PHP - How To Send A Follow Up Email 1 Week After Reg?

Hi I have a form that I want people to fill out and then click the button and it sends me an email. My problem is that it doesn't send me any emails, I have looked around and I don't seem to find any thing.

This is my form in application_form.php

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<form action="application_form" method="POST">
<table border="0" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0">
  <tr>
    <td>Full name</td>
    <td><input type="text" size="30" maxlength="80" name="name" /></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>Email address</td>
    <td><input type="text" size="30" maxlength="80" name="email" /></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>Message</td>
    <td><textarea name="message" cols="29" rows="5"></textarea></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>&nbsp;</td>
    <td><input type="submit" name="submit" value="Submit Message" /></td>
  </tr>
</table>
</form>

and this is the php on the same application_form.php
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<?php
if (isset($_POST['submit'])) {
  // Collect variables
  $name = $_POST['name'];
  $email = $_POST['email'];
  $message = $_POST['message'];

  // Send email
  $body = "The following feedback has been submitted:\n\n";
  $body .= "Name: $name\n";
  $body .= "Email: $email\n";
  $body .= "Message: $message";
  mail ("cerberus478@gmail.com","Feedback Received",$body,"From: cerberus478@gmail.com");

  // Output confirmation
  echo "<p>Your message has been received.</p>";
}
?>

i wrote this code

<?php
$mail_to='XXX@gmail.com';
   $subject_mail='UYYYY';
   $message='XXXXX';



$headers  = "MIME-Version: 1.0 \r\n";
$headers .= "Content-type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 \r\n";
$headers .= "From: XXX@gmail.com \r\n";

mail($mail_to, $subject_mail, $message, $headers );
?>


but the email will not send
why please?

Hello, i have been looking for and answer on the internet but i couldn't find it! I'm new on PHP based on and example i wrote something like this for my website:

//basic variables
$EmailFrom = Trim(stripslashes($_POST['EmailFrom']));
$EmailTo = "example@mysite.org";
$Subject = "Registration u10";
$teamname = Trim(stripslashes($_POST['teamname']));
$affiliation = Trim(stripslashes($_POST['affiliation']));
$premier = Trim(stripslashes($_POST['premier']));
$challenge = Trim(stripslashes($_POST['challenge']));
$girls = Trim(stripslashes($_POST['girls']));
$boys = Trim(stripslashes($_POST['boys']));

//about 15 more variables go in here but i don't want to put them to save some space

// validation
$validationOK=true;
if (Trim($EmailFrom)=="") $validationOK=false;
if (!$validationOK) {
  print "<meta http-equiv=\"refresh\" content=\"0;URL=error.htm\">";
  exit;
}

// email body text
//this includes the info of all the variables at the top even the ones I didn't write in here (but you get the point  )

$Body = "";
$Body .= "Team Name: ";
$Body .= $teamname;
$Body .= "\n"; $Body .= "\n";


$Body .= "AYSleague: ";
$Body .= $aysleague;
$Body .= "\n"; $Body .= "\n";

$Body .= "Flash Tournament: ";
$Body .= $flashtournament;
$Body .= "\n"; $Body .= "\n";

$Body .= "Spring 2011: ";
$Body .= $spring2011;
$Body .= "\n"; $Body .= "\n";

$Body .= "Summer 2011: ";
$Body .= $summer2011;
$Body .= "\n"; $Body .= "\n";

$Body .= "fall 2011: ";
$Body .= $fall2011;
$Body .= "\n"; $Body .= "\n";

// send email to my inbox with the information above

$success = mail($EmailTo, $Subject, $Body, "From: <$EmailFrom>");

// if everything goes OK it will redirect them to another page

if ($success){
  print "<meta http-equiv=\"refresh\" content=\"0;URL=thanksu12.html\">";
}

else{
  print "<meta http-equiv=\"refresh\" content=\"0;URL=error.html\">";
}
?>

the problem that i have is:
(i divided it in 2 sections)
1- i need to sent a second email to the coach
2- that email only needs to have the information of 6 variables not the whole thing

I don't know how to do it, if someone knows how to do it, i will appreciate some help!!

thanks!

