issues with contact form

I am setting up a contact form on my website and there are a couple
things I'm not sure about ... The form will not be sent to a database,
I just want to take the contents and have it emailed to me through my
PHP script. That is, I will not be sending it to a database. What are
the issues I need to worry about? I am familiar with issues concerning
SQL injections and what not, but when it comes to just flat out
emailing something, what concerns and areas should I address?

Thanks,

Ryan

Re: issues with contact form

rodey wrote:
>I am setting up a contact form on my website and there are a couple
> things I'm not sure about ... The form will not be sent to a database,
> I just want to take the contents and have it emailed to me through my
> PHP script. That is, I will not be sending it to a database. What are
> the issues I need to worry about? I am familiar with issues concerning
> SQL injections and what not, but when it comes to just flat out
> emailing something, what concerns and areas should I address?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ryan

Just use
http://www.boaddrink.com/phpformmail

Re: issues with contact form

I appreciate your reply but I'm not looking for just a quick fix. I am
coding my site and would like to learn about this as well. Any other
ideas?

Ryan

On Jan 4, 6:44 pm, "Paul Lautman" wrote:
> rodey wrote:
> >I am setting up a contact form on my website and there are a couple
> > things I'm not sure about ... The form will not be sent to a database,
> > I just want to take the contents and have it emailed to me through my
> > PHP script. That is, I will not be sending it to a database. What are
> > the issues I need to worry about? I am familiar with issues concerning
> > SQL injections and what not, but when it comes to just flat out
> > emailing something, what concerns and areas should I address?
>
> > Thanks,
>
> > Ryan
>
> Just usehttp://www.boaddrink.com/phpformmail

Re: issues with contact form

On Jan 4, 2:43 pm, rodey wrote:
> I am setting up a contact form on my website and there are a couple
> things I'm not sure about ... The form will not be sent to a database,
> I just want to take the contents and have it emailed to me through my
> PHP script. That is, I will not be sending it to a database. What are
> the issues I need to worry about? I am familiar with issues concerning
> SQL injections and what not, but when it comes to just flat out
> emailing something, what concerns and areas should I address?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ryan

Email injection, and bots filling out your forms. See
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-mail_injection and maybe think about
using a captcha to stop bots. I use the one from puremango (just like
that guy's style).

Aerik

www.wikidweb.com - the wiki directory of the web
tagthis.info - hosted tagging for your website (alpha testing)

Re: issues with contact form

On Jan 6, 4:43 pm, Aerik wrote:
> On Jan 4, 2:43 pm, rodey wrote:
>
> > I am setting up a contact form on my website and there are a couple
> > things I'm not sure about ... The form will not be sent to a database,
> > I just want to take the contents and have it emailed to me through my
> > PHP script. That is, I will not be sending it to a database. What are
> > the issues I need to worry about? I am familiar with issues concerning
> > SQL injections and what not, but when it comes to just flat out
> > emailing something, what concerns and areas should I address?
>
> > Thanks,
>
> > Ryan
>
> Email injection, and bots filling out your forms. Seehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-mail_injectionand maybe think about
> using a captcha to stop bots. I use the one from puremango (just like
> that guy's style).
>
> Aerik
>
> www.wikidweb.com- the wiki directory of the web
> tagthis.info - hosted tagging for your website (alpha testing)

Thank you, that is exactly what I was looking for.

Ryan