[Steven Gardner]

Redesigning a site for a friend and they have a contact form on the site with some simple stuff on it.

I would like to use the most effective and upto date method.

What scripts do use to send results from an online form.


Thanks

Steven

[Ben Abrams]

Steven Gardner said:

What scripts do use to send results from an online form.

Do you mean a pre-made script, or are you referring to code (using SMTP or PHPmail)?

[Steven Gardner]

I'm not sure myself what i mean

I think what i want to know is

what php code do you use to send a Contact forms results to an email address.

If you use your own custom php then if you would like to share then great but if you use a free script from somewhere on the web then also please share.

Thanks

Steven

[sypher]

Yeh i use my own, I dont mind sharing

Heres the php

//If enquiry form is submitted
if(isset($_POST['Submit'])) {

	//Function for checking valid email
	function check_email_address($email) {
		// First, we check that there's one @ symbol, and that the lengths are right
		if (!ereg("^[^@]{1,64}@[^@]{1,255}$", $email)) {
			
			// Email invalid because wrong number of characters in one section, or wrong number of @ symbols.
			return false;
			}
			
			// Split it into sections to make life easier
			$email_array = explode("@", $email);
			$local_array = explode(".", $email_array[0]);
			for ($i = 0; $i < sizeof($local_array); $i++) {
				if (!ereg("^(([A-Za-z0-9!#$%&'*+/=?^_`{|}~-][A-Za-z0-9!#$%&'*+/=?^_`{|}~\.-]{0,63})|(\"[^(\\|\")]{0,62}\"))$", $local_array[$i])) {
					return false;
					}
					}
					if (!ereg("^\[?[0-9\.]+\]?$", $email_array[1])) { // Check if domain is IP. If not, it should be valid domain name
					$domain_array = explode(".", $email_array[1]);
					if (sizeof($domain_array) < 2) {
						return false; // Not enough parts to domain
						}
						for ($i = 0; $i < sizeof($domain_array); $i++) {
							if (!ereg("^(([A-Za-z0-9][A-Za-z0-9-]{0,61}[A-Za-z0-9])|([A-Za-z0-9]+))$", $domain_array[$i])) {
								return false;
								}
								}
								}
								return true;
								}

	//Set error value and variables
	$error = FALSE;

	//Set all your vairables here
	$name = $_POST['Name'];
	$email = $_POST['Email'];
	$address = $_POST['Address'];
	$enquiry = $_POST['Enquiry'];
	$address = strip_tags($address);
	$enquiry = strip_tags($enquiry);
	
	//Set title of the email and which address its going to
	$title = "You have received an email!";
	$semail = "someone@domain.com";
	
	//Check if any required fields are blank
	if(!$name | !$email) {
		$error = TRUE;
		$error_msg = "<strong>ERROR:</strong> Please fill in the required fields for <strong>Name</strong> and <strong>Email Address</strong>.";
	}
	
	//Check to see if the email address is valid
	if (check_email_address($email) == FALSE) {
		$error = TRUE;
		$error_msg = "<strong>ERROR:</strong> Please enter a <strong>valid</strong> email address.";
	}
	
	//Add more error checks if needed for other variables
	
	if ($error == FALSE) {
	//Prepare email data for reading
	$query .= "<h1>Customer Enquiry</h1>";
	$query .= "<p>From: <strong>$name</strong></p>";
	$query .= "<p>Email Address: <strong>$email</strong></p>";
	$query .= "<p>Address: <strong>$address</strong></p>";
	$query .= "<p>Enquiry: <strong>$enquiry</strong></p>";
	
	//If no validation errors have occured send the email
	$headers = "MIME-Version: 1.0 \r\n";
	$headers .= "Content-type: text/html;";
	$headers .= "charset=iso-8859-1\r\n";
	$headers .= "From: $email\r\n";
	//send mail
	mail($semail,$title,"$query",$headers);
	$success = TRUE;
	}
}

Heres the html/php

<?php
if($error == TRUE) {
	echo "<div class=\"warningContent\">$error_msg</div>\n";
}
elseif($success == TRUE){
	echo "<div class=\"successContent\"><strong>Enquiry sent!</strong> Please allow upto <em>24 hours</em> for a response.</div>\n";
}
?>
<form id="enquiryForm" name="Enquiry" method="post" action="nameofthefileyouchoosehere.php">

<label>Your Name
<input name="Name" type="text" size="25" value="<?php echo $_POST['Name'];?>" /></label>

<label>Your Email
<input name="Email" type="text" size="25" value="<?php echo $_POST['Email'];?>" /></label>

<label>Your Address
<textarea name="Address" cols="45" rows="3"><?php echo $_POST['Address'];?></textarea></label>

<label>Your Enquiry
<textarea name="Enquiry" cols="45" rows="3"><?php echo $_POST['Enquiry'];?></textarea></label>

<input name="Submit" type="submit" id="Submit" value="Submit" />
<input name="Reset" type="reset" id="Reset" value="Reset" />
</form>

Any problems or explanations needed let me know!

