Simple Session and Email Question

[xoxLISAxox]

We have 2 pages of php files. The first page gather the email address from the customer. The second page is the one that sends us the order email. I am not sure why we are not receiving the email. The thank you pages, are working correctly though.


first file:

<?php
session_start();
$emailadr  = '';
$checkadr  = '';
$cr = "\r";
$lf = "\n";
$lterm = $cr.$lf;
$_SESSION['emailadr'] = $emailadr;

if ($_SERVER['REQUEST_METHOD'] == 'POST'):
    $emailadr               = $_POST['emailadr'];
    $checkadr              = $_POST['checkadr'];
    $thankyou              = "order2.php";
    header('Location: '.$thankyou);
endif;
?>

in html:

<form action="<?=basename($_SERVER['PHP_SELF'])?>" method="post">
<label>Your Email:  <input type="text" style="background-color: #FFF7C0; font-weight: bold" name="emailadr" size="25" value="<?=$emailadr?>"/> </label> (email used in your payment)<br><br>
<label>Re-Type Your Email:  <input type="text" style="background-color: #FFF7C0; font-weight: bold" name="checkadr" size="25" value="<?=$checkadr?>"/> </label><br><br><br><br>
<center>
<button type='submit' value="SUBMIT" style="background-color:transparent; border: none"><img src = "../images/submit.png"/></button><br>
Click <b>SUBMIT</b> button to continue<br><br>
</center>
</form>

2nd php file:

<?php
session_start();
$thankyou    = 'thankyou.php';
$mailcopy     = 'mailcopy@home.com';
$mailcc     = '';
$mailsubj     = 'Your Order ';
$fullname      = '';
$cr         = "\r"; 
$lf         = "\n"; 
$lterm         = $cr.$lf; 
$messages      = ''; 
$_SESSION['emailadr'] = $emailadr;

if ($_SERVER['REQUEST_METHOD'] == 'POST'):
     $fullname          = $_POST['fullname'];
     $thankyou         = $_POST['thankyou'];
     $mailsubj         .= $fullname;

     if(strlen($messages)==0):
          $mailheaders = 'Content-Type: text/plain;'.$lterm;
          $mailheaders .= 'X-Mailer: PHP;'.$lterm; 
          $mailheaders .= 'X-MSMail-Priority: High;'.$lterm; 
          $mailheaders .= 'X-Priority: 1;'.$lterm; 
          $mailheaders .= 'Return-path: '.$emailadr.$lterm; 
          $mailheaders .= 'Sender: '.$emailadr.$lterm; 
          $mailheaders .= 'From: '.$emailadr.$lterm; 
          if (isset($mailcc) 
               && !empty($mailcc)): 
                   $mailheaders .= 'Cc: '.$mailcc.$lterm; 
          endif;
               $mailbody = "Your email address is:  $emailadr".$lterm;
          ini_set(sendmail_from, $mailcopy); 
          if (mail($mailcopy, $mailsubj, $mailbody, $mailheaders)): 
               ini_restore(sendmail_from); 
               header('Location: '.$thankyou);
               exit; 
          endif; 
          ini_restore(sendmail_from); 
          $messages = 'Failed to send email!'; 
     endif; 
endif;
?>

[NogDog]

Start by doing some basic debugging such as var_dump()-ing each of the variables used in the mail() function parameters to make sure they have the expected values (e.g.: is $emailadr actually set anywhere in the 2nd file?). If that looks OK, then try a very simple script that just sends an email using the same mail() settings and representative test parameters to see if its a mail configuration problem.

[xoxLISAxox]

Hi NogDog:

Yeah I think the problem is the variable emailadr. I thought I did it correctly on the top of the 2nd file, code posted above. I don't know how to do var_dump()-ing, lmao. I thought using:

$_SESSION['emailadr'] = $emailadr;

on the second file is making the variable $emailadr from the first file?

[NogDog]

Any session values in the 2nd file will be in the $_SESSION array (unless you have the deprecated register_globals option is in effect). So you will need to populate $emailadr in the 2nd script from $_SESSION['emailadr'], or just use $_SESSION['email_adr'] instead of $emailadr. (And in the first file you will need to assign $emailadr to the $_SESSION array after you get the value from the form input.)

var_dump() is just a PHP function that outputs the type and value of the specified variable, e.g.:

$foo = 'bar';
echo "The current value of \$foo is:<br />\n";
var_dump($foo); 

[xoxLISAxox]

Hi:

I did:

echo $_SESSION['emailadr'];

on the second file and it showed the email address from the first file. Why it's not sending the email I don't know

Do I need to change the email part in the second file:

$mailheaders .= 'From: '.$emailadr.$lterm; 

to

$mailheaders .= 'From: '.$_SESSION['emailadr'].$lterm; 

That is the only place I see the variable is being used.

[NogDog]

Yes, you have to grab the value from $_SESSION['emailadr']. The $emailadr variable will not automatically be created from it (again, this assumes you are not running with register_globals enabled, which you should not since it is deprecated and will not be available at all in PHP6).

[xoxLISAxox]

That did the trick! Thank you so muchhhhhhh!!!

[robertketter]

Great Job NogDog. You are my favorite poster...