PHP Email problem 1

[EvolMonster]

Hiya Guys!

I am developing a webpage for my friends business, and have hit a bit of a snag.

I want to set up a web page with a contact form. This is my test page with the form:

http://www.cafefairtrade.co.uk/contact_us.htm

When the submit button (send to Cafe Fair Trade) is pressed I want the info from the form sent as an email to: enquiry@cafefairtrade.co.uk
then I want the page to forward to the this page:

http://www.cafefairtrade.co.uk/form_processing.htm

This process requires a PHP script and I've configured a script from this website:

http://www.tectite.com/formmailpage.php

The script created I think is at:

http://www.cafefairtrade.co.uk/cftefm.php

It is working to a point. At the moment when the form is submitted an email is sent to: enquiry@cafefairtrade.co.uk
but an error message is also generated that is sent to: webmaster@cafefairtrade.co.uk
and I can't get the PHP to forward to:

http://www.cafefairtrade.co.uk/form_processing.htm

The mail says :
The following error occurred in FormMail :
Unable to create check file "/tmp/fmc60c43.txt": failed to open stream: No such file or directory


Anyone got any ideas why this isn't working?
Cheers
DB

 

[Foamcow]

The immediate thing would be to check that there is indeed a directory called /tmp and that the script has the proper permissions for it.

I would wonder what that file is though - not used Formmail for many years.

The other thing is I would wonder why you are using Formmail.
PHP has a very easy to use email function. mail()

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[EvolMonster]

It does?
I'm new to PHP, so if you could provide an example on how to get mail() to do the same job, that would be great!!!

 

[Foamcow]

The online PHP manual is an excellent place to start

http://php.net/manual/en/function.mail.php

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[EvolMonster]

That looks excellent.
I will look at that later tonight. It looks really simple too!

Another thing. Would I be able to pass a variable in, containing which page the user clicked through to mail.

So if they click 'Contact Us' on the home page, I want to pass 'HomePage' through in the subject of the mail, etc.

Thanks!
DB

 

[jpadie]

the requested page will be contained in the variable $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']

you can test that and then create the subject of your email accordingly.

 

[EvolMonster]

Brilliant!

I'll try that tonight.

Cheers guys, I'll get back to you if I can't make it work!

 

[Foamcow]

Just be sure to look at the additional headers and additional parameters options else you may find that email sent gets blocked by anti-spam filters. This is especially important on shared servers.

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[EvolMonster]

Do they add alot of rubbish in them?

So i need to be setting them, even if I have no data to put in them?

 

[EvolMonster]

I've had a thought.

What if I have several links on one page to send an email.

For example, 10 products on a pge, with Contact Us next to each.
If I want to know which one they clicked on (i.e. which product), and add that into the mail, is that possible?

 

[jpadie]

yes. add a query parameter to the url in the link. the parameter will be in the $_GET superglobal.

eg

<a href="somepage.php?productID=354">Click Me for Info</a>

in your php the relevant information will be in $_GET['productID']

please create new threads for new issues in future.

 

[Foamcow]

Do they add alot of rubbish in them?

So i need to be setting them, even if I have no data to put in them?

No. But you can use them to ensure that the mail has the proper headers if the recipient's server does a reverse DNS lookup on the sender's domain.
In a shared environment the sender's domain will probably be different to the domain of the mail server.

So for instance, I would normally do something like this..

$to = someperson@somedomain.com;
$subject = "This is the message subject";
$message = "Hello World";

$headers = "From: sender@mydomain.com" . "\r\n" .
    "Reply-To: sender@mydomain.com" . "\r\n" .
    "X-Mailer: PHP/" . phpversion();
$params = "-fsender@mydomain.com";

// send the email
@mail($to,$subject,$message,$headers,$params);

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