| Re: My contact form is not emailed to me [message #173514 is a reply to message #173512] |
Sat, 16 April 2011 21:40   |
Jerry Stuckle
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On 4/16/2011 4:25 PM, P E Schoen wrote:
> "nathanir" wrote in message
> news:c6e55a71-4746-4038-b6da-c5e7efb2a6b0(at)a11g2000pro(dot)googlegroups(dot)com...
>
>>> // Pick up the form data and assign it to variables
>>> $name = check_input($_POST['name']);
>>> $email = check_input($_POST['email']);
>>> $select = $_POST['select'];
>>> $textinput = check_input($_POST['textinput']);
>>
>>> // Build the email (replace the address in the $to section with your
>>> own)
>>> $ToEmail = 'raj...@childsurgeon.com';
>>> $Emailsubject = "New message: $select";
>>> $MESSAGE_BODY = "$name said: $textinput";
>>> $mailheader = "From: $email";
>>
>>> // Send the mail using PHPs mail() function
>>> mail($ToEmail, $EmailSubject, $MESSAGE_BODY, $mailheader);
>
>> BTW when I tested this script on my webpage it did send out an email
>> to me. This one also came from the same site.
>
> <?php
> mail('rajesh(at)childsurgeon(dot)com','Test mail','The mail function is
> working!');
> echo 'Mail sent!';
> ?>
>
> I'm not an expert but I do have a similar setup that works, with an HTML
> form and a PHP script which sends a confirmation email to myself. I
> don't see what's wrong, but some suggestions to try are:
>
> Incorporate a logfile which contains the values of variables such as
> $ToEmail, $select, etc.
>
> It may be best to use "selected" as the variable name rather than the
> element name "select".
>
> Then you can use the actual variables for your direct test email
> function. Also, as Jerry said, check the error logs on the server. And
> hopefully you are doing this on a localhost and not yet as a "live"
> application. It also should have some security measures, such as a
> password and a time delay to thwart DoS attacks such as a barrage of
> calls to the PHP script thousands of times per second.
>
> Maybe the experts can help, or even better you may try some things and
> learn a lot with eventual success. Good luck.
>
> Paul
I hope your script is much more secure than Nathan's. Poorly written
script by people who don't understand security are a major problem in PHP.
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