Hi guys, i have a custom made php that collect all the info in admin page (long story short), there's a button called "Approve" I would like to send back an email to user who applied with picture, once Approved button is pressed, so here's the script:


<?php
session_start();
$user = '123';
$pass = '123';
$to = $data['email'];
$subject = 'blablabla';
$message = 'test123';
if (!isset($_SERVER['PHP_AUTH_USER']) || !isset($_SERVER['PHP_AUTH_PW']) || $_SERVER['PHP_AUTH_USER'] != $user || $_SERVER['PHP_AUTH_PW'] != $pass)
{
    header('WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm="Enter password to access this page."');
    header('HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized');
    echo"You must be logged in to see this page.";
    exit;
}
################## PROTECTED CONTENT ########################
require('./config.php');
?>
<!DOCTYPE HTML>
<html>
    <head>
        <title>ADMIN PANEL</title>
        <style type="text/css">
            body{width: 960px; margin: auto; margin-top: 20px; padding: 5px 20px; box-shadow: 0px 0px 2px #000000; border-radius: 5px;background:transparent url(images/bg_header.gif) top left repeat-x;}
            a:link,a:active,a:visited{color: inherit; text-decoration: none;}
            a:hover{text-decoration: underline;}
            .button{background:transparent url(images/grad.PNG) bottom left repeat-x; padding: 3px 5px; border-radius: 4px; border: 1px solid #cccccc;}
            .button:hover{border-color:orangered;text-decoration:none;}
            .approve .img{max-height: 200px; max-width: 200px; position: absolute; right: 5px; top: 5px;}
            .approve{display: block; height: 200px; overflow: hidden; box-shadow: 0px 0px 2px #000000; margin-top: 20px; padding: 20px; position: relative; font:13px verdana;}
            textarea,input{padding: 3px;font: 13px helvetica,verdana;border:1px solid rgb(51,151,251);border-radius: 4px;width: 300px; display: block;
                           margin: 5px 0px;}
            input:hover,textarea:hover{border-color:orangered;cursor:pointer;}
            form{font:bold 13px verdana;}
            input[type='submit'],input[type='button']{width: auto;}
        </style>
    </head>
    <body>
        <?php
        echo"
<div id='head'>
<h1 align='center'>ADMIN PANEL</h1>
    <h4 align='center'><a href='index.php' class='button'>Homepage</a> <a  class='button' href='admin.php'>Approval Queue</a> <a class='button' href='admin.php?edit'>Edit Image info.</a> <a class='button' href='?edit&view'>View Image Info.</a></h4>
</div>";
        if (isset($_GET['edit']))
        {
            if (isset($_GET['pid']))
            {
                $pic = mysql_query('SELECT * from `' . $table_name . '` WHERE pid = ' . intval($_GET['pid']));
                if (mysql_num_rows($pic) == 1)
                {
                    if (isset($_POST['submit']))
                    {
                        $approved = isset($_POST['approved']) && $_POST['approved'] == '1' ? 1 : 0;
                        mysql_query('UPDATE `' . $table_name . '` SET ' .
                                        'first_name = "' . $_POST['first'] . '",' .
                                        'last_name="' . $_POST['last'] . '",' .
                                        'phone="' . $_POST['phone'] . '",' .
                                        'email="' . $_POST['email'] . '",' .
                                        'first_name="' . $_POST['first'] . '",' .
                                        'approved=' . $approved . ',' .
                                        'address="' . $_POST['addr'] . '",' .
                                        'admin_desc="' . $_POST['admin_desc'] . '"' .
                                        ' WHERE pid = ' . intval($_GET['pid'])) or exit("Unable to edit" . mysql_error());
                        echo'<h3>EDITED</h3>';
                        $pic = mysql_query('SELECT * from `' . $table_name . '` WHERE pid = ' . intval($_GET['pid']));
                    }
                    $data = mysql_fetch_array($pic);
                    if (isset($_GET['view']))
                    {
                        echo'
                <strong>Uploaded by </strong>' . $data['first_name'] . ' ' . $data['last_name'] . '
                <br />
                <img src="' . $default_dir . $data['image_name'] . '" style="max-width: 200px; max-height:200px; float: right;" />
                    <br />
                    <br />
<b>First_name :</b> ' . $data['first_name'] . '
                    <br />
                    <br />
                <b>Last_name :</b> ' . $data['last_name'] . '
                    <br />
                    <br />
