PHP email form

TrillionBuks

I am applying for an intership and they gave me an assignment to complete. They know I have a backgroup in C and have absolutely no experience with PHP. They wasnt me to demonstrate the ability to find the answer to a problem not necessarily demonstrate my know lege of coding. The following are the parameters of the assignment:

Create a form that gathers all the information and sends an email with all info upon submitting it.

Form Structure:

first_name, last_name, email and phone.

                    All fields should be required.

                    Validate the email.

                    Validate the phone structure.

This is a tremendous opportunity for me to learn and gain valuable experience. Any help is truly appreciated. Thanks.

Kudose

Do you have any HTML experience?

I'm willing to help you out, but I need to know how low I need to go. 🙂

TrillionBuks

I don't have any experience with HTML or PHP. I have C programming background so I understand the concepts behind coding. I realize that this is a very simple assignment but I want to make sure I get it right. This internship means the world to me right now. After class tomorrow I will be picking up a book on PHP and hopefully with your help can work through this so that I can get the position. I will truly appreciiate any help that you may provide. Thanks in advance!

Kudose

This should help you out with XHTML forms: http://www.webstandards.org/learn/tutorials/accessible-forms/beginner/

You will be using these A LOT (including your current project): http://us2.php.net/variables.predefined

Once you're read over those a little (I'm sure you will have questions) and have a XHTML form constructed (or close to) then we can move onto requirements and validation.

blackhorse

How much time you have?

If you have two weeks, I would suggest you use 5 days to read a good php book to get the basic ideas. Including set a php platform you can work with, test the simple codes in your book. I taught myself ASP in 1 week and PHP in 1 week. Anyone with a programming background can do that. By the way, you are in school and you have C background. Today's school still uses C not java or something else? I went to computer school a long time ago, we already used C++ and mostly Java then.

The books I used for ASP and PHP are

Professional ASP Programming
Professional PHP Programming

They might be too old now.

3 days to solve the problems and search the web for the sample scripts such as validation etc. (There are scripts samples for all your requests.)

2 days to refine your script and prepare to answer their questions. Plus additional knowledge you may want to get to show your future boss, such as email header injection attacks of the php email form etc.

If you have less than 2 weeks, then try to concentrate on the basic parts and the parts which has something to do with your project.

There will be scripts to cover all your requests you need the knowledge of php to merge them together.