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12-18-2005, 09:20 PM

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Hello I dont know a whole lot of php and thought I woul ask you all. I am creating a simple php contact form. What I want to do is take the email from the contact form and use it as the value for the email so when it is sent it will show up in the persons email box from the sender of the contact form's email. Can Anyone Help. I have Included the code that I have. I have been able to get it to work on a different host with a very similar code. Howerver the host requires that the email be sent from somone other than the email account the email is being sent.

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12-19-2005, 02:42 AM

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Sorry, but I don't quite understand what you exactly want to do. The PHP script above would include the inputted email as the sender. Does that code not work on your host or something?

12-19-2005, 06:01 AM

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First of all that code is very buggy. You're missing several semi-colons ";" Fix those...second of all...what exactly do you want it to do? Someone inputs his own email and the recipient's email and then this mailer form sends an e-mail to the recipient from him?

12-19-2005, 08:19 AM

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Hello I dont know a whole lot of php and thought I woul ask you all.

Hey man dont chew my head off I want the person to input their email address into the email text box and when my client recieves the email it will show them that it is being sent by whatever address the person puts into the box when they submit it.FEEL FREE TO FIX AND GIVE SUGGESTIONS My client is using godaddy.com for the host and the godaddy.com site is not very helpfull when it comes to specifics and such about how they want the php coded. I have seen some places that are very specific on the how to and from parts are coded.

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12-19-2005, 09:39 AM

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if you go to http://www.pixel2life.com/tutorials/...5&d=1&ss=email they have a lot of tutorials on this subject.

12-23-2005, 03:41 PM

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Try this...

PHP Code:


			
<?php

$from = $_POST['email'];

$to = "testemail@mail.com";

$subject = "Contact Form Submission";

$body = "Name: ";

$body .= $_REQUEST['Name'] . "\r\n\n";

$body .= "Email: ";

$body .= $_REQUEST['email'] . "\r\n\n";

$body .= "Phone: ";

$body .= $_REQUEST['phone'] . "\r\n\n";

$body .= "Address: ";

$body .= $_REQUEST['address'] . "\r\n\n";

$body .= "Address2: ";

$body .= $_REQUEST['address2'] . "\r\n\n";

$body .= "City: ";

$body .= $_REQUEST['city'] . "\r\n\n";

$body .= "State: ";

$body .= $_REQUEST['state'] . "\r\n\n";

$body .= "Zipcode: ";

$body .= $_REQUEST['zip'] . "\r\n\n";

$body .= "Party Affiliation: ";

$body .= $_REQUEST['party'] . "\r\n\n";

$body .="Message: ";

$body .= $_REQUEST['message'] . "\r\n\n";

mail($from,$to,$subject,$body)

header("Location: thankyou.html");

?>

That should work. Make sure, as the first poster suggested, that you always end your lines with semi-colons. Other than that, I removed < from the e-mail line and just used a PHP redirect instead of a javascript.