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Form Mail

This script allows you to send information from a web form to an email address. More examples can be found off the Example page.

Quick Instructions

First you will need a web form. If you have not created one already you can use web form.htm. You also view our script as a text file web form.txt
Create a file called mail.php on your web site and copy the contents of the text area below into that file.
Very Important! Read the instructions in the file and make the necessary changes.
Point your web form to the newly created file mail.php

<?php
/*-------------------------------------------------------
 * PHP mail example script. 
 * This script can be used to send an email from your 
 * contacts page or any other webpage of your choosing. 
 * Please remember to use the details that are relavent 
 * to your domain. 
 * This is currently a work in process. Due to time limitation
 * I have been able to completely diagonsis this script.
 *
 * website: http://www.acenetglobal.com/phpmail.asp
 *-------------------------------------------------------*/
?>
<html>
<title>Processing email</title>
<body>
<H1>Processing email</h1>
<?
// Newline is used for formatting emails correctly. 
$newline = '\r\n';
 /*-------------------------------------------------------
 * This script is designed to have information sent from 
 * a web form to this page to be processed. The lines 
 * below read in information from the submitted form. 
 *
 * This will extract every form element from the 
 * submitting web form and add them to the body of the 
 * message with the label name and it's value on seperate
 * lines (eg. Label: Value) 
 *
 * In order to set this script to work with your 
 * website you will need to fill in the details 
 * below. 
 *--------------------------------------------*/

/*---------------------------------------------
 * Please specify a correct address for the email Sender
 * Can be anything as long as it is valid otherwise it 
 * will not work. The example below reads in the information 
 * from the submitted form.
 *--------------------------------------------*/

//       $from = Trim(Request.Form("submit_by")) // Why not setup a field in your web form to provide this information instead?
     $from = '';

/*--------------------------------------------
 * Subject line for the email
 *--------------------------------------------*/

$Subject = '';

/*--------------------------------------------
 * Type in your email address. This is the address of the 
 * person that you want to recieve this email. Also included is an
 * optional reply field
 *--------------------------------------------*/

$to = '';

/*--------------------------------------------
 * Optional. Fill in the details below if you want 
 * a different reply field. Otherwise leave the field as is.
 * Example: $replyTo = "postmaster@example.com";
 *--------------------------------------------*/

$replyTo = '';
  
/*-------------------------------------------- 
 * Type in the name of the page you want to display after 
 * the form has been processed and emailed. If this left blank a
 * generic note is displayed.
 *  
 *--------------------------------------------*/

$finishpage = '';

/*---------------------------------------------
 * That's it. The remainer of this file will do 
 * the processing of your email request. There is no need 
 * to modify the code below in order for this script to
 * work. 
 *
 * Please ensure that you have entered valid 
 * information in the field above.
 *---------------------------------------------*/

//Linux implimentation
//    $message = apache_request_headers();
    /*
    foreach ($headers as $header => $value) {
       $Message.=$header.': '.$value.$newline;
    }
  */

//Windows implimentation?
       
 foreach($HTTP_POST_VARS as $header => $value) {
  $message.=$header.' : '.$value.$newline;
 }

if($from == '') { 
    $from = 'admin@'.ltrim($_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'], 'www.');
 }

if($to == '') { 
     $to = 'admin@'.ltrim($_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'], 'www.');
 }

if($replyTo == '') { 
    $replyTo = 'admin@'.ltrim($_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'], 'www.');
 }

/* To send HTML mail, you can set the Content-type header. */

$headers  = 'MIME-Version: 1.0'.$newline;
$headers .= 'Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1'.$newline;
$headers .= 'From: '.$from.$newline;
$headers .= 'ReplyTo: '.$replyTo.$newline;
$headers .= 'Originating-IP: '.getenv('REMOTE_ADDR').$newline;
$headers .= 'X-Mailer: PHP/'.phpversion().$newline;

/* and now email it using the mail function built-in to PHP */
     
     mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);

