Forms

[crackafaza]

Hi all!
I apologise now because I know I am in the wrong place, but o well here goes my problem!
I no how to create a simple form, but how do you encorporate that so that somebody on a website can fill in information and then press a submit button and then that information is sent to my email account?
please help!

Many Thanks
Cracka

[1840dsgn]

you need to make the form in html...you know how to do that?

And then you have two options...well literally you have two options but really there is only one suitable solution!

Firstly you could sue dthis as the action:

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<form name="form1" action="mailto:user@domain.com">

this sends the contents of the form to user@domain.com, obviously replace that with your email address. BUT the suer will not get any indication of whether it was successful or not, the form page will just reload so they won't know if it sent ok, ther suer won't get any email notification, its not very secure at all.

The option you should use it to use a PHP script to send the contents of the form. With PHP you can do a load of things like validate form inputs to prevent hackers, redirect the user to a thank you page once they have submitted their data, send the user an automatic email saying your information has been successfully received, format the data sent to your emaila ddress to make it easy to read and LOADS more.

Look for PHP form tutorials and you will find loads to get you going.

Mike

[karinne]

Search the forum for contact form ... this has been answered MANY times before.

[nashultz07]

Here is the php code that I use, you will have to change it to fit your functions.

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<?php
function clean($data) {
 $data = trim(stripslashes(strip_tags($data)));
 return $data;
}
$exploits = "/(content-type|bcc:|cc:|document.cookie|onclick|onload)/i";
foreach ($_POST as $key => $val) {
 $c[$key] = clean($val);
 if (preg_match($exploits, $val)) {
  exit("<p>No exploits, please!</p>");
 }
}
$show_form = true;
$error_msg = NULL;
if (isset($c['submit'])) {
 if (empty($c['name']) || empty($c['email']) || empty($c['comments'])) {
  $error_msg .= "Name, e-mail and comments are required fields. \n";
 } elseif (strlen($c['name']) > 15) {
  $error_msg .= "The name field is limited at 15 characters. Your first name or nickname will do! \n";
 } elseif (!ereg("^[A-Za-z' -]", $c['name'])) {
  $error_msg .= "The name field must not contain special characters. \n";
 } elseif (!ereg("^[_a-z0-9-]+(\.[_a-z0-9-]+)*@[a-z0-9-]+(\.[a-z0-9-]+)*(\.[a-z]{2,6})$",strtolower($c['email']))) {
  $error_msg .= "That is not a valid e-mail address. \n";
 }
 if ($error_msg == NULL) {
  $show_form = false;
  if (!empty($c['url']) && !ereg("^(http|https)", $c['url'])) {
   $c['url'] = "http://" . $c['url'];
  }
  $subject = "Automatic Form Email";
  $message = "You received this e-mail message through your website: \n\n";
  foreach ($c as $key => $val) {
   $message .= ucwords($key) . ": $val \n";
  }
  $message .= "IP: {$_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']} \n";
  $message .= "Browser: {$_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT']}";
  if (strstr($_SERVER['SERVER_SOFTWARE'], "Win")) {
   $headers   = "From: YOUR@EMAIL.COM \n";
   $headers  .= "Reply-To: {$c['email']}";
  } else {
   $headers   = "From: HTTP://YOURSITE.COM <YOUR@EMAIL.COM> \n";
   $headers  .= "Reply-To: {$c['email']}";
  }
  $recipient = "YOUR@EMAIL.COM";
  if (mail($recipient,$subject,$message,$headers)) {
   echo "<p>Thank you! Your mail was successfully sent.</p>";
  } else {
   echo "<p>Your mail could not be sent at this time.</p>";
  }
 }
}
if (!isset($c['submit']) || $show_form == true) {
 function get_data($var) {
  global $c;
  if (isset($c[$var])) {
   echo $c[$var];
  }
 }
 if ($error_msg != NULL) {
  echo "<p><strong style='color: red;'>ERROR:</strong><br />";
  echo nl2br($error_msg) . "</p>";
 }
?>