Thread: Forms

I have created a form per the directions of the tutorials and have entered the following code on the .php page as directed:
<?PHP
$mailto = "info@sfevcx.com";
$email = $HTTP_POST_VARS['email'];
if ($email == "") {
$email = $mailto;
}
$mailsubj = "Contact BIC";
$mailhead = "From: $email\n";
reset ($HTTP_POST_VARS);
$mailbody = "Values submitted from web site form :\n";
while (list ($key, $val) = each ($HTTP_POST_VARS))
{
if ($key!="submit")
{
$mailbody .= "$key : $val\n";
}
}
mail($mailto, $mailsubj, $mailbody, $mailhead);
?>

The form is still not functional and I am receiveing the error message:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '<' in /home/qwxqsmue/public_html/action.php on line 40

Please help! What am I doing wrong.

Suzanne

You are probably missing a ?> at the end of the php script you inserted onto you page,

You have inserted your code twice, once between the head tags (which will not work) and then between the body tags. The second one is incomplete:

$email = $HTTP_POST_VARS[email];
$mailto = "info@biccorp.com";
$mailsubj = "Contact Form Submission";
$mailhead = "From: $email\n";
reset ($HTTP_POST_VARS);
$mailbody = "Values submitted from website form;\n";
while (list ($key, $val) = each ($HTTP_POST_VARS))
{

You need to recreate the page from scratch, this time insert the full script between the body tags and it will work!

Sarah

Unless Sarah can see something that i cant, the script is correct. Only explanation, as Watdaflip said, you have forgotten (in the page, here it is correct) the closing tag

<?PHP
$mailto = "info@sfevcx.com";
$email = $HTTP_POST_VARS['email'];
if ($email == "") {
$email = $mailto;
}
$mailsubj = "Contact BIC";
$mailhead = "From: $email\n";
reset ($HTTP_POST_VARS);
$mailbody = "Values submitted from web site form :\n";
while (list ($key, $val) = each ($HTTP_POST_VARS))
{
if ($key!="submit")
{
$mailbody .= "$key : $val\n";
}
}
mail($mailto, $mailsubj, $mailbody, $mailhead);
?>

This last part in red is the one that you must have forgoten.

And, to my knowledge, the code will work in whichever tag of the page html : Start of page (which i prefer), Between head, inside body, end of page.

The php code is not like the html code, it is executed anywhere in the page code.

Naval, Sarah, which is the correct code???? both PHP codes you have listed are different.

Daniel


Sarah's Code:

$email = $HTTP_POST_VARS[email];
$mailto = "info@biccorp.com";
$mailsubj = "Contact Form Submission";
$mailhead = "From: $email\n";
reset ($HTTP_POST_VARS);
$mailbody = "Values submitted from website form;\n";
while (list ($key, $val) = each ($HTTP_POST_VARS))
{

Naval's Code:

<?PHP
$mailto = "info@sfevcx.com";
$email = $HTTP_POST_VARS['email'];
if ($email == "") {
$email = $mailto;
}
$mailsubj = "Contact BIC";
$mailhead = "From: $email\n";
reset ($HTTP_POST_VARS);
$mailbody = "Values submitted from web site form :\n";
while (list ($key, $val) = each ($HTTP_POST_VARS))
{
if ($key!="submit")
{
$mailbody .= "$key : $val\n";
}
}
mail($mailto, $mailsubj, $mailbody, $mailhead);
?>

Sarah DID NOT post any code, she was merely stating that the code that BIC had used was incomplete.
You can use the one i posted.

This is the same one that is included in the Forms Tutorial Part 1.