PHP Mail Form

[blaqpig]

Hey all I keep trying to copy a php mail form that I found on the internet, but everytime I insert it into my HTML file it doesnt acknowledge it like it did when it was originally saved as a .php file. Do I need to add a <link thing in the head to read php or should html files read it normally?

the code I am trying to use is :

<Copyrighted code removed>

I just wanted a simple mail form on my site, but this seems to be more complicated than I thought

[Dormilich]

of cause you have to call this as .php file (how should your server know that the php parser is to be used). though there are some tweaks that make an apache server parse html files too.

the script could need some updates as well.... (depending on your environment) from a quick glance it seems to depend on register_global s = on (I can't see $require (line 61) defined anywhere). replace the $HTTP_...vars by the appropriate $_POST or $_SERVER vars (lines 56-58, 86, 87, 117). (see manual or your phpinfo() page)
you don't need quotation marks around variables when printing/calling (echo $var; will ba as good as echo "$var";).
$error is undefined if you have none, could give you a notice when testing undeclared variables.
if you send html mails you may need additional headers (like printed-quotable, see comments to the mail() function)

and from the html point of view: don't use table layout if you don't have tabular data, omit the <font> tag (it's deprecated), css can do this way better.

regards

[blaqpig]

thanks for the response! But can I just drop that inside a .html file? Or it doesnt work like that ?

[Dormilich]

if you have a (standard configured) web server you can't drop it in a .html file and expect it to be working (normally it just should print all out or complain that it's not valid html)

regards

PS how it usually works (well basicly....) (this is how i would explain it in the show Die Sendung mit der Maus)

client (browser): i want "page.html"
server (to client): wait a sec, yes I have it.
(fetches the file)
server (to client): here you go.
(sends it like it is to the client)

client: i want "page.php"
server: wait a sec, yes i have it.
server (to php): give me the result of "page.php"
(php parsing the file)
php (to server): here it is
(sends result to server)
server (to client): here you go.
(sends result of php to client)

[Atli]

Hi.

I have removed the code you posted. Please make sure you do not post code that you do not have the right to distribute. Posting such code on a public forum, like this one, may not go over to well with the people that actually own it.

If you are having a specific problem with the code, try posting just the part that is causing the problem, or a snippet that we can use to reproduce the problem.

Thank you
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[Atli]

thanks for the response! But can I just drop that inside a .html file? Or it doesnt work like that ?

What would make you think you can simply paste PHP code into a HTML file?

PHP and HTML are two very different things, and in order to use PHP, your server must have the ability to use PHP applications. And, moreover, it must know what is to be executed as PHP code.

On most servers, PHP pages have the ".php" extension, which tells the server that the page is to be executed as PHP code. Pages that have the ".html" extension will not be treated as PHP code, but simply sent to the client as HTML.

You could try to simply rename your ".html" files, replacing the ".html" extension with ".php".

[blaqpig]

I actually don't know anything about PHP. I was just looking up simple email form on google and was using free codes. I was looking for guidance as every time I use them I cannot get them to work. Sorry I did not know you can't just paste it into the HTML file.

[Markus]

I actually don't know anything about PHP. I was just looking up simple email form on google and was using free codes. I was looking for guidance as every time I use them I cannot get them to work. Sorry I did not know you can't just paste it into the HTML file.

Well now you do.

You can actually have .html files parse php, but that requires some modifications to the server.

[Dormilich]

I actually don't know anything about PHP.

some tutorials on php:

http://tut.php-quake.net/en/
http://www.tizag.com/phpT/
http://www.w3schools.com/php/