Hi Sean Burlington, et al ... Sorry for the slow response, been really sick lately ...
Just wanted to thank y'all for offering h & s. Ended up doing it with hidden fields ... also made it a bit easier to make the validation script put the info back into the form ... After testing things out I actually got the answer to all my questions ... just had to change some of the fields so that my mailserver would actually delier the mail... thx Rene On Mon, 30 Dec 2002 00:40:53 +0000, you wrote about "Re: [PHP] Rookie mail() q's .. can't find answer after RTFM..." something that looked like this: >> Q 1: >> >> Well, building the form and making the page preview the message is the >> easy part. But how do I make the page retain the message so that I can 1. >> actually send the thing after the second submit, and 2. make it fill out >> the form when user wish to alter message (or there's an error) ??? > >either put the fields you want as hidden fields in the preview page > >or > >store them as session variables > >> Q 2: >> >> The manual doesn't really say it that clearly, but do I need to have the >> content-type field when the message is plain text already? > >plain text is the default > >> And should I be adding a Date: field, or does the mail() function figure >> that out itself? > >I'm not sure - have you tried it ? > >> My incoming mail server does not accept messages without a date field, so >> if I need to add it, I'd really like to know. It also doesn't like >> messages with more than 1 of each field...(except received-by). >> > >just look at an email in your inbox and copy the format of the date field. > >-- > >Sean :) -- Rene Brehmer This message was written on 100% recycled spam. Come see! My brand new site is now online! http://www.metalbunny.net -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
