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Notes 9.7.2 Creating the Script to Send the Mail
This script is only slightly different in concept than the script in Listing 5, which simply printed
form responses to the screen. In this script, in addition to printing the responses to the screen,
you send them to an email address as well.
Listing 12 Sending the Simple Feedback Form
1. <html>
2. <head>
3. <title>Listing 12 Sending mail from the form in Listing 11</title>
4. </head>
5. <body>
6. <?php
7. print “Thank you, <b>$_POST[name]</b>, for your message!<br><br>\n\n”;
8. print “Your e-mail address is: <b>$_POST[email]</b><br><br>\n\n”;
9. print “Your message was:<br><br>\n\n”;
10. print “$_POST[message] <br><br>”;
11. //start building the mail string
12. $msg = “Name: $_POST[name]\n”;
13. $msg .= “E-Mail: $_POST[email]\n”;
14. $msg .= “Message: $_POST[message]\n”;
15. //set up the mail
16. $recipient = “you@yourdomain.com”;
17. $subject = “Form Submission Results”;
18. $mailheaders = “From: My Web Site <defaultaddress@yourdomain.com> \n”;
19. $mailheaders .= “Reply-To: $_POST[email]”;
20. //send the mail
21. mail($recipient, $subject, $msg, $mailheaders);
22. ?>
23. </body>
24. </html>
The variables you use in lines 7-9 are $_POST[name], $_POST[email], and $_POST[message]—the
names of the fields in the form, as part of the $_POST superglobal. That’s all well and good for
printing the information to the screen, but in this script, you also want to create a string that’s
sent in email. For this task, you essentially build the email by concatenating strings to form one
long message string, using the newline (\n) character to add line breaks where appropriate.
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