mail()

[DooBDee]

Greetings,

I am new the the mail() function,

Can somebody explain why this code does not work, and how ti can be corrected?

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<?php
if(!empty($_POST['name']) || (!empty($_POST['email']) || (!empty($_POST['websitename']) || (!empty($_POST['category']) || (!empty($_POST['colourscheme']) || (!empty($_POST['domain']) || (!empty($_POST['logo']) || (!empty($_POST['navi']) (!empty($_POST['add'])) 
{ 
mail('jack@doobdee.net', stripslashes($_POST['subject']), stripslashes($_POST['name']), stripslashes($_POST['email']), stripslashes($_POST['websitename']), stripslashes($_POST['category']), stripslashes($_POST['colourscheme']), stripslashes($_POST['domain']), stripslashes($_POST['logo']), stripslashes($_POST['navi']), stripslashes($_POST['add']), 'From: ' . stripslashes($_POST['email']) . ' <' . stripslashes($_POST['name']) . '>');   //Change Email Adress
}
?>

Kind regards,

DooBDee

PS : Also how do you put a line between each $_POST?

[kvfb97]

Dont understand what code you have at all but the mail function works like this...

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mail( string to, string subject, string message)

mail( “to@emailaddress.com”, “This is my subject line”, “This is my message.  \n The
\n to the left of this text makes a new line”)

[DooBDee]

im using mail form as part as $_POST from a form.

I am using the same format line as you are using, bu i am wantint to email server different fields as the message line.

The first part checks to see if it exists and striplashes

[kvfb97]

Well how about something like this, after you check if its there...

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<?php

$mail = 'me@me.com';
$subject = $_POST['subject'];
$name = $_POST['name'];
$email = $_POST['email'];
$websitename = $_POST['websitename'];
$catergory = $_POST['catergory'];

mail($mail, $subject, $name.'n/'.$email.'n/'.$websitename.'/n'.$catergory)

?>

[DooBDee]

Greetings,

Thanks for the reply.

I get this:

awdn/adwn/daw/n/nadw/ndaw/ndaw/nawd/nadw/nadw

the /n are still there

is n/ supposed to be

\n ?

[PostBot]

Use "\n" and make sure its double quotes, not single quotes because special commands like \n are not parsed in single quoted string.

[kvfb97]

Sorry, im learning myself.

[DooBDee]

same!

Thanks for the input kvfb97

[DooBDee]

[quote user="CyberAlien" post="37479"]Use "\n" and make sure its double quotes, not single quotes because special commands like \n are not parsed in single quoted string.[/quote]

So this:

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mail ($mail, $subject, Name: .$name."\n".Email: .$email."\n".Website Name: .$websitename."\n".Colour Scheme: .$colourscheme.Category: .$catergory."\n".Domain: .$domain."\n".Logo: .$logo."\n".Navigation: .$navi."\n".Additional Info: .$add);

?

[pentapenguin]

Close.
Body part needs to be surrounded by (double) quotes.

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mail ($mail, $subject, "Name: $name\nEmail: $email\nWebsite Name: $websitename\nColour Scheme: $colourscheme\nCategory: $catergory\nDomain: $domain\nLogo: $logo\nNavigation: $navi\nAdditional Info: $add");

[robbie]

add the fourth argument: "FROM: ".$_POST["email"] to make the email sender appear as what they enter in that field, otherwise it will come saying from "Nobody" or something random like "foobar.username@yoursites.gobbleturkey.com" etc., so:

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mail ($mail, $subject, "Name: $name\nEmail: $email\nWebsite Name: $websitename\nColour Scheme: $colourscheme\nCategory: $catergory\nDomain: $domain\nLogo: $logo\nNavigation: $navi\nAdditional Info: $add", "FROM: {$email}");

[roders22]

If thats helpful i've done mine like this:

1.$mail_address=$_POST['e_add'];
2.$subject=$_POST['subject'];
3.$content1=$_POST['content1'];
4.$content2=$_POST['content2'];
5.$content3=$_POST['content3'];
6.$from="me@mail.com";

then i've concatenate my mail content like this:

$mailcontent=$content1."\n"
.$content2."\n"
.$content3."\n";

then the mail function:
mail($mail_address, $subject, $mailcontent, $from);

hope it helps.


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