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Last post was 06 Mar 2007 at 13:18

php Little Rock, United States

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14 years ago

by Ignotastic

Eddie Towns

, United States

Joined 14 years ago
Hello all,
I am trying to do a form for the internet, where is I need to make this form go to the owner of the websites email address or CGI bin. can you reccommend some book to me so I can get started on this specific task?
Thanks in advance.

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14 years ago

by hnmedcom

Howard

, United States

Joined 14 years ago
Hi Ignotastic,
   Something like this should work for you. Read http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.mail.php for more infomation on PHP mail() function.

--- index.html page ---
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">

<html>
<head>
<title>Untitled</title>
</head>
<body>

<form name="myform" method="POST" action="dosend.php">
<table width="500" cellpadding="0" CELLSPACING="0">
    <TR>
      <TD>
        <FONT SIZE="2">Your name:<br>
        <input type="text" name="realname" size="18">
        </font>
      </TD>
      <TD>
        Your e-mail address:<br>
        <input type="text" name="email" size="18">
      </TD>
    </TR>
</table><br/>
    Your message:<br/>
    <textarea rows="15" name="message" cols="50">text</TEXTAREA>
</p>
<p>
    <input type="submit" value="Send" name="submit">

    <input type="reset" value="Clear All" name="B2">
</p>
</form>

</body>
</html>

--- dosend.php page ---

<?php

$headers = "Sender: {$_POST['email']} \r\n"; // needed some spam filter
mail("
[email protected]","Subject", $_POST['message'], $headers);

?>

<br/>  Thanks for e-mailing us.

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14 years ago

by radha_telanakula

Radha

, India

Joined 14 years ago
Hi hnmedcom,
you are giving the code correctly.
But i am having a small doubt on mail function.
in mail function you will send the to address,subject,message and from mailid.
Here i need to send the from mail id and from name(your name) in your form in the headers.
and i want to send some priority like normal,urgent,... also in the headers.
How can i send all the information through headers.
Please give the solution.

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14 years ago

by akicks

Andrew Kicks

, United Kingdom

Joined 14 years ago
bool mail ( string $to, string $subject, string $message [, string $additional_headers [, string $additional_parameters]] )

so far additional headers you call with the 4th parameter.

Each header needs to be seperated by an end of line character "\n".
```
$header="ReplyTo: [email protected]\n";
$header.="Priority: High\n"// etc.
```
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