Forms

[Sinque]

Hey,

Does anyone have a good guide or information on how to create a data entry form on a website and when you press submit it doesn't open a 3rd party email program like outlook, it just sends it straight away?

Cheers.

 

[Sinque]

A contact form?

Yeah exactly.

easy - create the form with html and send the form output to a php script to handle the data. You can use the mail function to do this in php for example

http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_forms.asp

Ok, i'll take a look. Looks slightly confusing

 

[Sinque]

Can't get it to work

www.gogreendrivingschool.com/contact.html

<form method="POST" action="contact.php">
Fields marked (*) are required

<p>Email From:* <br>
<input type="text" name="EmailFrom">
<p>Salutation:<br>
<input type="text" name="Salutation">
<p>FirstName:<br>
<input type="text" name="FirstName">
<p>LastName:<br>
<input type="text" name="LastName">
<p>PostCode:<br>
<input type="text" name="PostCode">
<p>HomeTel:<br>
<input type="text" name="HomeTel">
<p>Mobile:<br>
<input type="text" name="Mobile">
<p><input type="submit" name="submit" value="Submit">
</form>

// get posted data into local variables
$EmailFrom = Trim(stripslashes($_POST['EmailFrom'])); 
$EmailTo = "[email protected]";
$Subject = "Driving Lesson Enquiry";
$Salutation = Trim(stripslashes($_POST['Salutation'])); 
$FirstName = Trim(stripslashes($_POST['FirstName'])); 
$LastName = Trim(stripslashes($_POST['LastName'])); 
$PostCode = Trim(stripslashes($_POST['PostCode'])); 
$HomeTel = Trim(stripslashes($_POST['HomeTel'])); 
$Mobile = Trim(stripslashes($_POST['Mobile'])); 

// validation
$validationOK=true;
if (Trim($EmailFrom)=="") $validationOK=false;
if (!$validationOK) {
  print "<meta http-equiv=\"refresh\" content=\"0;URL=error.htm\">";
  exit;
}

// prepare email body text
$Body = "";
$Body .= "Salutation: ";
$Body .= $Salutation;
$Body .= "\n";
$Body .= "FirstName: ";
$Body .= $FirstName;
$Body .= "\n";
$Body .= "LastName: ";
$Body .= $LastName;
$Body .= "\n";
$Body .= "PostCode: ";
$Body .= $PostCode;
$Body .= "\n";
$Body .= "HomeTel: ";
$Body .= $HomeTel;
$Body .= "\n";
$Body .= "Mobile: ";
$Body .= $Mobile;
$Body .= "\n";

// send email 
$success = mail($EmailTo, $Subject, $Body, "From: <$EmailFrom>");

// redirect to success page 
if ($success){
  print "<meta http-equiv=\"refresh\" content=\"0;URL=ok.htm\">";
}
else{
  print "<meta http-equiv=\"refresh\" content=\"0;URL=error.htm\">";
}
?>

Just brings up an error, not really sure what i'm doing. I copied that code from a form generator aswell

Cheers.

 

[Sinque]

Yep it does, Surpass Hosting. Has always had PHP.

Do I need to set it as PHP in the index.html or something?

 

[Sinque]

Doh! silly typo, should have spotted it earlier, add '<'?php' and '?>' around your code, it's just plaintext at the moment, no wonder it isn't executing, for example:

<?php

code goes here

?>

Still doesn't work

The requested URL /error.htm was not found on this server.

 

[Sinque]

Does that file exist (ie. have you created it)?

Just did that, made a success and error .htm and now it works.

Test it to see it's glory

Thanks a lot mate

 

[Sinque]

Just tested it, seems to work okay now, you should have a message from [email protected]

Indeed, greetings Mr John Smith

Thanks again.

 

[Sinque]

Hey mate, i've broke it again T_T;;;

I've tried to add a text area, as you can see at http://www.gogreendrivingschool.com/contact.html and I get an error.

I've tried adding the variables to the php file but it's having none of it, sorry for being a pain

				<form method="POST" action="contact.php">
				Fields marked (*) are required
				
				<p>FirstName:<br>
				<input type="text" name="FirstName">
				<p>LastName:<br>
				<input type="text" name="LastName">
				<p>PostCode:<br>
				<input type="text" name="PostCode">
				<p>HomeTel:<br>
				<input type="text" name="HomeTel">
				<p>Mobile:<br>
				<input type="text" name="Mobile">
				<p>Comments:<br>
				<textarea cols="50" rows="4" name="Comment">Do you have your provisional? Previous experience? When is best to contact you?</textarea>
				<p><input type="submit" name="submit" value="Submit">
				</form>

<?php
// get posted data into local variables
$EmailTo = "[email protected]";
$Subject = "Driving Lesson Enquiry";
$FirstName = Trim(stripslashes($_POST['FirstName'])); 
$LastName = Trim(stripslashes($_POST['LastName'])); 
$PostCode = Trim(stripslashes($_POST['PostCode'])); 
$HomeTel = Trim(stripslashes($_POST['HomeTel'])); 
$Mobile = Trim(stripslashes($_POST['Mobile'])); 
$Comment = Trim(stripslashes($_POST['Comment'])); 

// validation
$validationOK=true;
if (!$validationOK) {
  print "<meta http-equiv=\"refresh\" content=\"0;URL=error.htm\">";
  exit;
}

// prepare email body text
$Body = "";
$Body .= "FirstName: ";
$Body .= $FirstName;
$Body .= "\n";
$Body .= "LastName: ";
$Body .= $LastName;
$Body .= "\n";
$Body .= "PostCode: ";
$Body .= $PostCode;
$Body .= "\n";
$Body .= "HomeTel: ";
$Body .= $HomeTel;
$Body .= "\n";
$Body .= "Mobile: ";
$Body .= $Mobile;
$Body .= "\n";
$Body .= "Comment: ";
$Body .= $Comment;
$Body .= "\n";

// send email 
$success = mail($EmailTo, $Subject, $Body);

// redirect to success page 
if ($success){
  print "<meta http-equiv=\"refresh\" content=\"0;URL=success.htm\">";
}
else{
  print "<meta http-equiv=\"refresh\" content=\"0;URL=error.htm\">";
}
?>

 

[Sinque]

What error are you getting?

Just a big line of code, almost as though it's not executing the script.

 

[Sinque]

It comes back sucess for me, have you updated it since you posted?

Nope?

Possibly be my cache or something? I'll ctrl + f5 it and see what happens.

Edit: Yeah, seems to work now. Wierd Sorry

 

[Sinque]

I struggled to get a simple form working, nevermind with validation rules