Php email form with styling

Hi
I have a php file which generates an email from a form in a
website I have designed. I just want to make some areas of the
final generated email in bold text. I know if people have plain
text only selected in their email client they won't see the bold
text, but at least it will reach a certain percentage of users.
the line in question is -
$body ="Booking request details from website:\n\n";
I have tried putting <b></b> and
<strong></strong>, inside the inverted commas, outside
etc, plus tried different declarations within the <head>,
nothing works! What am I doing wrong?
I am a beginner with this php stuff, please be kind!
Thanks

.oO(BarryGBrown)
> I have a php file which generates an email from a form
in a website I have
>designed. I just want to make some areas of the final
generated email in bold
>text. I know if people have plain text only selected in
their email client they
>won't see the bold text, but at least it will reach a
certain percentage of
>users.
You can't do bold text in a normal email. Plain text is just
that -
plain text. For anything more you need HTML. _If_ you should
need it.
Usually plain text serves pretty well and is the most
efficient way.
> the line in question is -
>
> $body ="Booking request details from website:\n\n";
>
> I have tried putting and ,
syntax is used in some forum software, but besides that it
has
no meaning whatsoever.
>inside the inverted commas, outside
>etc, plus tried different declarations within the
<head>, nothing works! What
>am I doing wrong?
You would have to create an entire HTML email with all the
required
headers and boundaries. Quite difficult to do by hand with
PHP's mail()
function.
> I am a beginner with this php stuff, please be kind!
Then you should start simple with plain text. There are some
classes out
there which make it easy to generate text and HTML emails
(phpmailer for
example), but you should be familiar with PHP coding if you
want to use
them.
Micha

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Hello;
I am new to using php. I usually use coldfusion or asp but this site requires me to write in php. I have a form I am trying to get to work and right now.. it doesn't do anyhting but remember what you put in the fields. It doesn't want to send, and it won't execute the validation script for the fields that are required. Can anyone help me make this work? I'm confused and a definate newbie to PHP.
Here is my code:
<?php
              $PHP_SELF = $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'];
              $errName    = "";
              $errEmail    = "";
              $errPhone    = "";
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                        $errName = '<div class="errtext">Please enter you name.</div>';
                        $FORMOK = FALSE;
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                    if(preg_match("/^[a-zA-Z -]+$/", $_POST["phone"]) === 0) {
                        $errPhone = '<div class="errtext">Please enter your phone number.</div>';
                        $FORMOK = FALSE;
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                            $to = "[email protected]";
                            $subject = "my. - Contact Form";
                            $name_field = $_POST['name'];
                            $email_field = $_POST['email'];
                            $phone_field = $_POST['phone'];
                            $city_field = $_POST['city'];
                            $state_field = $_POST['state'];
                            $message = $_POST['comment'];
                            $message = "
                            Name: $name_field
                            Email: $email_field
                            Phone: $phone_field
                            City: $city_field
                            State: $state_field
                            Message: $message";
                            $headers = 'MIME-Version: 1.0' . "\r\n";
                            $headers .= 'Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1' . "\r\n";
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                            $headers .= 'To: <[email protected]>' . "\r\n";
                            $headers .= '[From] <$email_field>' . "\r\n";
                            // Mail it
                            mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);
                            header("Location: thankyou.php")
                            // I have no idea what these next 3 lines are for. You may just want to get rid of them.
ini_set("sendmail_from","[Send from]");
ini_set("SMTP","[mail server]");
mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);
                            } else {
                            echo "Error!";
                    ?>
<form method="post" action="<?php $PHP_SELF ?>" id="commentForm">
<input name="name" size="40" value="<?php echo $_POST["name"]; ?>" type="text">
                     <?php if(isset($errName)) echo $errName; ?>
<input name="email" size="40" value="<?php echo $_POST["email"]; ?>" type="text">
        <?php if(isset($errEmail)) echo $errEmail; ?>
<input name="phone" size="40" value="<?php echo $_POST["phone"]; ?>" type="text" id="phone">
        <?php if(isset($errPhone)) echo $errPhone; ?>
<input name="city" size="40" value="<?php echo $_POST["city"]; ?>" type="text" id="city">
<input name="state" size="40" value="<?php echo $_POST["state"]; ?>" type="text" id="state">
<textarea name="comment" cols="30" rows="10" id="comment"><?php echo $_POST["comment"]; ?></textarea>
<input type="submit" value="Submit" name="submit" class="contact-submit" />
</form>
It seems pretty simple.. but it's not working at all. I would also like this page to submit to it's self, and when it actually does send an email, to just make the form disappear and replace it with the thank you text instead of sending you to another page. I also do not need to use an smtp server, it goes directly to the network server when sent.
I'm really sorry to ask all of this, I'm trying to learn this language and need to make this work.
Thank you for anyones help in advance.

.oO(BarryGBrown)
> I have a php file which generates an email from a form
in a website I have
>designed. I just want to make some areas of the final
generated email in bold
>text. I know if people have plain text only selected in
their email client they
>won't see the bold text, but at least it will reach a
certain percentage of
>users.
You can't do bold text in a normal email. Plain text is just
that -
plain text. For anything more you need HTML. _If_ you should
need it.
Usually plain text serves pretty well and is the most
efficient way.
> the line in question is -
>
> $body ="Booking request details from website:\n\n";
>
> I have tried putting and ,
syntax is used in some forum software, but besides that it
has
no meaning whatsoever.
>inside the inverted commas, outside
>etc, plus tried different declarations within the
<head>, nothing works! What
>am I doing wrong?
You would have to create an entire HTML email with all the
required
headers and boundaries. Quite difficult to do by hand with
PHP's mail()
function.
> I am a beginner with this php stuff, please be kind!
Then you should start simple with plain text. There are some
classes out
there which make it easy to generate text and HTML emails
(phpmailer for
example), but you should be familiar with PHP coding if you
want to use
them.
Micha

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HI,
I made a PHP email form and i was wondering if i did it
correct. I try to send a email but for some reason it wont work
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<?php
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.oO(jumpman310)
> I made a PHP email form and i was wondering if i did it
correct. I try to send
>a email but for some reason it wont work here is the PHP
code:
Next time please be more specific. "won't work" isn't really
helpful.
Anyway, the first thing to fix is the error reporting on your
testing
server, obviously it's not configured properly. In your
php.ini these
directives have to be set:
error_reporting = E_ALL|E_STRICT
display_errors = on
You should get some notices from your script. After fixing
those issues,
you should also read about header injection and how to
prevent it. Your
script is vulnerable and can be abused for sending spam. Also
consider
to use a class like PHPMailer to make things more secure and
convenient.
Some further notes about your form markup:
* It's very good that you make use of labels for your form
controls, but
in some cases the IDs of these controls contain spaces, which
is not
allowed.
* You don't really need a label for a submit button.
* Consider to drop all those div elements in the table
headers - you
don't need them. Use CSS to style the labels the way you
want, e.g.
form th {text-align: right}
I also use this:
label:hover {outline: 1px dotted #666}
* Check the markup of the "Name" row. The 'scope' attribute
is incorrect
and the form control should be inside a 'td', not a 'th'.
Micha

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The ActionScript looks like this ...
Code:
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loadv._level0.mc1.inTxt_2 = _level0.mc1.inTxt_2.text;
loadv._level0.mc1.inTxt_3 = _level0.mc1.inTxt_3.text;
loadv._level0.mc1.inTxt_4 = _level0.mc1.inTxt_4.text;
loadv._level0.mc1.inTxt_5 = _level0.mc1.inTxt_5.text;
loadv._level0.mc1.inTxt_6 = _level0.mc1.inTxt_6.text;
loadv._level0.mc1.inTxt_7 = _level0.mc1.inTxt_7.text;
loadv._level0.mc1.inTxt_8 = _level0.mc1.inTxt_8.text;
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loadv._level0.mc1.inTxt_10 = _level0.mc1.inTxt_10.text;
loadv._level0.mc1.inTxt_11 = _level0.mc1.inTxt_11.text;
loadv.send("email.php",loadv,"POST");
(Quick question ... why is the _level0.mc1 part needed? Or is
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Code:
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$subject = "site reply";
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$Email = $_POST["inTxt_2"];
$Company = $_POST["inTxt_3"];
$Position = $_POST["inTxt_4"];
$Address = $_POST["inTxt_5"];
$Address1 = $_POST["inTxt_6"];
$Address2 = $_POST["inTxt_7"];
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Thanks so much!!
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Email form with php

Hello,
I have been reading that mailto: is outdated. I have been reading on creating an email form using php. I don't understand. Do you create a table first to put the info:
First Name:
Last Name:
Email:
Message:
Submit button
Does anyone know of a comprehensive article that I could read with maybe some examples or even tutorial.   This is my webstie www.ewrolexrepair.com. This is my first website. I am trying to put somekind of email contact next to my picture. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

