Error while sending e-mail

Gagan 20

Hi all. I am new to PHP and trying to learn it.I have created a web page and defined items as below :

  <font color="green"> Gotra(Clan) : </font>
  <input type="text" name="gotra" size="20">

  <font color="green"> Father's Name : </font>
  <input type="text" name="fname" size="20">

  <font color="green">Details of Prasad to be Offered : </font>

(eg.: name of temple, quantity of prasad, specific date & any other requirements)
<textarea rows="5" name="prasad" cols="40" ></textarea>

  <font color="green"> Any Wish to God  : </font>
  <textarea rows="5" name="wish" cols="40" ></textarea>

  <font color="green"> Postal Address : </font>
  <textarea rows="5" name="address" cols="40" ></textarea>

  <font color="green"> Phone no.  : </font>
  <input type="text" name="phone" size="20">

  <font color="green"> Preferred Time of Contact : </font>
  <input type="text" name="time" size="20">

  <font color="green"> Email address : </font> 
  <input type="text" name="email" size="20">

<br>      
 <input name="Submit" type="submit" class="input" value="Send">
     <input name="Submit2" type="reset" class="input" value="Reset">
    </br>         
 </form>

and the send.php has following block of code :

<?php
if(isset($_POST['submit'])) {
$to = "gagan.u20@gmail.com";
$subject = "E-Prasad Details";
$name_field = $_POST['name'];
$gotra_field=$_POST['gotra'];
$fname_field = $_POST['fname'];
$prasad=$_POST['prasad'];
$wish=$_POST['wish'];
$address=$_POST['address'];
$phone_field=$_POST['phone'];
$time_field=$_POST['time'];
$email_field=$_POST['email'];

$body = "From: $name_field\n Gotra: $gotra_field\n Father's name: $fname_field\n Details of prasad to be offered : $prasad\n Any wish to God: $wish\n Postal address : $address\n Phone no. : $phone_field\n Preferred time of contact : $time_field\n E-mail address : $email_field";

echo "Data has been submitted!";
mail($to, $subject, $body);
} else {
echo "An error occurred! Please try again.";
}
?>

Now the problem is, when I fill the form and cl

Dr Walt Fair PE

Why do you check

if(isset($_POST['submit']))

? Obviously that is false and you've trapped the problem and displayed the error message you wrote.

CQ de W5ALT

Walt Fair, Jr., P. E. Comport Computing Specializing in Technical Engineering Software

Gagan 20

ok, then tell me what should I write to send e-mail because I am new to PHP. Help me. Thanks. Gagan

Dr Walt Fair PE

Your email sending part looks fine. I use

mail($to, $subject, $contents, $from_header);

with the $from_header, although that might be optional. But that's not the problem you are seeing -- your code isn't even getting there. Looking at your PHP code, the first thing executed is

if(isset($_POST['submit']))

Since you get the message you showed, obviously that is being evaluated as false, so the else part is executed showing the message. So my question to you is: Why are you checking to see if the 'submit' POST variable is set? That's where your code is having problems -- before it ever gets to sending the email. My suggestion is to take the if/else out and run the code to send the email. That should work if email is allowed on your server. If it works, then you can go back and check for whatever you want to check for with the if statement. See the following links for examples: http://www.webcheatsheet.com/php/send_email_text_html_attachment.php[^] http://php.about.com/od/phpapplications/ss/form_mail.htm[^]

CQ de W5ALT

Walt Fair, Jr., P. E. Comport Computing Specializing in Technical Engineering Software

Gagan 20

Thanks for your help. I just removed the line if(isset($_POST['submit'])) and it worked. Thanks :)

Dr Walt Fair PE

Glad to hear it works! I'd also remove the rest of the if/else braces. To check for errors you probably should wrap the mail command in an if, too. See the links I posted before for examples.

CQ de W5ALT

Walt Fair, Jr., P. E. Comport Computing Specializing in Technical Engineering Software

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here: <input name="Submit" type="submit" class="input" value="Send"> and here : if(isset($_POST['submit'])) so if(isset($_POST['submit'])) =>if(isset($_POST['Submit'])) This is a common problem