Simple Contact Form

mattpearce79

Ok i have downloaded and installed a really basic and simple PHP form from my webhosting company and it works fine...

<body>
<FORM method=post action="sendmail.php">
Email: <INPUT name="email" type="text"><br>
Message:<br>
<TEXTAREA name="message">
</textarea><br>
<input type=submit> 
</FORM>
</body>
</html>

php...

<?php

mail("myemail@address.co.uk", "Feedback Form results", $_REQUEST[message], "From: $_REQUEST[email]", "-f".$_REQUEST[email]);

header( "Location: http://www.mywebsite.co.uk/response" );

?>

What i want to do is add an extra text field for the persons name, but whenever i try and add a simple text field for the name it stops working properly...any help greatly appreciated.

Matt

djjjozsi

Add an extra field:

<INPUT name="name" type="text"><br>

And in the process program add field checking:

<?php
if ( empty( $_POST["name"] ) OR empty( $_POST["email"] ) )
    die( "Fill the required fields" );
else {
    $email = htmlspecialchars( $_POST["email"] );
    $message = '';
    $message .= "email:" . $email . "\n";
    $message .= "name:" . htmlspecialchars( $_POST["name"] ) . "\n";
    $message .= "message:" . htmlspecialchars( $_POST["message"] ) . "\n";

mail( "myemail@address.co.uk", "Feedback Form results", $message , "From: $email", "-f" . $email );
} 
?>

mattpearce79

Köszönöm

thank you - worked fine!

Matt

djjjozsi

szívesen / Your Welcome 🙂

But this form should have a better security feature and its a captcha.

Ashley_Sheridan

You really must verify the inputs before you send the email, otherwise you're inviting your form to be used for spam with email field exploits.