Contact Form

[Poimen]

Hi Everyone,
I'm a novice with php and I recieved a full flash site without a mail.php file.

The action script code is:

on (rollOver){this.gotoAndPlay("s1");}
on (releaseOutside, rollOut){this.gotoAndPlay("s2");}
on (release) { 
_parent.t1_2 = "Your full name:"; 
_parent.t2_2 = "E-mail address:"; 
_parent.t3_2 = "Your telephone:"; 
_parent.t4_2 = "Message:"; 
_parent.loadVariables("mail.php","POST");
}

I've gotten as far as this with the php code:

<?php
$contact_name = $_POST['name'];
$contact_email = $_POST['email'];
$contact_subject = $_POST['subject'];
$contact_message = $_POST['message'];

if( $contact_name != "" )
{
	$sender = $contact_email;
	$receiver = "[e-mail]";
	$client_ip = $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'];
	$email_body = "Name: ".$contact_name."\nEmail: ".$sender."\n\nSubject: ".$contact_subject."\n\nMessage: \n\n".$contact_message." \n\nIP: ".$client_ip."\n\n";		
	$extra = "From: $sender\r\n" . "Reply-To: $sender \r\n" . "X-Mailer: PHP/" . phpversion();

if( mail( $receiver, "Contact Form - $contact_subject", $email_body, $extra ) ) 
{
	echo "success=yes";
}
else
{
	echo "success=no";
}
}

?>

Can someone please tell me what wrong with this form?
Thank you.

[alieneye00]

Are the assigned variables data in AS3 getting passed correctly to PHP variables? In other words is the data getting passed correctly from ActionScript to PHP?

_parent.loadVariables("mail.php","POST"); Also is mail.php the correct path to mail.php?

[djjjozsi]

in mail.php save the inputted values into a textfile, and wsee the real $_POST indexes:

<?php
if (isset($_POST)) {
    $output = '';
    foreach($_POST AS $k => $val) {
        $output .= "*" . $k . "*-*" . $val . "*--\n";
    } 
    file_put_contents("formtest.txt" , $output);
} 

?>

Then open this formtest.txt document. You will see the real post index names,
change your mail.php according to the index names.

[craighaggart]

I'm pretty new to this myself, and this is what I've come up with for our site that seems to work fine. I've included my simple php contactscript, followed by the portion of our site's XHTML that creates the form and ties it to the script. We only have fields for name, e-mail address, and a text box, but it would be trivial to add more fields in the XHTML code and the php code.

I've commented the php pretty heavily even though it is very simple, in the hope that it will make it clear what's going on at each step. Hope it helps!

Craig
Sunnyvale, California

================ contactscript.php ===================

<?php

/ Comment: This php script generates an automatic message /
/ and sends it to the webmaster's e-mail address at the Friends /
/ of the Sunnyvale Library web domain (fotsvl.org) after stripping /
/ out HTML code from the entry fields. /

$name = $POST['name'];
$email = $POST['email'];
$comments = $_POST['comments'];

/ The 3 lines above pull in the 3 form fields from the web page /

$strippedname = strip_tags($name);
$strippedemail = strip_tags($email);
$strippedcomments = strip_tags($comments);

/ The 3 lines above remove HTML tags from the form fields /

$to = "[e-mail]";
$subject = "Submission from web site 'Contact Us' page";
$message = "This message was sent automatically from the Friends of the Library \n" .
"web site's 'Contact Us' page. The sender provided the following info: \n" .
"\n" .
"Name: $strippedname\n" .
"E-mail address: $strippedemail\n" .
"\n" .
"Comments: $strippedcomments\n" .
"\n";

header( "Location: http://fotsvl.org/contactformsubmitted.html" );

/ The above 'header' line causes a special web page to load after the /
/ user presses the submit button. The special page has the same basic /
/ layout, font, and nav buttons as our site's regular pages, but its only
/ content is a blurb that says 'Thank you, your message has been sent.' */

mail($to,$subject,$message);

/ The above line is the code that actually sends the message. /

?>

================ XHTML snippet =====================

<div id="form">
<form class="indent" action="contactscript.php" method="post">
<br />
<br />
<table align="center">
<tr>
<td class="formlabeltext">Name: </td>
<td> <input type=text name="name" size=30 /></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="formlabeltext">Email:</td>
<td> <input type=text name="email" size=30 /></td>
</tr>
</table>
<br />
<p class="center">

<!-- Note: the 'center' class is something I defined in my CSS file -->

<textarea name="comments" cols=35 rows=5></textarea>
<br />
<br />
<input type=submit value="Send Message" /></p>
</form>
</div>

[djjjozsi]

@: its an important step to check the inputs you have. You don't want to send empty values.

It's just a sample for the processing

[craighaggart]

djjjozsi;10941120 wrote:

... check the inputs you have. You don't want to send empty values.

Thanks for the tip! I actually don't much care if the fields are empty. I have gotten a couple of messages with nothing in them; like the occasional 'viagra' spam, I just delete them. So far it isn't much hassle. But this is also my first cut at a php form handler and I do have several improvements in mind. I'll add an empty-field-check in rev 2.

The general idea was to post my simple code for the other newbie to use because it's very easy, I think it does what he/she is trying to do, and I know it works. It can definitely be improved, but it's a start!

Craig
Sunnyvale, California