A tip I use is to set the From field to an e-mail address of my choice. Such as "customerqueries@mydomain.com".
Now, you would still have the e-mail input in the form (incase the person who filled it in needs a reply) so you just append/add the entered e-mail address to the $message variable.
And I see you sometimes receive empty e-mails. Well this is easily fixed.
What you can do is trim the fileds (trim() removes any surplus spaces in a string) and then check the length of the fileds. Note: The fields that you do not want to be empty should be indicated with an asterix (*) or other symbol on the effect and with explanatory text stating what the * or other symbol means.
With that in mind, your code would look something like this.
PHP Code:
<?php
$sendTo = "contact@mywebsite.org";
$subject = "Contact Request";
// variables are sent to this PHP page through
// the POST method. $_POST is a global associative array
// of variables passed through this method. From that, we
// can get the values sent to this page from Flash and
// assign them to appropriate variables which can be used
// in the PHP mail() function.
// I assume there is 3 fields
// name, email and message
$errors = 0;
if(strlen(trim($_POST['name']) == 0))
{
$errors = $errors + 1;
}
if(strlen(trim($_POST['email']) == 0))
{
$errors = $errors + 1;
}
if(strlen(trim($_POST['message']) == 0))
{
$errors = $errors + 1;
}
if($errors == 0)
{
// Send email)
$headers = "From: Customer Query <customer-query@mydomain.com>\r\n";
$headers .= "Reply-To: " . $_POST["email"] . "\r\n";
$headers .= "Return-path: " . $_POST["email"];
// content of the message to a body variable
$message="name: ".$name."
email: ".$email."
phone: ".$phone."
comments: ".$comments."
";
// once the variables have been defined, they can be included
// in the mail function call which will send you an email
mail($sendTo, $subject, $message, $headers);
header("Refresh: 0;url=http://www.mywebsite.org/thankyou.html");
}
?>
Note that this is untested and there are some more possible improvements. I thought I posted a tutorial about this but cannot seem to find it. There are however lots and lots of tutorials on handling PHP email so google is your friend.
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. I'd like to possibly put an email verification script in it so it will at least verify there is a functional email address in the email field. How would I do that? And if you have any other recommendations, please let me know. I appreciate any advice.
