help with form field in subject line

[guigrrl]

i'm using matt's formmail script to process a form from my website...but i don't know how to make one of the fields appear in the subject of the email. can anyone help?

thank you.

lisa AKA guigrrl

 

[webpager]

Hi Lisa
This works on our particular server - The name will probably be different but the syntax of most form mailing scripts appears similar.
Hope this is of use.

open( EZMAIL, "|/bin/easymail -t" ) or return 1;
print EZMAIL "From: contact\@YOURDOMAIN\n";
print EZMAIL "To: sitecontact\@THEIRDOMAIN\n";
print EZMAIL "Subject: SUBJECT LINE\n";
print EZMAIL "SOME EMAIL CONTENT\n";
print EZMAIL "SOME MORE EMAIL CONTACT\n";
close( EZMAIL );
Keith

 

[duncdude]

Hi guigrrl

what is the URL of the website?

Duncan

 

[guigrrl]

hi Duncan --

http://www.joegibbsperformance.com/owners.html

 

[guigrrl]

hi Duncan --

http://www.joegibbsperformance.com/owners.html

 

[duncdude]

whoops...

are you still needing an answer to this post?

sorry!
Duncan

 

[guigrrl]

well, yes and no.
i'd love to know how to do it, but
i've hired a perl guy to do it.

thanks
Duncan!

 

[duncdude]

I see!

sorry I did not get back to u previously...

basically this is the situation - I will mention everything so I apologise if it mentions stuff you already know:-

The form ACTION is either GET or POST... GET will append data to the end of the URL like

http://www.my-mot.co.uk/plate.pl?GU1+GRRL

(after the qestion mark). POST carries this information invisibly.

GET becomes stored as $ENV{'QUERY_STRING'} or if you use POST then this is retrieved as:-
read(STDIN, $data, $ENV{'CONTENT_LENGTH'});

this data, in either situation, can be chopped up. All the data is stored as one long string of name/value pairs. This looks like surnname=Carr&forename=Duncan
This name/value pairs can first be split on the '&' then split finally into the name and value parts.

then you can make use of the data by storing all this information in variables, for example:-

[blue]@nameValuePairs = split(/&/, $data);

foreach $chunkOfData (@nameValuePairs)
{
($name, $value) = split(/=/, $chunkOfData);
$data{$name} = $value;
}[/blue]

then you will end up with something like this:-

[red]open (MAIL, '| /usr/sbin/sendmail -t');
[green]print MAIL "To: $data{email}\n";[/green]
print MAIL "Cc: \n";
print MAIL "Bcc: someone\@whateverisp.com\n";
print MAIL "From: webmaster\@my-mot.co.uk\n";
print MAIL "Subject: Thank you for using 'my-mot.co.uk'\n\n";
print MAIL "This is to confirm that your vehicle details for $data{reg} have been added to our M.O.T. database\n\n";
print MAIL "You will receive reminders 28 days, 7 days & 1 day prior to your M.O.T. test date of $data{due_day}/$data{due_month}\n\n";
print MAIL "Please tell your friends, family & colleagues about this new site!\n\n";
print MAIL "

http://www.my-mot.co.uk\n";

close MAIL;[/red]

Firstly I really hope I haven't made any glaring errors and secondly I apologise for some poor references - but it should give an idea...

let me know how you get on!


Kind Regards
Duncan