[Steven Gardner]

Thanks Sypher!

Here is the code i have been working with. Its not working at the moment and i dont know whats wrong. Can someone take a look and tell me whats wrong.

Thanks

<?php 
  /* ========================= Begin Configuration ============================ */
	define("kContactEmail","robandpaul@twoscompanycreations.co.uk");
  /* ========================= End Configuration ============================== */

  // init variables
	$error_msg = 'The following fields were left empty or contain invalid information:<ul>';
	$error = false;

	// determine is the form was submitted
	$submit = $_POST['submit'];
	if (empty($submit)) 
		$form_submitted = false;
	else
	  $form_submitted = true;

  if ($form_submitted) {
	  // read out data
	  $name = $_POST['name'];
		$phone = $_POST['phone'];
		$email = $_POST['email'];
		$message = $_POST['message'];
		
		// verify required data
		if(!$name) { $error_msg .= "<li>Full Name</li>"; $error = true; }
		if(!$phone) { $error_msg .= "<li>Phone Number</li>"; $error = true; }
		if($email) { if(!eregi("^[a-z0-9_]+@[a-z0-9\-]+\.[a-z0-9\-\.]+$", $email)){ $error_msg .= "<li>E-mail Address</li>"; $error = true; }}
		$error_msg .= "</ul>";
		
		// email message if no errors occurred
		if (!$error) {
	  // prepare message
			$msg  = "Full Name: \t $name \n";
			$msg .= "Phone Number: \t $phone \n";
			$msg .= "E-mail Address: \t $email \n";
			$msg .= "Message: \n---\n $message \n---\n";
			
			$subject = "Website Contact Form Results";

			// prepare message header
			$mailheaders  = "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";
			$mailheaders .= "Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1\r\n";
			$mailheaders .= "From: $name <$email>\r\n";
			$mailheaders .= "Reply-To: $name <$email>\r\n"; 

		  // send out email
			mail(kContactEmail, $subject ,stripslashes($msg), $mailheaders);
		}
	} 
?>
</head>


<body>

<body>

	<div id="left-col">
	<h1 class="page-title">Contact Us</h1>
	
	<p>If you are interested in what we offer, fantastic. Get in touch and either Rob or Paul will be glad to help</p><br />
  <?php
				// email was successfully send
				if (($form_submitted) && (!$error)) {
			?>
									  <!-- display submitted data -->
									  Thank you for your message, <?php echo $name; ?>.
									  This is the information you submitted:<br>
									  <br>
									  <?php echo nl2br(stripslashes($msg)); ?>
									  <?php	
				}
				// display contact form
				else {
					// display error message
					if ($error) {	
						echo "<font class='form_check'>" . $error_msg . "</font>\n";
					} 
			?>
			<form action="<?php echo $PHP_SELF; ?>" method="post" name="contact">
	<fieldset>
	<legend>Contact Details</legend>
	<ol>
   		<li>
			<label for="name">Name:</label>
			<input id="name" name="name" class="text" value="<?php echo $name ?>" type="text" size="30" />
		</li>
		  <li>
		 <label for="phone">Telephone:</label>
		 <input id="phone" name="phone" class="text" value="<?php echo $phone ?>" type="text" />
		 </li>
		<li>
			<label for="email">Email:</label>
			<input name="email" type="text" class="text" value="<?php echo $email ?>" id="email" size="35" />
		 </li>
		 <li>
		 <label for="message">Message:</label>
		 <textarea name="message" cols="45" rows="4" ><?php echo $message ?></textarea>
		 </li>
		 </ol>
		<input class="submit" type="submit" value="Send Message" />
		</fieldset></form>
		<?php
				}
			?>	
	</div><!-- End of Left Column -->

[sypher]

Whats the current error your getting?

[Steven Gardner]

The confirmation message when the form has been sent dosen't appear and i dont think its sending any results to the recipient.

[madison12]

Mail Manager is a great mailing list script that allows visitors to your website to subscribe and unsubscribe to your mailing list
without ANY work from you. This is a great way to inform your visitors on what's happening, and bring them back!


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