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"Sending e-mails from html forms..."

I know CGI script can be written to send e-mails from user inputs into html forms. This is likely to be a stupid question, but can php do anything similar, what with it being server side as well?

Andrew Hunt wrote:
> I suggest you get:

> PHP: Fast and Easy Web Development

I second that - its an excellent introduction to both PHP and MySQL.

Chris.

SR motto:

"We don't sell turkeys, even at Christmas"

...Any chance of SR selling some PHP books then???

Another good book for the more advanced PHP programmer is "Professional PHP Programming" published by Wrox. It's a tad expensive (about £35) but it's prettty good.

I also find some interesting scripts at:
www.phpbuilder.com
www.devshed.com

There is also a good PHP forum at:
http://forums.devshed.com

That's obviously only if you can't find the help here.

TrevUK ... are you familier with HTML and all that??? The input forms, the names of the text boxes, etc???

...sorry, little error there..

where it says..

# The actuall results
$Message = "Submited details:\n\n " &
foreach($HTTP_GET_VARS as $key=>$value) {
$key: $value\n\n
}
& ", sent via HTML Web Form.";


... that should be ...


# The actuall results
$Message = "";
foreach($HTTP_GET_VARS as $key=>$value) {
$Message ."$Key: $Value"
}

$Send_To = "[email protected]";
# The E-mail Address you want the results sent to.

$Sent_From = "My WebSite HTML Form";
# Either an E-mail Address or note, just so you kno where
# the E-mail came from

$Subject = "Filled in HTML Form";
# The Subject line of sent the E-mail

# The actuall results
$Message = "Submited details:\n\n " &
foreach($HTTP_GET_VARS as $key=>$value) {
$key: $value\n\n
}
& ", sent via HTML Web Form.";

mail($Send_To, $Subject, $Message, "FROM:$Sent_From") or print "Error Occured, mail not sent.";
# Sends the E-mailed Results to you, or alerts of an error.
?>





This Script will just send you all th fields that were filled in ... it goes through each field, so you can add or delete any fields on the HTML form, and not have to edit your PHP Script... You should put the method as Postin the

of the HTML form ().

... hope that helped.

ajg >> he did actually onlu ask if it was possible, not for a PHP Script example.... though if you want one... I'll stick it up in a moment...

Books are a good idea. I suggest you get:

PHP: Fast and Easy Web Development

It is the book that I used to learn PHP and it takes you through setting it up on your computer and through basic principles and scripts (includeing a very easy mail script).

Great help you guys are. Doesn't take anyone with much knowledge to post a reply to 'read a book'. Whats the point, like?

Anyway...


Trev, whats your email address? I can send you a couple of pages and scripts that'll do the job. It was freeware from somewhere or other but its easy to configure.

cheers
ajg