Posts by PatrickE

phpBB is pretty much just as safe as any other board.

The only thing I'll complain about is the slow development of 2.1.x. But then, they have recently made some changes in the development team leadership, as Paul (psotfx) has stepped down...

I'm with csgal about Simple Machines, I don't like it at all. It's too un-simple in my opinion., and I just don't like it.

I like phpBB the most, it's easy to admin, and there are lots of ways to use it. I've looked at the CVS versions of 2.1.x (phpBB 3.0), and it looks awesome. It's just as good as VB in my opinion, and it still has its simplicity, even in the admin CP.

I've also used IPB as a user. I do like the feel of it alot, I just haven't used it much. I'll probably play around with it on my computer this summer.

I've also used VB as a user, obviously, and it has lots of features, but from what I hear, it's a bit complicated and complex to administrate...

MyBB looks good right now, I wouldn't be surprised to see it become more known once it's out of it's RC stages. I'm going to play around with it too. It does look nice too.

I still stick with phpBB due to the fact that it's open-source and will have many more features in 3.0. It looks great. I like it as a user and admin.

Try this:

On your form, have the field for their name called "name".
The field for their email should be called "email".

Now, below is the PHP code for the page you submit the form to.

<?php
$email=$_POST['email'];
$name=$_POST['name'];
$subject = "New Mailing List Signup";
$sendto = "your@email.addy";
$body = "This is the information filled out for their signup. /n /n Name: $name /n Email: $email /n /n This signup was generated by your server."
mail($sendto,$subject,$message)
?>

You can customize it however you want. And for your understanding, the "/n" means line break.

Haha. That can do it alright! I'm glad I could help.

Well, he simply wants to know how to create a database and set it up to use phpBB.

Does your webhost have cPanel?

From what I see... In the first one, you forgot the opening parenthesis. In the second one, you have mismatched values.

Try this:

$sqlquery = "INSERT INTO $table VALUES
('$id','$Name','$DoB_Day','$DoB_Month','$DoB_Year','$Address_1','$Address2','$Town','$Postcode','$Telephone','$Mobile','$Email','$6th_Form','$6th_Form_Year','$6th_Form_Institution','$6th_Form_Course_Title','$College','$College_Year','$College_Name','$College_Course','$E2E','$E2E_Provider','$Apprenticeship','$Apprenticeship_Level','$App_Employer_Name','$App_Work_Area','$Employment','$Employment_Basis','$Emp_Employer_Name','$Emp_Job_Title','$Emp_Training','$University','$University_Name','$Uni_Course_Title','$Gap_Year','$Unemployed','$Other')";

And by the way... if I'm not terribly mistaken... if the ID column is set as auto_increment, then you should use the code below. If it's not... then ignore the code below.

$sqlquery = "INSERT INTO $table VALUES
('','$Name','$DoB_Day','$DoB_Month','$DoB_Year','$Address_1','$Address2','$Town','$Postcode','$Telephone','$Mobile','$Email','$6th_Form','$6th_Form_Year','$6th_Form_Institution','$6th_Form_Course_Title','$College','$College_Year','$College_Name','$College_Course','$E2E','$E2E_Provider','$Apprenticeship','$Apprenticeship_Level','$App_Employer_Name','$App_Work_Area','$Employment','$Employment_Basis','$Emp_Employer_Name','$Emp_Job_Title','$Emp_Training','$University','$University_Name','$Uni_Course_Title','$Gap_Year','$Unemployed','$Other')";

Well, they do there's in some way with PHP. You can go to Weather.com and get a Javascript code block with current conditions, though.

I believe that instead of echoing the thank you message, you can have it do a redirect instead.

Change this:

echo "$thanks";

To this:

header("Location: page_to_redirect_to.php");

What exactly do you want the form to do?

Would you like it to just send you an email with their name and email? If so, this is an easy PHP project. :cheesy: