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Simple Email Problem

 

Simple Email Problem
S3lkies

30 Jun, 2009 - 06:25 PM
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<Form method="post" action="mailto:Test@Test.com">
<li><p>What is your name?<br />
<input type="text" name="Name" size="40" /></p>

<input type="submit" value="Send Form" />
</form>


I have 2 questions - first up sorry its a stupid question ( I should know it ><) but

1. How do I make it when I recieve the email - it changes the subject to a pre set subject eg

SUBJECT:Message from website

2. How do I make it send from off the website ? - When I press the submit button, it loads up an email on the computer itself - I would rather it send straight from the website?

Thanks aLOT in advance anime1.gif.

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30 Jun, 2009 - 06:36 PM
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QUOTE(S3lkies @ 30 Jun, 2009 - 06:25 PM) *

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<Form method="post" action="mailto:Test@Test.com">
<li><p>What is your name?<br />
<input type="text" name="Name" size="40" /></p>

<input type="submit" value="Send Form" />
</form>


I have 2 questions - first up sorry its a stupid question ( I should know it ><) but

1. How do I make it when I recieve the email - it changes the subject to a pre set subject eg

SUBJECT:Message from website

2. How do I make it send from off the website ? - When I press the submit button, it loads up an email on the computer itself - I would rather it send straight from the website?

Thanks aLOT in advance anime1.gif.


If you accomplish 2, you can accomplish 1 trivially. But 2 isn't entirely trivial (but fairly simple). If you want to send it from the website, you need to have some code running on the website to send it. To send, your html form would have to post to some page on the website that would process the request to email.
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30 Jun, 2009 - 06:40 PM
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The important thing to remember about HTML is that it is executed by the viewers browser. Since you want the mail to send from the server, you are going to need to have server side executed code do this. PHP, ASP, cgi/bin, & so on.

PHP mail function
PHP SMTP (direct)
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30 Jun, 2009 - 06:53 PM
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Thank you both of you - no2pencil, do you mean like

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<title>Contact Us</title>
</head>
<body>
<Title>Contact us</Title>

<a href="Main Page.html">Main Page<a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="What we do.html">What we do<a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="About Us.html">About Us<a>

<?php

$myemail = 'Test@test.com';
$subject = 'Contact form from website';

$op = $_POST[op];

if($op == 'contact')
{
    $name = stripslashes($_POST[name]);
    $email = stripslashes($_POST[email]);
    $text = stripslashes($_POST[text]);
    $referer = $_POST[referer];
    $remote_host = $_SERVER[REMOTE_ADDR];
    $server = $_SERVER[SERVER_NAME];
    $browser = $_SERVER[HTTP_USER_AGENT];

    if(!eregi("^[_a-z0-9-]+(.[_a-z0-9-]+)*@[a-z0-9-]+(.[a-z0-9-]+)*(.[a-z]{2,3})$",$email))
    {
        $status = "We're sorry, but you've entered an incorrect email address.<br><br><br>

<form method="post" action="<?php print $_SELF; ?>">
<input type="hidden" name="op" value="contact">
<input type="hidden" name="referer" value="<?php print $referer; ?>">
Name*<br><input name="name" size="35" value=""><br>
E-mail address*<br><input name="email" size="35" value=""><br>
<br>Number (for us to get hold of you on (optional))<br><input name="Number"size="35" value=""><br>
<br>Message*<br><textarea name="text" cols="50" rows="10"></textarea><br><br>
<input type="submit" value="Send message!">
</form>

<h5>* is manditory feilds</h5>



</body>
</html>


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1 Jul, 2009 - 02:33 AM
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thats alot of forum checking which is required
But you will then need the php mail function to send the email to you.

Below is a sample (you will need to change the variables etc.. and integrate it your form)

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<?php
$to = "someone@example.com";
$subject = "Test mail";
$message = "Hello! This is a simple email message.";
$from = "someonelse@example.com";
$headers = "From: $from";
mail($to,$subject,$message,$headers);
echo "Mail Sent.";
?>
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with the message - I want them to put in what they want - how would I get around doing it? like asking them to put in there email address, message etc.?
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The messages etc input through the form in your previous script.
Thats all fine you just need to swap the text in the script that showed
you with the varibles you pass through from your form after checking the input then pass these to the mail function
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5 Jul, 2009 - 05:00 PM
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Thanks alot =D!.
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