RE: [PHP] Newbie ?: form mailer not working
| From: | Chris Mulcahy | Date: | Tue, 04 Sep 2001 21:30:05 +0000 |
| Subject: | RE: [PHP] Newbie ?: form mailer not working | ||
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Michelle:
This line seems to be a problem.
print("If the problem persists you can mail your question directly to
<address><a href="\%22mailto:webmaster@blah.com\%22"><p>the
forum
administrator</a>");
Try escaping your quotes surrounding your mailto href.
hth
Happy programming!
Chris Mulcahy
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michelle Marcicki [mailto:michelle@tsiworks.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2001 3:26 PM
> To: PHP List
> Subject: [PHP] Newbie ?: form mailer not working
>
>
> Hi all...
>
> Having problems with some php3 to php4 stuff.. the site has
> a form that has
> been setup to ask questions outside our discussion forums.
>
> The form.html contains <FORM action="util/questionmailer.php"
> method="post">
>
> The questionmailer code is as below. I have only changed the
> email addy and the
> file extension from .php3 to .php on the questionmailer file
> and the .php
> (above) in the form.html page. I have checked the php
> on-line manual, but can
> find nothing that fits my problems or errors.
>
> I am getting:
> 1) Warning: Unexpected character in input: '\' (ASCII=92) state=1 in
> /usr/home/blah/html/util/questionmailer.php on line 24
> 2) Parse error: parse error in
> /usr/home/erc/html/util/questionmailer.php on
> line 24
>
> Line 24 in my code is: <a
> href="\%22mailto:webmaster@blah.com\%22">
>
>
> //questionmailer.php code
> <body>
>
> <?php $mailTo="webmaster@blah.com" ;
> $mailSubject="Question" ;
> $mailBody="Name: $name \r\n" ;
> $mailBody .="Email: $email \r\n" ;
> $mailBody .="Question: $question \r\n" ;
>
> if(mail($mailTo, $mailSubject, $mailBody))
> {
> print("Thank-You, your request has been sent.");
> }
> else
> {
> print("There was a problem transporting your
> request, please try
> again.\n");
> print("If the problem persists you can mail your
> question directly
> to <address><a
> href="\%22mailto:webmaster@blah.com\%22">
> <p>the forum administrator</a>");
> }
> ?>
> </p>
> </body>
>
> Is there something I'm missing here?
> (I am coming from an ASP background, with VB and some C++
> knowledge, so it all
> looks familiar, I am just trying to sort out syntax and think
> it must be that
> type of error. I didn't write the original code, just trying
> to fix it all :)
>
> TIA.
> Michelle
>