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Title : Email a user with out exposing email address
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bastien koert
Date : Feb 26th 2005
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Keeping emails hidden is an increasing concern with all the spam floating around. Here is a way using MySQL and a contact form to allow a group of users on a site to contact each other safely...

Bastien


CREATE TABLE `contacts` (
  `id` int(10) NOT NULL auto_increment,
  `first_name` varchar(30) NOT NULL default '',
  `last_name` varchar(50) NOT NULL default '',
  `email` varchar(75) default NULL,
  `contact_status` tinyint(1) NOT NULL default '0',
  PRIMARY KEY  (`id`)
) TYPE=MyISAM AUTO_INCREMENT=2 ;


select the email address' from your db
<?php
if (isset($_POST['submit']))
{
//submit button pushed call the send_email function
send_email();

}else{
//nothing has been pushed so show the form
show_form();

}
//end if

/**************************************************************************
send_mail function
**************************************************************************/
function send_email()
{
       
//default values for elements
       
$subject    = '';
       
$id         = '';
       
$message    = '';
       
$your_name  = '';
       
$your_email = '';
       
$err_msg    = '';
       
$headers    = '';
       
   
       
//get the values from the form handle any errors
       
if(isset($_POST['subject']))
        {
         
$subject = $_POST['subject'];
        }
        if(isset(
$_POST['email']))
        {
         
$id = $_POST['email'];
        }
        if(isset(
$_POST['message']))
        {
         
$message = $_POST['message'];
        }
        if(isset(
$_POST['your_name']))
        {
         
$your_name = $_POST['your_name'];
        }
        if(isset(
$_POST['your_email']))
        {
         
$your_email = $_POST['your_email'];
        }

    if (
$id == "" )
    {
     
$err_msg = "No person chosen.";
    }
       
       
//sender's email
       
if(!eregi("^[_a-z0-9-]+(\.[_a-z0-9-]+)*@[a-z0-9-]+(\.[a-z0-9-]+)*(\.[a-z]{2,3})$", $your_email))
        {
         
$err_msg .= "Your email is not valid. Please re-enter it<br />";
         
$your_email = '';
        }
       
       
//check to see if the other elements have values
       
if(empty($message))
        {
         
$err_msg .= "No message set. Please enter a message.<br />";
        }
        if(empty(
$subject))
        {
         
$err_msg .= "No subject set. Please enter a subject.<br />";
        }
        if(empty(
$your_name))
        {
         
$err_msg .= "No sender name set. Please enter a your name.<br />";
        }
       
       
//check the err_msg to see if there are any messages
       
if ($err_msg != ''){
       
//there is an error so build the data into a pipe delimited string and pass it back to the form
       
$data = "$id|$subject|$message|$your_email|$your_name";
       
       
show_form($data,$err_msg);
        die();
       
        }
//end if
       
        //get the email from the db and send it
       
$sql = "select email from contacts where id = $id";
       
       
$result = conn($sql);
       
        if(
mysql_num_rows($result)==1)
        {
         
$row   = mysql_fetch_array($result);
         
$email = $row['email'];
        }
       
       
//send the email
        //build the headers
       
$headers .= "MIME-Version: 1.0\n";
       
$headers .= "Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\n";
       
$headers .= "X-Priority: 1\n";
       
$headers .= "X-MSMail-Priority: High\n";
       
$headers .= "X-Mailer: PHP\n";
       
$headers .= "From: \"".$your_name."\" <".$your_email.">\n";
       
        if (!
mail($email, $subject, $message, $headers))
        {
          echo
"Email failed!\nTry again";
         
show_form();
        }else{
          echo
"<script language='javascript'>alert('Mail sent');</script>";
          echo
"<script language='javascript'>window.location='thankyou.htm';</script>";
        }
//end if

}//end function

/**************************************************************************
show_form function
**************************************************************************/
function show_form($data='',$msg='')
{
       
//show the form for the email
       
        //the $data='' and $msg='' constructs allow for no information to be passed to the function
       
        //set defaults for function
       
$subject     = '';
       
$email       = '';
       
$message     = '';
       
$your_name   = '';
       
$your_email  = '';
       
       
//explode the string passed back from the send_mail function if there is an error
       
if (($data !="" )&&($msg != ""))
        {
               
$elements    = explode("|",$data);
               
$email       = $elements[0];
               
$subject     = $elements[1];
               
$message     = $elements[2];
               
$your_email  = $elements[3];
               
$your_name   = $elements[4];
        }
//end if
       
       
        /*
        optional where clauses could include:
        1. only active users
        2. check to see if the user wants to allow contact from others on the site
        3. only new users (signed up within a certain date)
        */
       
$sql = "SELECT * FROM contacts";//[optional where clause to show only people who choose to allow contact]


   
$result = conn($sql);

        echo
"<head><title>Make A Friend</title></head><body>\n";
        echo
"<table width='100%' cellpadding='0' cellspacing='0'>\n";
        echo
"<form name='email' action='".$_SERVER['PHP_SELF']."' method='post'>\n";
        echo
"<tr><td colspan='2' align='center'><h2>Email A Friend</h2></td></tr>\n";
        echo
"<tr><td colspan='2' align='center'> </td></tr>\n";
        echo
"<tr><td colspan='2' align='center' style='color:red; font-weight:bold;'>$msg</td></tr>\n";
       
       
//produce the email drop down
       
if (mysql_num_rows($result)>0){
         
//produce the drop down list
         
echo "<tr><td width='50%' align='right'>Name: </td><td><select name='email'>\n"; //optionally add MULTIPLE to allow sending to multiple addresses
         
echo "<option value=''>Choose One</option>\n";
          while (
$rows = mysql_fetch_array($result)){
            echo
"<option value='".$rows['id']."'>".$rows['first_name'].' '.$rows['last_name']."</option>\n";
          }
//end while
         
echo "</select></td></tr>";
        }else{
       
//if there is a problem, have the user manually enter the email address
       
echo "<tr><td colspan='2' align='center' style='color:red; font-weight:bold;'><br />Currently unable to locate email addresses. There maybe a problem with the database.</td></tr>";
        echo
"<tr><td colspan='2'> </td></tr>";
        echo
"<tr><td colspan='2' align='center' style='color:red; font-weight:bold;'>Please enter the email address manually</td></tr>\n";
        echo
"<tr><td width='40%' align='right'>Email Address: </td><td><input type='text' name='email' size='50' value='$email'></td></tr>\n";
        }
//end if
       
       
echo "<tr><td align='right'>Subject: </td> <td><input type='text' name='subject' size='50' value='$subject'></td></tr>\n";
        echo
"<tr><td align='right' valign='top'>Message: </td> <td><textarea name='message' cols='25' rows='10'>$message</textarea></td></tr>\n";
        echo
"<tr><td align='right'>Your name: </td> <td><input type='text' name='your_name' cols='25' rows='10' value='$your_name' ></td></tr>\n";
        echo
"<tr><td align='right'>Your Email: </td> <td><input type='text' name='your_email' cols='25' rows='10' value='$your_email'></td></tr>\n";
        echo
"<tr><td colspan='2' align='center'><input type='submit' value='Send Email' name='submit'><input type='reset' value='Reset'></td></tr>\n";
        echo
"</form></table></body>\n";

}
//end function
/*************************************************************************
               db connection function
*************************************************************************/
function conn($sql)
{   
$host = "localhost";
$user = "user";
$pass = "pass";
$db     = "my_db";

   
//echo "commnecing connection to local db<br>";
   
   
if (!($conn=mysql_connect($host, $user, $pass)))  {
       
printf("error connecting to DB by user = $user and pwd=$pass");
        exit;
    }
   
$db3=mysql_select_db($db,$conn) or die("Unable to connect to local database");

   
$result = mysql_query($sql) or die ("Can't run query because ". mysql_error());
   
    return
$result;
   
}
//end function     

?>



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