Sender field in forms

**Saekiz** · 04-30-2007, 08:47 AM

Hi,

I'm struggling with a form on my site atm.

My question is: How do I make it so that the email adress the users type into the field shows up as the sender when I recieve the email with the inputs from the form?

Hope you can help me..

- Saekiz

**tech_support** · 04-30-2007, 09:08 AM

You need a server-side capable server to do this (eg. PHP)

**Saekiz** · 04-30-2007, 09:10 AM

Hmm.. I think my site should be able to do this..

I'm using e107 as CMS and sending through a cgi-bin sender..

- Saekiz
www.knights-nomads.dk

**tech_support** · 04-30-2007, 09:21 AM

Ah, ok.
It looks like you can.

Try this example:

HTML Code:

<?php
if (isset($_POST['Submit']))	{
	$em = $_POST;
	$content = '';
	foreach ($em as $s)	{
		$content .= $s;
		$content .= "\r\n\r\n";
	}
	mail('youraddress@example.com','Subject',$content);
}
?>
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<title>Mail the form</title>
</head>

<body>
<form name="form" method="post" action="<?php echo htmlspecialchars($_SERVER['PHP_SELF']); ?>">
 <p><label>Name: <input type="text" name="name"></label></p>
 <p><label>Age: <input type="text" name="age"></label>
</p>
 <p>Sex: 
   <select name="sex">
     <option value="Male">Male</option>
     <option value="Female">Female</option>
     </select>
 </p>
 <p>Comments:  
 <p>
   <textarea cols="50" rows="10" name="comments"></textarea>
 <p>
   <label>
   <input type="submit" name="Submit" value="Submit">
   </label>
  </p>
</form>
</body>
</html>

**Saekiz** · 04-30-2007, 01:55 PM

Thats a nice example.. But where do the user type in their email adress?

**warandchaos** · 04-30-2007, 01:59 PM

personally, i suggest using cgi mail form utillity offered by a lot of hosts.

**boogyman** · 04-30-2007, 02:01 PM

put it in your form, just as a text input

HTML Code:

<input type="text" name="email" value="" />

and you can add other things to your form as well... the way he set up the processing email, it loops thru the email and puts all the contents into the email section

**Twey** · 04-30-2007, 03:08 PM

But to make it actually appear to be from that person, you'd have to do:

Code:

        mail('youraddress@example.com','Subject',$content, "From: {$_POST['email']}\r\n");

**tech_support** · 05-01-2007, 06:08 AM

Originally Posted by boogyman

put it in your form, just as a text input

HTML Code:

<input type="text" name="email" value="" />

and you can add other things to your form as well... the way he set up the processing email, it loops thru the email and puts all the contents into the email section

That's XHTML.

Try this:

HTML Code:

<?php
if (isset($_POST['Submit']))	{
	$em = $_POST;
	$content = '';
	foreach ($em as $s)	{
		$content .= $s;
		$content .= "\r\n\r\n";
	}
	mail('youraddress@example.com','Subject',$content);
}
?>
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<title>Mail the form</title>
</head>

<body>
<form name="form" method="post" action="<?php echo htmlspecialchars($_SERVER['PHP_SELF']); ?>">
<p><label>E-Mail: <input type="text" name="email"></label></p>
 <p>
   <label>
   <input type="submit" name="Submit" value="Submit">
   </label>
  </p>
</form>
</body>
</html>

**boxxertrumps** · 05-02-2007, 02:57 AM

instead of this:

PHP Code:


    $content = "";

    foreach ($em as $s)    {

        $content .= $s;

        $content .= "\r\n\r\n";

    }

have this:

PHP Code:


    $s = "\r\n\r\n";

    $content = implode($s,$em) .$s;

Its a much neater solution.

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