Thread: contact form

Going round and round... have watched email tutorials etc. (quite a few times) and am just plain dizzy.

Can anyone see what I have done incorrectly (or not done) that is keeping me from getting emails from the contact us form. The action "thank you for your submission" page pops right up, but the emails don't make it to me...

Thanks in advance for ANY ideas and help offered!!!

www.SaveOurSpace.info

I think the problem is that you have not inserted
the necessary coding into your action page.

Did you insert this:
<?PHP
$mailto = "your email";
$email = $HTTP_POST_VARS['email'];
if ($email == "") {
$email = $mailto;
}
$mailsubj = "subject of email";
$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);
?>

if not you need to, and also change the places shown on RED

Hi,

Why dont you just use a "contactus " button?
Right click on the button . select properties and then select
"Mailto" instead of [Http://] and name the page "Email us".

Once published and whoever clicks on the button will have his
email program pop up.

Please post a link to your contact page and then paste the php code you are using here so we can have a look.

Cheers-
Andy

I have worked things out that I DO receive an email with a contact request... name and email info come fine!!

I now need to fix whatever will make the comments entered on my contact request form show on that email.Do I need to right click on that comments box and add code...?
And if so what should I add to make that happen?

Thanks...

www.saveourspace.info/contactform.php

(This is the code on my action page)
<?PHP
$mailto = "info@saveourspace.info";
$email = $HTTP_POST_VARS['email'];
if ($email == "") {
$email = $mailto;
}
$mailsubj = "contact request from SOS";
$mailhead = "From: $email\n";
reset ($HTTP_POST_VARS);
$mailbody = "name,email,comments :\n";
while (list ($key, $val) = each ($HTTP_POST_VARS))
{
if ($key!="submit")
{
$mailbody .= "$key : $val\n";
}
}
mail($mailto, $mailsubj, $mailbody, $mailhead);
?>

Your comments section is outside the form. Delete the comments box and then stretch the form down to to accomodate the size of your comment box. Then place the comment box back on the form- save and publish.

Should work then.

Andy

I need help with the same problem, I am not sure what I am doing wrong. I get an email from my info@domainname.com and it even has a great subject line - which is in the page html (as directed), but I am not getting ANY comments in the body. I've read several threads and am not getting much help from trying different things... please help?

p.s. here is the code in the page html:

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

In which page did you embedd the script ? It should be in the "action" page.
If you have it in the form page, you will be recieving a blank email everytime you open the form page in the browser.

hi. Thanks Naval. Was that part of the instruction in the tutorial? I now have the script on the action page and it work brilliantly. Thanks. I was getting tired of getting blank emails from the form.
You are much appreciated by all.

Thank you.

Actually yes, it is part of the tutorial: the php script should be placed in the "action" page.

The main body of the tutorial, is in the text under the multimedia presentation.

that was the main part I was following. I will go back and re-watch & read the tutorial, I got the form to work now, but I'm still getting blank emails...

You have added the script in your action page, BUT, did you delete it from your form page ?

yup, I did delete it. I just checked to make sure.

Naval, (or someone)
I am still getting blank emails... is the only reason I would get them is because I have a mystery email script on some page? Please help? I don't appreciate blank emails in my inbox.

Make sure you don't have the script on the same page the actual form displays. Otherwise each time the user loads your form it will send the email, and then also when the submit the filled out form

Oh my gosh, I've been having the same problems Jamie has had, and only now had the time to go and look for the tutorials again to try and figure this out! So glad to see that I was the only one...........