Simplest sendmail methods for idiots?

xoggoth - there is no way anybody will ever get to see your php - it gets used on the server and never goes outside of it.

If the email is in the php as I showed it above nobody will see it except you (not even the sender)

hth

Oh - one other thing - that php does not clear the form after sending - I have found that some idiots send twice or even 3 times - you can unset the message and subject after the send but then you'll also have to mess around with the earlier logic - I never bothered to fix it on the site it came from. I did rewrite it for another site but that has all sorts of complicated bells and whistles for other stuff so I didn't post it here as it would probably be confusing.

Put in some FORTRAN IV, Xogg.

You can use ASSIGNED GOTOs then.

And ARITHMETIC IFs.

Ta vetran.Should have thought of using Javascript as have been doing it recently to highlight buttons etc. Also previous comment which I missed.

PS Fiddle. Your php works. Cheers. All I need now is yet another reference book.

Let's see perl or php, perl or php? hmmmm I know, I'll stick in both. An application can never have too many languages!

A pox on ezpost, and ezpox's mother, their milkman etc :


slap the usual script language tags round and replace the 1's with an 'i' and bob may be your uncle.

javascript :




var contact = "Xoggy"

var email = "xoggy mail addy leftof at sign"

var emailHost = "domain.com"

var formatmail = '<a href=ma1lto:'


document.wr1te (formatmail + email + "@" + emailHost+ ">" + contact + "</a>")


you could use this :mailtoprotector.com/eprotector.shtml

or have a search for php response forms.

Ta fiddle.I want to try and get website finished this weekend so will give that a go.

Supplementary question. Is it possible to do string concatenation or partial substitution in HTML/php to avoid putting the email address in full so those spamming bastards don't pick it up?

     
<?php
$msg = "";
if ($from || $formmsg)
 {
  $from = trim($from);
  if (!$from)
     $msg = "From eMail address missing.";
  else
   {
    if (!eregi("^[_\\.0-9a-z-]+@([0-9a-z][0-9a-z-]+\\.)+[a-z]{2,3}$", $from))
       $msg = "From eMail address invalid.";
   }

  if (!$formmsg)
     $msg .= "You have not entered a message.";

  if (!$msg)
   {
     $eMail    = '[email protected]';
     mail( "$eMail", "$subject" , $formmsg, "From: $from\r\nX-Mailer: DT_formmail" )    ;
     $msg = "Your eMail has been sent";
   }
 }
?>

Sample of the html form it's used with

         <f0rm action="contact.php" method=post>
         <p>
            <?php
              if ($msg) print "<span style='color : red; font-weight : bold;'>$msg</span>";
            ?>
         </p>
         

         <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="1" bordercolor="#7c2000">
          <tr>
           <td>
            <table cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" border="1" bordercolor="#EEBB00">
             <tr>
              <td width="100%" bgcolor="#EEBB00"><p>Subject: <input type="text" size=40 name="subject" value="<?php print $subject;?>"></p></td>
             </tr>
             <tr>
              <td width="100%" bgcolor="#EEBB00"><p>Message:</p></td>
             </tr>
             <tr>
              <td width="100%" bgcolor="#EEBB00" align="center"><textarea name="formmsg" rows=10 cols=40><?php print $formmsg;?></textarea></td>
             </tr>
             <tr>
              <td width="100%" bgcolor="#EEBB00"><p>From (email) : <input type="text" size=40 name="from" value="<?php print $from;?>"></p></td>
             </tr>
            </table>
           </td>
          </tr>
         </table>
         <input name="send" type="image" src="images/icon_email.gif" alt="eMail" width="59" height="18" border="0">
         
         </f0rm>

I've stripped some code out from what I actually use for clarity so the above is untested as-is. I've modified the form tag as ezboard objects to it. I've added some spaces in places to stop ezboard turning stuff into smilies.

Cheers to all.

In fact I managed to get the perl in that ref working ok despite the author's deliberate error. As far as I can see, perl should be pizzacake for anyone who has done text parsing in C esp. using stdio.

Checked and the site is supposedly set up for php which would prefer as it is far more trendy and generally koool. Will have another bash. Any sample scripts certainly useful.

Recently juggling with VB, perl, Java script and php and even Pascal to cos the installation utility uses it. Needed to strip out CR from perl script to upload. Dirty prog in C++, piece of cake.Loaded VC++ and couldn't remember how to open or read files!

As Homer Simpson said, everytime I learn something new it pushes some old stuff out!

The Cobalt Raq3 does not seem to come with PHP preloaded powerraq.com/datasheetraq3.pdf

A simple way to check is to ftp this ...

 
<?php
    phpinfo();
?>

as anyname.php then access it through a browser - if php is installed it will give you a shedload of info about the server - rather too much for the security concious so save it out and delete it from your server.

Sending mail using php is extremely simple and more secure than putting perl scripts on the server which may (if not set up correctly) but used by spammers and cause you some grief.

If you do have php and want to use it ask again and I'll post up some sample scripting.

Use the perl mongers version

Perl Mongers formmail

Otherwise you might get more rear entries than are normal even in Edinburgh - if you get my drift

use formmail.cgi - make up html and script would put things into email and send it to you - but for GODS sake rename the file as your site would look clearly amateur like for those in the know

Need to set up so can get orders via webtulipe. Not using horrible html mailto: that opens Outlook and preferably not having email address in complete string where it can be picked up by spammers.

Don't want to fanny about for ages so 2nd part of this looked good:

psp

Course it did not work. Possibly psp not supported on Cobalt raq machines? Any ideas on that or simple alternatives for non server-side webby type appreciated.

(I changed email addresses but left rest well alone as not familiar with psp syntax)