                <b>Phone :</b> ' . $data['phone'] . '
                    <br />
                    <br />
                <b>Email :</b> ' . $data['email'] . '
                    <br />
                    <br />
                <b>Approved :</b> ' . ($data['approved'] == 1 ? 'Yes' : 'No') . '
                    <br />
                    <br />
                <b>Address :</b> ' . $data['address'] . '
                    <br />
                    <br />
                <b>Admin_description :</b> 
                                    <br />
                    <br />' . $data['admin_desc'] . '
                    <br />
                    <br />
                    <a href="?edit&pid=' . $data['pid'] . '" class="button">Edit</a>
                                            <br />
                    <br />
';
                    }
                    else
                    {
                        echo'<form method="POST" action="?edit&pid=' . intval($_GET['pid']) . '">
                Editting photo: <a style="color:rgb(51,151,251);" href="' . $default_dir . $data['image_name'] . '">' . $data['image_name'] . '</a> uploaded by ' . $data['first_name'] . ' ' . $data['last_name'] . '
                <br />
                <img src="' . $default_dir . $data['image_name'] . '" style="max-width: 200px; max-height:200px; float: right;" />
                    <br />
First_name : <input type="text" name="first" value="' . $data['first_name'] . '" />
                Last_name : <input type="text" name="last" value="' . $data['last_name'] . '" />
                Phone : <input type="text" name="phone" value="' . $data['phone'] . '" />
                Email : <input type="text" name="email" value="' . $data['email'] . '" />
                Approved : <input type="text" name="approved" value="' . $data['approved'] . '" /> 0 or 1
                Address : <textarea name="addr">' . $data['address'] . '</textarea>
                Admin_description : <textarea name="admin_desc">' . $data['admin_desc'] . '</textarea>
                <input type="submit" name="submit" value="Edit" />
                </form>';
                    }
                }
                else
                {
                    echo"NO SUCH PICTURE EXISTS";
                }
            }
            else
            {
                echo"
            <h3>Search for image to " . (isset($_GET['view']) ? 'view' : 'edit') . " it: </h3>
            <form id='form' method='POST' action='admin.php?edit" . (isset($_GET['view']) ? '&view' : '') . "'>
            Uploader's first name: <input type='text' name='name' value='' /> OR 
            Image name: <input type='text' name='img' value='' /> OR 
            Email: <input type='text' name='email' value='' />
             <input type='submit' name='submit' value='Search' />
            </form>";
                if (isset($_POST['submit']))
                {
                    $name = empty($_POST['name']) ? '%' : '%' . $_POST['name'] . '%';
                    $email = empty($_POST['email']) ? '%' : '%' . $_POST['email'] . '%';
                    $img = empty($_POST['img']) ? '%' : '%' . $_POST['img'] . '%';
                    $query = mysql_query(
                            'SELECT * from `' . $table_name . '` where ' .
                            'first_name like "' . $name . '" and ' .
                            'email like "' . $email . '" and ' .
                            'image_name like "' . $img . '"');
                    if (mysql_num_rows($query) > 0)
                    {
                        while ($pic = mysql_fetch_array($query))
                        {
                            echo"<hr/><strong>Uploaded by $pic[first_name] $pic[last_name] " . date(' \a\t H:i \o\n d/m/Y', intval($pic['image_name'])) .
                            "</strong> - <a href='$default_dir$pic[image_name]' target='_blank'>$pic[image_name]</a>
                              <a href='?edit" . (isset($_GET['view']) ? '&view' : '') . "&pid=$pic[pid]' class='button'>" . (isset($_GET['view']) ? 'View' : 'Edit') . "</a>";
                        }
                    }
                    else
                    {
                        echo "NO IMAGE MATCHES THAT DESCRIPTION";
                    }
                }
            }
            exit;
        }
        if (isset($_GET['approve']))
        {
            if (mysql_query('UPDATE `' . $table_name . '` SET approved = 1 WHERE pid = ' . intval($_GET['approve'])))
            {
        if (@mail($to, $subject, $message)) { echo('<p>Mail sent successfully.</p>'); } else { echo('<p>Mail could not be sent.</p>'); }
echo"<h2>APPROVEDs</h2>";
            }
        }


