I want to create a Report Misuse Form for my Classifieds Site

[aloksharma]

Hello All,

I want to create a Report Misue Form for my classifieds site.

I want to make it as a link in the Ad Display Page. When the user clicks on the link, the URL will be captured and stored as a variable to be passed in the message.

I want the captured URL to again become a link so that the user can go back to the Ad where he/she came from.

I do have a contact us form and the php code which I can use.

So all i have do is just have the code to capture the URL to be passed in the message and also make it a link.

Can anyone help please?

Regards,

Alok Sharma

[drew010]

I'd do something like
<a href="reportpage.php?page=<?php echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']; ?>">Report This Ad</a>

Then on the reportpage.php all you need to do use use the variable $_GET['page'] to see the uri of the page they report.

If all the pages are generated by the same url, and use an id of some sort, you just pass that instead of the php_self, like <?php echo $_GET['id']; ?>, or whatever the variable name is for specifying the id.

Alternatively, you can use a button like this
<form method="post" action="/reportpage.php">
<input type="hidden" name="id" value="<?php echo $_GET['id']; ?>" />
<input type="submit" value="Report This Ad">
</form>

[aloksharma]

Hello drew010,

I inserted the following link in the ad display page:

<a href="index.php?a=28&b=137&page=<?php echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']; ?>">Report Misuse</a>

In this index.php?a=28&b=137 is the contact us page url.

I modified the formail contact_us.php file to include the following lines:-

$adid = $GET[page]; in the begining and URL: $POST[adid] in the mail body

It doesnt seems to capture the url of the ad display page. However in the mail received, it does show the "URL" text but nothing in front of it.

Before this I tried several other possibilities also. I am enclosing the contents of the contact us form and the contact_us.php file:

Also how to make url of the ad display page so that it can be made a link like "Back to the Current Ad"

Can you please tell what could be wrong.

<---------- contents of contact us form file ---------->

              <TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="100%" border=0> 
                <TBODY> 
                  <TR> 
                    <TD><FORM action="contact_us.php" method="post"> 
                        <TABLE> 
                          <TR> 
                            <TH align="right"> Name:* </TH> 
                            <TD> <INPUT type="text" name="name"  size="30"> </TD> 
                          </TR> 
                          <TR> 
                            <TH align="right"> Email:* </TH> 
                            <TD> <INPUT type="text" name="email"  size="30"> </TD> 
                          </TR> 
                          <TR> 
                            <TH align="right">Subject:*</TH> 
                            <TD><SELECT name="subject" id="subject"> 
                                <OPTION selected>Comments/Suggestions</OPTION> 
                                <OPTION>Feedback</OPTION> 
                                <OPTION>Report Misuse</OPTION> 
                                <OPTION>General Support</OPTION> 
                              </SELECT></TD> 
                          </TR> 
                          <TR valign="top"> 
                            <TH align="right"> Query:* </TH> 
                            <TD> <TEXTAREA name="comments" rows="6" cols="30"></TEXTAREA> </TD> 
                          </TR> 
                          <TR> 
                            <TH></TH> 
                            <TD> <INPUT type="submit" name="Submit" value="Submit"> </TD> 
                          </TR> 
                        </TABLE> 
                      </FORM></TD> 
                  </TR> 
                </TBODY> 
              </TABLE>

<---------- contents of contact_us.php file ---------->

<?

######################## CONFIGURATION ###############################

// $referer_c is to check from where a person came, set to 0 to disable it
// $referer - the url from where people are allowed to access this script
// ex: yoursite.com
// $succed is the page people will see if the forms succeed
// $fail is the page people will see if the form fails
// $adminadd - Enter the email where you want the form to be mailed
// $mailuser - Set to 0 if you don't want to send the thank you mail to user

$referer_c = "0";
$referer = array("outlookclassifieds.com","www.outlookclassifieds.com");
$succeed = "index.php?a=28&b=135";
$fail = "index.php?a=28&b=136";
$adminadd = "[e-mail]";
$mailuser = "1";
$adid = $_GET[page];

// Verification of the HTML Form Submitted
// Add as many as you want below, seperated by OR
// Example : OR !$_POST['myownhtmlvalue']

if($referer_c=="1") {
if(!isset($_REQUEST['grant'])) { // Check if user hasn't given a value for grant using url

while(list($key,$val)=each($referer)) {
    if(strstr($_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'],$val)) {
        $grant = 'true';
    }  // End giving grant a value
  } // End while
} // End if grant

if($grant!='true') {
    header("Location: $fail");
    exit;
}

}

if(!$POST['name'] OR !$POST['email'] OR !$_POST['comments']) {
header("Location: $fail");
exit;
}

// Email check - Comment is using / and / if you dont need it
// ex: / if() { ---- exit;} /

if(!eregi("[a-z0-9]+@+[a-z0-9]+[.]+[a-z0-9]", $_POST['email'])) {
header("Location: $fail");
exit;
}

CONFIGURATION - 2

$sender_user = "[e-mail] <[e-mail]>";
$sender_admin = $POST['name']."<".$POST['email'].">";
$subject_user = "<AUTO REPLY> {$POST[subject]}";
$subject_admin = "{$POST[subject]}";

// Edit both of these mails to suite your needs

$user_mail_body = ("Thank you for contacting OutlookClassifieds.com. We have successfully recieved your request and will respond to you personally very soon.");

// Add the values which are in the form here too
// ex: $_POST['somethingintheform']

$admin_mail_body = ("Contact from: $POST[name]
Email: $POST[email]
Subject: $POST[subject]
Comments: $POST[comments]
URL: $_POST[adid]");

// Configuration ends here

// Mail user if it has to be done
if($mailuser=="1") {
mail($_POST['email'],$subject_user,$user_mail_body,"From:".$sender_user."\r\n")
OR header("Location: $fail");
}

// Mail Administrator
mail($adminadd,$subject_admin,$admin_mail_body,"From:".$sender_admin."\r\n")
OR header("Location: $fail");

header("Location: $succeed");

?>

[drew010]

in the contact_us.php file, you will need to add somewhere inside your <form></form> tags the following:
<input type="hidden" name="adid" value="<?php echo $_GET['page']; ?>"> />

judging from looking at the site, the ads are all on index.php so you will want to send the "a" and "b" variables from $_GET, since I looked at /index.php?a=2&b=50

Also, for some reason the link on that page isnt being parsed as php. I dont know if you have some sort of template editor where you added that, but I think you will have to edit the code directly since that isnt being parsed as php.

[cyberlew15]

you could make it so that for each add on the adds display page you add a hyperlink to
misuse.php?id=addid&a=&b=
thisway you do not need to add form objects or capture thelink after it has been done however I think that it may look better as a javascript popup window so the ppl do not have to go through to many screens. you've got to make it as quick as possible to report a bad ad because otherwise why should ppl bother to report the bad add they may just ignore it