Emailing for a request form
I hired someone to create a request form for a company's website. He did that. And then, as of January the company's email service changed their security to stop spammers, spoofers and other malfeasance. And what then happened is that several people stopped getting email requests from the company's website for service, sales or support.
The form is here: http://alertscientific.com/contact.php
Here is what I have that checks to see if everything is filled out properly (it's a file called function.php and it's called by the main script):
<?php
function checkinfo(&$pst)
{
$states = explode("|","AK|AL|AR|AZ|CA|CO|CT|DC|DE|FL|GA|HI|IA|ID|IL|IN|KS|KY|LA|MA|MD|ME|MI|MN|MO|MS|MT|NC|ND|NE|NH|NJ|NM|NV|NY|OH|OK|OR|PA|RI|SC|SD|TN|TX|UT|VA|VT|WA|WI|WV|WY");
$err = "";
foreach($pst as $key => $val)
{
if(!empty($_POST[$key]))
{
switch($key)
{
case "dob":
if(!strtotime($_POST[$key]))
{
$err .= $pst[$key]." ".$_POST[$key]." is not a valid date.\r<br />";
}
break;
case "phone":
$temp = $_POST[$key];
if(substr($temp, 3, 1) != "-")
{
$temp = substr($temp, 0, 3)."-".substr($temp, 3, strlen($temp)-3);
}
if(substr($temp, 7, 1) != "-")
{
$temp = substr($temp, 0, 7)."-".substr($temp, 7, strlen($temp)-7);
}
if(!preg_match("/^([1]-)?[0-9]{3}-[0-9]{3}-[0-9]{4}$/i", $temp))
{
$err .= $pst[$key]." ".$_POST[$key]." is not a valid phone number.\r<br />";
}
break;
case "state":
if(!in_array($_POST[$key], $states))
{
$err .= $pst[$key]." ".$_POST[$key]." is not a valid state. Please use your state's two character abreviation.\r<br />";
}
break;
case "email":
if(!filter_var($_POST[$key], FILTER_VALIDATE_EMAIL))
{
$err .= $pst[$key]." ".$_POST[$key]." is not a valid email address.\r<br />";
}
break;
case "zip":
$temp = str_replace("-","",$_POST[$key]);
if(!is_numeric($temp) || (strlen($temp) != 5 && strlen($temp) != 9)) {
$err .= $key." --- ".$pst[$key]." ".$_POST[$key]." is not a valid zip code.\r<br />";
}
}
} else {
$err .= $pst[$key]." is empty.\r<br />";
}
}
if($err != "")
{
return "The following errors were found:\r\r<br />".$err;
} else {
return $err;
}
}
?>
That is not the problem.
Now, we come to the problem:
validate.php does all of the heavy lifting.
<?php
require_once("function.php");
$expected = array("name"=>"Name", "need"=>"need", "address1"=> "Address 1", "city"=>"City", "state"=>"State", "zip"=>"Zip", "email"=>"Email", "phone"=>"Phone" );
$options = array("name"=>"Name", "title"=>"Title", "company"=>"Company", "need"=>"need", "address1"=>"Address 1", "address2"=>"Address 2", "city"=>"City", "state"=>"State", "zip"=>"Zip", "email"=>"Email", "phone"=>"Phone", "httpagent"=>"Browser info: ", "httpref"=>"Referrer", "ip"=>"Ip address");
$needs = array("service"=>" service.", "sales"=>" a salesperson contact you.", "literature"=>" literature be sent to you.");
$wants = array("service"=>" service.", "sales"=>" to be contacted by a salesperson.", "literature"=>" that literature be sent.");
$errors = checkinfo($expected);
$serv_two = "service-request@company.com";
$lit_one = "literature-request@company.com";
$sales_two = "sales-request@company.com";
if($errors == "") {
$replace = array("PHPNAME", "PHPNEED", "PHPIPADDRESS");
$with = array($_POST['name'], $needs[$_POST['need']], $_POST['ip']);
$output = file_get_contents("sendail.html");
$output = str_replace($replace,$with, $output);
$message = $_POST['name']." has requested".$wants[$_POST['need']]."\r";
foreach($options as $key => $val) {
$message .= $val.": ".$_POST[$key]."\r";
}
$headers = 'From: donotreply@alertscientific.com' ."\r\n" .'Reply-To: donotreply@alertscientific.com'. "\r\n" .'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion();
switch($_POST['need']) {
case "service":
$subj = "Service request";
//*
mail($serv_one, $subj, $message, $headers);
mail($serv_two, $subj, $message, $headers);
//*/
break;
case "sales":
$subj = "Sales request";
//*
mail($sales_one, $subj, $message, $headers);
mail($sales_two, $subj, $message, $headers);
//*/
break;
case "literature":
$subj = "Literature request";
//*
mail($lit_one, $subj, $message, $headers);
mail($lit_two, $subj, $message, $headers);
//*/
break;
}
echo $output;
} else {
echo "Errors:<br />".$errors;
echo "Please click the back button and update your choices.<br />";
}
/*
echo "Validating...";
print_r($_POST);
//*/
?>
At issue here are the headers (shown in red). The incoming email server is blocking stuff from my website because my website is not the email server. And so no email is received, it is assumed to be spam.
How do I tease the actual sender's email out of the array of stuff and place it into the headers?
Thanks!
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