PHP, Yahoo Error

Report · Mar 09, 2018

I am building a website that has a comment section for clients to type in their name, their email address, and any comments they may have for the business. This email form is sent to a php page that I have created. During my test run, the content was sent succesful to a gmail account; however, the content will not send to a yahoo email address (the business owner has a yahoo email address).

I was wondering as to why this content will send successfully to a gmail account, and not a yahoo account. The code is as follows:

<?php

$errors = '';

$myemail = 'jondoe@yahoo.com';//<-----Put Your email address here.

if(empty($_POST['customerName']) ||

empty($_POST['emailAddress']) ||

empty($_POST['emailComment']))

{

$errors .= "\n Error: all fields are required";

}

$name = $_POST['customerName'];

$email_address = $_POST['emailAddress'];

$message = $_POST['emailComment'];

if (!preg_match(

"/^[_a-z0-9-]+(\.[_a-z0-9-]+)*@[a-z0-9-]+(\.[a-z0-9-]+)*(\.[a-z]{2,3})$/i",

$email_address))

{

$errors .= "\n Error: Invalid email address";

}

//above is making sure the content is valid

if( empty($errors))

{

$to = $myemail;

$email_subject = "Contact form submission: $name";

$email_body = "You have received a new message. ".

" Here are the details:\n Name: $name \n Email: $email_address \n Message \n $message";

$headers = "From: $myemail\n";

$headers .= "Reply-To: $email_address";

mail($to,$email_subject,$email_body,$headers);

//redirect to the 'thank you' page

header('Location: contact-form-thank-you.html');

}

?>

<!DOCTYPE HTML>

<html>

<head>

<title>Contact form handler</title>

</head>

<body>

<?php

echo nl2br($errors);

?>

</body>

</html>

Report · Mar 09, 2018

Did you make sure it didn't end up in a spam folder at yahoo?

Report · Mar 10, 2018

I did, I checked each folder over and over again. When I sent it to a gmail account it took about 5 minutes to receive.

Report · Mar 11, 2018

I detect two potential problems with your script:

Email headers should be separated by a carriage return and newline character. You're using only a newline character. The first line of your $headers should end with "\r\n" rather than "\n".
The From header should indicate where the email is being sent from. You're using the same address as the one the email is being sent to. Change the From header to a genuine email address that exists on the domain that the form is hosted on.

Many mail servers reject email that comes from an unrecognized source. Using the same address as the destination is almost certainly being treated as spam.

Report · Mar 11, 2018

David,

Your right about your first point, however I'm not understanding your second point. $myemail is the genuine email that is being used to receive any messages from potential clients. $email_address is the customers email address.

These two are different. Not sure what you mean by I am using the same address as the one the email is being sent to.

Report · Mar 11, 2018

Create a legitimate email address on your server -- webmaster@your_domain.com. Use that as the sending email.

Nancy O'Shea— Product User, Community Expert & Moderator
Alt-Web Design & Publishing ~ Web : Print : Graphics : Media

Report · Mar 11, 2018

But my client is wanting he's personal email account to be the sending email. In previous tests I used my personal gmail account that emails sent successfully; however when I use his email address (a yahoo account) the email's send unsuccessfully.

Report · Mar 11, 2018

You don't understand. I'm talking about the sending email on the server, not the address to which you receive mail. 2 different things.

Nancy

Nancy O'Shea— Product User, Community Expert & Moderator
Alt-Web Design & Publishing ~ Web : Print : Graphics : Media

Report · Mar 11, 2018

Your right, I'm not understanding. Thats why I am posting this on here, could you help me to understand? You have my code at the top, could you "dumb it down" for me?

Thanks.

Report · Mar 11, 2018

I have a 3-part tutorial on this below.

Alt-Web Design & Publishing: Responsive Contact Form with Bootstrap and PHP (Part 1)

Copy & paste the following code into a new, blank PHP document. File > SaveAs contact.php.

<?php

// NOTE: this page must be saved as a .php file.

// And your server must support PHP 5.3+ and php Mail().

