PHP - Is There Anyway To Validate Email Addresses The Way These Guys Are Doing It?

Hi Everyone,

Very new to PHP and databases, so please go easy on me!

I have a series on web pages each containing a link that says 'apply here'. What I am trying to achieve is when any of these links are clicked on the user is taken to a php form page where they are asked for a series of further information such as name, telephone number etc. When they click submit this information then gets sent off to a speciifc email address.

My problem is that depending on which page the user has originally come from (the page where they clicked on the apply here link) needs to determine what email address the form information gets sent to.

I thought that the best way to achieve this would be to create a database that contains all of the email addresses (as eventually there will be alot of them) and the form page could call in the relevant email somehow... although I am totally confused on how to go about doing this.

Any help would be great! Thankyou.

Hi

Apologies as this may seem like a trival matter, but im new to coding and just need a bit of help....

I have a form which includes a drop down menu of various departments. Depending on which department is chosen, the form is then sent to different people.

This is the html code for the drop down:

<select name="department" size="1" id="department">
<option value="" selected>Please select</option>
<option value="Health & Safety">Health &amp; Safety</option>
<option value="Property">Property</option>
</select>

So for example the first option mails out to mrjones@email.com mrsmith@email.com and the second would go to mrbloggs@emai.com mr@black@email.com and mrwhite@email.com etc...

I have a separate php file which gathers the variables so i was thinking an if statement would need to be put into this page?

Out of interest i tried something myself and sort of got a result im after:

<select name='department' id='department'>
<option value='man1@website.com'>Department 1</option>
<option value='man2@website.com'>Department 1</option>
</select>

Then i used $email_to = $_POST['department']; in the php file.

But i would like to be able to send to 2 or 3 people so tried:

<select name='department' id='department'>
<option value='man1@website.com, man2@website.com '>Department 1</option>
</select>

This didnt work


Any help very much appreciated

Thanks
Jools

I'm trying to make a script that will search the source code of a given url and strip every email address that pops up.

I already have a script that will crawl around, jumping from webpage to webpage... i just need to figure out how to strip the contents... any suggestions?

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<?php
$firstname = $_POST['firstname'];
$lastname = $_POST['lastname'];
$email = $_POST['email'];
$dropdown = $_POST['dropdown'];
$formcontent=" From: $firstname \n Surname: $lastname \n Email: $email \n Dropdown: $dropdown";
$recipient = "martin@sittingspiritually.co.uk, siobhan@sittingspiritually.co.uk";
$subject = "Newsletter Sign Up";
$mailheader = "From: $email \r\n";
mail($recipient, $subject, $formcontent, $mailheader) or die("Error!");
if ( mail($recipient, $subject, $formcontent, $mailheader) ){
header('Location: http://www.sittingspiritually.co.uk/thankyou.php');
} else {
die ("error");
}
?>

I have recently created a small snippet of php code for posting mail and it's sweet apart from 1 thing.

I have two email addresses in the recipient section. It only sends to the last name in the list.

Is this because i have written recipient? Should it be recipients?

I need this mail to be delivered to both of the email addresses.

I'm sure it's simple for someone with expert knowledge.

Thanks in advance for any help.

Hi, I got this script which I would like to send a message to all email addresses in the database or send to approved members only. Once I got the first part of this script working I can get the rest to work when sending to approved members.

Here is the form which passes the message to the script.

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<?php 

include_once("data/server.php");

$all = 'unchecked';
$approved = 'unchecked';


if (isset($_POST['Submit1'])) {

$selected_radio = $_POST['Mailto'];

if ($selected_radio == 'all') {
$all = 'checked';

