[SOLVED] Blank email being sent

I've created a custom template and configured Chrono Forms so that the template should be sent. But I recieve an email that only contains the ip-address of the sender.

Attached is a zipfile with all the settings:

- global_0x: global configuration
- result_0x: webpage, source from webpage, blank email
- afaan_0x: complete configuration of Chrono Forms

Any ideas on what I might be doing wrong ? [file name=chrono.zip size=122350]http://www.chronoengine.com/components/com_fireboard/uploaded/files/chrono.zip[/file]

Post edited by: notexa, at: 2007/07/02 05:51<br><br>Post edited by: notexa, at: 2007/07/02 15:16

Hi notexa,

Interesting - at first sight everything looks OK to me. I'll re-create your form later and see what is happening.

Do you get a 'correct' e-mail if you are unregistered?

Bob

Hi notexa,

Solved it. The problem is with the escaped double quotes in your html - these are perfectly good php but break ChronoForms parser when it looks for field names.

If you write name='vannaam' instead of name =\"vannaam\" it will work.

A couple of tips for writing 'echo' code in php (for double quoted strings like echo "my string").
[list]

Use single quotes for attributes then you don't need to escape them

You don't need to escape simple variables if they are marked out by spaces or other punctuation. So echo "Your name is $name"; works OK

You don't need to escape or concatenate new lines. That is you can continue quoted text from one line to the next without "."

[/list]Using these, you can simplify your code to

<?php
global $my;
if ( $my->id ) {
echo "Ik ben geregistreerd<br />
Naam: $my->name<input type='hidden' name='vannaam' value='$my->name' /><br />
Email: $my->email<input type='hidden' name='vanemail' value='$my->email' /><br />";
} else {
echo "Ik ben niet geregistreerd<br />
Naam: <input type='text' name='vannaam' /><br />
Email: <input type='text' name='vanemail' /><br />";
}
?>
<input type='submit' value='doorsturen'><?php
global $my;
if (!$my->id) {
echo "Ik ben geregistreerd<br />
Naam: $my->name<input type='hidden' name='vannaam' value='$my->name' /><br />
Email: $my->email<input type='hidden' name='vanemail' value='$my->email' /><br />";
} else {
echo "Ik ben niet geregistreerd<br />
Naam: <input type='text' name='vannaam' /><br />
Email: <input type='text' name='vanemail' /><br />";
}
?>
<input type='submit' value='doorsturen'> 

which is easier to read and to debug.

Bob<br><br>Post edited by: GreyHead, at: 2007/07/02 10:50

Hi Notexa, Bob,

Just a comment, the double quotes or single quotes are NOT an issue at all, botho f them should work fine, but at a: afaan_03.jpg I can see that your field name are like this : name="\something\" , the back slashes are the trouble!!

Did you try to receive the email as "field names" ? the default option at the config ? if so then how did it look like ?

Max

Hi Max,

Just a comment, the double quotes or single quotes are NOT an issue at all,

Not so, in this case the html is inside the <?php . . . ?> tags and so the double quotes have to be escaped by the slashes.

For example:

<?php echo "<input name=\"some_name\" name=\"$some_name\"/>"; ?>

requires the slashes. The other way of writing it:

<input name="some_name" value="<?php echo $some_name ?>" />

doesn't require the slashes. But both are valid php.

Bob

Right, sorry at my messages I didn't put my code into code tags so the backslashes gone and I didn't notice notexa is using PHP to echo everything too

Hi Max,

No problem - I did the same thing and it took me about 30 minutes to get all the quotes right and work out what was happening.

Bob

Thanks a lot Bob ! Leaving out the backslash worked perfectly.
And thanks for the tips on php :woohoo: