On h, 2007-02-12 at 14:16 +0100, Matthias S. wrote: > hi zoltan, > > thanks for your reply. i've tried the -f switch but the only effect it has > is an error message ;) > > Warning: mail() [function.mail]: SAFE MODE Restriction in effect. The fifth > parameter is disabled in SAFE MODE. ehh, sorry, I didn't think you use safe mode. If you can not switch it off, then try to contact your system admin to install a sendmail alternative which can be configured to read the reply-to header from the mail headers passed to it by the caller - AFAIK sendmail itself cannot be configured this way, but I might be wrong > > as for the age value: > it is simply incorrect because it is always empty... input might be for > example 25, but the var $age contains always an empty string. well, you should check the field in your form. does it have exactly the same name? maybe you misspelled it... (don't forget that it is case-sensitive, so _txtAge is not equal with _txtage for example) greets Zoltán Németh > > Can you help? I'm a programmer (C++), but have never used PHP before. The > concepts are clear to me, but I must be missing here something essential. > > Thanks again, Matthias > > "Nmeth Zoltn" <znemeth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> schrieb im Newsbeitrag > news:1171279620.5056.16.camel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > On h, 2007-02-12 at 11:13 +0100, Matthias S. wrote: > > > Hi there, > > > > > > I've got two bloody beginner questions: I've created a form with various > > > text input fields. One is to hold a numeric value (age). Upon > submission, I > > > try to retrieve the value of this field like this: > > > > > > $age = $_POST['_txtAge']; > > > > > > later, I use the $age variable to create a message... > > > > > > $message = "Name: " . $name . "\n"; > > > $message .= "Email: " .$email . "\n"; > > > $message .= "Age: " . $age . "\n"; > > > $message .= "Gender: " . $gender . "\n"; > > > $message .= "Info: " . $info; > > > > > > .... then I send the message: > > > > > > mail("bla@xxxxxxx", "A Request", $message, _getMailHeaders($name, > email)); > > > > > > Now on to my questions: > > > $message contains the values of all fields correctly except the age > field > > > (input of all others are alphabetic, only age has numeric content). Why > is > > > this? > > > > what do you mean by incorrect? what is the test input you give and what > > result do you get? > > > > > > > > Secondly, mail sends my message correctly. But the return adresse set in > > > _getMailHeaders is not used. Instead, some identification from the > server is > > > used. Why is that? > > > > it is (if you use sendmail on the server) because sendmail sets reply-to > > to the user running it by default. so it gets set to the user the script > > runs as (usually www-data or something like that). it can be overridden > > by the "-f" switch I think. like this: > > > > mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers, "-f".$frommail); > > > > > > hope that helps > > Zoltn Nmeth > > > > > > > > Here the function _getMailHeaders: > > > > > > function _getMailHeaders($senderName, $senderAddress) { > > > > > > ini_set(sendmail_from, $senderAddress); > > > > > > $headers = 'MIME-Version: 1.0' . "\r\n"; > > > $headers .= 'Reply-To: ' . $senderName .'<'. $senderAddress. '>' . > "\r\n"; > > > $headers .= 'Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1' . "\r\n"; > > > $headers .= 'To: PostOffice <postoffice@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>' . "\r\n"; > > > $headers .= 'From: ' . $senderName . '<' . $senderAddress . '>' . > "\r\n"; > > > > > > ini_restore(sendmail_from); > > > return $headers; > > > } > > > > > > Any help is greatly appreceated. > > > > > > Matthias > > > > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