}
else if ($selected_radio == 'approved') {
$approved = 'checked';
}
}

?>

<div id="pageNav">
    <div id="sectionLinks"> <a href="admin.php?cmd=database&username=admin">Database</a> <a href="admin.php?cmd=uploads&username=admin">Uploads</a> <a href="admin.php?cmd=editTemplate&username=admin">Templates </a> <a href="admin.php?cmd=email&username=admin">Email</a> <a href="admin.php?cmd=messaging&username=admin">Messaging</a> <a href="admin.php?cmd=protected&username=admin">Protected Directory</a> <a href="admin.php?cmd=filesanddir&username=admin">Files and Directories</a> <a href="admin.php?cmd=usertracking&username=admin">User Tracking</a> <a href="admin.php?cmd=advanced&username=admin">Advanced</a> <a href="admin.php?cmd=uploads&username=admin">Uploads</a> <a href="admin.php?cmd=subscriptions&username=admin">Subscriptions</a> <a href="admin.php?cmd=applications&username=admin">Applications</a> <a href="admin.php?cmd=searchForms&username=admin">Search Form Builder</a> <a href="admin.php?cmd=categories&username=admin">Categories</a> <a href="admin.php?cmd=phpBB&username=admin">phpBB</a> <a href="admin.php?cmd=mySQL&username=admin">MySQL</a></div>
  </div>
  <div id="content">
   
    <div class="page">


<form action=templates/admin/msgtest.php method=POST>
<table>
<tr>
<td>Your Message:</td>
<tr><td>&nbsp;</td><td>&nbsp;</td></tr>
<tr><td><TEXTAREA NAME="message" COLS=40 ROWS=6></TEXTAREA></td></tr>
</table>
<table>
<tr>
<td><input type = 'Radio' Name ='Mailto' value= 'yes'
<?PHP print $all; ?>
</td>
<td>Send Message to all members</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><input type = 'Radio' Name ='Mailto' value= 'yes'
<?PHP print $approved; ?>
</td>
<td>Send Message to Approved members only</td>
</tr>
<tr><td colspan=2><input type=submit name=submit value=Submit></td></tr>
</table>
</form>



</table>
    </div>
   
  </div> 
</div>



And here is the code I have got so far but it doesnt work

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<?php

include_once("../../data/server.php");
include("../../data/mysql.php");

if (isset($_POST['Submit1'])) {

$selected_radio = $_POST['Mailto'];

if ($selected_radio == 'all') {

$mysqlPassword = (base64_decode($mysqlpword));

$con = mysql_connect("$localhost", "$mysqlusername", "$mysqlPassword") or die(mysql_error());
mysql_select_db("$dbname", $con) or die(mysql_error());

 $q2 = "select * from games_newsletter ";
$result = mysql_query("SELECT email FROM profiles");   
 
while ($email = mysql_fetch_assoc($result)) {

$to = $email;
$subject = "Test Message";
$body = "This is a test message";
 $headers = "From: payments@tropicsbay.co.uk\r\n" .
     "X-Mailer: php";
 if (mail($to, $subject, $body, $headers)) {
   
// Redirect back to manage page
header("Location: admin.php?cmd=messaging");


} else {

echo "Approval Message Failed";

}
}
mysql_close($con);
}
}

?>
As always, any help is much appreciated

Paul

I have no idea what im doing wrong but this just isnt working, theres no error messages but im not getting any of the emails. Here is all the code that i had anything to do with editing, i have removed any personal info from it.

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<?php
$dbhost = 'localhost';
$dbuser = ' ';
$dbpass = ' ';

$conn = mysql_connect($dbhost, $dbuser, $dbpass) or die                      ('Error connecting to mysql');

mysql_select_db(" ", $conn);

$result = mysql_query("SELECT ****, ********** FROM **** WHERE name='*****'");

while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result))
{
$message =
"<p><u><b><font size=\"5\" color=\"#800080\">********************</font></b></u></p>
<p><b><font color=\"#800080\" size=\"4\">**************************************************</font></b></p>
<p><b><font color=\"#800080\">*********</font></b> <b><font color=\"#333333\">**********</font></b></p>
<p><b><font color=\"#800080\">********</font></b> <font color=\"#333333\"><b>***********</b></font></p>
<p><font color=\"#800080\"><b>*******</b></font> <font color=\"#333333\"><a href=\"***********************************************</a></font></p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>";
}

$query=mysql_query('SELECT `email`,`name` FROM `users`'); //grab emails and names from database
while($row = mysql_fetch_array($query)) //start a loop to send an email to each individual
{
    //mail function with $row['email'] as the email address
    //I'm using phpmailer as an example here - - >
    include_once('phpMailer/class.phpmailer.php');
    
    $mail             = new PHPMailer(); // defaults to using php "mail()"
    
    $body             = $message; //message inside the email
    
    $mail->From       = "**************"; //email address that the email is being sent from
    $mail->FromName   = "*************"; //more in depth for who the mail is from.
    
    $mail->Subject    = "***********************************"; //The subject for the message
    
    //$mail->AltBody    = "To view the message, please use an HTML compatible email viewer!"; // optional, comment out and test
    
    
    $mail->AddAddress($row[email], $row['name']);
} 

mysql_close($conn);
?>

Hello, any help would be greatly appreciated. I have two dropdowns with 2 options in each. Customer picks one option from each dropdown and the form gets emailed to addresses from the two selections. The code below gives and error.

My form:
<form method="POST" action="quote.php" onsubmit="return checkform(this)">
<input type="hidden" name="agent" value="recipient_1,recipient_2">
<input type="hidden" name="office" value="recipient_3,recipient_4">
<select name="agent" id="agent">
<option value="recipient_1">Agent1 </option>
<option value="recipient_2">Agent2 </option>
</select>
<select name="office" id="office">
<option value="recipient_3">Location1  </option>
<option value="recipient_4">Location2 </option>
</select>
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="Submit">
</form>

quote.php is below:
$recipients = array(

'recipient_1' => 'email_1@yahoo.com',
'recipient_2' => 'email_2@yahoo.com',
'recipient_3' => 'email_3@yahoo.com',
'recipient_4' => 'email_4@yahoo.com',
);
$exploded_recipients = explode(",",$_REQUEST['agent']);
foreach($exploded_recipients as $value)
{
$my_email = $recipients[$value];
$success = mail($my_email, $Subject, $Body, "From: <$EmailFrom>");
}


Thanks in advance

Hi there everyone!

I'm trying my best to Google my way through this issue, but have run into an issue I can't out-Google. I'm trying to write a script that is receiving an email, breaking it apart into it's various components and then storing into a database. I would like to sto

from name
from email
to name
to email
subject
headers
body

Here's what I've cobbled together from various tutorials and demo's:

$fd = fopen("php://stdin", "r");
$email_content = "";
while (!feof($fd)) {
    $email_content .= fread($fd, 1024);
}
fclose($fd);

//split the string into array of strings, each of the string represents a single line, received
$lines = explode("\n", $email_content);
 
// initialize variable which will assigned later on
$from = "";
$subject = "";
$headers = "";
$message = "";
$is_header= true;
 
//loop through each line
for ($i=0; $i < count($lines); $i++) {
    if ($is_header) {
        // hear information. instead of main message body, all other information are here.
        $headers .= $lines[$i]."\n";
 
        // Split out the To portion
        if (preg_match("/^To: (.*)/", $lines[$i], $matches)) {
            $to = $matches[1];
        }
        $toregexp = '/To:\s*(([^\<]*?) <)?<?(.+?)>?\s*\n/i';
        if(preg_match($toregexp, $email_content, $to_dissection)) {
            $toname = $to_dissection[2];
            $toemail = $to_dissection[3];
        }
        // Split out the subject portion
        if (preg_match("/^Subject: (.*)/", $lines[$i], $matches)) {
            $subject = $matches[1];
        }
        //Split out the sender information portion
        if (preg_match("/^From: (.*)/", $lines[$i], $matches)) {
            $from = $matches[1];
        }
        $fromregexp = '/From:\s*(([^\<]*?) <)?<?(.+?)>?\s*\n/i';
        if(preg_match($fromregexp, $email_content, $from_dissection)) {
            $fromname = $from_dissection[2];
            $fromemail = $from_dissection[3];
        }
    } else {
        // content/main message body information
        $message .= $lines[$i]."\n";
    }
    if (trim($lines[$i])=="") {
        // empty line, header section has ended
        $is_header = false;
    }
}

