PHP Forum

**djexelta** · 06:21 AM

Hi,

I recently had someone do me a simple email script for my new website's splash page.

For some reason I don't seem to be receiving the emails from users.

Could somewone please take a look at it and let me know what the problem is as I have no idea about PHP coding.

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

Here is the index code:

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=iso-8859-1" />
<title>Breakout Music Network - Coming Soon!</title>
<META HTTP-EQUIV=Refresh CONTENT="4; URL=index.php">
<link href="styles.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
</head>
 
<body>
<div id="wrapper">
<div id="top"></div>
<div id="thankyou-text"></div>
</div>
<?php 
 
$email = htmlentities ($_POST['email']); 
 
?>
<?php
 
 
mail("info@breakoutmusic.net", "Breakout Music Website Request", "Someone has submitted their email to request further information :\n
-----------------------------------------
 
Email: $email
______________________________________________________________
Breakout Music
www.breakoutmusic.net", "From: Breakout <info@breakoutmusic.net>");
 
?>
 
</body>
</html>

Here is the thankyou page code:

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=iso-8859-1" />
<title>Break Out Music Network - Coming Soon!</title>
<link href="styles.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
</head>
 
<body>
<div id="wrapper">
<div id="top"></div>
<div id="text"></div>
<div id="container">
<div id="email">
<form name="breakout" method="post" action="thankyou.php">
<input class="box" type="text" name="email" />
<input name="submit" type="image" class="button" id="submit" src="images/submit-button.jpg" alt="Subscribe" />
</form>
</div>
</div>
</div>
 
</body>
</html>

**Matthew C** · 11-04-2006, 06:12 AM

[spoiler=Hidden Text]Blah blah blah[/spoiler]

**djexelta** · 11-04-2006, 06:16 AM

Sorry, like I said I'm new to .php

Where should the line "[spoiler=Hidden Text]Blah blah blah[/spoiler]" go in the script?

thanks

**coldgansta** · 11-04-2006, 08:17 AM

There are programmers who can help you do this
visit here and just post it up and wait for a reply.
http://www.your-bids.com/Freelancer/index.php

**djexelta** · 11-04-2006, 10:59 AM

I'm sure I could get a little advice without paying for it.

**CouponGuy** · 11-04-2006, 11:57 AM

If that index code is the page that PHP executes everytime a visitor visits your page, then you should be getting an email every time there is a visit. If that is the case, and your email address in the mail() function is correct, then you probably want to check your junk mail.

It would make more sense to only run the mail() function is a user has submitted the form.

Something like:

PHP Code:


			
if (isset($_POST["submit"]) and isset($_POST["submit"])) {

   mail(

   //address, subject, body, headers

   )

}

**CouponGuy** · 11-04-2006, 12:05 PM

Also, I notice that the email form is on the thankyou page, and that submitting the form will take the user back to the thankyou page, which does not have the mail() function on it. So, starting with the basics... you want to have the form on some page (probably not the thankyou page). And if you're going to send the user to a thankyou page after they submit the form (with their message), then you should put the mail() function on the thankyou page, which will email the message to you, then display a message of thanks.

Hopefully that will help in your overall understanding.

**djexelta** · 11-04-2006, 12:13 PM

problem solved, thanks to everyone for their advice.