Couldn’t you have at least said “Gee, for those who aren’t ZEUS at programming and aren’t born with inherent GODLIKE programming knowledge, there is this thing called sendmail and it has to be specially configured knowing quantum physics!” I am going to quit programming because of this halfway written crap and go clean cars, or maybe burn myself.. thanks a lot.

Regards
Malar

great write up

Very simple and effective php form.

Thanks

Rob

But the simplest possible implementation would be one where you just change the recipient email address and have it point to a user-supplied email address for their friend. And then you could have a standard message that is sent to all ‘friends’…

In order to get this script to work 100% perfectly with Yahoo! Servers you need to change only a single line of code. This is the original line you need to modify:

$headers = “From: $name \n”;

The modified version should be as follows:

$headers = “From: \r\n”;

The E-mail you actually receive will appear as being sent from Your Email address. To make this something else, Modify the code in this manner:

$headers = “From: FROM NAME \r\n”;

Thanks.

I haven’t done too much work on Yahoo hosting, so I probably can’t be of any additional help in this regard.

Good luck!

Gender: Male
Message: Some message

using this code:

$message = " Gender: ".$gender."\n Message: ".$message;

or, simpler:

$message = " Gender: $gender \n Message: $message";

In the e-mail I receive from the form the data entered and selected by the user are included, but not the names of the fields they filled out. Example:

Carl Martin
carl@martin.com
Test
This is a test.

SHOULD BE

Name: Carl Martin
E-mail: carl@martin.com
Subject: Test
Message: This is a test.

1. Add that select element to the form HTML code. (ie. the HTML code that we’ve shown under the first subheading)

2. Update the $POST variable. (See section 1: Handling User Input). Assuming that you had a select element like the sample above, with the name ‘gender’, your added code might look something like this:
$gender = $_POST['gender'];

3. Update the email message. As you will see, we used a single variable for the ‘message’. So we’ll need to combine the variables for your additional element to include that in the message. So you will need to add another line of code after the $gender and $message lines. The code might look something like:
$message = $gender."\n".$message;

<select name="gender">
<option>female</option>
<option>male</option>
</select>

Then simply modify the $POST variables at the top of the form, as well as the email message to include this variable.

Be sure to edit the select options and name to something suitable for your form.