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July 17th, 2012, 02:09 AM

raybrown

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Hi there,
I am building a website at the moment using Dreamweaver and need to do a form on the contact page. Can anyone help me produce a working form with Php code and a thankyou for contacting us page ?? The form fields are Name:, Email:, Tel:, Message: and the Submit button.
Any help would be greatly appreciated, as I am pulling out the hair I have left grrrrrrrrr!!

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July 17th, 2012, 01:30 PM

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With out knowing exactly what you want the PHP to do here is a basic example:

Code:


<form action="url to the php script .php" method = "POST" >

<label for="name">Name:</label><input type="text" name="name" />

<label for="email">Email:</label><input type="email" name="email" />

<label for="tel">Telephone:</label><input type="text" name="tel" />

<label for="message">Message:</label><textarea name="message"></textarea>


</form>

And here is the php:

PHP Code:


		
			
<?php



$name = mysql_real_escape_string($_POST['name']);

$email= mysql_real_escape_string($_POST['email']);

$tel= mysql_real_escape_string($_POST['tel']);

$message= mysql_real_escape_string($_POST['message']);



// do what you wish with the values.



?>

This is a very basic example but hopefully this gives you an idea of what to do.

July 17th, 2012, 02:42 PM

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Welcome to DevShed Forums, raybrown.

"A little knowledge is a dangerous thing." You will probably want to do some error checking in the PHP code as well.

@tomVance The "for" attribute of <label> elements should reference the ID of a form field. Your form fields lack IDs.

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July 17th, 2012, 02:56 PM

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Kravvitz

Welcome to DevShed Forums, raybrown.

Kravviz is right the labels need to relates to the ID attribute for the input elements i missed them out, sorry.

July 18th, 2012, 08:38 AM

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Thanks TomVance

I want the PHP to send the contents from the input fields in the form and display a thankyou message to say we will be in contact soon, see my coding below, hope you can help or make it simple for me :-)

Code:


<form name="contactform" method="post" action="send_form_email.php">
<table width="450px" align="center">
 <tr>
   <td valign="top">
      <label for="first_name">First Name *</label>
        </td>
        
          <td valign="top">
    <input  type="text" name="first_name" maxlength="50" size="30">
      </td>
       </tr>
       
<tr>
  <td valign="top">
     <label for="last_name">Last Name *</label>
       </td>  
       <td valign="top">
          <input  type="text" name="last_name" maxlength="50" size="30"> 
           </td>
            </tr>
            
<tr>
  <td valign="top">
     <label for="email">Email Address *</label>
       </td>
         <td valign="top">  
          <input  type="text" name="email" maxlength="80" size="30"> 
           </td>
            </tr>
            
<tr> 
 <td valign="top">
    <label for="telephone">Telephone Number</label> 
     </td>
     
<td valign="top">
   <input  type="text" name="telephone" maxlength="30" size="30">  
   </td>
    </tr>
    
<tr>
  <td valign="top">
     <label for="comments">Comments *</label> 
      </td>
      
      <td valign="top">
         <textarea  name="comments" maxlength="1000" cols="25" rows="6">
         </textarea>
           </td>
            </tr>
            
             <tr>  <td colspan="2" style="text-align:center">   
             <input type="submit" value="Submit">
               </td> 
               </tr>
               
                </table> </form>

And here is the php:

PHP Code:


		
			
<?php

 if(isset($_POST['email'])) {

$email_to = "";

$email_subject = "Your email subject line";

function died($error) {

// error code can go here

echo "We are very sorry, but there were error(s) found with the form you submitted. ";

echo "These errors appear below.<br /><br />";

echo $error."<br /><br />";

echo "Please go back and fix these errors.<br /><br />";

die(); 

                                                                                                        }

 // validation expected data exists

if(!isset($_POST['first_name']) ||

!isset($_POST['last_name']) ||

!isset($_POST['email']) ||

!isset($_POST['telephone']) ||

!isset($_POST['comments']))

{     died('We are sorry, but there appears to be a problem with the form you submitted.'); } 

$first_name = $_POST['first_name'];

 // required 

$last_name = $_POST['last_name'];

 // required    

 $email_from = $_POST['email'];

 // required

$telephone = $_POST['telephone'];

 // not required

$comments = $_POST['comments'];

// required

$error_message = ""; 

$email_exp = '/^[A-Za-z0-9._%-]+@[A-Za-z0-9.-]+\.[A-Za-z]{2,4}$/';

if(!preg_match($email_exp,$email_from)) {     $error_message .= 'The Email Address you entered does not appear to be valid.<br />';} 

$string_exp = "/^[A-Za-z .'-]+$/";

if(!preg_match($string_exp,$first_name)) {     $error_message .= 'The First Name you entered does not appear to be valid.<br />';}

if(!preg_match($string_exp,$last_name)) {     $error_message .= 'The Last Name you entered does not appear to be valid.<br />';}

if(strlen($comments) < 2) {     $error_message .= 'The Comments you entered do not appear to be valid.<br />';}

if(strlen($error_message) > 0) {     died($error_message);   }

$email_message = "Form details below.\n\n";

function clean_string($string) {    $bad = array("content-type","bcc:","to:","cc:","href");

return str_replace($bad,"",$string);     }

$email_message .= "First Name: ".clean_string($first_name)."\n";

$email_message .= "Last Name: ".clean_string($last_name)."\n";

$email_message .= "Email: ".clean_string($email_from)."\n";

$email_message .= "Telephone: ".clean_string($telephone)."\n";     $email_message .= "Comments: ".clean_string($comments)."\n"; }

  ?>

July 20th, 2012, 03:52 PM

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Given that the OP contains an edit message from another forum, I'm sure nobody is surprised that he's been cross-posting to at least 2 other forums.

This thread is a spam magnet, so I'm closing it.

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