help with email form

On Aug 6, 7:30 pm, Loki25 <kgarnet...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Aug 6, 11:25 pm, alice <al...@fearofdolls.com> wrote:
>
> > > I'd recommend you use mail($to,$subject,$message,$head); instead- Hide quoted text -
>
> > > - Show quoted text -
>
> > That still isn't working.
>
> If you are running your own server, find your php.ini file and open it
> up. look for do a search for the SMTP section (using your editor's
> find command, it should be the first result)...you will see the
> mail_function block configuration block...should look something like:
>
> [mail function]
> ; For Win32 only.
> SMTP = <your SMTP server address>
>
> ; For Win32 only.
> sendmail_from = <your reply email address>
>
> ; For Unix only. You may supply arguments as well (default: "sendmail
> -t -i").
> ;sendmail_path =
>
> enter this information if it is not already there, save the file and
> restart your web server so the new settings take affect and try it
> again.

Could it be something wrong in the html?

<form action="mail.php" method="post"
onsubmit="MM_validateForm('email','','RisEmail');M M_validateForm('message','','R');return
document.MM_returnValue">
<p><label>Your email address:</label><br />
<input name="email" id="email" type="text" class="form" value=""
size="30" />
</p>
<p><label>Your message:</label><br />
<textarea name="message" id="message" value="message" cols="60"
rows="5" class="form"></textarea>
</p>
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="SEND" />

Your html looks fine, your php looks fine and since you are using a
hosting service, we can assume your settings are fine. I also tested
the PHP script on my own server just to be sure nothing was over
looked. I replaced the $to address and it worked fine for me. Since
the exact code works fine on my server it leads me to believe that the
problem isn't in the code and it is instead on the server side. It
could be something as simple as their SMTP server being down for a
short while.

On Aug 6, 11:43 pm, Loki25 <kgarnet...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Your html looks fine, your php looks fine and since you are using a
> hosting service, we can assume your settings are fine. I also tested
> the PHP script on my own server just to be sure nothing was over
> looked. I replaced the $to address and it worked fine for me. Since
> the exact code works fine on my server it leads me to believe that the
> problem isn't in the code and it is instead on the server side. It
> could be something as simple as their SMTP server being down for a
> short while.

I finally got the mail to send, but now whatever I enter in the
message window does not get sent.

In article <1186532720.113030.138210@e9g2000prf.googlegroups. com>, alice
says...
> On Aug 6, 11:43 pm, Loki25 <kgarnet...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Your html looks fine, your php looks fine and since you are using a
> > hosting service, we can assume your settings are fine. I also tested
> > the PHP script on my own server just to be sure nothing was over
> > looked. I replaced the $to address and it worked fine for me. Since
> > the exact code works fine on my server it leads me to believe that the
> > problem isn't in the code and it is instead on the server side. It
> > could be something as simple as their SMTP server being down for a
> > short while.
>
> I finally got the mail to send, but now whatever I enter in the
> message window does not get sent.
>
>
Are you using $message or $_POST['message']?

GM

alice wrote:
> On Aug 6, 11:43 pm, Loki25 <kgarnet...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Your html looks fine, your php looks fine and since you are using a
>> hosting service, we can assume your settings are fine. I also tested
>> the PHP script on my own server just to be sure nothing was over
>> looked. I replaced the $to address and it worked fine for me. Since
>> the exact code works fine on my server it leads me to believe that the
>> problem isn't in the code and it is instead on the server side. It
>> could be something as simple as their SMTP server being down for a
>> short while.
>
> I finally got the mail to send, but now whatever I enter in the
> message window does not get sent.
>

What's your current code, and what is in the variables you are passing
the mail() function?

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On Aug 7, 6:16 pm, Geoff Muldoon <geoff.muld...@trap.gmail.com> wrote:
> In article <1186532720.113030.138...@e9g2000prf.googlegroups. com>, alice
> says...> On Aug 6, 11:43 pm, Loki25 <kgarnet...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Your html looks fine, your php looks fine and since you are using a
> > > hosting service, we can assume your settings are fine. I also tested
> > > the PHP script on my own server just to be sure nothing was over
> > > looked. I replaced the $to address and it worked fine for me. Since
> > > the exact code works fine on my server it leads me to believe that the
> > > problem isn't in the code and it is instead on the server side. It
> > > could be something as simple as their SMTP server being down for a
> > > short while.
>
> > I finally got the mail to send, but now whatever I enter in the
> > message window does not get sent.
>
> Are you using $message or $_POST['message']?
>
> GM

I'm not in front of it now, but I can see from my earlier post that
I'm using
$message.="message: ".$message."\n";

So should this be
$message.="message: "$_POST['message']"\n";

or, I'm guessing here, if I don't want the word Message: to be in the
email body it would be
$message.=$_POST['message']"\n";

