php help

**peter_brickles** · August 13th, 2013

hi guys heres hoping some one more knowledgable can help me i have altered a php script i found to email me completed web forms from my site. How ever if i change the following line in the code

$email_subject = "Contact form submission: $name";

specificly the string Contact form submission the email is never recieved the whole code is below id be really grateful if any one could offer some advice on this ?

thanks dunryc

<?php

$errors = '';

date_default_timezone_set('Europe/London'); //set the time zone as server isnt in the uk or set to uk

$date = date('d/m/Y H:i:s'); //date variable
$ipaddress = $_SERVER["REMOTE_ADDR"]; //get the users ip address into a vairialbe

$myemail = 'peter.brickles@gmail.com';//<-----Put Your email address here.
$title = $_POST['title'];
$loan_amount = $_POST['loan_amount'];
$loan_purpose = $_POST['purpose'];
$first_name = $_POST['first_name'];
$surname = $_POST['surname'];
$postcode = $_POST['postcode'];
$house_number = $_POST['house_number'];
$street = $_POST['street'];
$town = $_POST['town'];
$hometype = $_POST['hometype'];
$home_phone = $_POST['home_phone'];
$mobile = $_POST['mobile'];
$work_number = $_POST['work_number'];

$email_address = $_POST['email'];

if (!preg_match(
"/^[_a-z0-9-]+(\.[_a-z0-9-]+)*@[a-z0-9-]+(\.[a-z0-9-]+)*(\.[a-z]{2,3})$/i",
$email_address))
{
$errors .= "\n Error: Invalid email address";
}

if( empty($errors))
{
$to = $myemail;
$email_subject = "Contact form submission: $name";
$email_body = "You have received a new loan application. ".
" Here are the details:\n\n IP Address: $ipaddress \n Time/Date:$date \n\n Loan Amount: £$loan_amount\n Loan Purpose: $loan_purpose\n \n Title: $title \n Name: $first_name \n Surname: $surname \n\n Postcode: $postcode \n House Nymber\Name: $house_number \n Street: $street \n Town/City $town \n Home Type: $hometype \n Home Phone $home_phone \n Mobile: $mobile \n Work Number: $work_number \n Email: $email_address ";

$headers = "From: $myemail\n";
$headers .= "Reply-To: $email_address";

mail($to,$email_subject,$email_body,$headers);
//redirect to the 'thank you' page
header('Location: contact-form-thank-you.html');
}
?>
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<title>Contact form handler</title>
</head>

<body>

<?php
echo nl2br($errors);
?>

</body>
</html>

**SeijiSensei** · August 13th, 2013

Originally Posted by peter_brickles

specificly the string Contact form submission the email is never recieved the whole code is below id be really grateful if any one could offer some advice on this ?thanks dunryc

Can you give a specific example of how you changed the string and the result that change produced? Otherwise we'll all be shooting in the dark.

**Crusty Old Fart** · August 18th, 2013

I see that you have assigned values to the php variables: $first_name and $surname
But I don't see a statement anywhere in your code that assigns a value to the variable: $name

I think you need to assign a value to the variable: $name before you can use it as part of: $email_subject = "Contact form submission: $name"

Right?

Perhaps you intended to have a line of code before you defined the $email_subject variable similar to this:

PHP Code:


 $name = $first_name . ' ' . $surname;

This also works:

PHP Code:


 $name = "$first_name $surname";

**carl4926** · August 18th, 2013

Here is a basic php mailer

Code:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Untitled Document</title>
</head>


<body>
<?php 
if(isset($_POST['Submit'])) {
$youremail = 'info@youremail.co.uk';
$fromsubject = 'Enquiry';
$fname = $_POST['fname'];
$lname = $_POST['lname'];
$mail = $_POST['mail'];
$phone = $_POST['phone']; 
$message = $_POST['message']; 
	$to = $youremail; 
	$mailsubject = 'Masage recived from'.$fromsubject.' Contact Page';
	$body = $fromsubject.'
	
	The person that contacted you is '.$title.' '.$fname.' '.$lname.'
	 Phone Number: '.$phone.'
	 E-mail: '.$mail.'
	
	 Message: 
	 '.$message.'
	
	|---------END MESSAGE----------|'; 
echo "Thank you for contacting Linux Solutions . Your Email has been sent successfully.<br/>Go to <a href='/index.html'>Home Page</a>"; 
								mail($to, $subject, $body);
 } else { 
echo "You must write a message. </br> Please go to <a href='/contact.php'>Contact Page</a>"; 
}
?>  
</body>
</html>

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