It's not whole script though.

I have mixed text with emails. Some are .com, .co.uk, .it, .se, dk, de, and so on.

<form action="mail.php" method="post"> <textarea name="emails" value="emails"></textarea> <input type="submit" value="Subscribe"> </form>
<?php $emails = $_POST["emails"]; 
//$email = explode/ltrim/array/string/all of that
echo $emails;

All the emails, unfortunately.

blabla1@hotmail.com
blabla2@hotmail.de
blabla3@yahoo.com
blabla4@hotmail.es
blabla5@gmail.es 
...

But how can I have with one language, example I would have only .de:

blabla1@hotmail.de 
blabla2@hotmail.de 
blabla3@gmail.de 
blabla4@yahoo.de 
blabla5@gmail.de 
...

and next I would have only .se, and so on.

Can you tell me? I am newbie.

Wut's happening forum

So everytime I send an email using mail ( ) like this:



$to = "$email";
$subject = "Mailing List Confirmation";
$headers = "From: blah blah blah";
$body = "Hello, $fname

Thank you for your subscription to this update mailing list.

Once an entry related to $query is updated, an email notification would be sent to you promptly.

Regards,

Blah blah blah.";

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




I mean it works perfectly, but there's always a messsage saying "this email is suspicious" or some sort when I use hotmail

but when i use gmail, no such warning appears. Still i would like to send a "non-suspicious" email in case some users r using hotmail.

Is there anyway i can fix up this code to enhance its security level?

thanks

i have the following which sends an email whenever a post is made within the topic the user is subscribed to.
However it still sends the email to the person who made the reply. I need to take out the email of the poster if they are in the notification list. This is what i have but it doesnt seem to remove them.

$notification_query = $db->query("SELECT 
u.user_id, 
u.user_email, 
u.user_username,
 n.notification_user_id
 
 FROM ".DB_PREFIX."members as u
 
 LEFT JOIN ".DB_PREFIX."notifications as n
 ON n.notification_user_id = u.user_id
 
 WHERE n.notification_topic_id = '$post_id'")
 or trigger_error("SQL", E_USER_ERROR);

$num_rows = mysql_num_rows($notification_query);
while ($notification_list = mysql_fetch_object($notification_query)) {
$users4[] = $notification_list->user_email; 
}

$emailAddress = implode(', ', $users4);

if (in_array($_SESSION['user_username'], $emailAddress))
{
$emailAddress = str_replace($_SESSION['user_username'], ' ', $emailAddress);
}
if ($num_rows >=1) {

putenv('TZ=EST5EDT'); 
    $headers  = 'MIME-Version: 1.0' . "\r\n";
    $headers .= 'Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1' . "\r\n";
    $headers .= 'From: no-reply@thevault.0sites.net' . "\r\n";

    $message .= "A Reply Has Been Made To {$_POST['subject']}.<br /><br />";

$message .= "You are receiving this message because you have subscribed
to the topic {$_POST['subject']},<br /> which has a new post since your last one.<br />";
$message .= "Click the link below to view the new thread now.<br />";
$message .= "<a href=\"{$site_root}/index.php?forum={$forum_id}\">
{$site_root}/index.php?forum={$forum_id}&amp;topic={$thread_topic_id}</a><br />
<br />To Unsubscribe from this topic visit the link below.<br /><br />
<a href=\"{$site_root}/subscribe.php?forum={$forum_id}&amp;topic={$topic_id}&amp;uid={$notification_list->user_id}&amp;do=unsubscribe\">
{$site_root}/subscribe.php?forum={$forum_id}&amp;topic={$topic_id}&amp;uid={$notification_list->user_id}&amp;do=unsubscribe</a><br /><br />
Thanks";
$subject = "A Reply Has Been Made To {$_POST['subject']}.";
    mail($emailAddress,$subject,$message,$headers);

}
}

Hi guys,

I am writing the php script to send the email. I have noticed when I picked up on my email, I can see that it have been covered with mailed-by: myservername.com. I want to hide it, but I can't find a way to get it resolve.


