Where is the submitted info sent? How can I send it to email?

#1
whaatup

Posted 30 July 2010 - 05:37 PM

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When users enter their info and hit "submit", where is their information sent to?

<html>

</script>

<div align="center" style="text-indent: 0pt;"><img src="/page/-/files/header_form_title.jpg" border="0"></div>

<form action="volunteer.php" method="post" onSubmit="return checkform();" style="position:relative;">

<input class="header_input_fname" style="position:absolute; top:0; left:0;" name="firstname" id="fname" value="First Name"

onclick="if(this.value=='First Name'){this.value='';}">

<input class="header_input_lname" style="position:absolute; top:0; left:112px;" name="lastname" id="lname" value="Last

Name" onclick="if(this.value=='Last Name'){this.value='';}">

<input class="header_input_email" style="position:absolute; top:24px; left:0;" name="email" id="email" value="E-Mail"

onclick="if(this.value=='E-Mail'){this.value='';}">

<input class="header_input_zip" style="position:absolute; top:53px; left:0;" name="zip" id="zip" value="ZIP Code"

onclick="if(this.value=='ZIP Code'){this.value='';}">

<input type="image" src="/page/-/files/btn_signup.png" style="position:absolute; top:53px; left:110px;"

class="header_input_button"><br>

</form></div></div>

<div id="nav" style="background-image:url

(/page/smartproxy/BSD_EQROVgIKSFYJRlVGRQRHBAdQV1tAVgkdAVZf/FQRRUA/SA/AwxaUBA/CwRAVwIWOVYCHUBbVg);"><script

language="javascript">

How can I use this code to have it sent to an email?

Thank you

#2
Alexander

Posted 30 July 2010 - 06:50 PM

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If you look at the HTML <form> element, you are sending POST data to volunteer.php. An example of how PHP would read the form data is like so:

<?php
  $fname = $_POST['firstname']; 
  $lname = $_POST['lastname'];
  $email = $_POST['email'];
  $zip = $_POST['zip']; 
  //Then you do something with it.
?>

Can you run PHP? Do you wish to have some example code to send an e-mail with it?

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#3
whaatup

Posted 30 July 2010 - 10:24 PM

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I took this code from a website because I wanted something just like this on a page on my website. I would like to know how to have all the submitted info sent to an email, or somewhere that it can be logged and saved, like a database maybe?

Thanks

#4
Alexander

Posted 31 July 2010 - 12:16 AM

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You can do this with PHP, PERL or ASP but you will prefer it in PHP to keep it simple and replicate what the website is trying to do. I won't write anything too complex, but here's some PHP code to send you an e-mail. You will need to replace each "to" e-mail to yours, and the "from" e-mail in $headers to your site's name (ie: contact@foobar.com).

<?php

if(isset($_POST['fname']) && isset($_POST['lastname']) && isset($_POST['email']) && isset($_POST['zip'])) {
    //Grab data from HTML form inputs
    $fname = stripslashes($_POST['firstname']); 
    $lname = stripslashes($_POST['lastname']);
    $email = stripslashes($_POST['email']);
    $zip = stripslashes($_POST['zip']); 
} else {
    //A form wasn't filled in
    exit('One of the forms was blank, please go back and do it again.');
}

$to = 'you@youremail.com';
$subject = 'Someone has contacted you!';
$message = "Contact info: First name: $fname; Last name: $lname; e-mail: $email; ZIP code: $zip.";

$headers  = 'MIME-Version: 1.0' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1' . "\r\n";

// Additional headers, \r\n required by Windows
$headers .= 'To: Yourname <you@youremail.com>' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'From: Yourname <contact@thissite.com>' . "\r\n";

// Mail it
if($mail = mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers)) {
   exit('Contact information successfully sent. Thank you');    
} else {
   exit('An error has occured, Please go back and try again.');    
}

?>

This is really a PHP question though, so you should ask on the PHP forum on here if you need further help. (if you want it to be in a database or whatnot).

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#5
whaatup

Posted 31 July 2010 - 12:18 AM

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Thanks for your help I really appreciate it!

#6
whaatup

Posted 31 July 2010 - 12:50 AM

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Do I put this code on a separate page from my code? Sorry but I'm a bit lost.

Thanks

#7
Alexander

Posted 31 July 2010 - 03:01 AM

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Yeah, you'd put it as for example "contact.php", and in your other web page you would use the form element as so:

<form action="contact.php" method="POST">

Just like in the code you originally showed us, this will tell HTML to send the form data (when they hit submit) to contact.php, the PHP code will accept the data and mail you with the form information. It's really a simple script.

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#8
DarkLordofthePenguins

Posted 31 July 2010 - 07:27 PM

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Where the information is sent is specified by the action attribute of the <form> tag. If you want it to be mailed, you can set it to action="mailto:myaddress@mydomain".

#9
whaatup

Posted 01 August 2010 - 08:24 AM

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DarkLordofthePenguins said:

Where the information is sent is specified by the action attribute of the <form> tag. If you want it to be mailed, you can set it to action="mailto:myaddress@mydomain".

All that would do is bring up your email program; it would open a new email to send with the set email already in the "Send to" field.

I need the script to automatically send the email from server side once they submit the info.

#10
WingedPanther

Posted 01 August 2010 - 01:24 PM

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Then you will need some code on the server (PHP, ColdFusion, ASP, etc) to accept the form data and send the email.

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#11
DarkLordofthePenguins

Posted 01 August 2010 - 07:02 PM

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whaatup said:

That's odd. It worked fine for me. I think you may be thinking of mail links in achor tags, which are completely different. If you don't intend to read the email yourself and want it to be something the server processes, wouldn't it be easier to skip that step and do it the normal way (send it to a PHP script)?

#12
Alexander

Posted 01 August 2010 - 07:51 PM

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I'm helping him with the PHP script in PM, he can run PHP so it seems to be working.

@DarkLordofthePenguins: It depends on what the user has set as their default e-mail client, and their platform, so the mailto: tag generally isn't a good option. The PHP script hides the admin's e-mail as well, so it's best to let that handle itself.

It's a good JS option indeed, the OP just wasn't aware of what was sending the e-mail.

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