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Make an e-mail form using PHP

Discussion in 'Free PHP Scripts & Snippets' started by filburt1, Oct 31, 2002.

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    oracus New Member

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    Sorry..The only think that we must do is to put these line in a HTML editor??And thats it?


    oracus, Apr 26, 2005
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    Help needed from a novice

    Hey iam a novice designer from india aged 19 .one of my friend hosted my site free of cost which supports php mysql cgi n perl.pls any on can help me how to use php mail form plzz. iam a novice plzz. help me iam greatful to u people.Thanks in advance
    raja :surprised:


    raja, May 6, 2005
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    Wired WDF Moderator and Alien Overlord

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    Can you be more specific?


    Wired, May 6, 2005
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    raja New Member

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    sure i want to add a form to mail to my web page using php or cgi any one can help me plzzz.
    cheers
    Raja


    raja, May 7, 2005
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    zionlocke Master of the Fu!

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    I decided to take a whirl at this and also fell in love with tekp's beautiful use of fieldset and legend. Here a little bit better code so the whole thing runs on one page as intended. The redirect page is used to clear the server's $_POST vars.

    I still have one question. How do I keep people from adding a BCC to the mail function. I didn't think it would be possible, but someone was able to send an email with the BCC column filled in. Is there a way to ensure more protection into email forms?

    source of the contact page
    PHP:
    <?php

    function validate_email($str) {
            $str = strtolower($str);

        if(    strlen($str) == 0) {
            return     0;
        }

        if(    ereg("^([^[:space:]]+)@(.+).(ad|ae|af|ag|ai|al|am|an|ao|aq|ar|arpa|as|at|au|aw|az|ba|bb|bd|be|bf|bg|bh|bi|bj|bm|bn|bo|br|bs|bt|bv|bw|by|bz|ca|cc|cd|cf|cg|ch|ci|ck|cl|cm|cn|co|com|cr|cu|cv|cx|cy|cz|de|dj|dk|dm|do|dz|ec|edu|ee|eg|eh|er|es|et|fi|fj|fk|fm|fo|fr|fx|ga|gb|gov|gd|ge|gf|gh|gi|gl|gm|gn|gp|gq|gr|gs|gt|gu|gw|gy|hk|hm|hn|hr|ht|hu|id|ie|il|in|int|io|iq|ir|is|it|jm|jo|jp|ke|kg|kh|ki|km|kn|kp|kr|kw|ky|kz|la|lb|lc|li|lk|lr|ls|lt|lu|lv|ly|ma|mc|md|mg|mh|mil|mk|ml|mm|mn|mo|mp|mq|mr|ms|mt|mu|mv|mw|mx|my|mz|na|nato|nc|ne|net|nf|ng|ni|nl|no|np|nr|nu|nz|om|org|pa|pe|pf|pg|ph|pk|pl|pm|pn|pr|pt|pw|py|qa|re|ro|ru|rw|sa|sb|sc|sd|se|sg|sh|si|sj|sk|sl|sm|sn|so|sr|st|sv|sy|sz|tc|td|tf|tg|th|tj|tk|tm|tn|to|tp|tr|tt|tv|tw|tz|ua|ug|uk|um|us|uy|uz|va|vc|ve|vg|vi|vn|vu|wf|ws|ye|yt|yu|za|zm|zw)$",$str) && strlen($str) <= 150){
            return     1;
        } else {
            return     0;
        }
    }

    function     validate_input($str) {
        if(    strlen($str) == 0) {
            return     0;
        }

        if(    strlen($str) <= 25) {
            return     1;
        } else {
            return     0;
        }
    }

    function     validate_message($str) {
        if(    strlen($str) == 0) {
            return     0;
        }

        if(    strlen($str) <= 1200) {
            return     1;
        } else {
            return     0;
        }
    }

    function     not_valid() {
        if (!    validate_input($_POST['name']) || !validate_email($_POST['from']) || !validate_input($_POST['subject']) || !validate_message($_POST['message'])) {
            return     1;
        }
    }


    if (    validate_input($_POST['name']) && validate_email($_POST['from']) && validate_input($_POST['subject']) && validate_message($_POST['message'])) {

            $subject = $_POST['subject'];
            $from = $_POST['from'];
            $name = $_POST['name'];
            $message = $_POST['message'];
            $message = "$message\n\n$name\n";

        if (    mail('you@email.com', $subject, $message, "From: $from\r\nReply-To: $from\r\n")) {
                ob_clean();
                header ("Location: redirect.php");
            exit();
            echo     '<b>Your mail was successfully sent.</b>';
        } else {
            echo     '<b>There was an error while sending the mail.</b>';
        }

    } else {

    ?>

    <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
    <html>
    <head>
    <title>Contact</title>

