PHP contact form problem with email field...

[Brasil360]

I have a very basic contact form just "Name" and "Email" and using the following way to get the variables but it has a problem just with the email field. I found out when the email address contains "@" it dose not deliver the form.

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$Name = Trim(stripslashes($_POST['name']));
$Email = Trim(stripslashes($_POST['email']));


I tested to put anything in the email field on my form without the "@" and it works just fine!!

what is wrong please help and I'll appreciate it.

[Nullsig]

Can you give us the text to the form itself. From the looks of it (other than the fact that trim is all lowercase) The code you displayed should work.

[Brasil360]

here it goes the form code:

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<form name="contact" action="test.php" method="post">
<table width="500" border="0" cellspacing="4" cellpadding="0">
<tr>
<td align="right"><div align="right">
<p class="CopyrightLine">nome completo:<span class="style1">*</span></p>
</div></td>
<td width="330" align="left"><input name="fullname" type="text" class="SelectingMenu" size="25" maxlength="30" /></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><div align="right">
<p class="CopyrightLine">email:<span class="style1">*</span></p>
</div></td>
<td><input name="email" type="text" class="SelectingMenu" size="25" maxlength="50"/></td>
</tr>
<tr valign="center">
<td><div align="right">
<p class="CopyrightLine">envie:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>
</div></td>
<td><div align="left">
<input name="submit" type="submit" value="        submit        " />
</div></td>
</tr>
</table>
</form>

Thanks

[Nullsig]

can you echo out the e-mail value?

Your code all looks kosher but I think what is happening is the e-mail address is getting URL Encoded so which would corrupt your e-mail

If I am right you should see "someone%40somewhere.com" instead of someone@somewhere.com

if this is the case.... you just need to wrap your string in urldecode() and it should fix it.

[Brasil360]

I get all the information echoed out correctly if i don't have the "@" in my "email" box. But as soon as i have the correct email address (which obviusly contains "@") I don't even recive the email at the destination.
I realy don' know what is wrong!?

[egami]

please post your entire PHP script.

[Brasil360]

I don'n have access to it will post it in a few hours for sure...

[Nullsig]

i mean that you should echo out the e-mail address before you run the email.

[Brasil360]

Here they are the both codes, PHP and HTML:

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<?php
// place the posted data into variables
$EmailFrom = Trim(stripslashes($_POST['email']));
$name = Trim(stripslashes($_POST['fullname']));
$subject = "$EmailFrom";
// prepare email body text
$Body = "";
$Body .= "From: $name";
$Body .= "\n";
$Body .= "Email: $EmailFrom";
$Body .= "\n";
// Enter your email address
$to ='email@domain.com.br';
// From
$header="from: $name <$EmailFrom>";
// send email
$success = mail($to, $subject, $Body, $header);
// redirect to success page
if ($success){
print "<meta http-equiv=\"refresh\" content=\"0;URL=ok.htm\">";
}else{
print "<meta http-equiv=\"refresh\" content=\"0;URL=error.htm\">";
}
?>

and

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<form name="contact" action="test.php" method="post">
<table width="500" border="0" cellspacing="4" cellpadding="0">
<tr>
<td align="right"><div align="right">
<p class="CopyrightLine">nome completo:<span class="style1">*</span></p>
</div></td>
<td width="330" align="left"><input name="fullname" type="text" class="SelectingMenu" size="25" maxlength="30" /></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><div align="right">
<p class="CopyrightLine">email:<span class="style1">*</span></p>
</div></td>
<td><input name="email" type="text" class="SelectingMenu" size="25" maxlength="50"/></td>
</tr>
<tr valign="center">
<td><div align="right">
<p class="CopyrightLine">envie:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>
</div></td>
<td><div align="left">
<input name="submit" type="submit" value="        submit        " />
</div></td>
</tr>
</table>
</form>

[Brasil360]

I just found out that in fact the form does not accept any email address such as "email@domain.com", the problem is not with the "@".

For instance accepts "email@domaincom" or "emaildomain.com" but as soon as type in the email in the correct manner (email@domain.com) the form goes to OK page but I don't receive the email!

[Brasil360]

I haven't find out the answer yet but this bit of the PHP code is causing the problem:

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// From
$header="from: $name <$EmailFrom>";

Which results in this problem that when i receive the email appears a domain name at the end of the email address:

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From:"name" <name@emailcom.whservidor.com>

How should I change the line in the PHP code to get read of this domain extention?

[Brasil360]

Well thanks everyone here trying to help. I called my host company and they explained that all these are happening because I must be using SMTP authentication code and bunch of other things which now they provided me with. It looks everything works just fine.

[andyrichin]

@Brasil360 I have been having the same issue. What did you have to do to get it to work? Would you be able to provide me with your HTML and PHP scripts? Would be awesome! Thanks.

[lovewow]

if this is the case.... you just need to wrap your string in urldecode() and it should fix it.

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[webinfopedia]

Below i will explain you how to make a email form

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<form method="post" action="phpmail.php">
<table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2">
  <tr>
    <td colspan="3" align="left" valign="middle" bgcolor="#008000"><div style="margin:0px 10px; font-weight:bold; color:#FFF; font-size:16px;">PHP email function</div></td>
    </tr>
  <tr>
    <td width="13%" align="left" valign="middle"><strong>Name</strong></td>
    <td width="2%" align="left" valign="middle">:</td>
    <td width="85%" align="left" valign="middle"><label>
      <input name="name" type="text" class="textbox" id="name" />
    </label></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td align="left" valign="middle"><strong>Email</strong></td>
    <td align="left" valign="middle">:</td>
    <td align="left" valign="middle"><label>
      <input name="email" type="text" class="textbox" id="email" />
    </label></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td align="left" valign="middle"><strong>Mobile No</strong></td>
    <td align="left" valign="middle">:</td>
    <td align="left" valign="middle"><label>
      <input name="mobile" type="text" class="textbox" id="mobile" />
    </label></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td align="left" valign="middle"><strong>Message</strong></td>
    <td align="left" valign="middle">:</td>
    <td align="left" valign="middle"><label>
      <textarea name="message" rows="3" class="textbox" id="message"></textarea>
    </label></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td align="left" valign="middle">&nbsp;</td>
    <td align="left" valign="middle">&nbsp;</td>
    <td align="left" valign="middle"><label>
      <input name="button" type="submit" class="submit" id="button" value="Send Email" />
    </label></td>
  </tr>
</table>
</form>


Now to this HTML form we have to write the PHP script.Find it below

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

$to=$email;
$subject="Welcome to www.webinfopedia.com";

$message="From:$name <br />Mobile:$mobile <br />".$message;

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

// More headers
$headers .= 'From: <name@yourwebsite.com>' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'Cc: name@yourwebsite.com' . "\r\n";
@mail($to,$subject,$message,$headers);
if(@mail)
{
echo "Email sent successfully !!";   
}
?>


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