Michelle:

This line seems to be a problem.

print("If the problem persists you can mail your question directly to
<address><a href="\%22mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]\%22";><p>the forum
administrator</a>");

Try escaping your quotes surrounding your mailto href.

hth

Happy programming!
Chris Mulcahy


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michelle Marcicki [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2001 3:26 PM
> To: PHP List
> Subject: [PHP] Newbie ?: form mailer not working
>
>
> Hi all...
>
> Having problems with some php3 to php4 stuff..  the site has
> a form that has
> been setup to ask questions outside our discussion forums.
>
> The form.html contains <FORM action="util/questionmailer.php"
> method="post">
>
> The questionmailer code is as below.  I have only changed the
> email addy and the
> file extension from .php3 to .php on the questionmailer file
> and the .php
> (above) in the form.html page.  I have checked the php
> on-line manual, but can
> find nothing that fits my problems or errors.
>
> I am getting:
> 1) Warning: Unexpected character in input: '\' (ASCII=92) state=1 in
> /usr/home/blah/html/util/questionmailer.php on line 24
> 2) Parse error: parse error in
> /usr/home/erc/html/util/questionmailer.php on
> line 24
>
> Line 24 in my code is:  <a href="\%22mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]\%22";>
>
>
> //questionmailer.php code
> <body>
>
> <?php $mailTo="[EMAIL PROTECTED]" ;
>       $mailSubject="Question" ;
>       $mailBody="Name: $name \r\n" ;
>       $mailBody .="Email: $email \r\n" ;
>       $mailBody .="Question: $question \r\n" ;
>
>       if(mail($mailTo, $mailSubject, $mailBody))
>       {
>           print("Thank-You, your request has been sent.");
>       }
>       else
>       {
>           print("There was a problem transporting your
> request, please try
>          again.\n");
>           print("If the problem persists you can mail your
> question directly
>            to <address><a href="\%22mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]\%22";>
>           <p>the forum administrator</a>");
>       }
> ?>
> </p>
> </body>
>
> Is there something I'm missing here?
> (I am coming from an ASP background, with VB and some C++
> knowledge, so it all
> looks familiar, I am just trying to sort out syntax and think
> it must be that
> type of error.  I didn't write the original code, just trying
> to fix it all :)
>
> TIA.
> Michelle
>



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