PHP Form?

vyseyboy

mikem1986 wrote: »

hi vy!

that worked, the text area bit came through on the email but nothing else did

so how do i make it so all the info comes through?

LOL. This PHP lark is easy. (Joke!)

vyseyboy

mikem1986 wrote: »

i think i got it working with

<form method="post" action="contactbusiness.php">
<p align="left">Your Name:
<textarea name="message" rows="1" cols="15"></textarea>
<br>
Business Name:
<textarea name="message" rows="1" cols="15"></textarea>
<br>
Category:
<textarea name="message" rows="1" cols="15"></textarea>
<br>
Phone Number:
<textarea name="message" rows="1" cols="15"></textarea>
<br>
Email:
<textarea name="message" rows="1" cols="15"></textarea>
<br>
Website:
<textarea name="message" rows="1" cols="15"></textarea>
</p>


<input type="submit">
</p>
</form>

That won't do. Now you're creating lot's of "fields" called message, when in reality, each one should have a different name.

e.g.
Phone Number:
<textarea name="phone_number" rows="1" cols="15"></textarea>
<br>

etc.


What I meant before was keep the original HTML code, but just include the one extra line at the end, but before the submit button:

<textarea name="message" rows="1" cols="15"></textarea>

mikem1986

hi vy

it didnt work after all

for the php form i have

<form method="post" action="contactbusiness.php"><?php
$to = "[EMAIL="enquiries&#64;onethoughtpgd.co.uk"]enquiries@onethoughtpgd.co.uk[/EMAIL]";
$subject = "Business Directory Listing";
$email = $_REQUEST ;
$message = $_REQUEST ;
$busname = $_REQUEST;
$cat = $_REQUEST;
$phone = $_REQUEST;
$web = $_REQUEST;
$headers = "From: $email";
$sent = mail($to, $subject, $email, $message, $business_name, $category, $phone_number, $website, $headers) ;
if($sent)
{print "Your mail was sent successfully, please allow 2-3 working days for your information to be placed on the site."; }
else
{print "We encountered an error sending your mail"; }
?>
<br>
</form>

but im getting an error message saying
Warning: mail() expects at most 5 parameters, 9 given in /home/sites/thisisglossop.co.uk/public_html/BusinessDirectory/contactbusiness.php on line 259
We encountered an error sending your mail


ive checked line 259 and everything seems fine?

vyseyboy

The line

$sent = mail($to, $subject, $email, $message, $business_name, $category, $phone_number, $website, $headers) ;

is the problem there. I'm not sure what it does exactly, but there's a maximum of 5 arguments and there's 9 of them there:

The only arguments you need are outlined here: http://uk2.php.net/function.mail
(see the examples at the bottom.)

mikem1986

is there no way round cos i need all 9 forms really on the site?

soooo annoying lol

hope im not keeping you awake

vyseyboy

I'm really out of my depth here, but I think the mail() command only really needs the arguments:

mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);

And probably not $headers. The way around it I can see would be to make the $message include the other bits of text from the html form (i.e $message is made up of $_REQUEST + $_REQUEST + $_REQUEST etc. so that all of those bits of information come through in the main body of the message to you. Sorry, I don't know how to do this.

Probably best waiting for someone with more knowledge!

mikem1986

thanks anyway vyseyboy

youve been a good help!

vyseyboy

If you're willing to play around, you could try this, but I'm trying to learn how to do this on-the-fly myself :eek::

<form method="post" action="contactbusiness.php"><?php
$to = "[EMAIL="enquiries&#64;onethoughtpgd.co.uk"]enquiries@onethoughtpgd.co.uk[/EMAIL]";
$subject = "Business Directory Listing";
$email = $_REQUEST ;
$message = "$_REQUEST /n $_REQUEST /n $_REQUEST /n $_REQUEST /n $_REQUEST" ;
$headers = "From: $email";
$sent = mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers) ;
if($sent)
{print "Your mail was sent successfully, please allow 2-3 working days for your information to be placed on the site."; }
else
{print "We encountered an error sending your mail"; }
?>
<br>
</form>

M4RKM

yeah... that is a big problem with the basic form in php... only supports a few fields...

i'll root around later tonight and see if i can find a proper php form that gives you a bit of a better scope..

never ever use spaces in anything you program btw...


M

mikem1986

please delete asap