(01-24-2012, 09:36 AM)Laugh Wrote: Crystal you're clearly doing something wrong, we cannot figure that out for you. Start over and do what I said exactly.

(01-24-2012, 04:46 PM)AceInfinity Wrote: For my contact page on my website, I have an integrated captcha as well from a font that I use directly through my site files and generated in PHP. So a bit more advanced than this, but I can't see what's wrong here, i'm sure it's one of those small things that makes you look absolutely stupid when you finally realize what you were doing wrong lol. I don't like when that happens to me.

(01-25-2012, 04:00 PM)Pompano Wrote: Just a FYI, you don't need to change the HTML extension to PHP to call the script..

http://php.about.com/od/advancedphp/p/html_php.htm

(01-22-2012, 09:20 PM)Peter L Wrote: You need to use PHP. Try these codes:

Incorporate this in your page;
HTML:

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Code:

<form name="contactform" method="post" action="send_form_email.php">
<table width="450px">
<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>

This below must be named 'send_form_email.php'
You must edit 2 lines for yourself (email and subject)
PHP:

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PHP Code:

<?php
if(isset($_POST['email'])) {
     
    // EDIT THE 2 LINES BELOW AS REQUIRED
    $email_to = "YOUREMAIL@HERE.COM";
    $email_subject = "Subject";
     
     
    function died($error) {
        // your 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";
     
     
// create email headers
$headers = 'From: '.$email_from."\r\n".
'Reply-To: '.$email_from."\r\n" .
'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion();
@mail($email_to, $email_subject, $email_message, $headers);  
?>
 
<!-- include your own success html here -->
 
<?php
}
?>