Thanks everyone helped me (Aaron Bennett specialy) with the
"input checking problem". Maybe Rip's idea of mixing javascript
and php is a good one but I'm newbie and I'm not sure which
languaje takes the control first or how the interact.
Anyway I'll work in that direction later
Hasta la proxima
Aniceto L�pez
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here is the "form that sends a mail but chek if all the inputs
were filled in" in case anybody wants to use it
<html>
<head>
<title>mail send</title>
</head>
<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF">
<form name="emailer"action="<?php echo($PHP_SELF); ?>" method="post">
For: <input size="26" name="for" value="<?= $for ?>"><br>
Your name: <input size="26" name="name" value="<?= $name ?>"><br>
Your email: <input size="26" name="mail" value="<?= $mail ?>"><br>
Subjet: <input size="26" name="subject" value="<?= $subject ?>"><br>
Text:<br> <textarea rows="8" cols="20" name="text"><?= $text
?></textarea><br>
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="send">
</form>
<br>
<? if (isset($errmsg)) { ?> <?=$errmsg?><br> <? } ?>
<?php
$headers = "From: " . $name . " <" . $mail . ">";
$headers .= "\nContent-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\n";
$headers .= "X-Mailer: PHP\n";
if ($submit)
{
if ((!$for) || (!$name) || (!$mail) || (!$subject) || (!$text))
{
$submit = false;
if (!$for) { $errormsg = "Recipient email<br>"; }
if (!$name) { $errormsg .= "Your name<br>"; }
if (!$mail) { $errormsg .= "Your email<br>"; }
if (!$subject) { $errormsg .= "The subject<br>"; }
if (!$text) { $errormsg .= "Some text<br>"; }
print("<b>Following missed data</b><br>");
print($errormsg);
} else {
print("Mail sended!");
mail("$for", "$subject", "$text", "$headers");
}
}
?>
</body>
</html>
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