// Define variables and set to empty values

$result = $name = $email = $phone = $message = $human = "";

$errName = $errEmail = $errPhone = $errMessage = $errHuman = "";

if (isset($_POST["submit"])) {

$name = $_POST['name'];

$email = $_POST['email'];

$phone = $_POST['phone'];

$message = $_POST['message'];

$human = intval($_POST['human']);

//valid address on your web server

$from = 'webmaster@yourdomain.com';

//your email address where you wish to recieve mail

$to = 'name@email.com';

$subject = 'MESSAGE FROM YOUR WEB SITE';

$headers = "From:$from\r\nReply-to:$email";

$body = "From: $name\n E-Mail: $email\n Phone: $phone\n Message: $message";

// Check if name is entered

if (empty($_POST["name"])) {

$errName = "Please enter your name.";

} else {

$name = test_input($_POST["name"]);

}

// Check if email is entered

if (empty($_POST["email"])) {

$errEmail = "Please enter your email address.";

} else {

$email = test_input($_POST["email"]);

// check if e-mail address is valid format

if (!filter_var($email, FILTER_VALIDATE_EMAIL)) {

$errEmail = "Invalid email format.";

}

// Check if phone is entered

if (empty($_POST["phone"])) {

$phone = "";

} else {

$phone = test_input($_POST["phone"]);

}

//Check if message is entered

if (empty($_POST["message"])) {

$errMessage = "Please enter your message.";

} else {

$message = test_input($_POST["message"]);

}

//Check if simple anti-bot test is entered

if (empty($_POST["human"])) {

$errHuman = "Please enter the sum.";

} else {

if ($human !== 12) {

$errHuman = 'Wrong answer. Please try again.';

}

// If there are no errors, send the email & output results to the form

if (!$errName && !$errEmail && !$errPhone && !$errMessage && !$errHuman) {

if (mail ($to, $subject, $body, $from)) {

$result='<div class="alert alert-success"><h2><span class="glyphicon glyphicon-ok"></span> Message sent!</h2><h3>Thank you for contacting us. Someone will be in touch with you soon.</h3></div>';

} else {

$result='<div class="alert alert-danger"><h2><span class="glyphicon glyphicon-warning-sign"></span> Sorry there was a form processing error.</h2> <h3>Please try again later.</h3></div>';

}

//sanitize data inputs

function test_input($data) {

$data = trim($data);

$data = stripslashes($data);

$data = htmlspecialchars($data);

$data = (filter_var($data, FILTER_SANITIZE_STRING));

return $data;

}

//end form processing script

?>

<!doctype html>

<head>

<title>Contact Form </title>

<style>

.required {color:red; font-weight:bold}

.center-block {float:none}

.human {margin: 0 0 0 12px}

</style>

</head>

<body>

<h5>NOTE: This script is not connected to an actual email address yet. Change it to yours on Line 16 of the PHP code. </h5>

<h3>Responsive Contact Form</h3>

<p class="required small">* = Required fields</p>

<?php echo $result;?>

</div>

</div>

<label for="email" class="col-sm-3 control-label"><span class="required">*</span> Email: </label>

</div>

<label for="phone" class="col-sm-3 control-label">Phone: </label>

</div>

<label for="message" class="col-sm-3 control-label"><span class="required">*</span> Message:</label>

</div>

<label for="human" class="col-sm-3 control-label"><span class="required">*</span> Human Test:</label>

</div>

<button type="submit" id="submit" name="submit" class="btn-lg btn-primary btn-block">SUBMIT</button>

</div>

</form>

</div>

</div>

</div>

</div>

</body>

</html>

Nancy O'Shea— Product User, Community Expert & Moderator
Alt-Web Design & Publishing ~ Web : Print : Graphics : Media

Report · Sep 19, 2023

Ah, now I remember, Nancy.

I used your tutorial for a project. And it works great. But one problem I'm having now -- and maybe you can answer -- is how can I add the ability to send multiple attachments? I have been trying to figure this out from the following PHP code and form HTML. I've changed a few things in your original code and the form now sends attachments as desired, but it totally ignores the form validation and anti-bot test. I've been trying different things, but with no success.

Any ideas on how to merge the relevant code below into your code?

