Hello what i am trying to get is when i click on a link in the email it captures the subject of email and pass it as a parameter in the url to another page where i can store this subject line.
for example here is my email template code
Download this publication featuring research from Gartner now
in href i would like to pass the email subject as parameter to other page which is a form.
I think this really depends how you generate the email subject and body, when generating the email, if you are using a server side script, you can just put the mail subject variable to the link in the mail.
For example, if you are sending the mail using php mail function, and here are the code to send it.
$to = 'nobody#example.com';
$subject = 'the subject';
//Notice that we just included the subject in $message as part of the link address.
$message = 'xxxx';
$headers = 'From: webmaster#example.com' . "\r\n" .
'Reply-To: webmaster#example.com' . "\r\n" .
'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion();
mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);
If you are using other tools, the method will be similar.
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I'm new to dev, just learning it as we speak. I've yet to learn PHP and JavaScript/JQuery so I'm having trouble with my contact form on my site.
The JavaScript seems to be working, but the PHP action isn't. It's open script I've pulled from the web, so I'm sure the actions are missing some code and since I have no idea what I'm looking at, I'm completely lost. Any help would be amazing.
<!-- FORM -->
<form id="form" form role="form" action="contact_form.php" method="post">
<p id="returnmessage"></p>
<br/>
<label>Name: <span>*</span></label>
<br/>
<input type="text" id="name" placeholder="Name"/><br/>
<br/>
<label>Email: <span>*</span></label>
<br/>
<input type="text" id="email" placeholder="Email"/><br/>
<br/>
<textarea id="message" placeholder="Message......."></textarea><br/>
<br/>
<input type="button" id="submit" value="Send"/>
<br/>
</form>
PHP
<?php
//Fetching Values from URL
$name = $_POST['name1'];
$email = $_POST['email1'];
$message = $_POST['message1'];
$contact = $_POST['contact1'];
//sanitizing email
$email = filter_var($email, FILTER_SANITIZE_EMAIL);
//After sanitization Validation is performed
if (filter_var($email, FILTER_VALIDATE_EMAIL)) {
if (!preg_match("/^[0-9]{10}$/", $contact)) {
echo "<span>* Please Fill Valid Contact No. *</span>";
} else {
$subject = $name;
// To send HTML mail, the Content-type header must be set
$headers = 'MIME-Version: 1.0' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'From:' . $email. "\r\n"; // Sender's Email
$headers .= 'Cc:' . $email. "\r\n"; // Carbon copy to Sender
$template = '<div style="padding:50px; color:white;">Hello ' . $name . ',<br/>'
. '<br/>Thank you...! For Contacting Us.<br/><br/>'
. 'Name:' . $name . '<br/>'
. 'Email:' . $email . '<br/>'
. 'Contact No:' . $contact . '<br/>'
. 'Message:' . $message . '<br/><br/>'
. 'This is a Contact Confirmation mail.'
. '<br/>'
. 'We Will contact You as soon as possible .</div>';
$sendmessage = "<div style=\"background-color:#7E7E7E; color:white;\">" . $template . "</div>";
// message lines should not exceed 70 characters (PHP rule), so wrap it
$sendmessage = wordwrap($sendmessage, 70);
// Send mail by PHP Mail Function
mail(ash.cruikshank#gmail.com, $subject, $sendmessage, $headers);
echo "Your Query has been received, We will contact you soon.";
}
} else {
echo "<span>* invalid email *</span>";
}
JAVASCRIPT
$(document).ready(function(){
$("#submit").click(function(){
var name = $("#name").val();
var email = $("#email").val();
var message = $("#message").val();
var contact = $("#contact").val();
$("#returnmessage").empty(); //To empty previous error/success message.
//checking for blank fields
if(name==''||email==''||contact=='')
{
alert("Please Fill Required Fields");
}
else{
// Returns successful data submission message when the entered information is stored in database.
$.post("contact_form.php",{ name1: name, email1: email, message1:message, contact1: contact},
function(data) {
$("#returnmessage").append(data);//Append returned message to message paragraph
if(data=="Your Query has been received, We will contact you soon."){
$("#form")[0].reset();//To reset form fields on success
}
});
}
});
});
Your first problem is that you are not naming any of your variables from your html form. PHP needs these to be able to process the information. For instance:
<input type="text" id="name" placeholder="Name"/>
Needs to have a name field (not just the id, type, and placeholder). Here is how it should look to match the post variables in your PHP script:
<input type="text" id="name" name="name1" placeholder="Name"/>
You should do this with the rest of the HTML inputs as well. Make sure they match the variable in the POST in the php form (that's the one that is called $_POST[''] in the PHP script) This will solve your first problem.
Also, as is mentioned in the comments, especially when developing your code, it's a very good idea to put error reporting in the top of your code to catch any problems. You can get some very information errors if you put this at the top of your code:
<?php error_reporting(E_ALL); ini_set('display_errors', 1); ?>
Note, it's also probably a good idea to save the email address in a variable, rather than hard-coding it.
