PHP email form

Mike-M

Hey all am building an e-commerce site for Uni and need to do a contact form. I have done one but i just get an error when i submit the form so was wondering if anyone could help me out 😉

Heres what i have

One page called contact.php which contains the following code;

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">

<head>
<meta content="text/html; charset=utf-8" http-equiv="Content-Type" />
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="style.css"/>

<title>Contact Form</title>
</head>

<body>

<div id="page">

<img src="images/banner1.jpg" alt="banner"/>

<div id="navi-container">
<ul id="navi">
<li><a href="index.php">Home</a></li>
<li><a href="cars.php">Cars</a></li>
<li><a href="interior.php">Interior</a></li>
<li><a href="exterior.php">Exterior</a></li>
<li><a href="gallery.php">Gallery</a></li>
<li><a href="checkout.php">Checkout</a></li>
<li><a href="contactus.php">Contact Us</a></li>
</ul>
</div>

<div id="content">


<table width="400" border="0" align="center" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1">
<tr>
<td><strong>Contact Form </strong></td>
</tr>
</table>

<table width="400" border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="1">
<tr>
<td><form name="form1" method="post" action="send_contact.php">
<table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="3">
<tr>
<td width="16%">Subject</td>
<td width="2%">:</td>
<td width="82%"><input name="subject" type="text" id="subject" size="50"/></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Detail</td>
<td>:</td>
<td><textarea name="detail" cols="50" rows="4" id="detail"></textarea></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Name</td>
<td>:</td>
<td><input name="name" type="text" id="name" size="50"/></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Email</td>
<td>:</td>
<td><input name="customer_mail" type="text" id="customer_mail" size="50"/></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
<td><input type="submit" name="Submit" value="Submit"/> <input type="reset" name="Submit2" value="Reset"/></td>
</tr>
</table>
</form>
</td>
</tr>
</table>

</body>

</html>

the second page i have is

send_contact.php

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">

<head>

<meta content="text/html; charset=utf-8" http-equiv="Content-Type" />
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="style.css"/>

<title>Home</title>

</head>

<body>

<div id="page">

<img src="images/banner1.jpg" alt="banner"/>

<div id="navi-container">
<ul id="navi">
<li><a href="index.php">Home</a></li>
<li><a href="cars.php">Cars</a></li>
<li><a href="interior.php">Interior</a></li>
<li><a href="exterior.php">Exterior</a></li>
<li><a href="gallery.php">Gallery</a></li>
<li><a href="checkout.php">Checkout</a></li>
<li><a href="contactus.php">Contact Us</a></li>
</ul>
</div>

<div id="content">

<?php

$subject ="$subject";

$message="$detail";

$mail_from="$customer_mail";

$header="from: $name <$mail_from>";

$to ='';

$send_contact=mail($to,$subject,$message,$header);

if($send_contact){
echo "We've recived your contact information";
}
else {
echo "ERROR";
}
?>
</div>
</div>
</body>

</html>

Obviously the email field does have an email in but when i submit the form i just get a blank page called error 🙁

would appreciate it if someone could help me out please 🙂

bradgrafelman

Welcome to PHPBuilder! Note that I added [noparse]

and

[/noparse] bbcode tags to your post above to make the code easier to read and analyze; please use these in the future when posting PHP or HTML code!

As for your problem, I would suggest you turn on display_errors and set error_reporting to E_ALL. Here's a few things to get you started:

What is this supposed to be doing:
```
$subject ="$subject";
```
?
You use several variables, e.g. $subject, $detail, $customer_mail, but where are they defined? Try reading this manual page: [man]variables.external[/man].
When sending mail, you should never set the 'From' header to a user-specified e-mail address. This is a good way to get your server flagged as an open relay and blacklisted (meaning all e-mails you send out are automatically marked as spam instead of being delivered). Instead, you could use the Reply-To header to include the user-submitted e-mail address; the 'From' header should always be a valid e-mail address on your domain.

Mike-M

bradgrafelman;10915733 wrote:
Welcome to PHPBuilder! Note that I added [noparse]
and
[/noparse] bbcode tags to your post above to make the code easier to read and analyze; please use these in the future when posting PHP or HTML code!

As for your problem, I would suggest you turn on display_errors and set error_reporting to E_ALL. Here's a few things to get you started:
What is this supposed to be doing:
$subject ="$subject";
?
You use several variables, e.g. $subject, $detail, $customer_mail, but where are they defined? Try reading this manual page: [man]variables.external[/man].

When sending mail, you should never set the 'From' header to a user-specified e-mail address. This is a good way to get your server flagged as an open relay and blacklisted (meaning all e-mails you send out are automatically marked as spam instead of being delivered). Instead, you could use the Reply-To header to include the user-submitted e-mail address; the 'From' header should always be a valid e-mail address on your domain.

Thanks for the reply i have only just started using PHP got my site working ok now but just need a contact form and this is causing me some problems still i get abit 😕 with it lol

patyork

You are almost right.

In send_contact.php:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">

<head>

<meta content="text/html; charset=utf-8" http-equiv="Content-Type" />
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="style.css"/>

<title>Home</title>

</head>

<body>

<div id="page">

<img src="images/banner1.jpg" alt="banner"/>

<div id="navi-container">
<ul id="navi">
<li><a href="index.php">Home</a></li>
<li><a href="cars.php">Cars</a></li>
<li><a href="interior.php">Interior</a></li>
<li><a href="exterior.php">Exterior</a></li>
<li><a href="gallery.php">Gallery</a></li>
<li><a href="checkout.php">Checkout</a></li>
<li><a href="contactus.php">Contact Us</a></li>
</ul>
</div>

<div id="content">

<?php

$subject = $_POST['subject';

$message= $_POST['detail'];

$mail_from= $_POST['customer_mail'];

$name = $message= $_POST['name'];

$header="From: $name <$mail_from>";

$to ='';

$send_contact=mail($to,$subject,$message,$header);

if($send_contact){
echo "We've recived your contact information";
}
else {
echo "ERROR";
}
?>
</div>
</div>
</body>