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Title :	PHP based Contact email form with multiple recipients, text file based, supports departments.
Categories :	PHP, Email, Beginner Guides, Filesystem	Christian Haensel
Date :	Jun 14th 2007
Grade :	2 of 5 (graded 6 times)
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<?
/* PHP based Contact form with multiple recipients. Receipients are loaded from a text file.
The script uses the PHP mail() function.

Programmed by Christian Haensel, christian@chftp.com, LINK1http://www.chftp.comLINK1
Exclusively published on weberdev.com. If you like my scripts, please let me know or link to me.

You may copy, redistirubte, change and alter my scripts as long as this information remains intact
*/
// The file containing the contact information
// Data line layout:
// Number;Name;Email;department
// like Christian Haensel;christian@chftp.com;Webdesign
$rec_file = "contacts.txt";
$rec = file($rec_file);

function getContacts($rec) {
foreach($rec as $line) {
list($cnumber, $cname, $cemail, $cdept) = split(";", $line);
echo '<option value="'.$cnumber.'">'.$cdept.' -> '.$cname.'</option>'."\n";
}
}

// Form output if user is not sending
if(!isset($_POST['do'])) {
echo '
<b>Select a contact</b><p>
<form name="contact" method="post" action="'.$PHP_SELF.'">
<select name="contacts">';
getContacts($rec);
echo '</select>
<br />
<b>Your name:</b><br><input type="text" name="sender"><br>
<b>Your Email:</b><br><input type="text" name="email"><br>
<b>Your message:</b><br><textarea name="message"></textarea><br>
<input type="hidden" name="do" value="sendmail">
<input type="submit" value="Send" />
</form>';

} else {
// Get Contact Details from textfile
foreach($rec as $line) {
$number = $_POST['contacts'];
list($cnumber, $cname, $cemail, $cdept) = split(";", $line);
if($cnumber == $number) {
$contname = $cname;
$contemail = $cemail;
}
}
// Send the email
$sender_name = $_POST['sender'];
$sender_email = $_POST['email'];
$sender_msg = $_POST['message'];
$headers = "From: ".$sender_name." <".$sender_email."> \r\n";
$headers.= "Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 ";
$headers .= "MIME-Version: 1.0 ";
$email_subject = "New message from ".$sender_name;
$mail_text = '
Hello '.$contname.'

'.$sender_name.' is sending you the following message:
----------------------------------------------------------
'.$sender_msg.'
----------------------------------------------------------
The sender email address is '.$sender_email;

mail($contemail, $email_subject, $mail_text, $headers);
echo '<b>Thank you!</b><p>Your message has been sent to '.$contemail.'.';
}
?>

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User Comments

Vincent Weber wrote :1759
Hey! I was checking your code and was wondering how the textfile has to looks like..because i got this error while running in the webbrowser IE. In other words can I use this form directly or do I need to create this contacts.txt by myself and how?? (im just beginning with php..) greets Vin