Below is a ready made php form including First Name, Last Name, Email and Message.
The form is sent back to the page it is located on i.e. if the form is inserted into a page called 'contact.php' then the action form field would be as follows: <form id="enquiryForm" name="enquiryForm" method="post" action="contact.php">
Change the below in the code to your email address (the one you want the info to be sent to):
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Change success.php below in the code to the page you want the user to go to after submitting the form.
header("Location: success.php");
//Redirect page -- change to your own page

<?php session_start(); ?>
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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
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/* style the form textarea field */
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    font-family: arial, verdana, sans-serif;
    font-size: 12px;
    width: 300px;
    padding: 5px;
/* style the form submit button */
#enquiryForm #submitButton {
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<input type="text" name="last_name" id="last_name" <?php if(isset($error['last_name'])) echo "style='border: 1px solid #C00; color: #C00;'"; ?> value="<?php if(isset($last_name)) {echo $last_name;} ?><?php if(isset($error['last_name'])) echo $error['last_name']; ?>" onfocus="this.value=''"></p>
<p><label for="email">Email<span>*</span>
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<p style="padding-bottom: 0;"><label for="enquiry">Message<span>*</span></label><br />
<textarea name="message" id="message" <?php if(isset($error['message'])) echo "style='border: 1px solid #C00; color: #C00;'"; ?> onfocus="this.value=''"><?php if(isset($message)) {echo $message;} ?><?php if(isset($error['message'])) echo $error['message']; ?></textarea></p>
<p><input type="text" name="ufo" style="display: none;"></p>
<p><input type="submit" id="submitButton" name="submit" value="Send Enquiry" /></p>
</form>
</body>
</html>

Need help adapting David Powers PHP email form script please!

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I've created a basic form so that visitors to the site can request a telephone call back from the site owner. The form asks the visitor for their name, telephone number and to select a time of day suitable for the telephone call to be made using radio buttons selecting between morning and afternoon.
I'd like to achieve my goal with minimal validation error messages and would like to redirect to another page when a message is sent successfully. It is also important that in the spirit of the David Powers script I'm trying to work with, that it filters out suspect input, avoids email header injection attacks and blocks submission by spam bots.
There may be a really simple solution to this since I don't want users to be able to enter an email address at all but I don't know enough to be able to figure it out just yet.
I'd be grateful for any advice.
See below for the code for the form including PHP so far...
Thanks to everyone looking in in advance
Karl.

GEAtkins wrote:
> I am using the redirect to a personal page from page 515
of The Essential
> Guide to DWCS3 in the following form:
$_SESSION[MM_Username].php in the "if
> login succeeds" field.
Thank you for reminding me. There's a mistake in the book,
which I
discovered over the Christmas period, so forgot to send to
friends of ED
for the errata page.
Don't use $_SESSION[MM_Username]. Use $loginUsername instead.
It then works.
David Powers, Adobe Community Expert
Author, "The Essential Guide to Dreamweaver CS3" (friends of
ED)
Author, "PHP Solutions" (friends of ED)
http://foundationphp.com/

Flash 8 AS and PHP email form

Hi,
I am finally finding some time over the holidays to work on
my website flash email form. I have had some wonderful help from
kglad and Chris a couple of months ago. I will attach my AS2 code
first and then my PHP code I have recieved from Yahoo. (Our hosting
server for the website).
I keep getting my error message of... "Sorry, there was a
server error, please try again."
I also have specified the default mail account within my
yahoo small business web account under PHP/Perl Mail Setup
[email protected] as the Default.
Any help would be greatly appreciated, and thank you in
advance!

Let me prefix this by saying...
I haven't used an email script directly... I've always used
an intemediate function when I've been doing things like this
through a CMS or whatever.. so that's my way of saying I'm not sure
of this...
But
I see two potential things with the mail function based on
the php docs.
1. the msg string.
According to this:
Each line should be separated with a LF (\n). Lines should
not be larger than 70 characters.
You don't seem to have that. I know its html formatted... but
perhaps you should put the LF chars in.
2. This is probably far less likely and only try it after the
first option above (I'm guessing this is very rare):
For your message headers where you have \r\n
Note: If messages are not received, try using a LF (\n) only.
Some poor quality Unix mail transfer agents replace LF by CRLF
automatically (which leads to doubling CR if CRLF is used). This
should be a last resort, as it does not comply with » RFC
2822.

Making email form with instructions in it?

