Send Email form help

[Historical Forums User]

Hey All,

I’m using the Send Email snippet on the latest site I’m developing. My problem is the form doesn’t send if you fill out the email input correctly i.e [email protected] but if you just put your name i.e JohnSmith or email without an @ symbol it sends just fine.

This is quite frustrating and if anyone have any ideas on how to fix this I would really appreciate it.

Thanks!

Here’s the code from the snippet.

HTML:

Name:





Email:





Message:

PHP:

// from the form

$name = trim(strip_tags($_POST));

$email = trim(strip_tags($_POST));

$message = htmlentities($_POST);



// set here

$subject = "Contact form submitted!";

$to = '[email protected]';



$body = <<
$message

HTML;



$headers = "From: $emailrn";

$headers .= "Content-type: text/htmlrn";



// send the email

mail($to, $subject, $body, $headers);



// redirect afterwords, if needed

header('Location: thanks.html');

?>

[cybershot]

I believe the strip_tags function is striping the email address. It is taking out the @ sign. You need to tell the function to allow that sign. like this


$email = trim(strip_tags($_POST, '@'));

read up on the function
http://php.net/manual/en/function.strip-tags.php

[Historical Forums User]

Hey cybershot thanks for helping out. I try it with the code change but it’s still not letting the email with @ go through. Did you have any other suggestions?

[cybershot]

yea, get rid of the srtip_tags all together. Just try


$email = $_POST;


try it and see what happens

if that doesn’t work, I know this one does. just modify it to fit your needs

// Website Contact Form Generator
// http://www.tele-pro.co.uk/scripts/contact_form/
// This script is free to use as long as you
// retain the credit link

// get posted data into local variables
$EmailFrom = "your site";
$EmailTo = "Your Email Here";
$Subject = "contact form information";
$name = Trim(stripslashes($_POST));
$surname = Trim(stripslashes($_POST));
$email = Trim(stripslashes($_POST));
$city = Trim(stripslashes($_POST));
$comments= Trim(stripslashes($_POST));

// validation
$validationOK=true;
if (Trim($contactName) || Trim($surname) || Trim($contactEmail) || Trim($ContactCity) == " ")
{
$validationOK = false;
}

if (!$validationOK)
{
print "";
exit;
}

// prepare email body text
$Body = "";
$Body .= "Name: ";
$Body .= $name;
$Body .= "n";
$Body .= "Surname:";
$Body .= $surname;
$Body .= "n";
$Body .= "Email: ";
$Body .= $email;
$Body .= "n";
$Body .= "City: ";
$Body .= $city;
$Body .= "n";
$Body .= "Comments: ";
$Body .= $comments;
$Body .= "n";

// send email
$success = mail($EmailTo, $Subject, $Body . "From: " . $EmailFrom);

// redirect to success page
if ($success){
print "";
}
else{
print "";
}
?>


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