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adding information to form entries

  • 30-08-2005 04:21PM
    #1
    telemachus
    Closed Accounts Posts: 223 ✭✭


    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?


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  • #2
    Webmonkey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,579 ✭✭✭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.


  • #3
    is_that_so
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,132 ✭✭✭✭is_that_so


    Just append the domain.

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


  • #4
    telemachus
    Closed Accounts Posts: 223 ✭✭telemachus


    Cheers for that, thankfully nice and simple :D , 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.


  • #5
    rsynnott
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,003 ✭✭✭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.


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