Hello,

I have a sight issue I was hoping you all could please shed light to. I am trying to create a "send to a friend" popup page where someone fills out my form, and then the email would send out to others with a URL.

I have set up the form, and looked on the internet how this is done, but after I click "send" on my page, there is some wacky script afterward and it doesn't look like it's working.

This is my first time dealling with PHP, and am a little stumped on how to get this working. Can someone PLEASE steer me in the right direction, or let me know how to get it to work, I would really appreciate it. Here is the actual page: http://www.iongeo.com/innovation_tes...riend_test.php

Here is my form code:

PHP Code:

 <form action="tellck.php" method="post">
    <p>Your Name
      <input type="text" name="y_name" value="">
      <br>
      </p>
    <p>Your Email
      <input type="text" name="y_email" value="">
        <br>
      </p>
    <p>Your Friend's Name
      <input type="text" name="f_name" value="">
        <br>
      </p>
    <p>Friend's Email
      <input type="text" name="f_email" value="">
        <br>
      </p>
    <p>Message
      <textarea name="y_msg" cols="60″ rows="6″></textarea>
        <br>
        <br>
        <input type="submit" name="Send" value="Send" />
        <input type="reset" name="Clear" value="Clear">
        </center>
                    </p>
  </form> 


Here is my php script (on a different php page)

PHP Code:

<?
$status = "OK";
$msg="";
$y_email=$_POST['y_email'];
$y_name=$_POST['y_name'];
$f_email=$_POST['f_email'];
$f_name=$_POST['f_name'];
$y_msg=$_POST['y_msg'];
if(substr_count($y_email,"@") > 1 or substr_count($f_email,"@") > 1){
$msg .="Use only one email address<BR>";
$status= "NOTOK";
}
if (!stristr($y_email,"@") OR !stristr($y_email,".")) { // checking your email
$msg .="Your email address is not correct<BR>";
$status= "NOTOK";}
if (strlen($y_name) <2 ) { // checking your name
$msg .="Please enter your name<BR>";
$status= "NOTOK";}
if (!stristr($f_email,"@") OR !stristr($f_email,".")) { // checking friends email
$msg .="Your Friends address is not correct<BR>";
$status= "NOTOK";}
if (strlen($f_name) <2 ) { // checking freinds name
$msg .="Please enter your friend's name<BR>";
$status= "NOTOK";}
if (strlen($y_msg) <2 ) { // checking Message details
$msg .="Please enter your message details<BR>";
$status= "NOTOK";}
if($status=="OK"){ // all validation passed
/////////// Sending the message starts here //////////////
$ref=@$HTTP_REFERER;
/////Message at the top of the page showing the url////
$header_message = "Hi $f_name n Your friend $y_name requested you to visit this page http://www.piticstyle.com";
/// Body message prepared with the message entered by the user ////
$body_message =$header_message."n".$y_msg."n";
$body_message .="";
//// Mail posting part starts here /////////
$headers="";
//$headers = "Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1n".$headers;
// Un comment the above line to send mail in html format
$headers4=$y_email; // Change this to change from address
$headers.="Reply-to: $headers4n";
$headers .= "From: $headers4n";
$headers .= "Errors-to: $headers4n";
$subject="Request to visit URL";
mail($f_email,$subject,$body_message,$headers);
////// Mail posting ends here ///////////
echo "<center><font face='Verdana' size='2' color=green>Thank You, Your message was send to $f_name</font></center>";
//////////// Sending the message ends here /////////////
}else{// display the error message
echo "<center><font face='Verdana' size='2' color=red>$msg</font></center>";
}
?>

