[dangmnx]

for some weird reason, i tried to send a email to myself and it said successful, but once i open up the test email. its blank? can someone help me

Here's the form

<form name="form1" method="post" action="send_contact.php">
<table cellpadding='0px' cellspacing='0px' width='100%'>
<tr background='images/registerbg.gif '>
<td>Subject: *</td>
<td><input name="subject" type="text" id="subject" size="50"><br></td>
</tr>

<tr bgcolor='#c0c0c0'>
<td>Detail: *</td>
<td><textarea name="detail" cols="50" rows="4" id="detail"></textarea><br></td>
</tr>

<tr background='images/registerbg.gif '>
<td>Name: *</td>
<td><input name="name" type="text" id="name" size="50"><br></td>
</tr>

<tr background='images/registerbg.gif '>
<td>Email: *</td>
<td><input name="customer_mail" type="text" id="customer_mail" size="50"><br></td>
</tr>

<tr background='images/registerbg.gif '>
<td>Submit: *</td>
<td><input type="submit" name="Submit" value="Submit"> <input type="reset" name="Submit2" value="Reset"><br></td>
</tr>

<tfoot bgcolor='#b0b0b0'>
<td colspan="6">x</td>
</tfoot>

</form>

Here's the php

<?php
// Contact subject
$subject ="$subject";
// Details
$message="$detail";

// Mail of sender
$mail_from="$customer_mail";
// From
$header="from: $name <$mail_from>";

// Enter your email address
$to ='aiitexx@hotmail.com';

$send_contact=mail($to,$subject,$message,$header);

// Check, if message sent to your email
// display message "We've recived your information"
if($send_contact){
echo "We've recived your contact information";
}
else {
echo "ERROR";
}
?>

[noname_clark]

your problem is that you are not sending the variables to the php page, your form is a "post" form, meaning it sends the variables through the internet rather than the "get" form which sends it through the string url.

instead of:
$subject ="$subject";
use:
$subject=$_POST['subject'];
and do this for all your variables.

so basically, $subject, $detail, $name, and $email were all blank variables, and thats why it sent a blank email to you

[dangmnx]

alright, so now the email-sender + subject shows up in my email, but the message doesn't

<?php
// Contact subject
$subject=$_POST['subject'];
// Details
$message="$detail";

// Mail of sender
$mail_from=$_POST['customer_mail'];
// From
$header="from: $name <$mail_from>";

// Enter your email address
$to ='aiitexx@hotmail.com';

$send_contact=mail($to,$subject,$message,$header);

// Check, if message sent to your email
// display message "We've recived your information"
if($send_contact){
echo "We've recived your contact information";
}
else {
echo "ERROR";
}
?>

i tried to do what you told me to in the $send_mail but that gave me an error.

[musya]

Try the same for $message, or you could have made them all GET... just a thought.

This post has been edited by musya: 28 April 2009 - 04:26 PM

[noname_clark]

musya, on 28 Apr, 2009 - 03:26 PM, said:

Try the same for $message, or you could have made them all GET... just a thought.

exactly, do a $message=$_POST['detail'];

no, don't use GET. it would be a mess.... a huge mess for this situation....
explination:
basically, GET puts all the data entered into the form at the end of the url string. so the user would type in the info they want to send to you and it would take them to a url like: mail.php?message=hello%20I%20am%20sending%20this%20message%20to%20you
the internet browser (all browsers) will convert all spaces with "%20" when it gets inserted into the url string
there is no problem with this until you use the GET statement until you want to actually get the data.
so you would use the GET statement to get the message, and it would email it to you as "hello%20I%20am%20sending%20this%20message%20to%20you" and not convert all the %20 back into spaces, and it makes it really hard to read.

[musya]

Yea is messier and more visible, but it was just an option.

[no2pencil]

noname_clark, on 28 Apr, 2009 - 04:32 PM, said:

instead of:
$subject ="$subject";
use:
$subject=$_POST['subject'];
and do this for all your variables.

I prefer to throw the post value into strip_tags().

[noname_clark]

ok, so just simply strip the tags:

$subject=$_POST['subject'];
$subject=strip_tags($subject);

that should strip all the tags for $subject, do that for all of them.

if you want to allow cretain tags, just do:

$subject=$_POST['subject'];
$subject=strip_tags($subject,'<p><a>');

that one would allow "<p>" tags and "<a>" tags to stay in the variable $subject