Email form through php

[gerbil]

I want to make an email form with ams8. I read on this forum an old post from 2004 ( on ams5 ) :
for php this code:

<?php

// specify recipient email address
$to="vio_music2009@yahoo.com";

// send our email
mail("$to","$from","$subject","$body");


?>

form ams button on click event:

-- clear error variable
error = 0;

-- Get values from input fields
from = Input.GetText("Input1");
subject = Input.GetText("Input2");
body = Input.GetText("Input3");

-- check for empty fields and deliver errors if needed
if String.Length(from) < 1 then
Dialog.Message("ERROR", "Bla Bla.");
error = 1;
end
if String.Length(subject) < 1 then
Dialog.Message("ERROR", "Bla Bla.");
error = 1;
end
if String.Length(body) < 1 then
Dialog.Message("ERROR", "Bla Bla.");
error = 1;
end

if error~=1 then
-- if no errors exist, send the email now and give a confirmation dialog
HTTP.Submit("your_adress/mail.php", {from=from, subject=subject, body=body}, SUBMITWEB_POST, 20, 80, nil, nil);
Dialog.Message("Thanks", "Bla Bla ");

end

The problem is : all emails received through this application are blank with [No Subject] title. Where I'm wrong? I use 000webhost.com for hosting mail.php. Please help me.

[MadDogDean]

gerbil,

Without seeing your php file, it is hard to say. A guess is that the "subject" POST variable is not being parsed/processed correctly by your php page.

Maybe too may "Bla, bla's" and not enough substance...

Cheers,
MadDogDean

[gerbil]

Ok. Php file is :

<?php

// specify recipient email address
$to="myemail@yahoo.com";

// send our email
mail ("$to","$subject","$body","$from");

?>

And ams button script on click event is:
-- clear error variable
error = 0;

-- Get values from input fields
from = Input.GetText("Input1");
subject = Input.GetText("Input2");
body = Input.GetText("Input3");

-- check for empty fields and deliver errors if needed
if String.Length(from) < 1 then
Dialog.Message("Error", "Please enter your email address and re-submit. Thank you.");
error = 1;
end
if String.Length(subject) < 1 then
Dialog.Message("Error", "Please enter your email subject and re-submit. Thank you.");
error = 1;
end
if String.Length(body) < 1 then
Dialog.Message("Error", "Please enter your email message and re-submit. Thank you.");
error = 1;
end

if error~=1 then
-- if no errors exist, send the email now and give a confirmation dialog
HTTP.Submit("ttp://www.mysite.webege.com/mail.php", {from=from, subject=subject, body=body}, SUBMITWEB_POST, 20, 80, nil, nil);
Dialog.Message("Success", "Success, your info has been submitted.");
Application.Exit();
end

[gerbil]

Is there another php/ams8 script for email ? Pleas post it if you have one that works on ams8. Thanks.

[MadDogDean]

gerbil,

You said that the emial worked fine, but the subject was empty... I presume the body was also empty? It seems you have nothing on your php page to parse the variable values.

If you need more php reading, have a look at http://www.w3schools.com/php/php_mail.asp. Very basically, it shows how to disseminate the sent variables and send them to your phpmail handler.

Cheers,
MadDogDean

[gerbil]

All is empty: subject, from, body etc. Fortunatelly I don't know php, I look on your link but I don't know how to make it work, please help if you know how to do it.

[gerbil]

I found the solution, I post it here in case anyone would need it.

<?php

$subject = $_POST['subject'];
$body= $_POST['body'];
$from= $_POST['from'];

// specify recipient email address
$to="your_mail";

// send our email
mail ("$to","$subject","$body","$from");

?>