Sending Form Emails

[louisstephens]

This has probably been asked a million times, but I can't seem to find an answer. I have always just used a php script to process the emails and was excited that I could pass in an email address from a page to the script using $page. However, this does throw a 403.

I was told that I shouldnt be doing it this way, but I was wondering how do you all go about handling emails? I was going to use the same page template, but I need the option of changing out the to email address dynamically.

[pwired]

Hi,

This thread and post gives you a start
https://processwire.com/talk/topic/8193-strategies-for-storing-and-using-email-templates/

https://processwire.com/talk/topic/5704-module-wiremailsmtp/page-2#entry68098

There's also 2 modules who can do some work for you
http://modules.processwire.com/modules/wire-mail-smtp/
http://modules.processwire.com/modules/wire-mail-swift-mailer/

Hopefully altogether this will put you in the right direction.

[Macrura]

no idea what you're talking about, but if you post some code and more info, it should be a piece of cake....

email is a strong point for PW (wiremail, mandrill integration...)

[louisstephens]

Sorry If i was a bit confusing earlier. What I was trying to do was create one form, where the "send to" could be changed dynamically (as this will be used on seperate pages). I got the form set up with one small issue. I cant seem to figure out to "echo" the email address into the email:

<?php
 
include("./head.inc"); 
 
echo $page->body;
 
$sent = false;
$error = '';
$emailTo = 'email@gmail.com'; // or pull from PW page field
 
// sanitize form values or create empty
$form = array(
    'fullname' => $sanitizer->text($input->post->fullname),
    'email' => $sanitizer->email($input->post->email),
    'comments' => $sanitizer->textarea($input->post->comments),
    ); 
 
// check if the form was submitted
if($input->post->submit) {
	
    // determine if any fields were ommitted or didn't validate
    foreach($form as $key => $value) {
        if(empty($value)) $error = "<p class='error'>Please check that you have completed all fields.</p>";
    }
 
    // if no errors, email the form results
    if(!$error) {
        $msg = "Full name: $form[fullname]\n" . 
               "Email: $form[email]\n" . 
               "Comments: $form[comments]"; 
 
        mail($emailTo, "Contact Form", $msg, "From: $form[email]");
 
        // populate body with success message, or pull it from another PW field
        echo "<h2>Thank you, your message has been sent.</h2>"; 
        $sent = true;	
    }
}
 
if(!$sent) {
 
    // sanitize values for placement in markup
    foreach($form as $key => $value) {
        $form[$key] = htmlentities($value, ENT_QUOTES, "UTF-8"); 
    }
 
    // append form to body copy
    echo <<< _OUT
 
        $error
        <form action="./" method="post">
		<fieldset>
        <p>
        <label for="fullname">Your Name</label><br />
        <input style="width:300px;" type="text" id="fullname" name="fullname" value="$form[fullname]" />
        </p>
 
        <p>
        <label for="email">Your Email</label><br />
        <input style="width:300px;" type="email" name="email" id="email" value="$form[email]" />
        </p>
 
        <p>
        <label for="comments">Comments</label><br />
        <textarea style="width:300px;" id="comments" name="comments" rows="6">$form[comments]</textarea>
        </p>
 
        <p><input type="submit" name="submit" value="Submit" /></p>
		</fieldset>
        </form>
 
_OUT;
 
}
 
// include site's footer
include("./foot.inc"); 

The way my install is set up:

I have multiple copies of the same page, all with a different header called (header_select). Header_select contains the field "contactAddress".

I need to get the contactAddress (based upon which header is chosen for that given page), and then pass that to the $emailTo field.

[Macrura]

you would retrieve the email address like:

$emailTo = $page->Header_select->contactAddress;

BTW - you are mixing up your cases, your variable is camelCase, your page select is underscore_case with the first letter capitalized, and your page field is camelCase.

For clarity and ease I would recommend at least being consistent with your field naming, e.g. always use underscore_case (no caps) or camelCase.

[louisstephens]

Sorry about that Macrura. I hastily built that field earlier but do plan on changing it to match the others.

I appreciate the insight from everyone! 

[Macrura]

no problem..

have you echo'd what PW is generating for your $page->Header_select->contactAddress ?

[louisstephens]

Yeah, apparently the code I had in place was actually ok. It was an issue with my localhost set up. The emails were being seen as "spam" so they got rejected. I appreciate all the help!