Basic PHP Mail function help

Chris1989 · 09-09-2010, 07:00 AM

Hi guys my php code is this

PHP Code:



<?php 
if (isset($_REQUEST['email']) && $_REQUEST['email'] != '') { 
    $to = "my@email.com"; 
    $subject = "Contact Form Enquiry"; 
    $message = $_REQUEST["message"]; 
    $from = $_REQUEST["email"]; 
    mail($to,$subject,$message,$from); 
    header('Location:/thanks.php');} 
else{ 
header('Location:/error.php'); 
exit(); 
} 
?>

And my html is this...

Code:

	<form id="form" action="contactscript.php" method="post">
               <fieldset id="field">
                  <legend id="leg">Contact Form</legend>

                  <span class="formtext"><label for="fname">First Name:</label></span>	<input class="input" id="first" name="first" type="text" size="30" /><br /><br />
                  <span class="formtext"><label for="sname">Surname:</label></span>		<input class="input" id="surname" name="surname" type="text" size="30" /><br /><br />
                  <span class="formtext"><label for="email">Email:</label></span>		<input class="input" id="email" name="email" type="text" size="30" /><br /><br />
                  <span class="formtext"><label for="contac">Contact Number:</label></span>		<input class="input" id="contact" name="contact" type="text" size="30" /><br /><br />
                  <span class="formtext"><label for="message">Message:</label></span> 	<textarea id="textarea" name="message" class="input" rows="10" cols="30" >Please Type Your Message Here</textarea><br /><br />
                  										<input id="submit" class="input" type="submit" value="Send!"  />
                  														
               </fieldset>
            </form>

Now if my site is hosted locale (127.0.0.1) the script runs (apart from sending the email) and redirects to the correct pages stated in the header() function. However if I host the site on the internet when I click on the submit button instead of executing the script it pops open with a dialogue box to state whether I wasn't to download/open the script like when you click on a file to download...

Anyone know why this is happening??

Any help is majorly appreciated!

djsmiley2k · 09-09-2010, 07:18 AM

You dont have php enabled/installed on your server.

Chris1989 · 09-09-2010, 07:51 AM

PHP is installed as my site is/was created using PHP includes and the browser processes them fine.

carltm · 09-09-2010, 08:07 AM

Something isn't right on your server. My first thought was that php
isn't installed or configured correctly, but I'm starting to think
that your php script is running and, for some reason, is having a
problem presenting the /thanks.php or the /error.php page.

I'd suggest that you download the file and look at its contents.
Also load the /thanks.php and /error.php pages, just to make sure
they display properly. Note that the system may expect "<?php " and
these pages might simply have "<? ".

Chris1989 · 09-09-2010, 08:56 AM

when i type the address ending "/thanks.php" it opens the dialogue box to download the file like when I click on the submit button.

All my php is started with "<?php" so its not that.

Its really bugging me, have no idea why its doing it.

Thanks.

graemef · 09-09-2010, 09:06 AM

>From the PHP manual:

Quote:

HTTP/1.1 requires an absolute URI as argument to » Location: including the scheme, hostname and absolute path, but some clients accept relative URIs. You can usually use $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'], $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] and dirname() to make an absolute URI from a relative one yourself:

Maybe that's your problem?

Chris1989 · 09-09-2010, 09:49 AM

Ive got it as the absolute file path and still doing the same.

graemef · 09-09-2010, 07:23 PM

Is the email sent?
Do you have any error messages in you apache log?
Is anything written out before the header (check for blank lines or spaces)?

djsmiley2k · 09-13-2010, 03:41 AM

Code:

header('Location:/thanks.php');}

should be:

Code:

header("Location: /thanks.php");}

Dont mix up ' with "

Oh, and:

Quote:

Originally Posted by php.net

2. Then there MUST be colon and space, like

good: header("Content-Type: text/plain");

wrong: header("Content-Type:text/plain");

So your going to HAVE to use the full URI.

graemef · 09-13-2010, 04:00 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by djsmiley2k

Dont mix up ' with "

Wouldn't make any difference. The double quote will allow for string substitution but since there isn't any going on in this scenario both single and double quotes will work the same.

djsmiley2k · 09-13-2010, 04:22 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by graemef

Wouldn't make any difference. The double quote will allow for string substitution but since there isn't any going on in this scenario both single and double quotes will work the same.

It may do if hes updated the url to use $HOST_

.