adding information to form entries

telemachus

I'm using the basic preinstalled formmail cgi that comes with my hosting to email user entered information in a number of form fields, one of these being the "recipient" value to decide where the email goes. I have the cgi script configured to only send to email addresses within my own domain to avoid spammer hijacking but was wondering if there's anyway to automaticly add the "@domain.com" onto the user enetered information as this will be identical in every case, resulting in the user simply entering "bob" into the recipient field as opposed to "bob@domain.com".

I've had a look at using a php mail form and while i've about cobbled together one that does pretty much the same thing as the cgi version I have i'm still not sure how to amend information onto submitted fields, is this at all possible without the use of some sort of databse backend?

Webmonkey

I don't know anything about cgi but once you've taken the value of the user you can use the cgi to create a new variable with value of user+"domain.com";

with php you could use

$user = $_REQUEST;
$email = $user."@domain.com";

and then in the mail() function or whatever you use use the email value. not that complicated.

is_that_so

Just append the domain.

in PHP/PERL
$domain='@domain.com';
$mail=$username.$domain;

telemachus

Cheers for that, thankfully nice and simple , up until recently i'd been content to bury my head in the basics of nice safe static html or css if I was feeling unusually experimental, suddenly i've found myself dazzled and overwhelmed by the various interactive javascripts/php routes.

rsynnott

Webmonkey wrote:

$user = $_REQUEST;
$email = $user."@domain.com";

is_that_so wrote:

$domain='@domain.com';
$mail=$username.$domain;

Warning, warning; injection danger! (Possibly; especially if command-line invoking Sendmail). Some form of escaping may be indicated.