//Transfer the browser you to the finishing page
    if($finishpage != '') {
       //response.Redirect finishpage
    } else {
?>
       <h1>Thank you.</h1><hr><p>An email has been dispatched to <b><i><?=$to?></i></b> and you will be contacted shortly.</p>
       <p>Headers: <?=$headers?></p>
			 <p>To: <?=$to?></p>
			 <p>ReplyTo: <?=$replyTo?></p>			 
			 <p>From: <?=$from?></p>
			 <p>Subject: <?=$subject?></p>
			 <p>Message: <?=$message?></p>			 
			 </p>
<? 
    } 
?>

What you will need before starting
The process involved.
The mail script
Where to direct your form to
Where your email will be sent to
Which mail server to use
Testing the script
Completion

What you will need before starting

Before we start on adding the php mail script to a web form. Web forms are pages that allow you to fill in information and 'submit' those details to be processed.

In this example will be filling in a web form and submitting those details for processing. Once the web form is processed the details are mailed across to an email address of your choosing.

Many web design programs allow you to develop forms on your web pages. If you are looking for an example form please visit the script-examples/web form.htm page. More information about web forms can be found on the internet. Looking up the HTML tag "<forms>" will help you find out more information.

The process involved.

People can fill in the form then hit the submit button. This will pass the information from your form page to the mail script. Our script can then redirect the user to a 'thank you' page of your choosing. The script will display a short thank you message if you do not specify a finish page.

The mail script

In order for the site to work will need a web page with a form on it, a copy of the above script, and a thank you page. While it is not necessary to do your script this way we will doing so in this example to help simplify the process involved. Once you have successfully setup the script (and tested it) feel free to make any modifications you like. If you find any bugs in the script please let me know. I love to recieve feedback especially if we can use it to help others.

To make the script you will need to copy the text from the text box near the top of this document.

To start, create a file call mail.php on your web site (you have web server that supports php right?). Select all of the content from the text box above. Copy the contents of the text area and paste into a file called mail.php. Your web page editor should have documentation on how to do this if you do not know how. You will read through the code itself in order to setup the page correctly.

Where to direct your form to

When generating your web form you will need to keep in mind that this page will be sending information to another page. In order to post the information from one to another you will need to set 'action' field in the form to the PHP file we have created.

Where your email will be sent to

It is important to check that you have included valid data with this script. The web server will generate an email based on the information submitted to this page. If you have not included your email address in the 'YourEmailAddress' variable then the page will automatically send the email to web forms at your domain. The script on this site, www.acenetglobal.com, will use the mail server mail.acenetglobal.com (if your ISP requires a different server address simply update the details within the script).

Which mail server to use

In order for your email to be submitted correctly your script will need to refer to a valid SMTP or outgoing mail server. Generally this is set to mail.example.com, where example.com is your registered domain name.

Acenet customers who are using this script with their home page may need to use mail.acenet.net.au

Testing the script

The next step involved is to test the script. Why not try emailing your self? Simply fill in your form using your email address and send the email. Please allow a couple of minutes for your email to make its way through the system. If your script did not generate any errors but you have not received an email within a hour you may need to check the Recipient address to ensure that a valid email address has been added.

Completion

Once you have checked and tested your script the site should now be ready to use. If everything went to plan you should have a fully functional form!

I would encourage you to try as many email addresses you have available to ensure that the script is working. While Acenet has made every effort to ensure the fidelity of the script, bug can occur. If you like you can contact webadmin@acenet.net.au for further help with your script. Please describe the problem you are having and include as much detail as possible. Please include your domain name,the web form's file name, the name of the PHP file which is processing the email and any error messages that have come up.

This make no sense

If you are finding that this script is difficult to follow or you know of a better way of doing this please let me know. This website is being updated continual so if you have any ideas, suggestions, gripes, annoyances, flaming arrows, etc. please contact me via email at webadmin@acenet.net.au

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