Re: Beginner Questions regarding Mail and Forms

hi zoltan, thanks for your reply. i've tried the -f switch but the only effect it has is an error message ;) Warning: mail() [function.mail]: SAFE MODE Restriction in effect. The fifth parameter is disabled in SAFE MODE. as for the age value: it is simply incorrect because it is always empty... input might be for example 25, but the var $age contains always an empty string. Can you help? I'm a programmer (C++), but have never used PHP before. The concepts are clear to me, but I must be missing here something essential. Thanks again, Matthias "Németh Zoltán" <znemeth@alterationx.hu> schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:1171279620.5056.16.camel@zoli-desktop... > 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 > >