As for the sendmessage variable, you will need to concatenate the variables like this (as is mentioned above in the comments), otherwise the second $sendmessage variable will overwrite the second one. (note the . just before the = on the second row)
$sendmessage = "<div style=\"background-color:#7E7E7E; color:white;\">" . $template . "</div>";
$sendmessage .= wordwrap($sendmessage, 70);
However, you might want to clean it up a little just to make sure it works. Before you star trying to concatenate two items into one variable try something like this as a plain text message in just one variable. It should send through fine, and then you can worry about the formatting later once you understand how it works.
I recommend reading up on some tutorials as well (http://w3schools.com is pretty good for learning), but this sort of thing you are doing is a good place to start. If you run into more troubles, try stripping down the code to its bare minimum (e.g. remove the HTML segments from the email; just send it as plain text first to make sure that is working and after that put it back in, remove the regex check, and the javascript until you have the form working, and then bit by bit adding the pieces back in. This way you'll get a better understanding how the pieces work).
Change
$name = $_POST['name1'];
$email = $_POST['email1'];
$message = $_POST['message1'];
$contact = $_POST['contact1'];
to
$name = $_POST['name'];
$email = $_POST['email'];
$message = $_POST['message'];
$contact = $_POST['contact'];
And give name attribute (name="name", name="email" ..)to each inputs.
It will be work.
I have made an HTML form. It is a sort of a research form and generate scores based on the values entered through some formulae. After I have done with calculating scores, I want to send the scores via an email. Should I use PHP or JavaScript to do that?
thank you
PHP provides a convenient way to send email with the mail() function.
Syntax
mail(to,subject,message,headers,parameters)
Example :
<?php
$to = aa#bbb.com;
$subject = 'results';
$message = 'message ';
$headers = 'From: your_email#xxx.com';
mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);
?>
You can learn this concept here
You can see examples here
Post your form to a PHP script and you can read the form fields using the $_POST variable. Make sure your form has name="xxx" fields. These will be your $_POST['xxx'] array index names.
You can do the calculations in Javascript,in browser, in clients side.
But sending emails.... you do this via PHP, on the server side.
An example of a PHP script sending the email, as follows
See how I get form field values using $_POST array they come in?
You can build a looong email using lots of variables, just add them to the message.
<?php
$to = $_POST['email'];
$subject = 'Your results';
$message = 'Hello, this is your score email.<br>';
$message.= 'Your result is: '.$_POST['score'];
$headers = 'From: your#email.com';
mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);
If I send an email to someone, and at the bottom of the email is a link.
Lets say the link is, click me.
When user clicks on this link he is taken to a webpage.
This webpage will show "Thank you" and webpage will name will be say thanks.php
How can I show the name (or email) of the person who clicked this link, in his email on this webpage?
i.e. when he clicks the link in the email, and is taken to the webpage thanks.php, how can he see the message:
"Thank you Amit Gupta"
or
"Thank you amit00000000#fmail.com"
while Amit Gupta and/or amit00000000#fmail.com shall be taken from the email in which he clicked on this link.
I will be grateful if you provide the answer of this question.
Thanks a lot in advance.
When you send the email:
Generate a unique identifier
Put it in the link (e.g. in the query string of the URL)
Store it with the name in a database
When the link is clicked:
Look up the id in the database
Get the data you stored with it
Output that data to the page
You should try something like this, but you have to complement it to your needs.
register.php: (or whatever)
<?php
$id = uniqid();
$link = 'linktoyourfile/thanks.php?id=' . $id;
// TODO: save $id in a database in relation with the email of your user
// and then send the $link variable to the given email address.
/*
//Something like this:
$subject = 'Subject';
$message = 'Click here to activate or what ever';
$header = 'MIME-Version: 1.0' . "\r\n";
$header .= 'Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1' . "\r\n";
$header .= 'To: ' . 'His Name <' . $mail . '>' . "\r\n";
$header .= 'From: Your Name <your#email.com>' . "\r\n";
mail($mail, $subject, $message, $header);
*/
?>
thanks.php:
<?php
if (isset($_GET['id'])) {
$id = $_GET['id'];
// TODO: read the email from the database with the $id variable
// and set it to the $email variable
echo 'Thank you '. $email;
}
?>
Before you send the email to the user from your system, you will maintain a tracking id of that mail in your database across the user, this tracking id could be
$tracking_id = md5($uid . time());
$uid -> is the user_id
And in the link you add this tracking_id as the query parameter, so when the user clicks the link, you can search for this tracking_id and lookup in database for the user this link was.
Example url: http://abcd.com/thankyou.php?tracking_id=12352342345
Then you can display the user details you want, also along with that you can capture the click details and consider this email as read email.
On click of the link parse the email text to get the From Email and send it as a parameter to the GET request.
