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*beginner* form process

Posted: Wed Aug 16, 2006 12:47 pm
by bubs
I need to process a somewhat long form and send it in an e-mail with html formatting.

so far I got a simple form to send an html e-mail,

and

i've gotten a long form to send a regular e-mail.

BUT

I can't seem to combine the 2 and be able to send an e-mail for a long form with html formtting.

I'm a student in web design and my summer job wants a form. it's not pretty but they like it so... what ev. but I'm trying to learn php and make this form work while at work and it's not working the way I planned. php seams pretty simple in it's form processing... (maybe too simple) but some things I just don't understand being new to php, and somewhat programming in general.

like .$key. => .$value. I understand that key is the name of a variable or an item in my form and value is the value of that item but it displays like

.$key. : .$value. because it is written in the php I got from somewhere else. so how do I make it so that I don't have to write out all the variables in the html like I did in the simple form like .$Date. and .$email but still send an e-mail formatted in html

like make a template and then insert the variables.


<span style='color:blue' title='I&#39;m naughty, are you naughty?'>smurf</span>, writing it down makes me even more confused. sorry if this makes no sense. just pick and choose what you want to help with



Thanks

Bubs

Posted: Wed Aug 16, 2006 1:33 pm
by feyd
I think we're going to need to see a bit more of your code...

You may also want to look into using an existing email library such as Swift, which was created by one of our own members.

thanks

Posted: Thu Aug 17, 2006 8:46 am
by bubs
thanks I'll check swift out first. and if I have problems i'll check in later