Thanks,
Mike

Ran your script.... with the funky output

  1 or substr_count($f_email,"@") > 1){ $msg .="Use only one email address
"; $status= "NOTOK"; } if (!stristr($y_email,"@") OR !stristr($y_email,".")) { // checking your email $msg .="Your email address is not correct
"; $status= "NOTOK";} if (strlen($y_name) <2 ) { // checking your name $msg .="Please enter your name
"; $status= "NOTOK";} if (!stristr($f_email,"@") OR !stristr($f_email,".")) { // checking friends email $msg .="Your Friends address is not correct
"; $status= "NOTOK";} if (strlen($f_name) <2 ) { // checking freinds name $msg .="Please enter your friend's name
"; $status= "NOTOK";} if (strlen($y_msg) <2 ) { // checking Message details $msg .="Please enter your message details
"; $status= "NOTOK";} if($status=="OK"){ // all validation passed /////////// Sending the message starts here ////////////// $ref=@$HTTP_REFERER; /////Message at the top of the page showing the url//// $header_message = "Hi $f_name n Your friend $y_name requested you to visit this page http://www.piticstyle.com"; /// Body message prepared with the message entered by the user //// $body_message =$header_message."n".$y_msg."n"; $body_message .=""; //// Mail posting part starts here ///////// $headers=""; //$headers = "Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1n".$headers; // Un comment the above line to send mail in html format $headers4=$y_email; // Change this to change from address $headers.="Reply-to: $headers4n"; $headers .= "From: $headers4n"; $headers .= "Errors-to: $headers4n"; $subject="Request to visit URL"; mail($f_email,$subject,$body_message,$headers); ////// Mail posting ends here /////////// echo "Thank You, Your message was send to $f_name"; //////////// Sending the message ends here ///////////// }else{// display the error message echo "$msg"; } ?>

you first might want to replace the "OR"'s with the correct operator || (two pipes)

Then retry the script

Thanks for the prompt reply,

I've replaced the "or" words with || but it still doesn't appear to be working.

As I've mentioned before, I have never really made anything in php, and my form document is in HTML, but I read that it doesn't really make a difference as long as it compiles and brings in the correct external PHP document.

If anyone knows how I could get my php script to work or know what I am doing wrong, that would be lovely.

Thanks so much,
Mike

I think it may be just a case of your server not supporting PHP short tags.... try replacing all your <? with <php?

Wow, thanks so much for your response Andy! I was fumbling around with that for a while yesterday.

That looks like it did the trick, after I hit send, the "you have just sent an email to __" message is displayed... I have tested it out and haven't received any emails after clicking send, but it might just take a while, or it might not be sending them at all, I have no idea.

If anyone has time, please test it out yourself, or perhaps look into what could be a problem, http://www.iongeo.com/innovation_tes...riend_test.php

Many thanks to everyone who has helped me out.

I sent myself one. Will ley you know if I get it.


edit: 4 hours later and still no email. As i posted in another thread here tonight:

The IP number (black-listed), the lack of reverse dns, the like of x-mailer headers within the email are all things that can prevent mail from being delivered.

Weak.

I'm not sure what the problem is then. I contacted my server and they told me that they will soon stop supporting PHP, so I will have to figure out how to do this using .asp instead.

They said they will stop supporting php ? weird

You can also do this with simple javascript as well
Just have a google around for it there's loads.

That javascript is easy, unfortunately, the people I am working with would like it to be a popup page on our server where users input fields rather than an email that comes up.

I just do what they tell me. Thanks so much for everyone's responses, this is getting really frustrating.

Mike I am looking for something similar to this for my website and was actually playing around with that exact script last night.
However i came across something that is so easy to use you may like it or you may not.
Its only a few lines of code that you add.
Try it out. www.sharethis.com

Ive tried your script and it just comes up with

Your email address is not correct
Please enter your name
Your Friends address is not correct
Please enter your friend's name

The emails ended with @whatever.com so dont know how it worked that one out!
This may help! http://css-tricks.com/nice-and-simple-contact-form/

Im going to give that one a whirl myself

Hope to help

Thanks for the links mofo,

I am working on some other things right now, but will give your links a shot this weekend and figure it out.

After I figure out my options, I will let everyone know.

Thanks,
Mike

Guys why are you wasting your time with these scripts?

mailto will do everything you need for a TAF form and offers the assurance that the email addresses won't be mis-used?

Here is the basic code all html:

PHP Code:

<a href="mailto:Enter your Friends email?subject=Whatever subject you want  &body= Whatever pre-populated message you want.">Tell a friend</a> 


You can see a working, image enhanced version by viewing any joke or cartoon at photopun*com.

True it won't be a hotlink unless the sender uses send html email as their default but how many don't use that?

Originally Posted by Mikeface

Weak.

I'm not sure what the problem is then. I contacted my server and they told me that they will soon stop supporting PHP, so I will have to figure out how to do this using .asp instead.

An ASP one isn't a problem
One here and I use one on http://www.candsdesign.co.uk/

To be honest, it looks like they have sendmail deactived on their php.ini
I would look at using a different hosting company if I where you, it seems odd that they would stop supporting an open source product and going instead for a pricey, dare I say it 'microsoft' product.... hmmmmmmm