PHP EMail Form and set cookie

[pete.brooker]

Hi,

Being new to PHP & cookies, I am looking to write an email form, where
a user can choose their name from a drop down list, fill in the
content of the email and hit send and the email will be from that
user.

Then the next time they visit the page, I want to be able to read that
cookie and preset the From part of the email from the cookie.

But I have no clue where to start and can't find any examples of the
web.

If anyone can help out or point me at a script that has this I'd be
very grateful.

Many thanks
Pete

[Jerry Stuckle]

pe**********@gmail.com wrote:

Hi,

Being new to PHP & cookies, I am looking to write an email form, where
a user can choose their name from a drop down list, fill in the
content of the email and hit send and the email will be from that
user.

Then the next time they visit the page, I want to be able to read that
cookie and preset the From part of the email from the cookie.

But I have no clue where to start and can't find any examples of the
web.

If anyone can help out or point me at a script that has this I'd be
very grateful.

Many thanks
Pete

It's pretty easy - you can start at:

http://us.php.net/manual/en/features.cookies.php

Just keep in mind you can't control cookie behavior on the browser end.
For instance, my browser is set up to destroy all cookies when I close
it (except for sites I specify).

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Remove the "x" from my email address
Jerry Stuckle
JDS Computer Training Corp.
js*******@attglobal.net
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[pete.brooker]

Do you have any example code or give me some pointers.

Pretty new to this and not so sure where to start...

Thanks

On Aug 23, 4:21 pm, Jerry Stuckle <[e-mail]:

[e-mail] wrote:

Hi,

Being new to PHP & cookies, I am looking to write an email form, where
a user can choose their name from a drop down list, fill in the
content of the email and hit send and the email will be from that
user.

Then the next time they visit the page, I want to be able to read that
cookie and preset the From part of the email from the cookie.

But I have no clue where to start and can't find any examples of the
web.

If anyone can help out or point me at a script that has this I'd be
very grateful.

Many thanks
Pete

It's pretty easy - you can start at:

http://us.php.net/manual/en/features.cookies.php

Just keep in mind you can't control cookie behavior on the browser end.
For instance, my browser is set up to destroy all cookies when I close
it (except for sites I specify).

--
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Remove the "x" from my email address
Jerry Stuckle
JDS Computer Training Corp.
[e-mail]
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[Rik Wasmus]

On Fri, 31 Aug 2007 10:50:33 +0200, <pe**********@gmail.comwrote:

On Aug 23, 4:21 pm, Jerry Stuckle <[e-mail]:

>[e-mail] wrote:

Being new to PHP & cookies, I am looking to write an email form, where
a user can choose their name from a drop down list, fill in the
content of the email and hit send and the email will be from that
user.

Then the next time they visit the page, I want to be able to read that
cookie and preset the From part of the email from the cookie.

But I have no clue where to start and can't find any examples of the
web.

If anyone can help out or point me at a script that has this I'd be
very grateful.

Many thanks
Pete

It's pretty easy - you can start at:

http://us.php.net/manual/en/features.cookies.php

Just keep in mind you can't control cookie behavior on the browser end.
For instance, my browser is set up to destroy all cookies when I close
it (except for sites I specify).

(topposting fixed)

Do you have any example code or give me some pointers.

Pretty new to this and not so sure where to start...

In the 'form page':

$from = isset($_COOKIE['from']) ? htmlspecialchars($_COOKIE['from']): '';
echo '<input name="from" value="'.$from.'">';

In the page that sends the email:

if(isset($_POST['from']) && !isset($_COOKIE['from']))
setcookie('from',$_POST['from'],time() + (60 * 60 * 24 * 60), '/');

Keep in mind that the setcookie() function can only be used before ANY
OTHER output. No starting HTML tags, no whitespace, nothing can be sent
before this function.
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Rik Wasmus

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