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December 20th, 2012, 02:35 AM
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Tell a friend with teaxtarea!
Does anybody know how to implement in this form <textarea> ?
Code:
http://imgur.com/dt1ap
PHP Code:
<?php
if (isset($_POST['Submit'])) {
// This will check to see if the form has been submitted
$senders_email = $_POST['your_email'];
// The person who is submitting the form
$recipient_friend = $_POST['friend_email'];
// The forms recipient
mail($recipient_friend,"A message from $senders_email", "Dear $recipient_friend,\n\nYour friend $senders_email, found our site very useful, and thought you would be interested.\n\nPlease follow the link to view our site:\n(URL address blocked: See forum rules)\n\nThank You\n\nThe your_sites_address.com", 'From: "your_site" <your_email.com>');
if (isset($_POST['your_email'])) {
echo "<br>Your friend $recipient_friend has been contacted <br><br>Thank you $senders_email";
}}
?>
Code:
<form action="tell_a_friend.php" method="POST">
<fieldset>
<legend>Tell a friend</legend><br />
Your email<br />
<input type="text" name="your_email" value="Your email" /><br /><br />
Your Friends email<br />
<input type="text" name="friend_email" value="Your friends email" />
<input type="Submit" value="Tell a friend" name="Submit" />
</fieldset>
</form>
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December 20th, 2012, 04:41 AM
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Looks like you already have. What is not working?
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December 20th, 2012, 07:09 AM
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Quote: | Originally Posted by gw1500se Looks like you already have. What is not working? |
yes in html I know how to add this field but I do not know how to include its value in the email (php)
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December 20th, 2012, 07:14 AM
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The same way you include any other value. You use $_POST with the name of the textarea (which you don't seem to have in your form).
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December 20th, 2012, 07:30 AM
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Look at what you have:
<input type="text" name="your_email" value="Your email" /><br /><br />
Then in PHP:
$senders_email = $_POST['your_email'];
Do you see how the input name is the same as the post array key? That's how you do it. Give your input a name.
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December 20th, 2012, 07:51 AM
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Quote: | Originally Posted by ManiacDan Look at what you have:
<input type="text" name="your_email" value="Your email" /><br /><br />
Then in PHP:
$senders_email = $_POST['your_email'];
Do you see how the input name is the same as the post array key? That's how you do it. Give your input a name. |
I have tried to do that but it doesn't work for me
my version ():
I includet in html:
Code:
<textarea id="message" name="url">
Your text here
</textarea>
And in php I included this code:
Code:
$message = $_POST['url'];
then I included this in mail body
Code:
mail($recipient_friend,"A message from $senders_email", "Dear $recipient_friend,\n\nYour friend $senders_email, $message found our site very useful, and thought you would be interested.\n\nPlease follow the link to view our site:\n(URL address blocked: See forum rules)\n\nThank You\n\nThe your_sites_address.com", 'From: "your_site" <your_email.com>');
But it doesn't work
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December 20th, 2012, 08:39 AM
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This is how you debug:
1) Are you sure the textarea is named properly and properly formed? Inspect it in firebug or chrome inspector to see if those tools have a "name" attribute with "url" as the value.
2) If it is, make sure it's being included in the POST data. print_r($_POST) in your PHP to dump the post data to the screen, see if it's present.
3) If it's present, ensure your variable assignment is working. Echo $message before sending the email.
4) If $message is correct, double-check the spelling of your variables inside the mail() call. If they're correct, pull the entire email body out of that function call and make it a variable, then echo THAT to the screen as well.
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December 20th, 2012, 10:09 AM
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Quote: | Originally Posted by ManiacDan This is how you debug:
1) Are you sure the textarea is named properly and properly formed? Inspect it in firebug or chrome inspector to see if those tools have a "name" attribute with "url" as the value.
2) If it is, make sure it's being included in the POST data. print_r($_POST) in your PHP to dump the post data to the screen, see if it's present.
3) If it's present, ensure your variable assignment is working. Echo $message before sending the email.
4) If $message is correct, double-check the spelling of your variables inside the mail() call. If they're correct, pull the entire email body out of that function call and make it a variable, then echo THAT to the screen as well. |
Code:
data. print_r($_POST)
where should I search for it?
Can you please edit the existing code to make it work ok and submit here ? There are hundreds of scripts on the internet with tell a friend functions but they either do not work or doesn't have a text area. This one is perfect one it is so speedy and do not fall in spam box.
Please modify it for us , newbies 
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December 20th, 2012, 10:30 AM
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Since you didn't post existing code we can't. However, 'data.' is the end of ManiacDan's prevous sentence not part of the code. Anywhere before your first use of $_POST add this:
PHP Code:
echo "<pre>";
print_r($_POST);
echo "</pre>";
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December 20th, 2012, 10:42 AM
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Since you got to step 2, I assume you did step 1. gw is correct, I meant the code he said. Then, what you would search for, is the variable in question. In this case, an entry for "url" in the resulting printed array.
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