I am creating an application that allows a user to attach a file, type a message, then an email is sent using the PHP mailer plugin for wordpress. I use javascript to get the file information from the upload html form and then php to send the email. The plugin works when sending a file that is saved on the server in a specific location using this function:
$mail->AddAttachment("./new6.txt","attachment");
I was wondering if there is a way to email the file selected without having to save it to the server. In other words, can a user select a file to upload, but send the file with this php function without saving it in a location to be retrieved? I know there is a $_FILES array that you can get the file's information but will that file be able to be sent without it being saved somewhere first? I'm guessing not since the whole point of the upload form is to "upload" it but just wondering if something could be done in javascript or something.
Thanks for any help
You can't truly do that, but you could do this to get a close effect:
$filename = $_FILES['file_name']['tmp_name'];
$main->AddAttachment($filename, "attachment");
// Send the email... then:
unset($filename);
This adds the file as an attachment, sends the email, then deletes the file. The uploaded files in the $_FILES array will automatically be flushed out eventually, so I'm not sure if the unset() part even does anything significant, but it surely gets rid of the file.
Without Saving file in Server, you can not attach it for mail.
1> Mailing function is executing in Server.
2> It is not possible from Server to get the absolute file path in client machine as in web, the client machines do not have any absolute address.
3> So the file is needed to be uploaded in server to get a real path for the file to have in attachment of Mail.
I know this is a rather old question, but I think there's a rather useful answer that was never given. For the sake of those like me who happned along this question while searching for an answer to this question or similar, here you go.
When you upload a file to a server from a form, it's saved to the tmp directory automatically. Technically it's impossible to do anything with a form uploaded file without saving, because it's done for you automatically. However, because tmp is automatically cleaned on every reboot, this shouldn't be an issue in terms of building up too much backlog, if you either reboot often or set up a cron to delete your tmp directories contents regularly.
However, because it's saved to tmp, and because you can manipulate the file from there, it is possible to send the file without saving it for any form of longevity, and without actually writting anything to save it. Provided you perform all the necessary security checks on the file (verifying the contents, MIME-type and such that I won't go into now, but you can read up on how to do here), you can use the following php function which I got from Codexworld and modified to use the tmp files. All you need to do is pass
the parameters, and the $files is an array of files you've hopefully already vetted.
function multi_attach_mail($to, $subject, $message, $senderEmail, $senderName, $files = array()){
$from = $senderName." <".$senderEmail.">";
$headers = "From: $from";
// Boundary
$semi_rand = md5(time());
$mime_boundary = "==Multipart_Boundary_x{$semi_rand}x";
// Headers for attachment
$headers .= "\nMIME-Version: 1.0\n" . "Content-Type: multipart/mixed;\n" . " boundary=\"{$mime_boundary}\"";
// Multipart boundary
$message = "--{$mime_boundary}\n" . "Content-Type: text/html; charset=\"UTF-8\"\n" .
"Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit\n\n" . $message . "\n\n";
// Preparing attachment
if(!empty($files)){
for($i=0; $i<count($files); $i++){
if(is_file($files[$i]["tmp_name"])){
$tmp_name = basename($files[$i]["tmp_name"]);
$file_name = $files[$i]["name"];
$file_size = filesize($files[$i]["tmp_name"]);
$message .= "--{$mime_boundary}\n";
$fp = fopen($files[$i]["tmp_name"], "rb");
$data = fread($fp, $file_size);
fclose($fp);
$data = chunk_split(base64_encode($data));
$message .= "Content-Type: application/octet-stream; name=\"".$file_name."\"\n" .
"Content-Description: ".$file_name."\n" .
"Content-Disposition: attachment;\n" . " filename=\"".$file_name."\"; size=".$file_size.";\n" .
"Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64\n\n" . $data . "\n\n";
}
}
}
$message .= "--{$mime_boundary}--";
$returnpath = "-f" . $senderEmail;
// Send email
$mail = mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers, $returnpath);
// Return true, if email sent, otherwise return false
if($mail){
return true;
}else{
return false;
}
}
I was wondering if it is possible to email a value which is returned by a function in javascript? or do i have to use php/ajax?
From the following example, I want to email abc to myself? How can it be done?
<html>
<head><script>
var t = "abc";
function test(){
return t;}
</script></head>
<body onload = "test()">
</body></html>
You'll need to post it to your server via XHR, then your server can email it.
Here is a very good explanation from another similar question:
You can't send an email with javascript,
the closest you can get
would be a mailto which opens the
default email client - but that won't
send anything.
Email should be sent from the server -
submit the form in the normal way, and
construct the email on the server and
send it....
Another answer there gives some details about using mailto.
There's no direct method. I would use jQuery' $.post to post the relevant information to a PHP page which would then mail it using, at it's simplest, the aptly-named mail function.
In one of the script tags of the main page or in a separate .js file:
$.post("mailer.php", {data: "abc"}, function(data) {
// Alert yourself whether it was successful if you want
});
And mailer.php (replace these with your own values):
<?php
$to = 'nobody#example.com';
$subject = 'the subject';
$message = $_POST['data'];
$headers = 'From: webmaster#example.com';
mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);
?>