Topic: PHP newbie.

[bator]

Hey guys, I'm trying to make a simple email script and I'm sure I'm overlooking something easy and I know one of you PHP Gurus can get this in a second.

I have my HTML file with a form action for mailer.php the code for mailer.php is

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<?php
$to      = 'email@email.com';
$subject = 'hello';
$message = 'this is the email message to php freaks.!';
$headers = 'From: email@emailer.net' . "\r\n" .
    'Reply-To: webmaster@example.com' . "\r\n" .
    'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion();

mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);
?>
My question is, on the HTML file in the form, How can I get data from the website to be put into $to $subject, etc. I'm not sure how to link the two so that data i type in the text field will replace whats in the mailer.php script. I set the text field name to subject, etc but I'm just not knowledgeable enough to get it.

thanks

[php?]

Try putting this in the php help section

[nirvana4lf]

try deleting the headers variable. its not a required parameter in the mail(); function

[pyrodude]

Direct your form to that php file, then use $_POST['your_input_name_here'] to refer to each value.  For example, you could set

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$to = $_POST['email_to'];
$from = $_POST['email_from'];
$subject = $_POST['subject'];
and so on.

[tippy_102]

I'll get you started....

The html file:

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<form name="email_form" method="post" action="send_email.php">

Email address: <input type="text" name="email_to" size="50"/>

<!-- subject and message inputs go here -->

<p><input type="submit" name="submit" id="submit" value="Submit;" /></p>

</form>

the php file called "send_email.php"

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<?php

$email_to = mysql_real_escape_string($_POST['email_to']); 
if (empty($email_to))
{ die('Email is empty. Please go <a href="javascript:history.back(-1);">back</a>.');
}

//  add above for subject and message

$to      = 'email@email.com';
$subject = 'hello';
$message = 'this is the email message to php freaks.!';
$headers = 'From: email@emailer.net' . "\r\n" .
'Reply-To: webmaster@example.com' . "\r\n" .
'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion();

mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);
?>