Newbie: help with mail script

Discussion in 'PHP' started by adamjthompson, Jan 19, 2006.

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  1. #1
    Hi,

    I have the following script, which works great:

    <?php
// The message
$message = "Catalog Request\nLine2here\nLine3here";

// In case any of our lines are larger than 70 characters, we should use wordwrap()
$message = wordwrap($message, 70);

// Send
mail('adamjthompson@earthlink.net', 'Catalog Request', $message);
?>
    Code (markup):
    Here's what I can't figure out how to do. I'm going to have a form submitting (POST) to this script. I want to take the form input and put it into the email message.

    I tried using this in place of the line 2 above, but it didn't work:
    echo $_POST["firstname"];
    Code (markup):
    How should I do this?

    Thanks!

    Adam
     
    adamjthompson, Jan 19, 2006 IP
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    onlyican.com Peon

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    #2
    to echo a var simply escape the echo

    echo "Hello ".$name." How are you?";

    so in the echo use ". to start the var and ." to end.
     
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    adamjthompson Well-Known Member

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    Thank you! I ended up with the following, which works great!

    <?php
// The message
$message = "Catalog Request\n".$_POST["firstname"]."\n".$_POST["lastname"]."\n".$_POST["address"]."\n".$_POST["city"]."\n".$_POST["state"]."\n".$_POST["zip"]."\n".$_POST["phone"]."\n".$_POST["email"]."";

// In case any of our lines are larger than 70 characters, we should use wordwrap()
$message = wordwrap($message, 70);

// Send
mail('adamjthompson@earthlink.net', 'Catalog Request', $message);
?>

<html>
<head>
<title>Thank You</title>
</head>
<body>
Thank You!
</body> 
</html>
    Code (markup):
     
    adamjthompson, Jan 19, 2006 IP