PHP Form send in email

Bravo81 · #1 (**permalink**) Jan 16th, 2008, 20:56

Hi everyone,

I need help in making a form, ive made the basic HTML sides of it.

I need the PHP side, which will send the data input to the HTML Form to an email.

Any help will be greatly appreciated as ive tried three times before and had errors.

The form can be found here:
www.southernheavenflorida.com/bookingform.html

Thanks in advance for any help!

alexgeek · #2 (**permalink**) Jan 16th, 2008, 20:58

PHP mail() --> Making a Form / Validating Input / Sending an email

Bravo81 · #3 (**permalink**) Jan 16th, 2008, 21:00

Sorry, didnt think of searching the forum before posting because it slipped my mind

Sorry!!

alexgeek · #4 (**permalink**) Jan 16th, 2008, 21:03

Don't worry mate

But check the stickies before posting, they can usually help a lot!

c010depunkk · #5 (**permalink**) Jan 16th, 2008, 21:03

Yap, start by checking out my tutorial in the stickies.... Feel free to post any questions you may have!

Bravo81 · #6 (**permalink**) Jan 16th, 2008, 21:28

Ok, ive got an error.

if(count($_POST)>0) { // was something posted?

Thats the error line, the error is:
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_IF in /home/bravows1/public_html/southernheavenflorida.com/bookingform.php on line 12

Help please!

alexgeek · #7 (**permalink**) Jan 16th, 2008, 21:35

Could you post the lines either side of that too please.

Bravo81 · #8 (**permalink**) Jan 16th, 2008, 21:36

Sure, all the coding is just copied from the last bit of the tutorial.
Slightly edited it.
Heres the code:

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<?php
/****** PHP Form Mail *****/
// declare and initialize some variables
$name=$email=$subject=$message=$error_message='';
$invalid_fields=array();
$required_fields=array('name','email','message');
$validated=array();
$to_address='admin@bravo-webspace.co.uk'; // your email address goes here
// validate $_POST array
if(count($_POST)>0) { // was something posted?
    foreach($_POST as $key=>$value) { // loop through the $_POST array
        if(in_array($key,$required_fields)&&$value=='') { // check if a required field is empty
             // add that field to the $invalid_fields array
            array_push($invalid_fields,$key);
            // and append the error message to the $error_message variable
            $error_message.='<p>Please enter a'.(preg_match('/^[aeiouy]/',$key)?'n':'').' '.$key.'.</p>';
        } else {

alexgeek · #9 (**permalink**) Jan 16th, 2008, 21:42

That's odd, I can't spot an error there.

Bravo81 · #10 (**permalink**) Jan 16th, 2008, 21:44

Thats what i thought.
Heres the whole file,

PHP: Select all


<?php
/****** PHP Form Mail *****/
// declare and initialize some variables
$name=$email=$subject=$message=$error_message='';
$invalid_fields=array();
$required_fields=array('name','email','message');
$validated=array();
$to_address='admin@bravo-webspace.co.uk'; // your email address goes here
// validate $_POST array
if(count($_POST)>0) { // was something posted?
    foreach($_POST as $key=>$value) { // loop through the $_POST array
        if(in_array($key,$required_fields)&&$value=='') { // check if a required field is empty
             // add that field to the $invalid_fields array
            array_push($invalid_fields,$key);
            // and append the error message to the $error_message variable
            $error_message.='<p>Please enter a'.(preg_match('/^[aeiouy]/',$key)?'n':'').' '.$key.'.</p>';
        } else {
            switch($key) {
                case 'email': // validate email address format
                    if(!preg_match('/^([A-Z0-9._%-]+)@([A-Z0-9.-]+)\.([A-Z]{2,6})$/i',$value)) {
                        array_push($invalid_fields,'email');
                        $error_message.='<p>Please enter a valid email.</p>';
                    }
                    break;
            }
        }
        // field is not in the $invalid_fields array?
        if(!in_array($key,$invalid_fields)) {
            // copy it to the $validated array
            $validated[$key]=htmlspecialchars($value);
        }
    }
} else { // make everything invalid so that the form is outputted and not the thankyou message
    $invalid_fields=$required_fields;
}
?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<title>Villa Booking Form</title>
<style type="text/css" media="all">
* { margin:0;padding:0; }
body { font:600 12px/22px verdana;padding:50px; }
.box, textarea, .button { border:2px solid #6699CC;font:inherit;color:inherit; }
.box { width:250px; }
textarea { width:300px;height:250px; }
.error { color:#DD1100; }
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div class="contact">
    <h1>Booking Form:</h1>
<?php
if(count($invalid_fields)<=0) { // send message / thank user
    $formatted_message='When: '.date('r').'
Who: '.$name.' ('.$email.')
With What: '.$_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'].'
Message: '.$message;
    // send the email
    mail($to_address,$subject,$formatted_message);
?>
    <p>Your message was successfully delivered.</p>
<?php } else { ?>
    <p>Please fill out the form to contact us. Required fields are marked with a star [*].</p>
    <?php echo(($error_message!=''?'<div class="error">'.$error_message.'</div>':'')); ?>
    <form name="contact" action="form_mail.php" method="post">
        <p>Name:* <input class="box" type="text" name="name" value="<?php echo($validated['name']); ?>" /></p>
        <p>E-Mail:* <input class="box" type="text" name="email" value="<?php echo($validated['email']); ?>" /></p>
        <p>Subject: <input class="box" type="text" name="subject" value="<?php echo($validated['subject']); ?>" /></p>
        <p>Message:*</p><textarea name="message"><?php echo($validated['message']); ?></textarea>
        <p><input class="button" type="submit" action="submit" value="Send" />
    </form>
<?php } ?>
</div>
</body>
</html>

