RE: [PHP] Help with mail...

Variables are not evaluated within single quotes. You are trying to send an email to $address, literally. If you just have a single variable, lose the quotes entirely. Mail($address,$subject,$body); ---John Holmes... > -----Original Message----- > From: Chuck "PUP" Payne [mailto:cepayne@magidesign.com] > Sent: Sunday, September 22, 2002 11:41 PM > To: PHP General > Subject: [PHP] Help with mail... > > Hi, > > Well after read php.net and my copy php 4 bible. I am lost with mail. I > can > get it to work if I do this... > > Mail ('payne@magidesign.com', 'Data Added', > $fname, $lname .); > > But I can't get this to work...I know someone going to call me stupid but > I > am really having people with mail(), Is there a special place to put it? > > Here example of my code....any way I trying to hammer it out and using > google to see where the error of my way is. > > Chuck Payne > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > > <HTML> > <HEAD> > <TITLE>Killers Added</TITLE> > </HEAD> > > <BODY TOPMARGIN="50"> > > <?php > > if ($fname=="") { > echo "You did not supply a first name. Please hit the 'Back' button on > your browser and fill in a name.\n"; > exit; > } > > if ($lname=="") { > echo "You did not supply a Last Name. Please hit the 'Back' button on > your browser and fill in a name.\n"; > exit; > } > > if ($title=="") { > echo "You did not supply a Movie Title. Please hit the 'Back' button > on > your browser and fill in a name.\n"; > exit; > } > > $dbh = mysql_connect("deathtoasp", "zombieuser", "eatmsbrains") > or die ("Unable to connect to database"); > mysql_select_db("slashers", $dbh) > or die ("An error was reported"); > > $table_name = "deathmovies"; > > $statement = "INSERT INTO $table_name (fname, lname, title) VALUES > (\"$fname\", \"$lname\", \"$title\")"; > > $result = mysql_query($statement, $dbh); > > if ($result) { > > echo "<H3>Adding the following record</H3>"; > echo "<hr>"; > echo "<p><strong>Actor/Actress:</strong>&nbsp;&nbsp; $fname > $lname > </p>"; > echo "<br>"; > echo > "<p><strong>Movie:</strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;$title</p>"; > echo "<a href='addactormovie.html'>Add more Actor/Actress and Movie > which they stared in</a>"; > echo "<hr>"; > > $address = "payne@magidesign.com"; > $Subject = "The new movie and actor added to phpMovie Library"; > $body = "Adding the following record > Actor/Actress: '$fname $lname' > Movie: '$title'"; > > > mail('$address', '$Subject', '$body .'); > > } else { > > echo "There was an error saving your entry. Please try back in a > little while."; > } > > ?> > > </BODY> > </HTML> > > > > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php