My issues are many. I've got from and to names that don't reflect the true data,
the from address will be the original sender and not the most recent sender if
it's forwarded and finally, the body is showing up empty. Clearly, I'm not handling this properly. With all the trouble-ticket like systems out there, there has to be a fairly bulletproof method of handling this, doesn't there?  I'm thinking I've gone about this totally the wrong way.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

 

Hey everyone, im building my first newsletter sign up and wanted to add the validation of checking if the email is already in the database.

This is the top part of the code that works.
<?php

switch ($_REQUEST['action']) {

default:

foreach($_POST as $key=>$value){
$$key = $value;
}

if ($email == ''){
$error_msg = 'email required';
}

elseif (!eregi("^[_a-z0-9-]+(\.[_a-z0-9-]+)*@[a-z0-9-]+(\.[a-z0-9-]+)*(\.[a-z]{2,3})$", $email)) { 
    $error_msg = 'Invalid email address'; 
}
echo "";


if ($error_msg == ''){

foreach($_POST as $key=>$value){
$$key = htmlentities(stripslashes($value));
}
 $Q = mysql_query("INSERT INTO newsletter (`email`) VALUES ('$email')");

But when i add my attempted validation it doesn't work.

$check = mysql_query("SELECT FROM newsletter WHERE email = '$email'") or die(mysql_error()); 
 $check2 = mysql_num_rows($check); 
 if ($check2 != 1) {
 
 $error_msg = 'email exists'; 

Could someone be so kind to add this code where it should go, iv tried everything.

I do not know whats going on.  I have tried two different methods of validating and email and it keeps saying invalid email
I have even tried to debug it by putting errors and nothing
i have tried
preg_match("^[_a-z0-9-]+(\.[_a-z0-9-]+)*@[a-z0-9-]+(\.[a-z0-9-]+)*(\.[a-z]{2,3})$^", $e)
and
fliter_var($e, FLITER_VALIDATE_EMAIL);

the email i am trying to debug is a valid one.  its one I use daily.  I have tried different emails and still no luck.... someone help me please!

how can i validate if email is being entered correctly in a form?

i have the following code

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<?php 
if(isset($_POST['Submit'])){
//NEED TO CHECK IF FIELDS ARE FILLED IN
if( empty($_POST['email'])){
header("Location:Messages.php?msg=12"); 
exit();
}
if( empty($_POST['name'])){
header("Location:Messages.php?msg=3"); 
exit();
}
if( empty($_POST['pw1']) && (empty($_POST['pw2']))){
header( "Location:Messages.php?msg=4" ); 
exit();
}
$name=$_POST['name'];
$email=$_POST['email'];

$pw1=$_POST['pw1'];
$pw2=$_POST['pw2'];

if("$pw1" !== "$pw2"  ){
header( "Location:Messages.php?msg=5" ); 
exit();
}
$ip = $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'];

//connect to the db server , check if uname exist
include('config.php');
$query1=("Select * from user where email='$email'");
$result1= mysql_query($query1); 
$num1=mysql_num_rows($result1);
if ($num1 > 0) {//Email already been used
header( "Location:Messages.php?msg=11" ); 
exit();
}else{
$query=("Select * from user where uname='$name'");
$result= mysql_query($query); 
$num=mysql_num_rows($result);
if ($num > 0) {//Username already exist
header( "Location:Messages.php?msg=6" ); 
exit();
}else{
//if username does not exist insert user details
$query=( "INSERT INTO user (uname, pw,email,date_joined,ip,level) VALUES ('$name','$pw1','$email',NOW(),'$ip','Normal')");
if (@mysql_query ($query)) {
header("location:login.php?reg=1");
exit;
}
}
}
mysql_close();

}
?>

I want to make the form so only people with a specific email address can sign up to the site.