    <?php
            include('header.php');
    ?>

    <form method="post" action="<? echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']; ?>">
    <fieldset>
    <legend>Compose</legend>
    <p>
    <label for="name">Name: </label> <small>(25 character limit)</small> <br/>
    <input type="text" value="<? if($_POST['name'] != "") echo $_POST['name'] ?>" id="name" name="name"/>
    </p>
    <p>
    <label for="from">Email: </label> <small>(150 character limit)</small> <br/>
    <input type="text" value="<? if ($_POST['from'] != "") echo $_POST['from'] ?>" id="from" name="from"/>
    </p>
    <p>
    <label for="subject">Subject:</label> <small>(25 character limit)</small> <br/>
    <input type="text" value="<? if($_POST['subject'] != "") echo $_POST['subject'] ?>" id="subject" name="subject"/>
    </p>
    <p>
    <label for="message">Message:</label> <small>(1200 character limit)</small> <br/>
    <textarea name="message" id="message" rows="8" cols="30"><? if($_POST['message'] != "") echo $_POST['message'] ?></textarea>
    </p>
    <p>
    <? if(not_valid()) echo '<small>The composed letter is not yet valid.</small>' ?>
    </p>
    </fieldset>
    <input type="submit" value="   Send   "/> <input type="reset" value="   Clear   "/>
    </form>

    <br/>

    <?php
            include('footer.php');
    }
    ?>
    source for redirect.php
    PHP:
    <?php
            ob_clean    ();
                header ("Location: http://www.zioncreation.com/");
        exit();
    ?>


    zionlocke, Aug 25, 2005
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    eKstreme New Member

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    Well a mail BCC header is just "BCC:" followed by the addresses. So just replace BCC: with an empty space and that will do it. You can be crafty and remove everything from the BCC: till the next newline.


    eKstreme, Aug 25, 2005
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    zionlocke Master of the Fu!

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    zionlocke, Aug 26, 2005
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    Karloff Member

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    hi,
    trying to use this for a site of mine, can't get it to work. what do i have to change??

    implemented it and added my e-mail but when on the site it give me a
    'error 404: page not found'
    message!?

    any tips please??


    Karloff, Apr 12, 2006
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    bfsog Coder

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    Could you post your code?

    It sounds like the file you are submitting to (which you specify in the <form action="file">) does not exist.

    Edit: it may be the require/include statements (I forgot which one is used).


    bfsog, Apr 12, 2006
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    Karloff, Apr 12, 2006
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    bfsog Coder

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    You are referencing that page, but it is a .htm file

    Open enquiries.htm and rename as enquiries.php

    As right now your trying to submit to <?php echo... and so on.


    bfsog, Apr 12, 2006
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    Karloff Member

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    i've done that but no mail is comin through??

    any thought, sorry if its a daft question


    Karloff, Apr 12, 2006
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    bfsog Coder

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    So what message do you get?

    Post your answer in the other thread instead of us going off topic.

    If you get the message that indicates success, then maybe it is just a slow one..


    bfsog, Apr 12, 2006
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    Karloff Member

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    sorry man for the delay, it keep on comin up with the message
    'There was an error while sending the mail.'

    what could be wrong?


    Karloff, Apr 12, 2006
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    bfsog Coder

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    Paste the line in your file that looks similar to
    PHP:

    if (mail('[b][i]YOUR E-MAIL ADDRESS[/i][/b]', $subject, $message, "From: $from\r\nReply-To: $from\r\n"))


    bfsog, Apr 12, 2006
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    Karloff Member

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    cool, but where do i specify the e-mail address to send the info to???


    Karloff, Apr 13, 2006
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    bfsog Coder

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    Look at my last post, that is where you specify which email address.

    Lets say your joe@bloggs.com, the line of code would look like..

    PHP:

    if (mail('joe@bloggs.com', $subject, $message, "From: $from\r\nReply-To: $from\r\n"))


    bfsog, Apr 13, 2006
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    Karloff Member

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    thanks man, in work but will do that when i get home.

    thumbs up! cheers


    Karloff, Apr 13, 2006
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    Karloff Member

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    sorry, i'm back with another dumb question!

    i implemented this into a site for someone and they have told me that it doesn't send to e-mail address of the sender in the e-mail. thought it did. can anyone tell me why.... not sure if they have messed with the code in some way that i can't see?

    supposidly (spellin!) it only send ip address

    cheers


    Karloff, Jul 12, 2006
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    Shadowfiend Code beautifully and honorably

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    (Supposedly) Where are you pulling the `from' address from? If there's no `from' header, I think PHP inserts a default one, likely set to the IP address in your case.


    Shadowfiend, Jul 12, 2006
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