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A simple problem with forms
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:
When I try to post the form, I get this error message:
Warning: mail() [function.mail]: SMTP server response: 550
We encountered an error sending your mailThanks for any guidance/help/advice!
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2 Replies
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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
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I realize this is starting over, but after about 10 minutes of reading, 10 more of using this, you’ll be done:
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