Here's the code:

<?php
session_start();
    define('DB_HOST', 'localhost');
    define('DB_USER', 'myusername');
    define('DB_PASSWORD', 'mypass');
    define('DB_DATABASE', 'mydbname');
       
    $errmsg_arr = array();
    $errflag = false;

    $link = mysql_connect(DB_HOST, DB_USER, DB_PASSWORD);
    if(!$link) {
  die('Failed to connect to server: ' . mysql_error());
    }

    $db = mysql_select_db(DB_DATABASE);
    if(!$db) {

die("Unable to select database");
    }

   function clean($var){

return mysql_real_escape_string(strip_tags($var));
    }
    $name = clean($_GET['name']);
    $email = clean($_GET['email']);
    $type = clean($_GET['type']);
    $comments = clean($_GET['comments']);

if($name == ''){
   $errmsg_arr[] = 'name are missing.';
   $errflag = true;
} elseif($email == ''){
   $errmsg_arr[] = 'email are missing.';
   $errflag = true;
}

    if($errflag) {
  $_SESSION['ERRMSG_ARR'] = $errmsg_arr;
  echo implode('<br />',$errmsg_arr);
   }
   else {
$insert = array();
if(isset($_GET['name'])) {
    $insert[] = 'name = \'' . clean($_GET['name']) .'\'';
}
if(isset($_GET['email'])) {
    $insert[] = 'email = \'' . clean($_GET['email']) . '\'';
}
if(isset($_GET['type'])) {
    $insert[] = 'type = \'' . clean($_GET['type']) . '\'';
}
if(isset($_GET['comments'])) {
    $insert[] = 'comments = \'' . clean($_GET['comments']) . '\'';
}

if (count($insert)>0) {
   $names = implode(',',$insert);

if(isset($email)){
   $name = $_GET['name'];
   $email = $_GET['email'];
   $header = "From: $name <$email>". "\r\n";  
   $to = "myname@myemail.com";
   $subject = $type;
   $message = "$comments & $rate";
   $header .= "MIME-Version: 1.0\l\n";
   $add = "<$email>";
   mail($to, $subject, $message, $header, $add);
echo "Thank you for sent us your email";
  }
 }
}
?>



I guess that something got to do with this:

if(isset($email)){
   $header = "From: $name <$email>". "\r\n";  
   $header .= "MIME-Version: 1.0\l\n";
   $add = "<$email>";
  }


I have disabled the safe-mode, so do you know how I can hide the mailed-by header using with the code on above??

Any advice would be much appreciate.

Thanks in advance.

Hi I have a following code, validation part and jquery works perfectly in the code but it dosent send the email  I have jquery.js file in the head section of html and it work perfectly   contact.php

 
<div id="emailcontainer">

<div id="ack"> </div>

<div id="emailsend"><img src="images/emailsend.gif"></img><br> <p>We will get back to you soon</p></div>



<form id="contactform">

<div>

<label for="name">NAME:</label>

<input type="text" name="name" id="name" placeholder="John Doe" />

</div>

<div>

<label for="email">EMAIL:</label>

<input type="text" name="email" id="email" placeholder="JohnDoe@example.com" />

</div>

<div>

<label for="comment">MESSAGE:</label>

<textarea name="comment" rows="10" cols="50" id="comment"></textarea>

</div>

<input type="submit" name="submit" value="SEND" id="submit" />

</form>

</div><!---div emailcontainer end here--->

</div><!---div main end here--->
 

this page does the validation part from php   test.php

 
 
<?php

 if(isset($_POST["submit"])) {



    $errors = array();

    $name = $_POST['name'];

    $email = $_POST['email'];

    $comment = $_POST['comment'];

    $to = "reboosttechnologies@gmail.com";

    $from = $_POST['email'];

    $headers = "From: $from";

    $flag = false;

    $success = mail($to,$comment,$headers);

    $emailReg = '/^([a-z0-9_\.-]+)@([\da-z\.-]+)\.([a-z\.]{2,6})$/ ';



    if(!($name) || !($email) || !($comment)){

        if(!$name){

            $errors[]="Missing Name";

            }

        if(!$email){

            $errors[]="Missing Email";

            }

        if(!$comment){

            $errors[]="Missing Comment";

            }

            $json_response = json_encode($errors);

                 

        }elseif(!preg_match($emailReg,$email)){

            $errors[] = "Not a valid email address";

            $json_response = json_encode($errors);

            }elseif($success){

                  $flag = true;



                return $flag;}else{

                

                $json_response = json_encode("Thanks for your comment");

                }

                echo $json_response;





}

?>

this file does the jquery validation without page refresh function.js

 
$(function(){

    $("#emailsend").hide();

