Host problems with PHP Form Emails?

I've recently bought hosting from Dreamhost.com and for the past hour I've been trying to get a simple php email script to work to no avail.

I then decided to go out and download one.
I was running the Huggins Email Form Script V2.2.1 test and I still couldn't get an email sent to me after submitting a form.

Can someone here code me a simple fill out php email form so I can upload and see if this server supports it?


MakersOfHeaven.org

Update:

I was told to make my own php.ini

http://wiki.dreamhost.com/PHP.ini


I don't understand those instructions... help please?






Edit: I tried to login SSH using putty but it said ""This account allows only ftp connections""


I just want to host a few php email forms :( Admin please help ASAP
MakersOfHeaven.orgEdited by vietpho on 12/29/08 01:31 AM (server time).

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I was told to make my own php.ini

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Eh? I cannot see any reason why that should be necessary, unless the form was being used to upload files. The wiki has two related articles on forms that should give you a starting point:

1. PHP Form Processing
2. PHP mail()

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OK, I'm having the same problem...

I read both those articles: PHP form processing & PHP mail...

I guess I'm still to new to quite understand them, though. I'm having a heck of a time and I'm using Dreamweaver CS3.

ANY help would be GREATLY appreciated (a step-by-step) as I've been up all night with this.

I HAVE an HTML page with a form in it... how do I get the results emailed to me?!

Thanks, Deb

If you want unformatted results from the form, you could just put your email address into the form's action attribute:

<form method="post" action="you@yourdomain.com">

However, this will result in your email address being exposed to unscrupulous email harvesters.

For a very simple, step-by-step guide to using PHP to send you the results of a form, check out the last part of an XHTML tutorial I wrote a few years ago. The example given is intended to show the concept - it works, but there has been no hardening for security. It is kept deliberately simple to make it easy to understand, but you should develop a more security-conscious version before deploying it for real.

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