This might be a very basic question but I cant figure it out hehe ...I am trying to make an email form like on this site...
http://www.timberline-resources.com/
I know how to make the form but not with the "Enter Your Email".......I want to know how to do that...so that when you click in it it disappears...
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T

Your example site is all done with Flash which is not web-friendly.
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Nancy O.
Alt-Web Design & Publishing
Web | Graphics | Print | Media Specialists
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Email form with checkboxes

Hi All,
I have a form with checkboxes that I finally got to work
partially. However, there is one problem. If you forget to check
the checkbox, (Yes or No), you get the error Element is Undefined.
If you check the checkbox there is no problem and the form goes
through email. How can I correct the error if the checkboxes are
not checked. Any help would be appreciated,
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Joy,
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You can do it two ways that I know.
One way is to set a default so the page does not error:

<cfparam name="FORM.myCheckbox" default="" type="any">
The other way is to see if it was checked and do something
then.

<cfif isDefined("FORM.myCheckbox")>
do something



<cfelse>
do something else
</cfif>
Ken Ford
Adobe Community Expert
Fordwebs, LLC
http://www.fordwebs.com
"JRLobdell" <[email protected]> wrote in
message news:fb6hic$s7a$[email protected]..
> Hi All,
> I have a form with checkboxes that I finally got to work
partially. However,
> there is one problem. If you forget to check the
checkbox, (Yes or No), you
> get the error Element is Undefined. If you check the
checkbox there is no
> problem and the form goes through email. How can I
correct the error if the
> checkboxes are not checked. Any help would be
appreciated,
> Best,
> Joy
>

PHP email form - issue with who it's from

Hi,
I've got a referral page on my site where the user puts in their details and a friends details and the form fires off a email to the friend. The form is in HTML and posts it to a PHP file. The problem is I get in the email for who it's from:
from
"Scott Bradshaw"@server74.ukservers.net
I don't want the
@server74.ukservers.net
in their.
Is this an issue with PHP files and forms or is their a way round it? I know I could do a mailto: form but don't want to. What are my options?
Thanks, Scott

I'm making the website for someone and they had the hosting set up already but thanks for telling me. I think this is right what I've done:
function detectSuspect($val, &$ok) {
if (preg_match('/Content-Type:|Cc:|Bcc:/i', $val)) {
$ok = false;
$YourName = Trim(stripslashes($_POST['YourName']));
$YourEmail = Trim(stripslashes($_POST['YourEmail']));
$RefName = Trim(stripslashes($_POST['RefName']));
$RefEmail = Trim(stripslashes($_POST['RefEmail']));
$EmailFrom = $YourEmail;
$Subject = $RefName;
$EmailTo = $RefEmail;
// validation
$validationOK=true;
detectSuspect($YourName, $validationOK);
detectSuspect($YourEmail, $validationOK);
detectSuspect($RefName, $validationOK);
detectSuspect($RefEmail, $validationOK);
if (!$validationOK) {
print "<meta http-equiv=\"refresh\" content=\"0;URL=error.html\">";
exit;
// prepare email body text
$Body = "Hi $RefName,
$YourName thought you would be interested in viewing this online video called A
tale of 2 customers (< 3 mins).
www.easybench.org/ataleof2customers3";
$Body2 = "";
$Body2 .= "User Name: ";
$Body2 .= $YourName;
$Body2 .= "\n";
$Body2 .= "User Email: ";
$Body2 .= $YourEmail;
$Body2 .= "\n";
$Body2 .= "Referral Name: ";
$Body2 .= $RefName;
$Body2 .= "\n";
$Body2 .= "Referral Email: ";
$Body2 .= $RefEmail;
$Body2 .= "\n";
// send email
$success = mail($EmailTo, $Subject, $Body, "From: $EmailFrom<$EmailFrom>");
mail("[email protected]", "Referral details", $Body2, "From: [email protected]");
// redirect to success page
if ($success){
print "<meta http-equiv=\"refresh\" content=\"0;URL=thankyou2.html\">";
else{
print "<meta http-equiv=\"refresh\" content=\"0;URL=error.html\">";
?>
I've also got a feedback form thing too, the script above wouldn't work for it I guess as it's protecting against different thing but what's the best way to protect the feedback form? I've heard of a honeypot thing where create hidden form field.
Thanks, Scott

Simple php email form, on X-serve 10.39 unlimited

hello! thank you for looking at this.
i'm being asked to add a contact form to my company's website. i'm not a designer or anything. i'm just feeling my way through things barely.
i've implemented this code on the site: http://www.freecontactform.com/email_form.php
things seem to be working ok, except a test email is never recieved in the end. i excpe this is something with the server side handling of the email parts of the code.
but i have almost no clue about what to check on the server to fix this.
i realize there are problably other threads that could maybe help me, but i know very little and thought it might be faster to post a new thread, because the boss wants this done tomorrow.
i am using server admin 10.3 v106, 2003
thanks for any help!

it looks like i'm running php 4.4.7
one of my concerns is that this version might be too old to handle the script.

