Re: Beginner Questions regarding Mail and Forms

On h, 2007-02-12 at 11:13 +0100, Matthias S. wrote: > Hi there, > > I've got two bloody beginner questions: I've created a form with various > text input fields. One is to hold a numeric value (age). Upon submission, I > try to retrieve the value of this field like this: > > $age = $_POST['_txtAge']; > > later, I use the $age variable to create a message... > > $message = "Name: " . $name . "\n"; > $message .= "Email: " .$email . "\n"; > $message .= "Age: " . $age . "\n"; > $message .= "Gender: " . $gender . "\n"; > $message .= "Info: " . $info; > > .... then I send the message: > > mail("bla@bla.com", "A Request", $message, _getMailHeaders($name, email)); > > Now on to my questions: > $message contains the values of all fields correctly except the age field > (input of all others are alphabetic, only age has numeric content). Why is > this? what do you mean by incorrect? what is the test input you give and what result do you get? > > Secondly, mail sends my message correctly. But the return adresse set in > _getMailHeaders is not used. Instead, some identification from the server is > used. Why is that? it is (if you use sendmail on the server) because sendmail sets reply-to to the user running it by default. so it gets set to the user the script runs as (usually www-data or something like that). it can be overridden by the "-f" switch I think. like this: mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers, "-f".$frommail); hope that helps Zoltán Németh > > Here the function _getMailHeaders: > > function _getMailHeaders($senderName, $senderAddress) { > > ini_set(sendmail_from, $senderAddress); > > $headers = 'MIME-Version: 1.0' . "\r\n"; > $headers .= 'Reply-To: ' . $senderName .'<'. $senderAddress. > '>' . "\r\n"; > $headers .= 'Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1' . "\r\n"; > $headers .= 'To: PostOffice <postoffice@barkatdogs.com>' . "\r\n"; > $headers .= 'From: ' . $senderName . '<' . $senderAddress . > '>' . "\r\n"; > > ini_restore(sendmail_from); > return $headers; > } > > Any help is greatly appreceated. > > Matthias >