Help with sending link with email

Hello, I could use some help with my submit.php file (below). This code is not something I created, but it woks successfully at sending the email, but the video link is still not arriving. The email message, that arrives successfully, shows, for example:
UploadForm-M:
Name: Chris-Test
E-Mail: chris8@…mail.com
Message: Test-Test
Video:

Any help/comments will be appreciated.

<?php

// if the url field is empty
//if(isset($_POST['url']) && $_POST['url'] == '')
{

	// put your email address here
	$youremail = '[email protected]';

	// Important: if you added any form fields to the HTML, you will need to add them here also
	$body = "UploadForm-M:
	Name:  $_POST[name]
	E-Mail: $_POST[email]
	Message: $_POST[message]
	Video: $_POST[videolink]";

	if( $_POST['email'] && !preg_match( "/[\r\n]/", $_POST['email']) ) {
	  $headers = "From: $_POST[email]";
	} else {
	  $headers = "From: $youremail";
	}
	// finally, send the message
	mail($youremail, 'Contact Form', $body, $headers );
}

// otherwise, let the spammer think that they got their message through
// if no errors are set, continue
if(empty($error))
{
header('Location: http://real....com');
exit;
}
?>

Why is the if statement commented out?

May be a style choice, but some changes,

$body = "UploadForm-M:
Name:  {$_POST['name']}
E-Mail: {$_POST['email']}
Message: {$_POST['message']}
Video: {$_POST['videolink']}";

Lastly, do you know that $_POST[‘videolink’] holds anything?

Thank you for your reply. It now works successfully.
I’m now trying to have this code send the same identical email that goes to “$youremail”, to also go to the “E-Mail [email]” address. Any additional guidance with that, will be appreciated: Here’s the current code:

<?php
{
	$youremail = '[email protected]';

	$body = "UploadForm-M:
	Name:  $_POST[name]
	E-Mail: $_POST[email]
	Message: $_POST[message]
	Video: $_POST[videolink]";

	if( $_POST['email'] && !preg_match( "/[\r\n]/", $_POST['email']) ) {
	  $headers = "From: $_POST[email]";
	} else {
	  $headers = "From: $youremail";
	}
	mail($youremail, 'Contact Form', $body, $headers );
}
if(empty($error))
{
header('Location: http://real...com');
exit;
}
?>

So, what you want is to trigger an email to the person that sent it, and to a person that should receive it? Kind of like a receipt that you got it?

thanks for your reply. yes kind of like a receipt

So call mail twice. Once for the initial send, and then another time to show receipt. Though I would check to see if it was successfully sent when I do that.

Thanks for your reply. Can you show me an example of “call mail twice”, please?
The reason I ask is I don’t know how to send the second mailing to the email address that comes from here:

$body = “UploadForm-M:
Name: $_POST[name]
E-Mail: $_POST[email]
Message: $_POST[message]”;

The email address that I want to send a second emailing to is: E-Mail: $_POST[email]

I tried this without success:

 '''''''''
    	$body = "E-Mail: $_POST[email]";
    	    $headers .= "Hello ".$_POST[name]." ;

    	mail($body, $headers );
    }

''''''''''

I look forward to some guidance. Much thanks

https://www.w3schools.com/php/func_mail_mail.asp

You just need to call the function twice. Once to you, and again for the user that sent it.

// send the initial email
if(mail(...))
    // send the receipt
    mail(...)

Yes, thank you for your reply and link, but I still don’t know how to take the email entered in the Form: E-Mail: $_POST[email] so it works in the mail(…) function,

any additional guidance will be appreciated

Did you go to the link?

mail($_POST['email'], $_POST['email'], $_POST['email']);

Thanks for the reply.

Yes, I went to the link (thanks for that), and tried the code below with limited success, which means an email arrived at this address: $youremail, but not at this address: $_POST[‘email’]

Any additional help will be welcomed.

<?php
{

	$youremail = '[email protected]';

	// Important: if you added any form fields to the HTML, you will need to add them here also
	$body = "UploadForm-M:
	Name:  $_POST[name]
	E-Mail: $_POST[email]
	Message: $_POST[message]";

	$headers .= "Hello ".$_POST[name]."";
	mail($youremail, 'Real Message', $body, $headers );

	$body = "UploadForm-M:
	Name:  $_POST[name]
	E-Mail: $_POST[email]
	Message: $_POST[message]";

	$headers .= "Hello ".$_POST[name]."";
	mail($_POST['email'], 'test', $headers );
}

if(empty($error))
{
header('Location: http://real....com');
exit;
}
?>

It may have… The mail function routinely ends up in the spam or junk folders, or is outright rejected by ISP’s.

I’m a fan of mailgun, but at onetime used PHPMailer.

Thanks for all the help/replies. This code below works successfully, the only thing I can’t figure out is that when I open up the first email sent it shows that it was sent from: wcform@real…com, but the second email shows that it was sent from an email address pertaining to the server, how can I have the second email show it’s from wcform@real…com?
Here’s the current code:

<?php
{

	$youremail = '[email protected]';

	$body = "UploadForm-M:
	Name:  $_POST[name]
	E-Mail: $_POST[email]
	Message: $_POST[message]";

	$headers .= "Hello ".$_POST[name]."";
	mail($youremail, 'Real Message', $body, $headers );

	$headers .= "Hello ".$_POST[name]."";
	mail($_POST['email'], 'test', $headers );
}

if(empty($error))
{
header('Location: http://real....com');
exit;
}
?>

You would use the headers added to the function.

Thanks again for your reply, but I’m not sure how to “use the headers added to the function”, can you provide some specificity?

The link I posted mentions them…

Got it, thanks again …

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