PHP Guru Please

[leehack]

OK! Enough is enough already.. Lee .. bin it off and use a form mail script .. stop p*****g into the wind!

I can say that as a friend

Jonty

I can do this in one language - ASP.net, that is all, i am on a Linux server, if you think using form mail will be any less pissing in the wind than what i currently have, you are grossly mistaken. It's all double dutch to me unless on a Windows server.

It does make me laugh though i must admit, i have one simple field in which i ask for an email address, if filled out and submit is clicked, email it to me - that is all lol. In days gone by, there'd have been flying laptops, i'm getting too chilled in my old age.

Still baffles me that i cannot go to a resource, that says save this file as blah blah and point to it via blah blah and upload and it will work. Or how a php file works on two sites and then fails when you go live, quite laughable.

[Mike Hughes]

What I would do here is:

1. change method="get" to method="post"

2. Add this line at the top of the php mailing script:

$email = $_POST['email'];

This should get it working.

Mike

[MarkActinic]

Hi Lee

The following should work

<form action="http://www.smithfieldwine.com/form/smithfield-eletter.php" method="post">
<input name="email" type="text" size="18" id="email"><input type="submit" name="Submit" value="Submit">
</form>

<?php
//send email
$email = $_POST['email'];

$headers .= "From: $email<>\r\n";
//message body
$recipient = "enquiries@websitedesigned.co.uk";	
$message .= "I would like to receive the Smithfield E-letter" . "\n\n";	
$message .= "Email: " . $email . "\n";
//build email
$body = $message;
//sends email
$subject = "E-Letter Request";
mail($recipient, $subject, $body, $headers) or die("couldn't send the email"); 
header("Location: http://www.smithfieldwine.com/acatalog/thank-you.html");
?>

Regards

Mark

[leehack]

Mark & Mike

Just wanted to say thank you very much, you both came up with the same solution in the end and it works perfect. I really appreciate your time spared on this - i have a beaming smile now.

I presume that somehow, this:

$email = $_POST['email'];

was ok missed out on the old hosting and my test hosting, but not ok to miss out on the final hosting - the server setting that Mark referred to i guess.

Anyway, once again, cheers guys, got me out of an annoying hole.