send text to an email

[Academy]

on the click of a submit button, I'd like to send the text from a textbox to an email address.

textbox: txtTest
from : from@hotmail.com
to: to@hotmail.com

Please provide sample code,

Thanks.

[visualAd]

http://www.php.net/mail

[dclamp]

you are going to need to send headers for the from part.

[Academy]

yes!

[dclamp]

did you get it to work?

[Academy]

no. it is not working.

<?php

$firstname=(string)$_POST["txtFirst"];
$headers ='haau@shaw.ca'. phpversion();

mail('haaail@shaw.ca','Registration testing',$firstname,$headers);

echo 'done';

?>

[dclamp]

try this...


<?php

error_reporting(E_ALL);

$firstname=$_POST["txtFirst"];
$headers ='haau@shaw.ca'. phpversion();

@mail('haaail@shaw.ca','Registration testing',$firstname,$headers);

echo 'done';

?>

[Academy]

still not working. I wonder if it has anything to do with the HTML page.

<form id="register" name="register" method="post" action="email.php">

<table width="599" height="368" border="1">

<tr>
<td width="500"><table width="576" height="327">


<tr>
<td width="216"><div align="right" class="normal">First Name: </div></td>
<td width="330"><input name="txtFirst" type="text" id="txtFirst" /></td>
<td width="14">&nbsp;</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><div align="right">
<p class="normal">Last&nbsp;(Family) Name:</p>
</div></td>
<td><input name="txtLast" type="text" id="txtLast" /></td>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
</tr>


<tr>
<td><div align="right">
<p class="normal">Address:</p>
</div></td>
<td><input name="txtAddr" type="text" id="txtAddr" /></td>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><div align="right">
<p class="normal">Telephone Number:</p>
</div></td>
<td><input name="txtTel" type="text" id="txtTel" /></td>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><div align="right">
<p class="normal">Cell Number:</p>
</div></td>
<td><input name="txtCell" type="text" id="txtCell" /></td>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><div align="right">
<p class="normal">AA&amp;ITN:</p>
</div></td>
<td><input name="txtAA" type="text" id="txtAA" /></td>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><div align="right" class="normal">Trade: </div></td>
<td><input name="txtTrade" type="text" id="txtTrade" /></td>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><div align="right" class="normal">Best time to contact you: </div></td>
<td><input name="txtBest" type="text" id="txtBest" /></td>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><div align="right" class="normal">Other Notes: </div></td>
<td><textarea name="textarea"></textarea></td>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
</tr>
</table></td>
</tr>

</table>

<p>
<input name="btnSubmit" type="submit" id="btnSubmit" value="Submit" />
</p>
</form>

[dclamp]

can you please edit your post using tags or tags, thanks

[visualAd]

no. it is not working.

<?php

$firstname=(string)$_POST["txtFirst"];
$headers ='haau@shaw.ca'. phpversion();

mail('haaail@shaw.ca','Registration testing',$firstname,$headers);

echo 'done';

?>
Your headers are incorrectly formatted. They need to be in the format Name: value\r\n.

E.g

$headers = 'From: me@example.com\r\n';
$headers .= 'X-Client:' phpversion();


Also you may want to set the sendmail_from directive n the php.ini to the from address too, to prevent an errornous reply_to header.