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  A simple problem with forms

  Posted by Paxson Woelber on April 30, 2010 at 7:33 am

  Hello all. I’ve recently tried my hand at building a form in Dreamweaver(I know, I said this was simple stuff, right?). This is obviously the easy part – getting some CGI to actually deal with the form data is proving very, very tricky (at least for me..). I’m trying to post the information to a php file, which then should send an e-mail to a gmail account. There’s a hitch somewhere, but I’m not sure what it is.

  The page with the form is:

  https://www.votemia.com/volunteer/

  The PHP code, on the file contact.php, is:

  co***************@***il.com";
  $subject = "Volunteer Request";
  $name = $_REQUEST['name'];
  $email = $_REQUEST['email'] ;
  $phone = $_REQUEST['phone'];
  $yesnewsletter = $_REQUEST['yesnewsletter'];
  $event = $_REQUEST['event'];
  $admin = $_REQUEST['admin'];
  $sign = $_REQUEST['sign'];
  $comments = $_REQUEST['comments'] ;
  $headers = "From: $email" . "\r\n";
  $headers .= "Phone : $phone" . "\r\n";
  $headers .= "Newsletter : $yesnewsletter" . "\r\n";
  $headers .= "Host an event : $event" . "\r\n";
  $headers .= "Administrative work : $admin" . "\r\n";
  $headers .= "Hold a sign : $sign" . "\r\n";
  $headers .= "Comments : $phone" . "\r\n";
  $sent = mail($to, $subject, $comments, $headers) ;
  if($sent)
  {print "Your mail was sent successfully"; }
  else
  {print "We encountered an error sending your mail"; }
  ?>

  When I try to post the form, I get this error message:

  Warning: mail() [function.mail]: SMTP server response: 550 <co***************@***il.com> No such user here in E:\inetpub\vhosts\votemia.com\httpdocs\contact.php on line 19
  We encountered an error sending your mail

  Thanks for any guidance/help/advice!

  Kelly Johnson replied 16 years ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
• 2 Replies

• 

  Curtis Thompson

  April 30, 2010 at 3:27 pm

  hello…

  i’d guess it’s because you are sending your form info as mail headers as opposed to in the body of the email – here’s the php doc page:

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

  that has some samples of what types of mail headers you could use (they are optional, though) – things like Cc, Bcc, Reply-To, etc…

  you should put all your info in the message param, which is the 3rd one…so something like this:

  $to = “costellovolunteer@gmail.com”;
  $subject = “Volunteer Request”;
  $name = $_REQUEST[‘name’];
  $email = $_REQUEST[’email’] ;
  $phone = $_REQUEST[‘phone’];
  $yesnewsletter = $_REQUEST[‘yesnewsletter’];
  $event = $_REQUEST[‘event’];
  $admin = $_REQUEST[‘admin’];
  $sign = $_REQUEST[‘sign’];

  $mail_body = “From: $email” . “\n”;
  $mail_body .= “Phone : $phone” . “\n”;
  $mail_body .= “Newsletter : $yesnewsletter” . “\n”;
  $mail_body .= “Host an event : $event” . “\n”;
  $mail_body .= “Administrative work : $admin” . “\n”;
  $mail_body .= “Hold a sign : $sign” . “\n”;
  $mail_body .= “Comments : $phone” . “\n”;
  $mail_body .= $_REQUEST[‘comments’] ;

  $sent = mail($to, $subject, $mail_body) ;

  if($sent)
  {print “Your mail was sent successfully”; }
  else
  {print “We encountered an error sending your mail”; }

  give that a shot and see if it works for you!

  sitruc
• 

  Kelly Johnson

  May 5, 2010 at 4:05 am

  I realize this is starting over, but after about 10 minutes of reading, 10 more of using this, you’ll be done:

  https://www.tectite.com/

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