On Aug 9, 1:07 pm, alice <al...@fearofdolls.com> wrote:
> On Aug 7, 6:16 pm, Geoff Muldoon <geoff.muld...@trap.gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> > In article <1186532720.113030.138...@e9g2000prf.googlegroups. com>, alice
> > says...> On Aug 6, 11:43 pm, Loki25 <kgarnet...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > Your html looks fine, your php looks fine and since you are using a
> > > > hosting service, we can assume your settings are fine. I also tested
> > > > the PHP script on my own server just to be sure nothing was over
> > > > looked. I replaced the $to address and it worked fine for me. Since
> > > > the exact code works fine on my server it leads me to believe that the
> > > > problem isn't in the code and it is instead on the server side. It
> > > > could be something as simple as their SMTP server being down for a
> > > > short while.
>
> > > I finally got the mail to send, but now whatever I enter in the
> > > message window does not get sent.
>
> > Are you using $message or $_POST['message']?
>
> > GM
>
> I'm not in front of it now, but I can see from my earlier post that
> I'm using
> $message.="message: ".$message."\n";
>
> So should this be
> $message.="message: "$_POST['message']"\n";
>
> or, I'm guessing here, if I don't want the word Message: to be in the
> email body it would be
> $message.=$_POST['message']"\n";

if you were to do it that way, it would be: $message.=
$_POST['message']."\n"; (you were missing the [.])

On Aug 10, 9:25 am, Loki25 <kgarnet...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Aug 9, 1:07 pm, alice <al...@fearofdolls.com> wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
> > On Aug 7, 6:16 pm, Geoff Muldoon <geoff.muld...@trap.gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > In article <1186532720.113030.138...@e9g2000prf.googlegroups. com>, alice
> > > says...> On Aug 6, 11:43 pm, Loki25 <kgarnet...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > > Your html looks fine, your php looks fine and since you are using a
> > > > > hosting service, we can assume your settings are fine. I also tested
> > > > > the PHP script on my own server just to be sure nothing was over
> > > > > looked. I replaced the $to address and it worked fine for me. Since
> > > > > the exact code works fine on my server it leads me to believe that the
> > > > > problem isn't in the code and it is instead on the server side. It
> > > > > could be something as simple as their SMTP server being down for a
> > > > > short while.
>
> > > > I finally got the mail to send, but now whatever I enter in the
> > > > message window does not get sent.
>
> > > Are you using $message or $_POST['message']?
>
> > > GM
>
> > I'm not in front of it now, but I can see from my earlier post that
> > I'm using
> > $message.="message: ".$message."\n";
>
> > So should this be
> > $message.="message: "$_POST['message']"\n";
>
> > or, I'm guessing here, if I don't want the word Message: to be in the
> > email body it would be
> > $message.=$_POST['message']"\n";
>
> if you were to do it that way, it would be: $message.=
> $_POST['message']."\n"; (you were missing the [.])- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -

Now I'm getting a blank page after clicking submit, and no mail is
showing up. Here is the mail.php code, with the address x'd out.
<?php
$to="x@xxxxxx";
$subject="web email";
$email=$_POST["email"];

$message="web email\n";
$message=.$_POST['message']."\n";


$head="From: x@xxxxx";
mail($to,$subject,"".$message,$head);
header("Location:thankyou.html");
?>

On Aug 12, 3:29 pm, alice <al...@fearofdolls.com> wrote:
> On Aug 10, 9:25 am, Loki25 <kgarnet...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> > On Aug 9, 1:07 pm, alice <al...@fearofdolls.com> wrote:
>
> > > On Aug 7, 6:16 pm, Geoff Muldoon <geoff.muld...@trap.gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > > In article <1186532720.113030.138...@e9g2000prf.googlegroups. com>, alice
> > > > says...> On Aug 6, 11:43 pm, Loki25 <kgarnet...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > > > Your html looks fine, your php looks fine and since you are using a
> > > > > > hosting service, we can assume your settings are fine. I also tested
> > > > > > the PHP script on my own server just to be sure nothing was over
> > > > > > looked. I replaced the $to address and it worked fine for me. Since
> > > > > > the exact code works fine on my server it leads me to believe that the
> > > > > > problem isn't in the code and it is instead on the server side. It
> > > > > > could be something as simple as their SMTP server being down for a
> > > > > > short while.
>
> > > > > I finally got the mail to send, but now whatever I enter in the
> > > > > message window does not get sent.
>
> > > > Are you using $message or $_POST['message']?
>
> > > > GM
>
> > > I'm not in front of it now, but I can see from my earlier post that
> > > I'm using
> > > $message.="message: ".$message."\n";
>
> > > So should this be
> > > $message.="message: "$_POST['message']"\n";
>
> > > or, I'm guessing here, if I don't want the word Message: to be in the
> > > email body it would be
> > > $message.=$_POST['message']"\n";
>
> > if you were to do it that way, it would be: $message.=
> > $_POST['message']."\n"; (you were missing the [.])- Hide quoted text -
>
> > - Show quoted text -
>
> Now I'm getting a blank page after clicking submit, and no mail is
> showing up. Here is the mail.php code, with the address x'd out.
> <?php
> $to="x@xxxxxx";
> $subject="web email";
> $email=$_POST["email"];
>
> $message="web email\n";
> $message=.$_POST['message']."\n";
>
> $head="From: x@xxxxx";
> mail($to,$subject,"".$message,$head);
> header("Location:thankyou.html");
> ?>

Everything looks fine to me, I don't see anything wrong with your
code. But what I'm trying to figure out is the purpose of the empty
quotes just before the message in the mail function call. ("".$message)

Loki25 <kgarnett24@gmail.com> wrote in news:1186991766.268471.180630
@o61g2000hsh.googlegroups.com:

>> $message="web email\n";
>> $message=.$_POST['message']."\n";
>>
>

I think this should be

$message .= $_POST['message']."\n";


since the operator is .= not =.

Tim F