problems with php script in the contact form

Report · Aug 10, 2011

Hello, I am from the Czech Republic and I am not a coder. I have 2 problems with my php sript. I am using a simple php script from Paul Trani, see below.

Firstly the email adress - when someone inserts an email adress in this form paul@paultrani.com it is OK, but when someone writes an address for example paul.trani@paultrani.cz (this type of adress is very common in our country) the answer is "That is not a valid email address. Please return to the previous page and try again." I think the problem is the dot before the @.

Secondly diacritical marks - Since I am from the Czech Republic we use diacritical marks (for example š,č,ř,ž,á,í,é,ě) so instead of this letters a get ? or Å or Å¡ to my email.

I really do not know how to fix these problems.

Thank you for any help. Sorry for my English. Peter

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
<META HTTP-EQUIV="refresh" content="0;URL=thankyou.html">
<title>Email Form</title>
</head>

<body>
<?php
$name=addslashes($_POST['name']);
$email=addslashes($_POST['email']);
$comments=addslashes($_POST['message']);

// you can specify which email you want your contact form to be emailed to here

$toemail = "paul@paultrani.com";
$subject = "From EcoStyleStudio.com";

$headers = "MIME-Version: 1.0\n"
."From: \"".$name."\" <".$email.">\n"
."Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\n";

$body = "Name: ".$name."<br>\n"
            ."Email: ".$email."<br>\n"
            ."Comments:<br>\n"
            .$comments;

if (!ereg("^[a-zA-Z0-9_]+@[a-zA-Z0-9\-]+\.[a-zA-Z0-9\-\.]+$", $email))
{
    echo "That is not a valid email address. Please return to the"
           ." previous page and try again.";
    exit;
}

mail($toemail, $subject, $body, $headers);
echo "Thanks for submitting your comments";
?>
</body>
</html>

Report · Aug 10, 2011

ereg() has been deprecated, it is recommended that you dont use it.

You want to look at this

http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.preg-match.php

Within this page I found this:

If you need to check for .com.br and .com.au and .uk and all the other crazy domain endings i found the following expression works well if you want to validate an email address. Its quite generous in what it will allow <?php $email_address = "phil.taylor@a_domain.tv"; if (preg_match("/^[^@]*@[^@]*\.[^@]*$/", $email_address)) { return "E-mail address"; } ?>

Report · Nov 12, 2011

$headers = "MIME-Version: 1.0\n"

."From: \"".$name."\" <".$email.">\n"

."Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\n";

I want to understand that code... Please

Report · Nov 18, 2011

$headers = "MIME-Version: 1.0\n"
."From: \"".$name."\" <".$email.">\n"
."Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\n";

That code is setting the content of the $headers variable which is used in sending the form's results by email -

mail($toemail, $subject, $body, $headers);

It specifies the "From:" email address so that you can reply to it if needed, and it specifies that the email sent is to be sent as an HTML email not just as a text email. It really should be this, I believe.

$headers = "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n"
."From: \"".$name."\" <".$email.">\r\n"
."Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\r\n";

Report · Nov 20, 2011

thank u very much

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