sending info help

[Madalive8]

i have a site layed out with two text boxes where people can write whatever the feel like writing.
i want to have whatever they typed into both boxes emailed to me when they press the "submit" button on the page.

can anyone tell me how i could go about doing this?
thanks..
-madalive8

[MoralTerror]

You could use php scripting,if you have a form something like this

<form method = post action = send_mail.php><br>
your email address:<br>
<input type = text name = from size = 38><br>
subject:<br>
<input type = text name = title size = 38><br>
your message:<br>
<textarea name = body cols = 30 rows = 10></textarea><br>
<input type = submit value = "Send"></form>

you could add more textareas say body2, body3 etc

then the send_mail.php file which would look something like

<?
$to_email = "your email address";
$content = $body      // for extra textareas $content = $body + $body2 + $body3..........
{
	mail($to_email,$title,$content,"From: $from\n");
}

?>

NB this code is just an example of how mail would be sent using the
submit button on the form, it doesn't encrypt the message. Validating
user's and/or user input is another point to consider.

[bdemonbr]

Most hosting companies offer a "form to email" CGI script you can copy and paste - log into your hosting control panel to find it ....i emphasize "most"

[DumberDrummer]

Originally Posted by MoralTerror

You could use php scripting,if you have a form something like this

<form method = post action = send_mail.php><br>
your email address:<br>
<input type = text name = from size = 38><br>
subject:<br>
<input type = text name = title size = 38><br>
your message:<br>
<textarea name = body cols = 30 rows = 10></textarea><br>
<input type = submit value = "Send"></form>

you could add more textareas say body2, body3 etc

then the send_mail.php file which would look something like

<?
$to_email = "your email address";
$content = $body      // for extra textareas $content = $body + $body2 + $body3..........
{
	mail($to_email,$title,$content,"From: $from\n");
}

?>

NB this code is just an example of how mail would be sent using the
submit button on the form, it doesn't encrypt the message. Validating
user's and/or user input is another point to consider.

That's mostly right, except you need to specify that the variables are coming from the previous script...

PHP Code:


<?

$content = $_POST['body'];
$from=$_POST['from'];
$title=$_POST['title'];
$to_email = "[i]your email address[/i]";
//Don't know why there were braces around this, as far as I know, its not necessary
mail($to_email,$title,$content,"From: $from\n");


?>

Again, if you want to add more text, simply make more textareas, with different names.

Then the names become part of the POST variables. If you want all of the textareas sent to you, you need to assign them to the same variable though. If you want a header for each different textarea for your email, so you can tell where one begins and the other ends, you can do that too.

So the code becomes this:

PHP Code:


<?

$content = "The textarea\n" +$_POST['body']+ "The Second Textarea\n"+$_POST['body2']; // or +$_POST['NAME OF TEXTAREA HERE']
$from=$_POST['from'];
$title=$_POST['title'];
$to_email = "[i]your email address[/i]";
//Don't know why there were braces around this, as far as I know, its not necessary
mail($to_email,$title,$content,"From: $from\n");
?>

Let me know if you need help customizing it!

[bdemonbr]

This php form works, but I'm having some probs. I go to fix all of the html e.g. to change:
input type = submit value =" Send"
to:
input type="submit" value="Send"

but it keeps changing back!!! WHY?????

I'll fix it and open up ws_ftp and view the code from there and it will show the first version. Is this a setting in ws_ftp?

[DumberDrummer]

you need to upload the new file. Saving it on your computer doesn't save it to the server.

[bdemonbr]

okay..so I just fixed the file again but uploaded it using command prompt and it didn't change the code this time. Any ideas why ws_ftp would be doing this?

[bdemonbr]

Originally Posted by DumberDrummer

you need to upload the new file. Saving it on your computer doesn't save it to the server.

okay..sorry I wasn't very clear. I would upload it to the server and then notice it was changed back once it was there. Then I noticed that it was changing it before I uploaded it to the server by "viewing" the file through ws_ftp. Weird?

I've been using ws_ftp for 3 years now and this is the first time I've ever seen it do this.

[MoralTerror]

Originally Posted by DumberDrummer

That's mostly right, except you need to specify that the variables are coming from the previous script...

yeah I didn't specify in the example, however I should have mentioned this.

Originally Posted by DumberDrummer

$to_email = "your email address";
//Don't know why there were braces around this, as far as I know, its not necessary

your quite right, I put them there to emphasis your email address, you don't need them and I see where there may be a misunderstanding, my apologies I should have been clearer.