Problem with a form

Ask them what they provide for form processing. This may be easy...

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"DLock" <webforumsuser (AT) macromedia (DOT) com> wrote

Well, well, well ...
Not always simple to be a Mac user... but so exciting !
My web hoster supports PHP, ASP, SENDMAIL, PERL, but not CF.
Does it exist a tutorial on how to create this form, according the fact
I'm a
very beginner and that it is quite urgent ?
Thanks for your lights Murray,
DL

Murray *TMM* wrote:

Ask them what they provide for form processing. This may be easy...

Ipowerweb.com is also my host, and it provides a version of Matt's

formmail (cgi/perl) that I have never been able to make work. I did
finally manage to get a form to sort of work yesterday using
http://apptools.com/phptools/forms/ -- though I haven't quite yet ironed
out how to get the form-filler-outer's choices conveyed to me in the
e-mail (still sorting that), I **WAS** able to get it to send me the
form, and I am a complete newbie to any kind of programming. It should
be easy if the OP only wants an e-mail, rather than a form, to get it
working using this tutorial.


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Formmail works, Bonnie.

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"Bonnie in Sacramento" <kroko (AT) endofmyropesbcglobal (DOT) net> wrote

Murray *TMM* wrote:

Ask them what they provide for form processing. This may be easy...

Ipowerweb.com is also my host, and it provides a version of Matt's
formmail (cgi/perl) that I have never been able to make work. I did
finally manage to get a form to sort of work yesterday using
http://apptools.com/phptools/forms/ -- though I haven't quite yet ironed
out how to get the form-filler-outer's choices conveyed to me in the
e-mail (still sorting that), I **WAS** able to get it to send me the
form, and I am a complete newbie to any kind of programming. It should
be easy if the OP only wants an e-mail, rather than a form, to get it
working using this tutorial.


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Bonnie in Sacramento wrote:

I haven't quite yet ironed
out how to get the form-filler-outer's choices conveyed to me in the
e-mail

What problem are you having?


Gary

Murray *TMM* wrote:

Formmail works, Bonnie.

Maybe for you it does...I was just too stupid to figure it out, and I

think when I sent it to you you couldn't help 'cause of not doing perl,
n'est-ce pas? ;-) I could have probably gotten a tech at ipowerweb to
help me (tip to OP--call in the middle of the night, when they're not so
busy), but now that this PHP thing is on the verge of working, I think
I'll stick with it.

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Gary White wrote:

What problem are you having?


Gary

I'll try to show you tomorrow, Gary, if you're interested. Since I
don't actually UNDERSTAND PHP, I'm having trouble converting the fields
in the code I copied to the fields in the form I actually need. I mean,
it's stupid to expect to be able to just copy and cut-and-paste when you
have only the vaguest idea of what the code is doing, but that's what
I'm trying to do. In the meantime, I DO have Beginning PHP4 (Choi,
Kent, Lea, Prasad, Ullman), but sometimes it's hard to take a couple of
hours to read a few chapters when you're hoping to get something UP; you
know? ;-)
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"Bonnie in Sacramento" <kroko (AT) endofmyropesbcglobal (DOT) net> wrote in
message news:ces6h8$6v1$1 (AT) forums (DOT) macromedia.com...

I'll try to show you tomorrow, Gary, if you're interested.
Since I don't actually UNDERSTAND PHP, I'm having trouble
converting the fields in the code I copied to the fields in
the form I actually need.

Do post back. Once the light bulb blinks on, you'll see that it's
really easy.

Just a little something to get you started. Assume that your form is
using POST for the method. In the form, you have a text input named
clyde:

<input type="text" name="clyde">

In the PHP code that handles the form, you would get the value the
user entered in that input like this:

$x=$_POST['clyde'];

The variable $x now contains the value the user typed in the text
input.

To now put that value into the mail message body, just embed it in a
string:

$msgbody="The user entered $x in clyde."

When you e-mail that:

mail($toaddress,$subject, $msgbody);

Assume the user typed the word banana (for example) in the input, the
message body in the e-mail would be:

The user entered banana in clyde.

Gary

Bonnie in Sacramento wrote:

Thanks, Gary. I decided to try to run before I walked and went back to
lessons one and two. I tried to integrate the validation from lesson
two with the initial form in lesson one, but after I uploaded I got this
error message:

Parse error: parse error in
/mydomainename/public_html/Bonnie/phpmail.php on line 75

This is my code: line 75 is the very last line, <\html

Normally, when you get an error pointing to the end of the file, it's an
indication that you have a mismatch in your {braces}. That's true in
this case. You need a closing brace here:

echo "Message failed to send";

} // add this

}
?
/body
/html> <======= This is line 75.

Gary

Gary White wrote:

Normally, when you get an error pointing to the end of the file, it's an
indication that you have a mismatch in your {braces}. That's true in
this case. You need a closing brace here:


echo "Message failed to send";


} // add this


}
?
/body
/html> <======= This is line 75.




Gary

Thanks again, Gary! Damn, you're fast!! :-D I'll keep you posted.
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It worked great with that bracket fix: however, the sending is showing
up in my e-mail as "nobody." When I have analyzed the banana example,
will I know what to change so it take the input from the name the user
types in?

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