list of flagged error/errors
// If there's NO error at all, along with displaying the filled fields
else { echo "<p>Thanks for your comment and time. We will be in touch with you shortly.<br/><br/>";
echo "<b>Nature of Inquiry:</b> ". $inquiry . "<br/>";
echo "<b>Title:</b> ". $title . "<br/>";
echo "<b>First Name:</b> ". $first_name . "<br/>";
echo "<b>Last Name:</b> ". $last_name . "<br/>";
echo "<b>E-mail:</b> ". $email . "<br/>";
echo "<b>Contact No.:</b> ". $phone . "<br/>";
echo "<b>Message:</b> ". $message . "<br/>";
echo "<b>Reply:</b> ". $reply . "<br/>";
echo "<b>Contact Method:</b> ". $contact . "<br/></p>";
}
}
// DON'T KNOW WHY THERE'S "ELSE" CODE HERE
else {
$inquiry = "";
$title = "";
$first_name = "";
$last_name = "";
$email = "";
$phone = "";
$message = "";
$reply = "";
$contact = "";
$errorflag = "";
}
?>
</p>
<p class="first-letter">Please fill the following form in for any enquiries that you may have:</p>
<table id="contactTable">
<tr id="contactTr">
<td id="contactTd"><form method="post" action="<?php echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] ?>">
Nature of Enquiry:</td>
<td id="contactTd"><select name="inquiry">
<option <?php if ($inquiry == "General Inquiry") echo "Selected"; ?> value = "General Inquiry">General Inquiry</option>
<option <?php if ($inquiry == "Price Quotation") echo "Selected"; ?> value = "Price Quotation">Price Quotation</option>
<option <?php if ($inquiry == "Comments") echo "Selected"; ?> value = "Comments">Comments</option>
<option <?php if ($inquiry == "Other") echo "Selected"; ?> value = "Other">Other</option>
</select></td>
</tr>
<tr id="contactTr">
<td id="contactTd">Title:</td>
<td id="contactTd"><select name="title"/>
<option <?php if ($title == "Mr") echo "Selected"; ?> value = "Mr">Mr</option>
<option <?php if ($title == "Miss") echo "Selected"; ?> value = "Miss">Miss</option>
<option <?php if ($title == "Ms") echo "Selected"; ?> value = "Ms">Ms</option>
<option <?php if ($title == "Mrs") echo "Selected"; ?> value = "Mrs">Mrs</option>
<option <?php if ($title == "Other") echo "Selected"; ?> value = "Other">Other</option>
</select></td>
</tr>
<tr id="contactTr">
<td id="contactTd"><?php if ($errorflag == "first_name") { echo "<span class='colorText'>First Name:</span>"; }
else { echo "First Name:"; } ?></td>
<td id="contactTd"><input type="text" size="30" maxlength="30" name="first_name" value="<?php echo $first_name; ?>"/></td>
</tr>
<tr id="contactTr">
<td id="contactTd"><?php if ($errorflag == "last_name") { echo "<span class='colorText'>Last Name:</span>"; }
else { echo "Last name:"; } ?></td>
<td id="contactTd"><input type="text" size="30" maxlength="30" name="last_name" value="<?php echo $last_name; ?>"/></td>
</tr>
<tr id="contactTr">
<td id="contactTd"><?php if ($errorflag == "email") { echo "<span class='colorText'>E-mail:</span>"; }
else { echo "E-mail:"; } ?></td>
<td id="contactTd"><input type="text" size="30" maxlength="30" name="email" value="<?php echo $email; ?>"/></td>
</tr>
<tr id="contactTr">
<td id="contactTd"><?php if ($errorflag == "phone") { echo "<span class='colorText'>Contact No.:</span>"; }
else { echo "Contact No.:"; } ?></td>
<td id="contactTd"><input type="text" size="30" maxlength="20" name="phone" value="<?php echo $phone; ?>"/></td>
</tr>
<tr id="contactTr">
<td id="contactTd">Message:</td>
<td id="contactTd"><textarea rows="10" cols="50" wrap="physical" name="message"/><?php echo $message; ?>
</textarea></td>
</tr>
<tr id="contactTr">
<td id="contactTd">Reply Required:</td>
<td id="contactTd"><input type="radio" name="reply" value="Yes" checked="checked"/>Yes
<input type="radio" name="reply" value="No" <?php if ($reply="No") echo "checked='checked'"; ?>/>No</td>
</tr>
<tr id="contactTr">
<td id="contactTd">How would you like to be contacted (if required)?<br/><br/></td>
<td id="contactTd"><input type="radio" name="contact" value="Email" checked="checked"/>E-mail
<input type="radio" name="contact" value="Telephone" <?php if ($contact="Telephone") echo "checked='checked'"; ?>/>Telephone
</td>
</tr>
<tr id="contactTr">
<td id="contactTd"></td>
<td id="contactTd"><input type="reset" name="reset" value="Reset">
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="Submit"></td>
</form>
</tr>
</table>
<?php
/*
if ($_POST) {
if (mail("j4mes_bond25@yahoo.co.uk", $_POST['inquiry'], stripslashes($_POST['message'], "From: " .$_POST['email']."r\n")) {
echo "E-mail sent successfully";
}
elseif {
echo "E-mail NOT sent";
}
}
*/
?>
</div>
</body>
</html> Nope, I'm NOT God, but I'm British (which is the next best thing ;)
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You have to set what SMTP(Outgoing) Mail server you are going to user first. In order to set that use.
[php]ini_set(smtp, "mail.myserver.net");
ini_set(smtp_port, 25); //25 is the default leave it at that if you are unsure.
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[php]ini_set(smtp, "mail.myserver.net");
ini_set(smtp_port, 25); //25 is the default leave it at that if you are unsure.
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Originally Posted by BlazingWolf
You have to set what SMTP(Outgoing) Mail server you are going to user first. In order to set that use.
[php]ini_set(smtp, "mail.myserver.net");
ini_set(smtp_port, 25); //25 is the default leave it at that if you are unsure.
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Do I set this SMTP Mail server in different file (if so, would it have ".php" extention ???) or do I simply type this code within the same file "contact.php".
By the way, may not be a rather sensible question but, instead of "myserver", do I change it to "apache" since that is the server I'm using for PHP OR do I leave it as "mail.myserver.net", as it's now.
Nope, I'm NOT God, but I'm British (which is the next best thing ;)
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You want to leave those to lines in whatever files you are sending the mail in.
The mail.myserver.net is whatever your SMTP mail server is for instance mine is smtp.charter.net because charter is my hosting provider. If you use a email client like Outlook or Thunderbird you will have had to use this outgoing mail server address, so you can look it up in your settings.
The mail.myserver.net is whatever your SMTP mail server is for instance mine is smtp.charter.net because charter is my hosting provider. If you use a email client like Outlook or Thunderbird you will have had to use this outgoing mail server address, so you can look it up in your settings.
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