| Re: My contact form is not emailed to me [message #173512 is a reply to message #173509] |
Sat, 16 April 2011 20:25   |
P E Schoen
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Registered: January 2011
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"nathanir" wrote in message
news:c6e55a71-4746-4038-b6da-c5e7efb2a6b0(at)a11g2000pro(dot)googlegroups(dot)com...
>> // Pick up the form data and assign it to variables
>> $name = check_input($_POST['name']);
>> $email = check_input($_POST['email']);
>> $select = $_POST['select'];
>> $textinput = check_input($_POST['textinput']);
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>> // Build the email (replace the address in the $to section with your
>> own)
>> $ToEmail = 'raj...@childsurgeon.com';
>> $Emailsubject = "New message: $select";
>> $MESSAGE_BODY = "$name said: $textinput";
>> $mailheader = "From: $email";
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>> // Send the mail using PHPs mail() function
>> mail($ToEmail, $EmailSubject, $MESSAGE_BODY, $mailheader);
> BTW when I tested this script on my webpage it did send out an email
> to me. This one also came from the same site.
<?php
mail('rajesh(at)childsurgeon(dot)com','Test mail','The mail function is
working!');
echo 'Mail sent!';
?>
I'm not an expert but I do have a similar setup that works, with an HTML
form and a PHP script which sends a confirmation email to myself. I don't
see what's wrong, but some suggestions to try are:
Incorporate a logfile which contains the values of variables such as
$ToEmail, $select, etc.
It may be best to use "selected" as the variable name rather than the
element name "select".
Then you can use the actual variables for your direct test email function.
Also, as Jerry said, check the error logs on the server. And hopefully you
are doing this on a localhost and not yet as a "live" application. It also
should have some security measures, such as a password and a time delay to
thwart DoS attacks such as a barrage of calls to the PHP script thousands of
times per second.
Maybe the experts can help, or even better you may try some things and learn
a lot with eventual success. Good luck.
Paul
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