Php webform question?

Essien · 09-02-2010 7:27pm #1

Hi,

I've gone wrong somewhere when doing the php for a simple webform, I really know f all about php so I would appreciate if somebody could help me.

When I click send I get this message

[HTML]Parse error: syntax error, unexpected $end in /home/theirish/public_html/registrationformprocess.php on line 38[/HTML]FWIW line 38 is the very last line

[PHP]<?php

$emailSubject = 'Irish Series of Poker Registration';
$webMaster = 'registration@theirishseriesofpoker.com';

$nameField = $_POST;
$emailField = $_POST;
$phoneField = $_POST;
$eventField = $_POST;
$commentsField = $_POST;

$body = <<<EOD

 <hr> 
Name: $name 
Email: $email 
Phone: $phone 
Event: $event 
Comments: $comments 
EOD;

$headers = "From: $email\r\n";
$headers = "Content-type: text/html\r\n";
$success = mail($webMaster, $emailSubject, $body, $headers);

$theresults = <<<EOD
<html>
<body>
Thank you for registering
</body>

</html>EOD;echo = "$theresults";
?>[/PHP]

DonkeyStyle \o/ · 09-02-2010 10:01pm

Drop the EOD; bit down to its own line, and drop the echo= part below that.
Also you don't need to use echo like that.
[php]</html>
EOD;
echo $theresults;[/php]
And you should be cleaning that user input... which if you don't know php could prove to be challenging.
It'd be better to search for an already developed form mail script that does it all properly.

Essien · 10-02-2010 11:30am

Sorted, cheers DonkeyStyle \o/

Essien · 10-02-2010 6:56pm

OK, Not sorted, the email isn't picking up the data, I'm just getting blank forms

techguy · 10-02-2010 7:24pm

What webhost are you using? Is it your own server or a commercial host.

If it's your own then it's probably down to havin misconfigured mail settings in PHP.

I could never get this to work on my personal server but the same code would run fine on a commercial host like hosting365 or whatever.

Just letting you know in case you think there's something wrong with your PHP. There's probably not.

Webmonkey · 10-02-2010 9:07pm

OP, can you be more specific in what you mean that the forms are empty? - you mean the fields in which a value should be present in the email are all blank?

Essien · 10-02-2010 9:14pm

Webmonkey wrote: »

OP, can you be more specific in what you mean that the forms are empty? - you mean the fields in which a value should be present in the email are all blank?

Yes, sorry, the fields are empty, when I recieve the mail all I see is....

Name:
Email:
Phone:
Event:
Comments:

Webmonkey · 10-02-2010 9:16pm

Essien wrote: »

Yes, sorry, the fields are empty, when I recieve the mail all I see is....

Ok then, but should it not be this:

[php]
 <hr> 
Name: $nameField 
Email: $emailField 
Phone: $phoneField 
Event: $eventField 
Comments: $commentsField 
[/php]

The way you have it will only work if globals enabled which is off by default now as security risk. You should use the variables name you assigned to the post variables/fields.

Essien · 10-02-2010 9:21pm

Webmonkey wrote: »

Ok then, but should it not be this:

[php]
 <hr> 
Name: $nameField 
Email: $emailField 
Phone: $phoneField 
Event: $eventField 
Comments: $commentsField 
[/php]The way you have it will only work if globals enabled which is off by default now as security risk. You should use the variables name you assigned to the post variables/fields.

Easy when you know how, thanks very much Webmonkey

Webmonkey · 10-02-2010 9:22pm

Essien wrote: »

Easy when you know how, thanks very much Webmonkey

No probs!