Please Help....Contact Form Action?

GreyFilm

Hey I understand that when you make a form for people to fill out and you want it to send the form data to an email address than redirect to another page (Message Sent Page) that you have to use a .php or .asp script in the form="action" to do this. But I have no idea how to make the .php script. Can someone please help me out with this. Here is the form that Im working with
http://www.greyfilmpro.com/mbc/contact.html

thorpe

Take a look at the mail() function in the manual.

GreyFilm

Im very very new to php, this is the first time I've actually had to use it. I have no idea what to do even after reading the manual.

thorpe

A simple example. If your form field names are fname, lname, email, msg and your method is POST.

<?php
if (isset($_POST['submit'])) {  

  $to = "me@foo.com";   

  $subject = "email recieved from site";   

  $msg = "{$_POST['fname']} {$_POST['lname']} from {$_POST['email']} sent you the following message\n\n{$_POST['msg']}";
  if (mail($to, $subject, $msg)) {
    header("Location : thankyou.html");
  } 
}

?>

GreyFilm

I copied that into a .php file than set it as my form=action but it still didn't work. I changed all the field names in the script to match mine but It still wouldnt work.

cgraz

change

if (isset($_POST['submit'])) {

if (isset($_POST['Submit'])) {

Your submit button is named with a capital S.

Also, I would add in an else in that if statement at the end, and just print something to yourself so you know what your script is doing.

GreyFilm

I changed it but it still didn't work. When I click the submit button it gives me a "page cannot be found error" see for yourself http://www.greyfilmpro.com/mbc/contact.html

Weedpacket

Seems to work for me.......

Incidentally, if you want to line up the fields in your form, you don't have to pad them out with   (which would have to vary depending on which font, font size, and font rendering engine the user is using) - you can do it in the CSS instead. Here's where I learned to do form layout with CSS: http://www.alistapart.com/articles/practicalcss
(which I might also suggest moving to another file so that it can be cached separately from the page - I do understand that this is a work in progress of course).