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aussiemcgr

Jul 24 2008, 06:14 PM

ok, very simple prob. I have a form that is used to contact me via my email. The only prob is when you press the send button, it just opens the users default email browser and fills some stuff in... Any thoughts?

URL: http://steelersfan.vndv.com/contact.php

Banjo

Jul 24 2008, 06:19 PM

Its your form action.

Your code is

CODE

Where it says mailto: steelers.pittsburgh@live.com that needs to be something like mail.php where that sends the email.

wozzym

Jul 24 2008, 06:32 PM

and also, php mail is disabled. you need to pay jack $10 to use it.

aussiemcgr

Jul 24 2008, 06:34 PM

lol, screw that!

So i cant do anything sly like get them to send to my forum's private messages or something can i?

Banjo

Jul 24 2008, 06:41 PM

You could do that or make your own script so it submits the data to a database then you login to view it.

wozzym

Jul 24 2008, 06:45 PM

ya you can still do stuff like that, but you cant send an actualy email unless you pay the $10

aussiemcgr

Jul 24 2008, 07:18 PM

QUOTE(wozzym @ Jul 24 2008, 06:45 PM)

ya you can still do stuff like that, but you cant send an actualy email unless you pay the $10

sending emails is not the prob, just receiving them.

Ok so if it is possible to send it to my forum's pm, would i use

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mailto: ucp.php?i=pm&folder=inbox

or something?

Banjo

Jul 24 2008, 08:29 PM

You don't use mailto:, that will just open up the users default email client like Outlook Express. You would need a php script that would insert the data into a database.

Your form would look like this (copy and pasted your source, changed action and names/id's).

CODE

 
<form action="mail.php" method="post" enctype="text/plain" name="form1" id="form1">
      <table width="90%" border="0" cellspacing="2" cellpadding="4" align="center">
          <tr>
            <td colspan="2" style="vertical-align: top" class="TitleColor">

              <label for="name">Name:  </label>
              <input id="name" name="name" type="text" size="50" />            </td>
          </tr>
          <tr>
            <td colspan="2" style="vertical-align: top" class="TitleColor">
              <label for="email">Email:   </label>
              <input id="email" name="email" type="text" size="50" />            </td>

          </tr>
          <tr>
            <td colspan="2" style="vertical-align: top" class="TitleColor">
              <label for="subject">Subject:</label>
              <input id="subject" name="subject" type="text" size="50" />            </td>
          </tr>
          <tr>
            <td colspan="2" style="vertical-align: top" class="TitleColor">

              <label for="message">Message:</label>
              <br />
              <br />
              <textarea id="message" name="message" rows="5" cols="50"></textarea>            </td>
          </tr>
          <tr>
            <td colspan="2">

              <input type="submit" name="Submit" value="Send" />            </td>
          </tr>
        </table>

and then you would have on mail.php a script that inserted the textfields into a database. E.g (don't use this basic and no protection).

CODE

<?php
$name = $_POST['name'];
$email = $_POST['number'];
$subject = $_POST['subject'];
$message = $_POST['message'];

$sql = "INSERT INTO mail".
       " (name,email,subject,message) ".
       " VALUES('$name','$email','$subject','$message')";
?>

and on another page just echo out the data in the database. You could as you said have it send to your forum private messenger.

aussiemcgr

Jul 24 2008, 08:36 PM

ok ill try that, thanks

btw, how do i

QUOTE

echo out the data in the database

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