How anyone can send email to members with a form?

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  • Mike Massaro
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    • Nov 2011
    • 2

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    How anyone can send email to members with a form?

    Hello everyone,

    I'm new to PHP and creating an advertising website for massage therapists. On the profile page I'm creating a button so anyone can click on to send the advertiser an email.

    I created a page called profile_sendema il.php which contains the form to send the email and here is the code:
    Code:
    <?php
    // Start_session, check if user is logged in or not, and connect to the database all in one included file
    include_once("scripts/checkuserlog.php");
    // Include the class files for auto making links out of full URLs and for Time Ago date formatting
    include_once("wi_class_files/autoMakeLinks.php");
    include_once ("wi_class_files/agoTimeFormat.php");
    // Create the two new objects before we can use them below in this script
    $activeLinkObject = new autoActiveLink;
    $myObject = new convertToAgo;
    ?>
    
    <?php
    // Now let's initialize vars to be printed to page in the HTML section so our script does not return errors
    // they must be initialized in some server environments
    $id = "";
    $firstname = "";
    $middlename = "";
    $lastname = "";
    $email = "";
    
    // If coming from category page
    if ($_GET['id']) {
    
    $id = $_GET['id'];
    
    } else if (isset($_SESSION['id'])) {
    
    $id = $_SESSION['id'];
    
    } else {
    
    $id = $_SESSION['id'];
    
    include_once "index.php";
    exit();
    }
    $id = mysql_real_escape_string($id);
    $id = eregi_replace("`", "", $id);
    $sql = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM myMembers WHERE id='$id'");
    
    while($row = mysql_fetch_array($sql)){
    
    $id = $row["id"];
    $firstname = $row["firstname"];
    $lastname = $row["lastname"];
    
    
    } // close while loop
    
    ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
    $style_sheet = "default";
    ?>
    
    
    <?php
    ////////////////////////// MECHANISM TO SEND EMAILS ////////////////////////////////////////////////
    
    
    if(isset($_POST['email'])) {
    
    // EDIT THE 2 LINES BELOW AS REQUIRED
    $email_to = "$email";
    $email_subject = "New appointment request on MassageTherapistsList.com";
    
    
    function died($error) {
    // your error code can go here
    echo "We are very sorry, but there were error(s) found with the form you submitted. ";
    echo "These errors appear below.<br /><br />";
    echo $error."<br /><br />";
    echo "Please go back and fix these errors.<br /><br />";
    die();
    }
    
    // validation expected data exists
    if(!isset($_POST['name']) ||
    !isset($_POST['email']) ||
    !isset($_POST['comments'])) {
    died('We are sorry, but there appears to be a problem with the form you submitted.');
    }
    
    $name = $_POST['name']; // required
    $email_from = $_POST['email']; // required
    $comments = $_POST['comments']; // required
    
    $error_message = "";
    $email_exp = '/^[A-Za-z0-9._%-]+@[A-Za-z0-9.-]+\.[A-Za-z]{2,4}$/';
    if(!preg_match($email_exp,$email_from)) {
    $error_message .= 'The Email Address you entered does not appear to be valid.<br />';
    }
    $string_exp = "/^[A-Za-z .'-]+$/";
    if(!preg_match($string_exp,$name)) {
    $error_message .= 'The Name you entered does not appear to be valid.<br />';
    }
    if(strlen($comments) < 2) {
    $error_message .= 'The Comments you entered do not appear to be valid.<br />';
    }
    if(strlen($error_message) > 0) {
    died($error_message);
    }
    $email_message = "Form details below.\n\n";
    
    function clean_string($string) {
    $bad = array("content-type","bcc:","to:","cc:","href");
    return str_replace($bad,"",$string);
    }
    
    $email_message .= "Name: ".clean_string($name)."\n";
    $email_message .= "Email: ".clean_string($email_from)."\n";
    $email_message .= "Comments: ".clean_string($comments)."\n";
    
    
    // create email headers
    $headers = 'From: '.$email_from."\r\n".
    'Reply-To: '.$email_from."\r\n" .
    'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion();
    @mail($email_to, $email_subject, $email_message, $headers);
    ?>
    
    <!-- include your own success html here -->
    
    Thank you for contacting us. We will be in touch with you very soon.
    
    <?php
    And the profile.php page I added the link with the following PHP function:

    Code:
    if (empty($_SESSION['id'])) {
    $_SESSION['id'] = $id;
    } else {
    $_SESSION['id']++;
    }
    ?>
    
    <a href="profile_sendmail.php?id=".$id."<?php echo htmlspecialchars(SID); ?>">Send Email</a>
    However, when I click on "Send Email" I get the following url without id:

    http://domain.com/profile_sendmail.php?id=

    And of course a page Not Found error instead of the email form.

    Any ideas what would be the best way to get the results I want?
    Last edited by Niheel; Nov 3 '11, 07:13 AM. Reason: code tags woth better
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