smtp e-mail and php

[itila]

I'm trying to set up a contact page for my website. The form seems to work and I added the necessary php code to the top of the processing page:

<?php
$to = "crys.bay@forbiddenislandchronicles.com";
$subject = "New author question";
$headers = "From: webmaster@forbiddenislandchronicles.com\n";
$body = "$_POST['question'];
mail($to,$subject,$headers,$body);
?>

However, the server isn't e-mailing the page to me. How can I enable smtp e-mail delivery? What am I doing wrong?

[felgall]

mail($to,$subject,$body,$headers);

[itila]

Thanks for the help! So here's a new concern: I'm trying to put multiple variables into the body, but I'm not being allowed to do any kind of formatting. So for example, instead of reading Name: Mr. John Doe, it reads Mr.JohnDoe.

Here's the code:

$body = "Name: " . $_POST['title'] . $_POST['first_name'] . $_POST['last_name'];

What command should I use to seperate the . $_POST[]

[felgall]

What command should I use to seperate the . $_POST[]

Whatever characters you want between them to get a space use:

$body = "Name: " . $_POST['title'] . ' ' . $_POST['first_name'] . ' ' . $_POST['last_name'];

[itila]

Thanks for being patient. I think I am nearing the end of my questions. I'm trying to add a line break in the e-mail text. I tried this:

$body = "Name: " . $_POST['title'] . " " . $_POST['first_name'] . " " . $_POST['last_name'] . <br> . $_POST['email'];

but it didn't work. What should I do instead?

[felgall]

$body = "Name: " . $_POST['title'] . " " . $_POST['first_name'] . " " . $_POST['last_name'] . "\n". $_POST['email'];

[itila]

I finished all my form coding! Thanks so much for your help!

[itila]

Hi,

I decided to add one more form to my website so that readers could send recommendations directly to each other. Everything in the code works except:

$to = ". $POST['friend_email']";

Help?

[felgall]

You have:

$to = ".

which should be

$to = ''.

with spaces added between each character for clarity that's:

$ t o = ' ' .

not

$ t o = " .

[itila]

I tried the coding you suggested. When I entered data into the live form, I received this error code:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_CONSTANT_ENCAPSED_STRING in /home2/forbidd5/public_html/recommendation_sent.php on line 2

Here's line 2 once again:

$to = ''. $_POST['friend_email']'';

[Corey Cole]

That code doesn't make any sense. The idea of the dot operator (".") is to connect strings together. It doesn't belong inside a string. Your code should read:

$to = $_POST['friend_email'];

If you were changing your "From" header, you might build that by saying:

$header = "From: " . $my_email_address;

assuming you had your return address in that variable. But you don't want to put quotation marks around the dot or the variable name.

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I tried the coding you suggested. When I entered data into the live form, I received this error code:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_CONSTANT_ENCAPSED_STRING in /home2/forbidd5/public_html/recommendation_sent.php on line 2

Here's line 2 once again:

$to = ''. $_POST['friend_email']'';

[felgall]

Try

$to = $_POST['friend_email'];

[itila]

Thank you!