# Postcard

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/postcard/242427>\
**Category:** programming\
**Created:** [October 25, 2007, 8:11pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/postcard/242427 "2007-10-25T20:11:54Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
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**Author:** ![kaken](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/a9adbd/32.png) [@kaken](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/kaken)\
**Post date:** [October 25, 2007, 8:11pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/postcard/242427/1 "2007-10-25T20:11:54Z")

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Hi everyone, I was trying to do this postcard tutorial with php. But I’m not sure how to add a field where users can type in their names before sending it to someone. Here’s the script:

> 

\<?php

// CHANGE PARAMETERS HERE BEGIN  
$columns = 5;  
$senderName = ‘E-card’; // Eg.: John’s Postcards  
$senderEmail = ‘Sender EMAIL here’; // Eg.: [john@postcard.com](mailto:john@postcard.com)  
// Change only if you have problems with urls  
$postcardURL = ‘http://’.$\_SERVER[‘HTTP\_HOST’].$\_SERVER[‘SCRIPT\_NAME’];  
// CHANGE PARAMETERS HERE END

// This function displays the available images  
function displayPhotos(){  
global $columns;

```
$act = 0;
// Open the actual directory
if ($handle = opendir("thumbs")) {
    // Read all file from the actual directory
    while ($file = readdir($handle)) {
        if (!is_dir($file)) {
            if ($act == 0) echo "&lt;tr&gt;";
            echo "&lt;td align='center'&gt;&lt;img src='thumbs/$file' alt='postcard' /&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;input type='radio' name='selimg' value='$file' /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;";
            $act++;
            if ($act == $columns){
                $act = 0;
                echo "&lt;/tr&gt;";
            }
          }
    }
    echo "&lt;/tr&gt;";
}    

```

}

?\>  
\<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC “-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN” “DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd”\>  
\<html\>  
\<head\>  
\<title\>Postcard\</title\>  
\<link href=“style/style.css” rel=“stylesheet” type=“text/css” /\>  
\</head\>  
\<body\>  
\<div id=“container”\>

```
&lt;div id="content"&gt;
&lt;div id="caption"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;

&lt;?php if ( (!isset($_POST['submit'])) && (!isset($_GET['show'])) ) { ?&gt;
    &lt;form action="&lt;?php echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']; ?&gt;" method="post"&gt;
        &lt;table align="center"&gt;
               &lt;?php displayPhotos(); ?&gt;
        &lt;/table&gt;        
   &lt;h2&gt;Fill the form&lt;/h2&gt;    
        &lt;table width="100%"&gt;
          &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;Send to (email address):&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;input type="text" name="email" size="30"/&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
          &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;Message:&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;textarea name="message" rows="10" cols="40"&gt;&lt;/textarea&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
          &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" align="center"&gt;&lt;input type="submit" value="Send card!" name="submit"/&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
        &lt;/table&gt;
   &lt;/form&gt; 
   &lt;?php } else if ( (isset($_POST['submit'])) && (!isset($_GET['show'])) ) { 
        $pic = isset ($_POST['selimg']) ? $_POST['selimg'] : '';
        $filename = date('YmdGis');
        $f = fopen('messages/'.$filename.".txt","w+");         
        fwrite($f,$pic."

```

“);  
fwrite($f,$\_POST[‘email’].”  
“);  
fwrite($f,htmlspecialchars($\_POST[‘message’]).”  
");  
fclose($f);

```
        // Compose the mail
            $from = "From: $senderName &lt;$senderEmail&gt;

```

";  
$replay = "Reply-To: $senderEmail  
";  
$params = "MIME-Version: 1.0  
";  
$params .= "Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1  
";  
$mailtext = "You have just received an E-card!

"  
. “You can pick up your e-card at the following web address:  
"  
. “$postcardURL”.”?show=$filename

"  
. "We hope you enjoy your postcard, and if you do, please take a moment to send a few yourself!

"  
. "Regards,  
"  
. "[takeitbackin08.com](http://takeitbackin08.com)  
"  
. $postcardURL;

```
        // Send email          
          @mail($_POST['email'],"You've received a postcard",$mailtext,$from.$replay.$params);

```

?\>

```
    &lt;center&gt;
      Your postcard was sent!&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;
      &lt;img src='images/&lt;?php echo $pic; ?&gt;' alt="postcard" /&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;?php echo nl2br(htmlspecialchars($_POST['message'])); ?&gt;&lt;/center&gt;            
   &lt;?php } else if ( (!isset($_POST['submit'])) && (isset($_GET['show'])) ) { 
$file = isset($_GET['show']) ? $_GET['show'] : '' ;
$content = file('messages/'.$file.".txt");
$pic = $content['0'];
unset ($content['0']);
unset ($content['1']);
$main = "";
foreach ($content as $value) {
    $main .= $value;
}

```

?\>  
\<center\>  
Your postcard!\<br/\>\<br/\>  
\<img src=‘images/\<?php echo $pic; ?\>’ alt=“postcard” /\>\<br/\>\<br/\>\<br/\>\<?php echo nl2br(htmlspecialchars($main)); ?\>\</center\>

\<?php } ?\>  
\<div id=“source”\>\</div\>  
\</div\>\</div\>  
\</body\>