    $("#submit").click(function(event) {

   event.preventDefault();

        var emailReg = /^([a-z0-9_\.-]+)@([\da-z\.-]+)\.([a-z\.]{2,6})$/;

        var errors = false;

        var name = $('[name=name]').val();

        var email = $('[name=email]').val();

        var comment = $('[name=comment]').val();

        $('.errors').remove();

        if($("#name").val() == ""){

            $("#name").after("<span class= 'errors'> Missing Name </span>");

            errors = true;

            }

        if($("#email").val() == ""){

            $("#email").after("<span class= 'errors'> Missing Email </span>");

            errors = true;

            }else if(!emailReg.test($('#email').val())){

                $("#email").after("<span class= 'errors'> Not valid Email </span>");

                errors = true;

                }

        if($("#comment").val() == ""){

            $("#comment").after("<span class= 'errors'> Missing Comment </span>");

            errors = true;

            }

if(errors == true) {

     return false;

  } else {

     input_data = {

        "name"   : name,

        "email"  : email,

        "comment": comment,

        "submit" : true

     }

    $.ajax({

       type: 'post',

       url: 'test.php',

       data: input_data,

       dataType: 'json',

       success: function( msg ) {

          $("#ack").html(msg);

          $("#contactform").delay(500).slideUp(500);

          $("#emailsend").show(700);

       },

       error: function() {

          $("#ack").html('ERROR!');

       }

    });  

}





                

        

        });

    });

 
 

Okay, I got the other parts of this script to input the form information into my database, but this part of the code is not sending the user the activation email. Please Help!?

I've attached the complete script for an extra pair of eyes. Thanks


/!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!    Email User the activation link    !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
     $myemail = "admin@knirv.com";
       $emess = "First Name: $firstname\n";
       $emess.= "Last Name: $lastname\n";
       $emess.= "Email 1: $email1\n";
       $emess.= "Email 2: $email2\n";
       $emess.= "City: $city\nState: $state\nZip/Post Code:$zip\n";
       $emess.= "Country: $scountry\n";
       $emess.= "Phone number 1: $phone1\n";
       $emess.= "Phone number 2: $phone2\n";
       $emess.= "Phone number 3: $phone3\n";
       $emess.= "Comments: $sendmail";
       $ehead = "From: $myemail\r\n"; 
       $subj = "Complete knirv.com registration!";
      $mailsend=mail("$myemail","$subj","$emess","$ehead");
          //Begin HTML Email Message
    $message = "Hi $firstname,

   Complete this step to activate your login identity at knirv.com.

   Click the line below to activate when ready.

   http://www.knirv.com/activation.php?id=$id&sequence=$db_password
   If the URL above is not an active link, please copy and paste it into your browser address bar

   Login after successful activation using your:  
   E-mail Address: $email 
   Password: $password

   See you on the site!
   admin@knirv.com";
   //end of message
       unset($_GET['do']);
 
       header("Location: thank_you.php");
     break;
 
   }
   
   $msgToUser = "<h2>One Last Step - Activate through Email</h2><h4>OK $firstname, one last step to verify your email identity:</h4><br />
   In a moment you will be sent an Activation link to your email address.<br /><br />
   <br />
   <strong><font color=\"#990000\">VERY IMPORTANT:</font></strong> 
   If you check your email with your host providers default email application, there may be issues with seeing the email contents.  If this happens to you and you cannot read the message to activate, download the file and open using a text editor. If you still cannot see the activation link, contact site admin and briefly discuss the issue.<br /><br />
   ";


   include_once 'msgToUser.php'; 

   exit();

   }

Hi guys,

I have a problem with the $header variable. I am trying to extract the value from the $name method and included with the $email method.

<?php
session_start();
    define('DB_HOST', 'localhost');
    define('DB_USER', 'myusername');
    define('DB_PASSWORD', 'mypass');
    define('DB_DATABASE', 'mydbname');
       
    $errmsg_arr = array();
    $errflag = false;

    $link = mysql_connect(DB_HOST, DB_USER, DB_PASSWORD);
    if(!$link) {
  die('Failed to connect to server: ' . mysql_error());
    }

    $db = mysql_select_db(DB_DATABASE);
    if(!$db) {

die("Unable to select database");
    }

   function clean($var){

return mysql_real_escape_string(strip_tags($var));
    }
    $name = clean($_GET['name']);
    $email = clean($_GET['email']);
    $type = clean($_GET['type']);
    $comments = clean($_GET['comments']);


if($name == ''){
   $errmsg_arr[] = 'name are missing.';
   $errflag = true;
} elseif($email == ''){
   $errmsg_arr[] = 'email are missing.';
   $errflag = true;
}

    if($errflag) {
  $_SESSION['ERRMSG_ARR'] = $errmsg_arr;
  echo implode('<br />',$errmsg_arr);
   }
   else {
$insert = array();
if(isset($_GET['name'])) {
    $insert[] = 'name = \'' . clean($_GET['name']) .'\'';
}
if(isset($_GET['email'])) {
    $insert[] = 'email = \'' . clean($_GET['email']) . '\'';
}
if(isset($_GET['type'])) {
    $insert[] = 'type = \'' . clean($_GET['type']) . '\'';
}
if(isset($_GET['comments'])) {
    $insert[] = 'comments = \'' . clean($_GET['comments']) . '\'';
}

if (count($insert)>0) {
   $names = implode(',',$insert);


if(isset($email)){
   $name = $_GET['name'];
   $email = $_GET['email'];
   $header = 'From: $name <-f $email>' . "\r\n";  
   $to = "myname@myemail.com";
   $subject = $type;
   $message = "$comments";
   $header .= "MIME-Version: 1.0\l\n";
   mail($to, $subject, $message, $header);
echo "Thank you for sent us your email";
  }
 }
}
?>



Something got to do with this line:

$header = 'From: $name <-f $email>' . "\r\n";

My problem is I can see in my email that the sender name has been included with (unknown sender) while the email address are display as empty address. I am really not sure why I have got the blank sender name and with the blank sender address.


Do you know what the main problem is and what I need to change it with?

Any advice would be much appreciate.

Thanks,
Mark

Hi, would like to know if there is any way to send email using localhost? is it possible and how can i do it?

Iwant to make a contact us script and here is done so far. I am almost sure its about preg match filters but cant find a solution why it doesnt work. Appreciate any help. Here is my code:

               $first_name = $_POST['first_name'];
   $last_name = $_POST['last_name'];
   $email_from = $_POST['email'];
   $comments = $_POST['comments'];
   $emailtrue = '/^([A-Za-z0-9-_]+@[A-Za-z0-9-_]+\.[A-Za-z]{2,4})$/';
   $nametrue = "/^[A-Za-z]+$/D";
    if(!preg_match($nametrue,$first_name)) {
                    echo "The First Name you entered does not appear to be valid.";
        die (); }
               if(!preg_match($nametrue,$last_name))  {
                    echo "The Last Name you entered does not appear to be valid.";
                    die (); }
    if(!preg_match($emailtrue,$email_from)) {
        echo "The Email Address you entered does not appear to be valid.";       
                    die (); }
    if(strlen($comments) < 4)  {         
       echo "The Comments you entered do not appear to be valid. Min. 4 letters." ;
       die (); }
        $to      = xxxxxxxxxx.com';
                $subject = 'User Email';
       $headers = 'From: '.$email_from. "\r\n" .
   'Reply-To: '.$email_from. "\r\n" .
               'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion();
               mail($to, $subject, $comments, $headers);

Im still trying to work this one out but what i would like to do is send an email if an alert is present. but not resend the email on every page refresh where the alert is still present.

so i was thinking of using something like $_SESSION['sent_time'] to record when the last email was sent and only send another email if the current time is greater than 10 mins from the $_SESSION['sent_time'].

How can i record the time into the session variable in a format which i can use to compare with the current time?
and how will i compare?

cheers for any suggestions

Hi, Im getting better at this php lark!
ok so now I have a signup website page, all details get added to the database including an email address, all works fine.

now I would like a page, with a simple text box, that when you hit submit, it send the contents of the text box to all email address` in the members table, a really really simple newsletter so to speak. Its purely for my learning curve and Ill set up recapacha on it anyway.

but Im getting a bit lost in the code, could someone guide me please? I can grab the contents of the text box like this:

$letter     = $_POST['letter];

but how do I send to all recipients?
$recipient = ("SELECT email FROM members");

thanks