So for example their ending email address was.... @something.apple.biz.com .. but to be accepted into the site, the email HAS to end with apple.biz.com.

How could you validate it so it matches something specific like this. Here is my code at the moment which just checks that their is at least one . after the @ for it to be an acceptable email. If anyone could say what else to add to do this would be great
if($email != '' && $register){
$emailcheck = explode("@", $email);
$sql = "SELECT email FROM member WHERE email='$email'";
$query = mysql_query($sql);
$emails = mysql_num_rows($query);
if($emails != 0 ){
$alert .= '<p class="alert" style="clear:both;">That email address has already been registered</p>';
$register = false;
}elseif(count($emailcheck) != 2){
$alert .= '<p class="alert" style="clear:both;">Please enter a valid email address</p>';
$register = false;
}elseif(count($emailcheck) == 2){
$emailchecktwo = explode(".", $emailcheck[1]);
if(count($emailchecktwo) < 2){
$alert .= '<p class="alert" style="clear:both;">Please enter a valid email address</p>';
$register = false;
}
}
}

I could use some advice on how to capture and display my Users' Addresses.

On my website, I display the User's...

- Username
- Photo
- Location

...next to each Comment they post.


Right now, I just have an *optional* field on my "Registration" form and "Update Details" form which ask for "Location".

The problem, of course, is that that data isn't very useful beyond displaying it?!

But at the same time, how do I capture Addresses from around the globe?!

If all of my Users were in America, I would just do...

- City
- State
- Zip

...but what do I do if someone is from Stuttgart, Germany?!

My fear is a multinational Registration Form like this would scare people away...
Quote

(For Registrants in the U.S...)
- City
- State
- Zip

(For Registrants outside the U.S...)
- City
- State/Province/Region
- Postal Code
- Country


And how would I handle the "Country" field?  If I use a dropdown - which is usually recommended - then I'd have to maintain a very long and dynamic list, plus Users would have to scroll down through a list of a few hundred countries which my come across as *obnoxious*?!


(I'm just trying to entice people to create a User Account, so I don't want to make it difficult!!)

What is the best way to approach this?

Thanks,


Debbie

Hi

I have a couple of phpbb forums on my web space.

One is randomly throwing people off and it is getting far worse.

I have traced down the issue to the IP address. Phpbb stores the IP address and session id and checks that they match. If not it throws the user out. The session ids seem to be there OK, but the IP addresses aren't.

When it causes a problem the IP address seems to be returned as "::" (yes, 2 colons).

I have used the following routine to try and obtain a relevant IP address and it to returns "::"

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function getRealIpAddr()
{
    if (!empty($_SERVER['HTTP_CLIENT_IP']))   //check ip from share internet
    {
      $ip=$_SERVER['HTTP_CLIENT_IP'];
    }
    elseif (!empty($_SERVER['HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR']))   //to check ip is pass from proxy
    {
      $ip=$_SERVER['HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR'];
    }
    else
    {
      $ip=$_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'];
    }
    return $ip;
}

Any ideas?

All the best

Keith

i wanting users to be able to update there email address and check to see if the new email already exists. if the email is the same as current email ignore the check.
i have no errors showing up but if I enter a email already in the db it still accepts the new email instead of bringing the back the error message.
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// email enterd from form //
$email=$_POST['email'];


$queryuser=mysql_query("SELECT * FROM members WHERE inv='$ivn' ") or die (mysql_error());
 while($info = mysql_fetch_array( $queryuser )) {
  $check=$info['email'];
 // gets current email //
}


if($check!=$email){
// if check not equal to $email check the new email address already exists//
$queryuser=mysql_query("SELECT * FROM members WHERE email='$email' ");
//$result=mysql_query($sql);
$checkuser=mysql_num_rows($queryuser);
if($checkuser != 0)
{
$error= "0";
header('LOCATION:../pages/myprofile.php?id='.$error.'');


}
}

cheers