Hello to all.
I am trying to write a simple (at least I thought it was simple...) "Contact Us" form that
sends an email when it is submitted.
The $to_name variable was passed from a previous page. I am sure that the variable
was passed, as I can echo it and it is being passed correctly - thanks to this list!
The problem I am having is this: I cannot quite figure out how an html form handles this
mail function when the "to" field is filled with an existing variable.
This is what I've got: (I removed all of the table formatting to make it clearer here)
<form name="mailer" method="post" action="<? $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']; ?>">
<input name="from_name" type="text" id="from_name" value="<?=$from_name?>">
<input name="from_email" type="text" id="from_email" value="<?=$from_email?>">
<input name="subject" type="text" id="subject" value="<?=$subject?>" size="60">
<textarea name="message" cols="55" rows="15"
id="message"><?=$message?></textarea>
<input name="userid" type="hidden" id="userid" value="<?$to_name?>" />
<input type="submit" name="Submit" value="mail">
So, I think that this sets up the form for processing, AFAIK.
Then, I added the stuff that pulls the email address associated with the id in $to_name
from the MySQL database, and adds the string for the proper domain. I've left out the
connection stuff for clarity:
$id=$_GET['id'];
$string="@somedomain.com";
$result= mysql_query("SELECT * FROM mydatabase WHERE ID=$id",$db);
while ($myrow = mysql_fetch_row($result)){
$to_name="$myrow[3]$string"; } ?>
I know that the "thing" that actually sends mail looks like this:
mail($to_name, $from_name, $subject, $message, "From: $from_email\nX-Mailer: PHP/"
.. phpversion());
But how do I get this all to happen when the user hits the submit button? Where does
that mail function (is it a function?) go? I have read a lot of stuff on the various PHP lists
and sources, but I just cannot figure out this piece of the puzzle.
TIA for your suggestions, and for your patience with my lack of knowledge here.
-- Phil Matt
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