Form Submission page

[markusdavid]

Hi,

Was wondering if anyone could help.

I have creatred a contact form using 'formmail'. Once the submit button has been hit, instead of going to another 'redirect' page, I would like a prompt box to appear and say "thank you for submitting the form" the user clicks 'ok' and returns back to the page. I have attached my html for the form. It would be great if someone has a solution.

I look forward to your response.
Thanks
Mark

[Rakuli]

You could add an onclick confirm to the submit button.

<input type="submit" value="submit" name="submit" onclick="return confirm('Thank you for submitting the form')" />

When the click submit they will given the box, if they click cancel, the form will not be submitted. If they click okay, the form will be submitted and you can change the redirect page of the formmail to be the form again.

Is that what you mean?

Cheers

[AdRock]

Here is a contact page with form validation

PHP: Select all

<?
// Change to your own email address
$your_email = "youremail_yourdomain.com";
// This is what is displayed in the email subject line
// Change it if you want
$subject = "Message via your contact form";
// This is displayed when the email has been sent
$thankyou_message = "<p>Thankyou. Your message has been sent.</p>";
$self = $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];
$name = $_POST['txtName'];
$email = $_POST['txtEmail'];
$message = $_POST['txtMessage'];
$send = $_POST['send'];
$msg="<p>Please fill in this form if you have any queries or suggestions.</p>";
echo ($msg);
$form = "
    <form method=\"post\" action=\"$self\">
    <p><label for=\"txtName\">Name:</label>
    <input type=\"text\" title=\"Please enter your name\" id=\"txtName\" name=\"txtName\" size=\"40\" value=\"$name\" /></p>
    <p><label for=\"txtEmail\">Email:</label>
    <input type=\"text\" title=\"Please enter your email address\" id=\"txtEmail\" name=\"txtEmail\" size=\"40\" value=\"$email\"/></p>
    <p><label for=\"txtMessage\">Comments:</label>
    <textarea title=\"Please enter your message\" id=\"txtMessage\" name=\"txtMessage\" rows=\"20\" cols=\"45\">$message</textarea></p>
    <p><label>&nbsp;</label>
    <input type=\"submit\" class=\"sendbutton\" name=\"send\" value=\"Submit\" /></p>
</form>";
if($send)
{
    $valid=true;
 if( !$name )
 { 
     $errmsg.="Please enter your name:<br />";
     $valid=false;
 }
 if( !$email )
 {
     $errmsg.="Please enter your email address:<br />";
     $valid=false;
 }
 else
 {
  $email = trim($email);
  $_name = "/^[-!#$%&\'*+\\.\/0-9=?A-Z^_`{|}~]+";
  $_host = "([-0-9A-Z]+\.)+";
  $_tlds = "([0-9A-Z]){2,4}$/i";
   
  if( !preg_match($_name."@".$_host.$_tlds,$email))
  {
   $errmsg.="Email address has incorrect format!<br />";
   $valid=false;
  }
 }
 
 if( !$message )
 { 
     $errmsg.="Please enter your message:<br />";
     $valid=false; 
 }
}
if( $valid !=true )
    {
 echo( "<span style=\"font-weight: bold; color:red;\">".$errmsg."</span>" . $form );
    }
else {
    // Stop the form being used from an external URL
    // Get the referring URL
    $referer = $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'];
    // Get the URL of this page
    $this_url = "http://".$_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'].$_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"];
    // If the referring URL and the URL of this page don't match then
    // display a message and don't send the email.
    if ($referer != $this_url) {
        echo "You do not have permission to use this script from another URL.<br />";
 echo "If you are behind a firewall please check your referrer settings.";
        exit;
    }
    // The URLs matched so send the email
    if( mail($your_email, $subject, $message, "From: $name <$email>"));
    {
     // Display the thankyou message
     echo $thankyou_message;
    }
}
?>

[ScottR]

The action part of your form is where the submission takes place. In order for the form to be submitted, it needs to go to the URL where the script is.

In order for the form to be useful, it needs that server side script. But you can display messages on failure or success and redirect. What I think is the best is to have your PHP/ASP script page laid out just like your site. That way it has your navigation and the user can decide where they would like to go next. Or even have additional content on that page trying to lure them to other sections of your site.

Good Luck, Scott