PHP Email form, need help...

Heya,
I have a flash form that uses PHP to send the data to an
email, but it causes all of the data to display on the same line
with no spaces when recieved via email, can anyone help? Thanks!
Code:
<?php
$sendTo = "[email protected]";
$subject = "Contact Form from Cabinet Source Website";
$headers = "From: " . $_POST["name"] ." ". $_POST["phone"] .
"<" . $_POST["comments"] .">\r\n";
$headers .= "Reply-To: " . $_POST["name"] . "\r\n";
$headers .= "Return-path: " . $_POST["name"];
$message = $_POST["comments"];
mail($sendTo, $subject, $message, $headers);
?>

As bregent says, the names of the variables you're assigning at the top of the script don't match the variables that you're adding to the $body.
Another problem is that you're using lowercase for the $_POST array. For example, you have $_post['gt']. PHP is case-sensitive. It should be $_POST['gt'].
Even when you get those problems sorted out, the script is extremely insecure because you're not checking any of the values submitted. In particular, you're assigning the value of the 'gt' input field to the From: header. This will lay the form wide open to attack by spammers. (Google for "email header injection" to understand the problem.)
If you want to put a value from the form into the headers, you must first make sure it's safe. For example, I see that gt is meant to be an Xbox Live gamertag. Assuming it must contain only letters and numbers, you should sanitize it like this before inserting it into the headers:
$gt = filter_input(INPUT_POST, 'gt', FILTER_VALIDATE_REGEXP, array('options' => array('regexp' => '/^[a-zA-Z0-9]+$/')));

Php email form

I'm sending a php form to an email address. The form does
send to my email and a message sent page is working for the user
filling in the form. However, I need to put the name, address, and
phone number included with the message that is sent to the e-mail.
This is the code that I am using:
<?php
$to = "[email protected]";
$subject = $_POST['subject'];
$body = $_POST['body'];
$headers = "From: [email protected]" .
$_POST['[email protected]'] . "\n";
mail($to,$subject,$body,$headers);
?>
I've tried putting $name = $_POST['name']; in the code, put
it doesn't seem to work. Is something like this possible. If so,
where do I add the code so I can include more information on the
form (name, address and phone number)?
Thanks for any help you can give me.

A simpler way would be to just use successive concatenation
rather than
heredoc, at least I think. Use this -
> $reply_message_subject = $_POST['subject'];//Subject of
new message from
> form
> $reply_message_body = $_POST['body'];//Body of new
message from form add
> all
> the text you want and links
Then use this -
$reply_message_body .= "\n\rName = ".$_POST['name'];
$reply_message_body .= "\n\rnickname = ".$_POST['nickname'];
$reply_message_body .= "\n\rdog-name = ".$_POST['dog-name'];
etc., etc., etc.
Murray --- ICQ 71997575
Adobe Community Expert
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"MikeL7" <[email protected]> wrote in
message
news:f8elib$p93$[email protected]..
> The heredoc MAIL function is what you want here is one i
made from your
> info:
> i am not sure about your mailheaders line, sending an
email from yourself
> to
> yourself, i guess with the info on the form, but try
this:
>
> $to = "[email protected]";
> $reply_message_subject = $_POST['subject'];//Subject of
new message from
> form
> $reply_message_body = $_POST['body'];//Body of new
message from form add
> all
> the text you want and links
> $config_mailheaders = "From: [email protected]";
>
> //this is the actual email sent
> $reply_body=<<<_MAIL_
>
http://adobe.com/
> so you can see this is where you put more info
>
http://google.com/
> $reply_message_body
> thanks for filling out the form
>
>
> _MAIL_;
> //end actual email
>
>
> mail($to, $reply_subject, $reply_body,
$config_mailheaders);//Send email
>
>

Customized emailed forms with Acrobat 9

Using systems with XP or Vista, Office 2003 or 2007 and Acrobat 9.0 standard or pro, is it possible to create a customized form to mail out and collect the responses via email into the answers file?

Yes. There are a number of new features available with Acrobat 9, many of which are covered in the following:
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