Newbie: Creating a simple php form email, how?

[mancho]

Sorry if answered, I couldn't find it.

I need to create a simple "send form" that processes an email (its sent to a remote listserv).

I couldn't get it to work with this:

<?php
$to = "listserv-on@mail.baskins.com";
$subject = "Baskins Email Signup";
$from = "txtEmail";
if (mail($to, $subject, $from)) {
echo("<p>Message successfully sent!</p>");
} else {
echo("<p>Message delivery failed...</p>");
}
?>

What am I doing wrong? THe form is here: http://www.baskins.com/email_sign_up.html

and posts to:
http://www.baskins.com/emailprocess.php

thanks for any assistance. I'm using ISPConfig and I LOVE IT!

mancho

[geek.de.nz]

Maybe you don't have 'register_globals = On' in your php.ini, which would make this not work.

However, you can access form variables with

$txtEmail = $_GET['txtEmail'];
// or
$txtEmail = $_POST['txtEmail'];

depending on the method of the form (default GET). You should use POST for a lot of data, so e.g. if you're sending a text-area values.

The mail syntax looks right for me.

[falko]

Originally Posted by mancho

if (mail($to, $subject, $from)) {

Your usage of the mail function is wrong. Have a look here: http://de.php.net/manual/en/function.mail.php

[themachine]

Yes, Falko is right... the following is the basic usage of mail():

<?php

        $my_addy = "user@domain.com";
        $to_addy = "otheruser@otherdomain.com";
        $subject = "Test Subject";
        $message = "Test Message";

        $headers = "From: $my_addy \r\n";
        $headers .= "Reply-To: $my_addy \r\n";
        $headers .= "Return-Path: $my_addy \r\n";

        mail ($to_addy,$subject,$message,$headers);

?>

If you wanted to check the return of mail(), you could make it:

...
if(mail($to_addy,$subject,$message,$headers)) {
        print "Mail sent OK";
} else {
        print "Mail did not send properly";
}
...

But this is only checking whether "mail()" returned without error.... it has nothing to do with whether the email got anywhere successfullly.