Hi all,

I'm new to this thing so pls bear with me...I'm using Visual Web Developer 2005 Express to develop a real estate website. I have a feedback form at contact.aspx. It contains the following items: Name, email, phone#, subject (a drop-down list), and a comments box.


1) I'm only receiving the user's email address and the comments. I would also like to receive their name, phone#, and whatever subject they've selected. How do I do this? Here's my VB code:


Imports System.Net.Mail.SmtpClient

Partial Class contact2
    Inherits System.Web.UI.Page




    Protected Sub submitButton_Click(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles submitButton.Click
        SendMail(txtEmail.Text, txtComments.Text)
    End Sub
    Private Sub SendMail(ByVal from As String, ByVal body As String)

        Dim mailServerName As String = "smtp.MyDomain.com"
        Dim message As MailMessage = New MailMessage(from, "[email protected]", "feedback", body)
        Dim mailClient As SmtpClient = New SmtpClient

        mailClient.Host = mailServerName
        mailClient.Send(message)
        message.Dispose()



    End Sub

End Class



Can someone pls help me with this?


2) I would also like to include a confirmation message showing the message has been sent but I don't know how to do it.

Thanks in advance.

AJ

I'm a newbie...so please bear with me...

If i had to guess I would say your variable named body is an empty string which would be why you are not getting any data back. This would imply, of course, that the text area txtComments does not have any data in it.

In so far as number 2 is concerened, you can accomplish by writing values out to a Literal or Label control saying that the email has been sent.

hth.


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Hi there,

Are you asking how to extend this code? Wouldn't that be a matter of adding extra parameters to the SendMail method and pass them to it? E.g.

SendMail(txtEmail.Text, txtComments.Text, txtPhoneNumber.Text)

Private Sub SendMail(ByVal from As String, ByVal body As String, ByVal phoneNumber As String)

  Dim mailServerName As String = "smtp.MyDomain.com"
  Dim message As MailMessage = New MailMessage(from, "[email protected]", "feedback", body & phoneNumber)
  Dim mailClient As SmtpClient = New SmtpClient

  mailClient.Host = mailServerName
  mailClient.Send(message)
  message.Dispose()
End Sub

In this example, I just concatenate the phone number to the body. However, you can do it in a more structured way:

Dim mailBody As String
mailBody = body & vbCrLf & "Phonenumber: " & mailBody
.... New MailMessage(from, "[email protected]", "feedback", mailBody)

This code creates a new variable mailBody, and then assigns the body, together with the static text Phonenumber: and the actual value to it.

Instead of calling this code in SendMail you can also do it in the actual page, and then pass mailBody to the SendMail method.

Hope this helps,

Imar
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