Thanks,

Dave

PHP for multiple attachments:

<?php
if ($_SERVER['REQUEST_METHOD']=="POST"){

// we'll begin by assigning the To address and message subject
$to="me@mywebsite.com";
$subject="E-mail with attachment";

// get the sender's name and email address
// we'll just plug them a variable to be used later
$from = stripslashes($_POST['fromname'])."<".stripslashes($_POST['fromemail']).">";

// generate a random string to be used as the boundary marker
$mime_boundary="==Multipart_Boundary_x".md5(mt_rand())."x";

// now we'll build the message headers
$headers = "From: $from\r\n" .
"MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n" .
"Content-Type: multipart/mixed;\r\n" .
" boundary=\"{$mime_boundary}\"";

// here, we'll start the message body.
// this is the text that will be displayed
// in the e-mail
$message="This is an example";

$message .= "Name:".$_POST["fromname"]."Message Posted:".$_POST["message"];

// next, we'll build the invisible portion of the message body
// note that we insert two dashes in front of the MIME boundary
// when we use it
$message = "This is a multi-part message in MIME format.\n\n" .
"--{$mime_boundary}\n" .
"Content-Type: text/plain; charset=\"iso-8859-1\"\n" .
"Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit\n\n" .
$message . "\n\n";

// now we'll process our uploaded files
foreach($_FILES as $userfile){
// store the file information to variables for easier access
$tmp_name = $userfile['tmp_name'];
$type = $userfile['type'];
$name = $userfile['name'];
$size = $userfile['size'];

// if the upload succeded, the file will exist
if (file_exists($tmp_name)){

// check to make sure that it is an uploaded file and not a system file
if(is_uploaded_file($tmp_name)){

// open the file for a binary read
$file = fopen($tmp_name,'rb');

// read the file content into a variable
$data = fread($file,filesize($tmp_name));

// close the file
fclose($file);

// now we encode it and split it into acceptable length lines
$data = chunk_split(base64_encode($data));
}

// now we'll insert a boundary to indicate we're starting the attachment
// we have to specify the content type, file name, and disposition as
// an attachment, then add the file content.
// NOTE: we don't set another boundary to indicate that the end of the
// file has been reached here. we only want one boundary between each file
// we'll add the final one after the loop finishes.
$message .= "--{$mime_boundary}\n" .
"Content-Type: {$type};\n" .
" name=\"{$name}\"\n" .
"Content-Disposition: attachment;\n" .
" filename=\"{$fileatt_name}\"\n" .
"Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64\n\n" .
$data . "\n\n";
}
}
// here's our closing mime boundary that indicates the last of the message
$message.="--{$mime_boundary}--\n";
// now we just send the message
if (@mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers))
echo "Message Sent";
else
echo "Failed to send";
} else {
?>

FORM HTML:

<p>Send an e-mail with an attachment:</p>
<form action="<?php echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']; ?>" method="post"
enctype="multipart/form-data" name="form1">
<p>Your name: <input type="text" name="fromname"></p>
<p>Your e-mail: <input type="text" name="fromemail"></p>
<p>Mod List: <textarea maxlength="1000" cols="25" rows="6" name="message"></textarea>
<p>File: <input type="file" name="file1"></p>
<p>File: <input type="file" name="file2"></p>
<p>File: <input type="file" name="file3"></p>
<p>File: <input type="file" name="file4"></p>
<p>File: <input type="file" name="file5"></p>
<p>File: <input type="file" name="file6"></p>
<p>File: <input type="file" name="file7"></p>
<p>File: <input type="file" name="file8"></p>
<p><input type="submit" name="Submit" value="Submit"></p>
</form>

Report · Sep 19, 2023

Please DO NOT use that form from 2018.

It's too outdated for use now.

See my latest reply in your other topic.
https://community.adobe.com/t5/dreamweaver-discussions/how-do-i-merge-php-file-to-attach-and-send-mu...

[This outdated discussion is locked.]

Nancy O'Shea— Product User, Community Expert & Moderator
Alt-Web Design & Publishing ~ Web : Print : Graphics : Media

Report · Mar 11, 2018

ikevin12 wrote
I'm not understanding your second point. $myemail is the genuine email that is being used to receive any messages from potential clients. $email_address is the customers email address.
These two are different. Not sure what you mean by I am using the same address as the one the email is being sent to.

Yes, both email addresses are different, but you're using $myemail both as the value of $to (the destination of the email), and as the value of the From header.

$headers = "From: $myemail\n";

$headers .= "Reply-To: $email_address";

The From header MUST be an email address on the web server that's hosting the form. It describes where the email is coming from. The fact that your client wants it to look as though it's coming from himself makes no difference. He's not sending it. The form is.

Most mail servers will reject emails that come from a different source than the value in the From header. OK, it worked with your Gmail experiment. The reason it's not working with the Yahoo address is that the mail server is rejecting mail coming from a source that claims to be one thing, but is in fact something else.

Let's say the form is on example.com, your headers should look like this:

$headers = "From: webmaster@example.com\r\n";

$headers .= "Reply-to: $email_address";

Report · Mar 11, 2018

David,

I think I might of created a mess out of my html, and php code. I understand what you are talking about regarding I'm using both email addresses as the value of $to and as the From header. I am doing this as a "call" method you could say?

My html form code is as follow:

<p id="customerEmail">Email:</p>

<p id="customerComment">Comment:</p>

</form>

The input class "emailAddress" has its own css, and I gave it the name of "emailAddress". In the php code I am calling the input of the user by the name of "emailAddress".

I guess I did this to "call" whatever the user inputs in the text box. This is why I have

$headers = "From: $myemail\n";

$headers .= "Reply-To: $email_address";

Now I am lost, maybe I did the whole thing wrong?

Report · Mar 11, 2018

Let me explain EXACTLY what the client is wanting, and EXACTLY what I did to get to this point.

My client wanted a website with a contact form at the bottom of the site giving the user an option to send the business owner their name, email address, and any comment they may have concerning his business.

I used html to build a simple website for the owner, I then googled PHP code's that will take anything the user inputs and in return send it to the business owners email address (I have zero experience in php, so I used google).

I used the code provided from google (it was a trial and error type deal) until I finally tested the right code that returned the test run to my personal email address (gmail). I thought I finished the site due to the success of the php code sending my personal message to my gmail account, so I switched my gmail account in the php code to the business owner's personal email address (a yahoo account). None of the emails was getting sent to him like it did with me. Now I am here.. Lost..

Not too sure where to go from here, again I have no experience in php. I didn't understand why it worked with my gmail pose to his yahoo account.

Report · Mar 11, 2018

I posted a working PHP contact form above.

Did you add the yahoo email address to line 16 of the code? Then save & upload to server to test?

Nancy O'Shea— Product User, Community Expert & Moderator
Alt-Web Design & Publishing ~ Web : Print : Graphics : Media

Report · Mar 11, 2018

Nancy,

I have to have this website finished within the hour. I am currently reading your blog from the website you provided above to gain an understanding on what I should do.

Report · Mar 11, 2018

You provided html code, and when I copy and paste the code you provided it confused me.

Report · Mar 11, 2018

I can't help you meet an impossible deadline. Copy the code I provided into a new, BLANK document and save as contact.php . On line 16 in code view, change the TO email address to your yahoo account.

Upload to server to test.

Nancy

Nancy O'Shea— Product User, Community Expert & Moderator
Alt-Web Design & Publishing ~ Web : Print : Graphics : Media

Report · Mar 11, 2018

I appreciate the help you guys have gave me, Nancy the website you provided (I assume it is your website) is a great resource to me!

Im not understanding the email address has to be the web server thats hosting the form. Nancy, in the code you provided you use 'webmaster@yourdomain.com'. I don't understand this, should I switch that with something else? I apologize again, I am new. This is my first client, however I am excited to learn. Just trying to understand.

Report · Mar 11, 2018

webmaster@yourdomain.com is a legitimate email on the server. It's going to send the form data to you. Change it to whatever email account is already set-up for the server. If unsure what to use, contact the web hosting provider.

Nancy O'Shea— Product User, Community Expert & Moderator
Alt-Web Design & Publishing ~ Web : Print : Graphics : Media

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