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How to create an email form

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  • 11-05-2006 2:04pm
    #1
    Tengu
    Registered Users Posts: 115 ✭✭


    I am trying to create an email form on a website that lets you enter your details and you click submit and the email is sent off without the users default email package being opened. does anyone have a sample I can reverse engineer to see how it is don? our server supports php if there needs to be some extra files I need to download.

    Cheers


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    #2
    daymobrew
    Registered Users Posts: 6,511 ✭✭✭daymobrew


    You won't need additional files on your server. You can use the mail() function.
    At the most basic level you need a form that submits the data to a php script which calls the mail() function. The php script can do both, generate the form and process submission.

    Read the "User Contributed Notes" at the bottom as there is some useful real-world code there. You have to be very careful to catch and block attempts to use your form as a spam source.
    There was a thread here a few months ago with a link to examples on how to protect your script.

    That solutions page suggests using Zend_Mail() function. This would require a download to your server.


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    The Muppet
    Registered Users Posts: 14,003 ✭✭✭✭The Muppet


    Tengu wrote:
    I am trying to create an email form on a website that lets you enter your details and you click submit and the email is sent off.........................

    Cheers

    I use phpformgen .

    http://phpformgen.sourceforge.net/


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    Tengu
    Registered Users Posts: 115 ✭✭Tengu


    excellent stuff, I'll be checking them out tonight, thanks a mill.:):)


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    Alisha
    Closed Accounts Posts: 30 ✭Alisha


    I would suggest a pre-made script like nl-phpmail.
    It's easy to set up and doesn't requirea anything really. Just that your server supports php4, and for the latest version which has also a validation form with a confirmation image the approrpiate php extentions, which main servers have anyway.
    you can download it and have a sample of how it works here http://codegrrl.com/!/scripts/view/nlphpmail/

    and the best thing is that it's good and it's free :)


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    dahamsta
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 16,659 ✭✭✭✭dahamsta


    I'd be worried about that phpformgen thing. No releases since September 2004, no updates to the site or the SF project since October 2005. Software needs updates, particularly software that creates an entrypoint to the server and people's mailboxes.

    I'm not saying there's anything actually wrong with it, just that I wouldn't use it, or any project as dead as that.


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