PHP Forum

**flowertreemom** · 01-24-2007, 02:14 PM

sorry about this very simple question, I am just learning how to use php to create a feedback form and no matter what i do, i don't recieve any emails.

here is the html file

Quote:

<html>
<head>
</head>
<body>
<form method="post" action="sendmail.php">
Email: <input name="email" type="text" /><br />
Message:<br />
<textarea name="message" rows="15" cols="40">
</textarea><br />
<input type="submit" />
</form>
</body>
</html>

and here is the php file : sendmail.php

<?
$email = $_REQUEST['email'] ;
$message = $_REQUEST['message'] ;
mail( "flowertreemom@yahoo.com", "Feedback Form Results",
$message, "From: $email" );
header( "Location: http://www.example.com/thankyou.html" );
?>

i am using a subdomain under awardspace.com, and they say on their website that they provide php support, so I am not sure why it is not working...

Thanks a lot for your help!

**kreoton** · 01-24-2007, 02:23 PM

use $_POST instead of $_REQUEST, sometimes $_REQUEST gets only $_GET method values

**flowertreemom** · 01-24-2007, 02:34 PM

tried that, still no email...
how long should wait for the email to arrive?

**kreoton** · 01-24-2007, 02:51 PM

do you get error?

**flowertreemom** · 01-24-2007, 03:22 PM

no errors at all... still no emails..

**tripy** · 04:03 PM

It could be that your host don't use the "new" superglobal arrays, but still the old one.

Rather than $_POST, try to use $HTTP_POST_VARS.
Or you could check in a phpinfo() page if the register_long_arrays directive is enabled.
Reference here:
http://www.php.net/manual/en/reserved.variables.php

It could be your problem, but in that case, it would be rather surprising from the hoster...
Why not PHP 3 then ?

**McBone** · 01-24-2007, 04:37 PM

awardspace do not offer the smtp required to send the forms!! niether do phpnet or ifastnet, in fact the only freespace with php and smtp i can think of is astralweb, but they have a banner across the top.

you need php and smtp for the emails to work

**flowertreemom** · 01-24-2007, 04:43 PM

thanks, now that make sense!

**McBone** · 04:54 AM

and i tested your form and it sends, but the email text doesn't appear, so i altered your code slightly and this works

PHP Code:


			

<?
$email = $_POST["email"] ;
$message = $_POST["message"] ;
mail( "flowertreemom@yahoo.com", "Feedback Form 

Results",
$message, "From: $email" );
header( "Location: http://www.example.com/thankyou.html" );
?>

and the HTML codeis fine

**F**kYeah164** · 11-17-2010, 09:22 PM

I have this code in a php file for a 000webhost subdomain, practicefeedbackform.host22.com, and it does not work. it sends a message to my email, but the sender is "(unknown sender)", and all the message says is "to me", no matter what I put in the message area. just to make sure I'm being clear, this is the code I have:

<?
$email = $_POST["email"] ;
$message = $_POST["message"] ;
mail( laxmaster1919@gmail, "Feedback Form

Results",
$message, "From: $email" );
header( "Location: thankyou.html" );
?>