Im baffled by this as i just copied the tut..

Thanks for your help Alex.

alexgeek · #11 (**permalink**) Jan 16th, 2008, 21:47

Try replacing

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if(count($_POST)>0) { // was something posted?

With just this:

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if($_POST)) {

Bravo81 · #12 (**permalink**) Jan 16th, 2008, 21:49

Same error, the if error. Dam

alexgeek · #13 (**permalink**) Jan 16th, 2008, 21:54

Actually, line 12 for me is:

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if(in_array($key,$required_fields)&&$value=='') { // check if a required field is empty

Try this instead:

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if(in_array($key,$required_fields) && empty($value)) {

Bravo81 · #14 (**permalink**) Jan 16th, 2008, 21:57

Same damn error!

What gives?

Its erroring on line 12:
if($_POST)>0) { // was something posted?

The only code above that is:

<?php
/****** PHP Form Mail *****/
// declare and initialize some variables
$name=$email=$subject=$message=$error_message='';
$invalid_fields=array();
$required_fields=array('name','email','message');
$validated=array();
$to_address='admin@bravo-webspace.co.uk'; // your email address goes here

But thats all correct?

alexgeek · #15 (**permalink**) Jan 16th, 2008, 22:01

Maybe Jan (c010depunkk) can help. He wrote the tutorial after all.
I have no idea why that is happening!

Bravo81 · #16 (**permalink**) Jan 16th, 2008, 22:03

Dam, ok Alex thanks for your help and fast replys.

i'l PM him.

alexgeek · #17 (**permalink**) Jan 16th, 2008, 22:04

I wouldn't, he discourages that I think.

Bravo81 · #18 (**permalink**) Jan 16th, 2008, 22:07

Doh! wish you had posted that quicker.

I PM'd him telling him im having trouble, and asked him to check the topic when hes free.

O dear.

alexgeek · #19 (**permalink**) Jan 16th, 2008, 22:17

I'm sure he'll understand

c010depunkk · #20 (**permalink**) Jan 17th, 2008, 06:45

Quote:

Originally Posted by alexgeek

Maybe Jan (c010depunkk) can help. He wrote the tutorial after all.
I have no idea why that is happening!

I'll try

Quote:

Originally Posted by alexgeek

I wouldn't, he discourages that I think.

Well, I don't mind you PM'ing me to hurry up and look. It just won't change anything

!!! I just don't like it when people PM me with web-development-related questions.... That's what the forums are for....

Quote:

Originally Posted by alexgeek

I'm sure he'll understand

This time he did....

OK, now the error:

I'm getting the same error, no clue why.... Must have something to do with the encoding - it gets broken when you use the [select all] feature (I'll report that to Jacob).... There are no syntax errors. I played around a bit with converting the encoding to UTF-8 and then back to ANSI but nothing seems to solve the problem, HOWEVER....

I edited the tutorial and attached the complete code in a PHP file. I'll do the same on this post. When I downloaded the file and tested it, it worked for me. So, check that out and tell us what happened

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