Contact Form - HELP ME! Been at this for 14 hours!

Fullloop · September 24, 2011

It was suppose to be my day off but here I set in front of the computer trying to figure out some code.

I can not get my code to send me the information that is inputted into the fields. The style is what I want but most importantly it has got to work. I'm going to put the PHP code and the HTML code. If you need the CSS code I can post that. I'm not sure if you guys need that though. Hopefully someone out there can help me out. I know it might be a very simple error causing me tons of problems. I just can't figure it out. I'm novice at this stuff.

PHP CODE & HTML CODE:

<?php

if ($_POST["email"]<>'') {

$ToEmail = 'Justin@fullloop.net';

$emailSubject = 'contact';

$mailheader = "From: ".$_POST["email"]."\r\n";

$mailheader .= "Reply-To: ".$_POST["email"]."\r\n";

$mailheader .= "Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\r\n";

$MESSAGE_BODY = "Name: ".$_POST["name"]."<br>";

$MESSAGE_BODY = "Phone: ".$_POST["phone"]."<br>";

$MESSAGE_BODY .= "Your Email: ".$_POST["email"]."<br>";

$MESSAGE_BODY .= "Your Message: ".nl2br($_POST["comment"])."<br>";

mail($ToEmail, $EmailSubject, $MESSAGE_BODY, $mailheader) or die ("Failure");

?>

<html>

<body>

<?php echo $_POST["name"]; ?>,<br />

Thank you for contacting Full Loop Inspections. We take great pride in our services and we are grateful you are considering us to complete your inspection. An inspector will contact you at <?php echo $_POST["phone"]; ?> or email you at <?php echo $_POST["email"]; ?> .

</body>

</html>

<?php

} else {

?>

</div>

<label>Your Phone:</label>

</div>

</div>

<label>Your Message:</label>

</div>

<div class="wrapper"><a href="contact-us.html" onClick="document.getElementById('contacts-form').submit()" class="link1"><em><b>SUBMIT</b></em></a></div>

</fieldset>

</form>

<?php

};

?>

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">

<link rel="icon"

type="image/gif"

href="images/favicon.gif" />

<head>

<!--[if lt IE 7]>

ie_png.fix('.png, #header .row-2 ul li a, .extra img, #search-form a, #search-form a em, #login-form .field1 a, #login-form .field1 a em, #login-form .field1 a b');

</script>

<![endif]-->

(function() {

var po = document.createElement('script'); po.type = 'text/javascript'; po.async = true;

po.src = 'https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js';

var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(po, s);

})();

</script>

</head>

<ul>

</ul>

</div>

<ul>

<li><a href="inspection-services.html"><span>inspection services</span></a></li>

<li><a href="payments.html"><span>Make Payments</span></a></li>

<li><a href="contact-us.html" class="active"><span>contact</span></a></li>

<li class="last"><a href="home-inspectors-service-area.html"><span>Service Area</span></a></li>

</ul>

</div>

<h2>Columbus Ohio<b>Inspections</b></h2>

<p>Full Loop Inspections services Columbus Ohio and surrounding cities. Franklin, Madison, Union, Delaware, Licking, Pickaway and Fairfield counties. Contact us today to set an Inspection appointment. </p>

</div>

</div>

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<h4><b>Our</b> Contacts</h4>

<p><b>Inspector:</b> Justin Ashley<br />

<b>Telephone:</b>614-256-6505<br />

<b>Address:</b>4690 Helmsbridge Ct<br />

<b>City:</b>Grove City, OH 43123<br />

<b>e-mail:</b><a href="mailto:Justin@Fullloop.net?subject=Online Inspection Referral">Justin@Fullloop.net</a></p>

</div>

</div>

<h3><b>Contact</b> Form</h3>

</div>

<label>Your Phone:</label>

</div>

</div>

<label>Your Message:</label>

</div>

<div class="wrapper"><a href="contact-us.html" onClick="document.getElementById('contacts-form').submit()" class="link1"><em><b>SUBMIT</b></em></a></div>

</fieldset>

</form>

</div>

<h4><b>Property </b>Info</h4>

<p>When contacting us please provide as much information as you can about the property.</p></li>

<p>We will take the time to answer any questions you might have. </p></li>

</ul>

</div>

<p> <strong><font color="#FFFFFF">Full Loop Inspections<br />

Certified Home Inspector<br />

Justin Ashley<br />

4690 Helmsbridge Ct<br />

Grove City, OH 43123<br />

(614)-256-6505</strong><br /><a href="mailto:Justin@Fullloop.net?subject=Inspection"><font color="#000000"> Justin@Fullloop.net</font></a></p>

