PHP EMail Form and set cookie

Hi,

Being new to PHP & cookies, I am looking to write an email form, where
a user can choose their name from a drop down list, fill in the
content of the email and hit send and the email will be from that
user.

Then the next time they visit the page, I want to be able to read that
cookie and preset the From part of the email from the cookie.

But I have no clue where to start and can't find any examples of the
web.

If anyone can help out or point me at a script that has this I'd be
very grateful.

Many thanks
Pete

Re: PHP EMail Form and set cookie

pete.brooker@gmail.com wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Being new to PHP & cookies, I am looking to write an email form, where
> a user can choose their name from a drop down list, fill in the
> content of the email and hit send and the email will be from that
> user.
>
> Then the next time they visit the page, I want to be able to read that
> cookie and preset the From part of the email from the cookie.
>
> But I have no clue where to start and can't find any examples of the
> web.
>
> If anyone can help out or point me at a script that has this I'd be
> very grateful.
>
> Many thanks
> Pete
>

It's pretty easy - you can start at:

http://us.php.net/manual/en/features.cookies.php

Just keep in mind you can't control cookie behavior on the browser end.
For instance, my browser is set up to destroy all cookies when I close
it (except for sites I specify).

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Remove the "x" from my email address
Jerry Stuckle
JDS Computer Training Corp.
jstucklex@attglobal.net
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Re: PHP EMail Form and set cookie

Do you have any example code or give me some pointers.

Pretty new to this and not so sure where to start...

Thanks

On Aug 23, 4:21 pm, Jerry Stuckle wrote:
> pete.broo...@gmail.com wrote:
> > Hi,
>
> > Being new to PHP & cookies, I am looking to write an email form, where
> > a user can choose their name from a drop down list, fill in the
> > content of the email and hit send and the email will be from that
> > user.
>
> > Then the next time they visit the page, I want to be able to read that
> > cookie and preset the From part of the email from the cookie.
>
> > But I have no clue where to start and can't find any examples of the
> > web.
>
> > If anyone can help out or point me at a script that has this I'd be
> > very grateful.
>
> > Many thanks
> > Pete
>
> It's pretty easy - you can start at:
>
> http://us.php.net/manual/en/features.cookies.php
>
> Just keep in mind you can't control cookie behavior on the browser end.
> For instance, my browser is set up to destroy all cookies when I close
> it (except for sites I specify).
>
> --
> ==================
> Remove the "x" from my email address
> Jerry Stuckle
> JDS Computer Training Corp.
> jstuck...@attglobal.net
> ==================

Re: PHP EMail Form and set cookie

On Fri, 31 Aug 2007 10:50:33 +0200, wrote:
> On Aug 23, 4:21 pm, Jerry Stuckle wrote:
>> pete.broo...@gmail.com wrote:
>> > Being new to PHP & cookies, I am looking to write an email form, wh=
ere
>> > a user can choose their name from a drop down list, fill in the
>> > content of the email and hit send and the email will be from that
>> > user.
>>
>> > Then the next time they visit the page, I want to be able to read t=
hat
>> > cookie and preset the From part of the email from the cookie.
>>
>> > But I have no clue where to start and can't find any examples of th=
e
>> > web.
>>
>> > If anyone can help out or point me at a script that has this I'd be=

>> > very grateful.
>>
>> > Many thanks
>> > Pete
>>
>> It's pretty easy - you can start at:
>>
>> http://us.php.net/manual/en/features.cookies.php
>>
>> Just keep in mind you can't control cookie behavior on the browser en=
d.
>> For instance, my browser is set up to destroy all cookies when I cl=
ose
>> it (except for sites I specify).

(topposting fixed)

> Do you have any example code or give me some pointers.
>
> Pretty new to this and not so sure where to start...

In the 'form page':

$from =3D isset($_COOKIE['from']) ? htmlspecialchars($_COOKIE['from']): =
'';
echo '';

In the page that sends the email:

if(isset($_POST['from']) && !isset($_COOKIE['from'])) =

setcookie('from',$_POST['from'],time() + (60 * 60 * 24 * 60), '/');

Keep in mind that the setcookie() function can only be used before ANY =

OTHER output. No starting HTML tags, no whitespace, nothing can be sent =
=

before this function.
-- =

Rik Wasmus

My new ISP's newsserver sucks. Anyone recommend a good one? Paying for =

quality is certainly an option.