A Big favor to ask..

quicksilver · Jun 14, 2007

Hey guys,

I was wondering if one of you might be able to do me a favor?
I building a small website as best I can, and have a form as part of one of the pages.
Now i can write the form but not the script to email it to me and forward the viewer to a specific page.

Can anyone write me a basic script to do this? I would really appreciate it!

I believe it has to be written in perl (???) or php i think? I'm not too hot with this stuff yet.

Any help would be great!

Thanks

metalsam · Jun 14, 2007

You can find this script on the internet. Do a google for free php script or something.

dekan · Jun 14, 2007

you can also just do it in php. there is a mail function. just use the variables from the form.

looks like that:

mail($receiver,$subject,$message,$header);

pretty basic, but it works.

quicksilver · Jun 15, 2007

I've searched for free scripts but they all seem to contain ads and stuff.

dekan: could you elaborate slightly? i'm not good with php!

Matteh117 · Jun 15, 2007

Easy. Using the example above I'll show you how it's done.

Make a php page (ex. mail_script.php) with the following;

Code:

<?php
$receiver = $_POST['receiver_address'];
$subject = 'Subject of the message here';
$message 'Body of the message here - use HTML and \n for new lines';
$header = 'From: From name <[email protected]>';
mail($receiver, $subject, $message, $header);
echo ('Mail sent message to appear on screen. Maybe add a html link to go back?');
?>

I believe that should do it for you - if not just reply and I will actually test it and fix it.

In the HTML form send it to this page and make sure that the address to send to is in a textfield named 'receiver_address'.

A Big favor to ask..

quicksilver

metalsam

dekan

quicksilver

Matteh117

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