email address on form

[CarbonTerry]

I have my form and confirmation page working as needed, however the email that is forwarded to me from orders@xxxxx.com is identified as an "unknown sender" and is promptly put onto the spam folder. What do I need to do to solve this?
www.artelicious.com

[Andy128]

Re: email address on form

That is an excellent question! I suppose that you could have your spam blocker accept the "unknown sender" but that would defeat the purpose of the spam blocker.

I do not know which code to modify to list an e-mail address so that it would have an address to reference.

If I know this board though- an answer will be along shortly.

Andy
Sorry couldn't be of help.

[CarbonTerry]

Re: email address on form

Anyone?

[Nyoman]

Re: email address on form

you need a php script which will pick up value of email field to be a sender.
this is just a simple php script for that, if you like you can use it. save it as i.e feedback.php or somethingelse

<?
if ((!$name) || (!$email) || (!$comments))
{
    $display .= '<p align="center">[COLOR=red]All fields are required.  Please check your information and try again.[/COLOR]</p>';
 $display .= '<p align="center"><a href=javascript:history.back()>Go back</a></p>';
}
else{
$name = $_POST['name'];
$email = $_POST['email'];
$comments = $_POST['comments'];
 
$recipient = "[EMAIL="yourmail@yourdomain.com"]yourmail@yourdomain.com[/EMAIL]";
$subject = "[COLOR=red]Feedback from website[/COLOR]";
$forminfo = 
(
$name . "\r" .
$email . "\r" .
$comments . "\r\n" .
date("M-d-Y") . "\r\n\n"
);
$formsend = mail("$recipient", "$subject", "$forminfo", "From: $email\r\nReply-to:$email\r\n");
$display .= [COLOR=red][COLOR=black]'[/COLOR]here you can add with html code of your respons/thank you page[/COLOR]';
}
?>
<? echo $display; ?>

[Andy128]

Re: email address on form

Nyoman-
Please forgive me for possibly asking a stupid question- but do you use the above code instead of this:
<script language="php">
$email = $HTTP_POST_VARS[email];
$mailto = "email@address";
$mailsubj = "Form submission";
$mailhead = "From: $email\n";
reset ($HTTP_POST_VARS);
$mailbody = "Values submitted from web site form:\n";
while (list ($key, $val) = each ($HTTP_POST_VARS)) { $mailbody .= "$key : $val\n"; }
if (!eregi("\n",$HTTP_POST_VARS[email])) { mail($mailto, $mailsubj, $mailbody, $mailhead); }
</script>

And- what do you mean by;
'here you can add with html code of your respons/thank you page'

I am not that code savoy. Thanks in advance.

Andy

[CarbonTerry]

Re: email address on form

This is the code that I sued on my page. It is on the response page. Should it be on the form page?

<?PHP
$email = $HTTP_POST_VARS[email];
$mailto = "orders@artelicious.com";
$mailsubj = "Feedback form";
$mailhead = "From: $email\n";
reset ($HTTP_POST_VARS);
$mailbody = "Values submitted from web site form:\n";
while (list ($key, $val) = each ($HTTP_POST_VARS))
{
$mailbody .= "$key : $val\n";
}
mail($mailto, $mailsubj, $mailbody, $mailhead);
?>

[Andy128]

Re: email address on form

Carbon Terry,

You are correct- That code would be placed on the response page.
You did nothing wrong in the way you did your pages.

Nyoman posted a different script which I am wondering if it is to be used in place of the script you and I posted. I believe his script is to correct it showing up as unknown sender in your mail box.

Andy

[Nyoman]

Re: email address on form

I didn't use that script for my web, but you can use as a feedback php to handle your form. if you add more field in your form you also need to add it in that script. in example $phone, $adress etc.

Nyoman-
Please forgive me for possibly asking a stupid question- but do you use the above code instead of this:

yes it is

And- what do you mean by;
'here you can add with html code of your respons/thank you page'

simple way, view source or edit the html of your thank you page, copy and paste it there, so when you click submit your thank you page will appear normally like the original page

This is the code that I sued on my page. It is on the response page. Should it be on the form page?

you can use my code instead of it. copy as feedback.php using notepad and upload to public_html

[navaldesign]

Re: email address on form

I apologise for getting in the middle. The script Andy has used and Carbon Terry has adopted, has the visitor's email address to be the "from" tag, so there should not be any "Uknown sender" issue, UNLESS you have named the form email field something else than "email" . If you have named it "Email", or "email address" or ANYTHING else rather than "email", you have to correct the "From" line accordingly. F.e. if the field is named "Email Address", you should change the code as follows:
$email = $HTTP_POST_VARS[Email Address];
$mailto = "your vodahostaccount email adress";
$mailsubj = "Form submission";
$mailhead = "From: $email\n";

This way the FROM tag will contain your visitor's email.

It is important to understand that the

$email = $HTTP_POST_VARS[Email field name];

line must have in the second part, the field name.

[Nyoman]

Re: email address on form

absolutely agree

Hi Naval

[navaldesign]

Re: email address on form

Hi Nyo. How are you?


Hi Andy, since you took the trouble of setting up this beautifull tutorial, you might as well want to state the above, so members that will use your tutorial in the future will not have this problem. This, as well as the email address to use for sending the form info, have not been clear enough in the past, so it would be nice if you can do it.

Thanks

[CarbonTerry]

Re: email address on form

Thanks to all three of you for walking me through this.

[Andy128]

Re: email address on form

Naveldesign and others-

I apologize for any confusion I may have caused. Navel- I have updated the tutorial- please check it for accuracy and clairty for me.

This should end the problem of unknown sender occuring and the question of the order in which info appears in someones e-mail.

It must have worked out by fluke that my alphabetic/numeric order solution worked with my form. I have deleted that mis-instruction.

regards-

Andy

[navaldesign]

Re: email address on form

You absolutely need not apologise. You have saved lots of time for many users. Cheers!