</center>

</div>

<ul>

<li><a href="inspection-services.html">Services</a></li>

<li><a href="payments.html">Payments</a></li>

<li><a href="contact-us.html">Contact</a></li>

<li class="last"><a href="home-inspector-links.html">Links</a></li>

</ul>

</div>

<div class="bottom"><p><a href="http://www.fullloop.net" class="new_window">Full Loop Inspections</a> </p>

<p>Servicing <strong>COLUMBUS</strong> - Bexley - Canal Winchester - Dublin - Gahanna - Grandview Heights - Grove City - Hilliard - New Albany - Pickerington - Reynoldsburg - Upper Arlington - Westerville - Whitehall - Worthington and all surrounding cities </p>

</div>

</body>

</html>

MasterACE14 · September 24, 2011

this line makes no sense:

if ($_POST["email"]<>'') {

it should be:

if (isset($_POST["email"])) {

WebStyles · September 24, 2011

you have NO input field named 'email', so $_POST['email'] will never exist.

WebStyles · September 24, 2011

also... your submit button:

<a href="contact-us.html" onClick="document.getElementById('contacts-form').submit()" class="link1">

probably won't work.

Just for testing purposes, until you're sure everything else is ok, change that line to something like:

<a href="javascript:document.forms['contacts-form'].submit()" class="link1">

or even better, just use a submit button:

<input type="submit" value="submit">

WebStyles · September 24, 2011

more...

1. you textarea also has no name, should be called 'comment'.

2. $emailSubject is not the same as $EmailSubject , so it will throw an error saying variable does not exist.

WebStyles · September 24, 2011

and finally, now that you've sweated a bit over all the errors we just threw at you

here's a working version (although all code could be greatly improved)

<?php
if (isset($_POST["email"])) {
   $ToEmail = 'Justin@fullloop.net';
   $emailSubject = 'contact';
   $mailheader = "From: ".$_POST["email"]."\r\n";
   //$mailheader .= "Reply-To: ".$_POST["email"]."\r\n";
   $mailheader .= "Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\r\n";
   $MESSAGE_BODY = "Name: ".$_POST["name"]."<br>";
   $MESSAGE_BODY = "Phone: ".$_POST["phone"]."<br>";
   $MESSAGE_BODY .= "Your Email: ".$_POST["email"]."<br>";
   $MESSAGE_BODY .= "Your Message: ".nl2br($_POST["comment"])."<br>";
   mail($ToEmail, $emailSubject, $MESSAGE_BODY, $mailheader) or die ("Failure");
?>
<html>
<body>

<?php echo $_POST["name"]; ?>,<br />
Thank you for contacting Full Loop Inspections. We take great pride in our services and we are grateful you are considering us to complete your inspection. An inspector will contact you at <?php echo $_POST["phone"]; ?> or email you at <?php echo $_POST["email"]; ?> .

</body>
</html>
<?php
} else {
?>

                   <form id="contacts-form" method="post" action="contact.php">
                  <fieldset>
                  <div class="field">
                     <label>Your Name:</label>
                     <input type="text" value="" name="name"/>
                  </div>
                  <div class="field">
                     <label>Your Phone:</label>
                     <input type="text" value="" name="phone"/>
                  </div>
                  <div class="field">
                     <label>Your E-mail:</label>
                     <input type="text" value="" name="email"/>
                  </div>
                  <div class="field">
                     <label>Your Message:</label>
                            <textarea cols="10" rows="5" name="comment"></textarea>
                  </div>
                  <div class="wrapper"><input type="submit" value="submit"></div>
                  </fieldset>
               </form>
            
<?php
};
?>

Fullloop · September 24, 2011

THank you! I can work with that!!!! Damn it... it took me all day and you 5 minutes... LOL Thanks again

Fullloop · September 24, 2011

If I wanted it to redirect me to success.html where do I add that?

WebStyles · September 24, 2011

instead of

mail($ToEmail, $emailSubject, $MESSAGE_BODY, $mailheader) or die ("Failure");

use something like:

if(mail($ToEmail, $emailSubject, $MESSAGE_BODY, $mailheader)){
   header("Location: success.html");
}else{
   header("Location: failure.html");
}

Fullloop · September 24, 2011

Yes sir that worked like a charm! I really appreciate the help! I should have joined here a long time ago...

Just curious how I can add validation to the fields I have? An stop spaming by limiting the number of emails one IP can send in a day?

WebStyles · September 24, 2011

1. There are many ways you can validate the fields, for validating a phone number, you can use ctype_digit (check that variable only contains numbers), for a name you can use ctype_alpha (checks that variable only contains letters), strlen (checks the length of a variable), preg_match (allows you to check for specific characters, in case of an email, you know it must have an @ sign, a . and at least 8 characters in length, etc...)

2. best method to track/count submissions based on IP address would be to set up a database with `id`,`ipAddress`,`count`

then increment the count field on every submission (if IP already exists) or add a new entry.

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