Help Requested With A Content Form!

[Deadbyradio]

Hi Everyone,

I update and maintain the website for my university's fitness division and am running into problems with trying to make a simple contact form. It will give this error:

Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_LNUMBER, expecting T_VARIABLE or '$' in /usr/local/apache/ysuweb/reccenter/wellness/contact.php on line 22

and I have no idea how I can get this thing working... I've been working on it all afternoon but my PHP skills are not what they should be :o . Hopefully it's something small I am glancing over and any help would be greatly appreicated!

http://www.ysu.edu/reccenter/wellness/formtest.html here is the form

and http://www.ysu.edu/reccenter/wellness/contact.php this is the PHP.

<?php
// Website Contact Form Generator 
// http://www.tele-pro.co.uk/scripts/contact_form/ 
// This script is free to use as long as you  

// retain the credit link  

// get posted data into local variables
$EmailFrom = Trim(stripslashes($_POST['EmailFrom'])); 
$EmailTo = "[e-mail]";
$Subject = "Web Form";
$TeamClimb = Trim(stripslashes($_POST['TeamClimb'])); 
$TeamChallengeProgram = Trim(stripslashes($_POST['TeamChallengeProgram'])); 
$ElevatedTeamChallengeProgram = Trim(stripslashes($_POST['ElevatedTeamChallengeProgram'])); 
$TeamClimbChallengeCombo = Trim(stripslashes($_POST['TeamClimbChallengeCombo'])); 
$ElevatedTeamClimbChallengeCombo = Trim(stripslashes($_POST['ElevatedTeamClimbChallengeCombo'])); 
$TeamChallengeCombo = Trim(stripslashes($_POST['TeamChallengeCombo'])); 
$CustomChallengeProgram = Trim(stripslashes($_POST['CustomChallengeProgram'])); 
$GroupName = Trim(stripslashes($_POST['GroupName'])); 
$GroupContact = Trim(stripslashes($_POST['GroupContact'])); 
$PhoneNumber = Trim(stripslashes($_POST['PhoneNumber'])); 
$GroupAgeRange = Trim(stripslashes($_POST['GroupAgeRange'])); 
$1stDateTime = Trim(stripslashes($_POST['1stDateTime'])); 
$1stDatePreference = Trim(stripslashes($_POST['1stDatePreference'])); 
$2ndDateTime = Trim(stripslashes($_POST['2ndDateTime'])); 
$2ndDatePreference = Trim(stripslashes($_POST['2ndDatePreference'])); 
$GroupWorkingTogetherFor = Trim(stripslashes($_POST['GroupWorkingTogetherFor'])); 
$PastExperience = Trim(stripslashes($_POST['PastExperience'])); 
$Forming = Trim(stripslashes($_POST['Forming'])); 
$Storming = Trim(stripslashes($_POST['Storming'])); 
$Norming = Trim(stripslashes($_POST['Norming'])); 
$Performing = Trim(stripslashes($_POST['Performing'])); 
$Goals = Trim(stripslashes($_POST['Goals'])); 

// validation
$validationOK=true;
if (Trim($EmailFrom)=="") $validationOK=false;
if (!$validationOK) {
  print "<meta http-equiv=\"refresh\" content=\"0;URL=error.htm\">";
  exit;
}

// prepare email body text
$Body = "";
$Body .= "TeamClimb: ";
$Body .= $TeamClimb;
$Body .= "\n";
$Body .= "TeamChallengeProgram: ";
$Body .= $TeamChallengeProgram;
$Body .= "\n";
$Body .= "ElevatedTeamChallengeProgram: ";
$Body .= $ElevatedTeamChallengeProgram;
$Body .= "\n";
$Body .= "TeamClimbChallengeCombo: ";
$Body .= $TeamClimbChallengeCombo;
$Body .= "\n";
$Body .= "ElevatedTeamClimbChallengeCombo: ";
$Body .= $ElevatedTeamClimbChallengeCombo;
$Body .= "\n";
$Body .= "TeamChallengeCombo: ";
$Body .= $TeamChallengeCombo;
$Body .= "\n";
$Body .= "CustomChallengeProgram: ";
$Body .= $CustomChallengeProgram;
$Body .= "\n";
$Body .= "GroupName: ";
$Body .= $GroupName;
$Body .= "\n";
$Body .= "GroupContact: ";
$Body .= $GroupContact;
$Body .= "\n";
$Body .= "PhoneNumber: ";
$Body .= $PhoneNumber;
$Body .= "\n";
$Body .= "GroupAgeRange: ";
$Body .= $GroupAgeRange;
$Body .= "\n";
$Body .= "1stDateTime: ";
$Body .= $1stDateTime;
$Body .= "\n";
$Body .= "1stDatePreference: ";
$Body .= $1stDatePreference;
$Body .= "\n";
$Body .= "2ndDateTime: ";
$Body .= $2ndDateTime;
$Body .= "\n";
$Body .= "2ndDatePreference: ";
$Body .= $2ndDatePreference;
$Body .= "\n";
$Body .= "GroupWorkingTogetherFor: ";
$Body .= $GroupWorkingTogetherFor;
$Body .= "\n";
$Body .= "PastExperience: ";
$Body .= $PastExperience;
$Body .= "\n";
$Body .= "Forming: ";
$Body .= $Forming;
$Body .= "\n";
$Body .= "Storming: ";
$Body .= $Storming;
$Body .= "\n";
$Body .= "Norming: ";
$Body .= $Norming;
$Body .= "\n";
$Body .= "Performing: ";
$Body .= $Performing;
$Body .= "\n";
$Body .= "Goals: ";
$Body .= $Goals;
$Body .= "\n";

// send email 
$success = mail($EmailTo, $Subject, $Body, "From: <$EmailFrom>");

// redirect to success page 
if ($success){
  print "<meta http-equiv=\"refresh\" content=\"0;URL=ok.htm\">";
}
else{
  print "<meta http-equiv=\"refresh\" content=\"0;URL=error.htm\">";
}
?>

[bradgrafelman]

Some of your variable names aren't valid... for one thing, you can't begin a variable name with a number. See this manual page for more information: [man]language.variables[/man].

Also, couple of other things:

1. When posting PHP code, please use the board's [PHP][/PHP] bbcode tags - they make the code much, much easier to read (as well as aiding the diagnosis of syntax errors).

2. It's not wise to post e-mail addresses on these forums for everyone to see - you can get hammered with spam that way. I've replaced the e-mail address in your code with "[e-mail]" but wanted to warn you of this.

[Weedpacket]

What bradgrafelman said. Incidentally, if you're scrubbing every $POST variable that way it could be done in a couple of lines:

 $_POST = array_map('stripslashes', $_POST);
$_POST = array_map('trim', $_POST);

And if you do want to extract the contents of the array into a bunch of separate variables, consider using [man]extract[/man] to do it.

Rule of thumb: if you find yourself writing the same code over and over and over again, remember that you've got a machine that's good at running the same code over and over and over again.🙂