I am a photographer with a strong design and coding background trying to make myself a new website.
I'm trying to tweak a template, and I am having considerable trouble with the Contact Form page.
I am very familiar with html and css, but js is not my strong suit and I have never worked with php before.
If anyone could help me by letting me know where/what I need to edit for the submit button to make the form information go to my email I would greatly appreciate it.
I have tried editing what I thought was right, and it still doesn't work. Everything else on the form seems to work fine.
(The action element of the form tag is set to "#". That's not right, but I'm not sure what to put there. And there is no method element.
The owner-email on the .js page is also set to #, so I'm sure I need to put in the email address there. I'm just not sure about the syntax.
There is also a spot in the .php file that I feel needs to have my email address also, but again, I'm unsure of the syntax.
Also the a tag href element on the submit button is also set to "#" and I'm not sure where to point it, because it appears that the form should give the user a .js message confirming that the form has been sent...)
This is the form in the html file:
<h2>Contact form</h2>
<form action="#" id="ContactForm">
<div class="success"> Contact form submitted!<br>
<strong>We will be in touch soon.</strong> </div>
<fieldset>
<div class="wrapper">
<span class="col1">Name:</span>
<label class="name">
<span class="bg"><input type="text" class="input"></span>
<span class="error">*This is not a valid name.</span> <span class="empty">*This field is required.</span>
</label>
</div>
<div class="wrapper">
<span class="col1">Email:</span>
<label class="email">
<span class="bg"><input type="text" class="input"></span>
<span class="error">*This is not a valid email address.</span> <span class="empty">*This field is required.</span>
</label>
</div>
<div class="wrapper">
<span class="col1">Message:</span>
<label class="message">
<span class="bg"><textarea rows="1" cols="1"></textarea></span>
<span class="error">*The message is too short.</span> <span class="empty">*This field is required.</span>
</label>
</div>
<div class="btns"><a href="#" class="button1" data-type="submit">Send</a><a href="#" class="button1" data-type="reset">Clear</a></div>
</fieldset>
</form>
This is the forms.js file:
//forms
;(function($){
$.fn.forms=function(o){
return this.each(function(){
var th=$(this)
,_=th.data('forms')||{
errorCl:'error',
emptyCl:'empty',
invalidCl:'invalid',
notRequiredCl:'notRequired',
successCl:'success',
successShow:'4000',
mailHandlerURL:'bin/MailHandler.php',
ownerEmail:'support@guardlex.com',
stripHTML:true,
smtpMailServer:'localhost',
targets:'input,textarea',
controls:'a[data-type=reset],a[data-type=submit]',
validate:true,
rx:{
".name":{rx:/^[a-zA-Z'][a-zA-Z-' ]+[a-zA-Z']?$/,target:'input'},
".state":{rx:/^[a-zA-Z'][a-zA-Z-' ]+[a-zA-Z']?$/,target:'input'},
".email":{rx:/^(("[\w-\s]+")|([\w-]+(?:\.[\w-]+)*)|("[\w-\s]+")([\w-]+(?:\.[\w-]+)*))(@((?:[\w-]+\.)*\w[\w-]{0,66})\.([a-z]{2,6}(?:\.[a-z]{2})?)$)|(@\[?((25[0-5]\.|2[0-4][0-9]\.|1[0-9]{2}\.|[0-9]{1,2}\.))((25[0-5]|2[0-4][0-9]|1[0-9]{2}|[0-9]{1,2})\.){2}(25[0-5]|2[0-4][0-9]|1[0-9]{2}|[0-9]{1,2})\]?$)/i,target:'input'},
".phone":{rx:/^\+?(\d[\d\-\+\(\) ]{5,}\d$)/,target:'input'},
".fax":{rx:/^\+?(\d[\d\-\+\(\) ]{5,}\d$)/,target:'input'},
".message":{rx:/.{20}/,target:'textarea'}
},
preFu:function(){
_.labels.each(function(){
var label=$(this),
inp=$(_.targets,this),
defVal=inp.val(),
trueVal=(function(){
var tmp=inp.is('input')?(tmp=label.html().match(/value=['"](.+?)['"].+/),!!tmp&&!!tmp[1]&&tmp[1]):inp.html()
return defVal==''?defVal:tmp
})()
trueVal!=defVal
&&inp.val(defVal=trueVal||defVal)
label.data({defVal:defVal})
inp
.bind('focus',function(){
inp.val()==defVal
&&(inp.val(''),_.hideEmptyFu(label),label.removeClass(_.invalidCl))
})
.bind('blur',function(){
_.validateFu(label)
if(_.isEmpty(label))
inp.val(defVal)
,_.hideErrorFu(label.removeClass(_.invalidCl))
})
.bind('keyup',function(){
label.hasClass(_.invalidCl)
&&_.validateFu(label)
})
label.find('.'+_.errorCl+',.'+_.emptyCl).css({display:'block'}).hide()
})
_.success=$('.'+_.successCl,_.form).hide()
},
isRequired:function(el){
return !el.hasClass(_.notRequiredCl)
},
isValid:function(el){
var ret=true
$.each(_.rx,function(k,d){
if(el.is(k))
ret=d.rx.test(el.find(d.target).val())
})
return ret
},
isEmpty:function(el){
var tmp
return (tmp=el.find(_.targets).val())==''||tmp==el.data('defVal')
},
validateFu:function(el){
el.each(function(){
var th=$(this)
,req=_.isRequired(th)
,empty=_.isEmpty(th)
,valid=_.isValid(th)
if(empty&&req)
_.showEmptyFu(th.addClass(_.invalidCl))
else
_.hideEmptyFu(th.removeClass(_.invalidCl))
if(!empty)
if(valid)
_.hideErrorFu(th.removeClass(_.invalidCl))
else
_.showErrorFu(th.addClass(_.invalidCl))
})
},
getValFromLabel:function(label){
var val=$('input,textarea',label).val()
,defVal=label.data('defVal')
return label.length?val==defVal?'nope':val:'nope'
}
,submitFu:function(){
_.validateFu(_.labels)
if(!_.form.has('.'+_.invalidCl).length)
$.ajax({
type: "POST",
url:_.mailHandlerURL,
data:{
name:_.getValFromLabel($('.name',_.form)),
email:_.getValFromLabel($('.email',_.form)),
phone:_.getValFromLabel($('.phone',_.form)),
fax:_.getValFromLabel($('.fax',_.form)),
state:_.getValFromLabel($('.state',_.form)),
message:_.getValFromLabel($('.message',_.form)),
owner_email:_.ownerEmail,
stripHTML:_.stripHTML
},
success: function(){
_.showFu()
}
})
},
showFu:function(){
_.success.slideDown(function(){
setTimeout(function(){
_.success.slideUp()
_.form.trigger('reset')
},_.successShow)
})
},
controlsFu:function(){
$(_.controls,_.form).each(function(){
var th=$(this)
th
.bind('click',function(){
_.form.trigger(th.data('type'))
return false
})
})
},
showErrorFu:function(label){
label.find('.'+_.errorCl).slideDown()
},
hideErrorFu:function(label){
label.find('.'+_.errorCl).slideUp()
},
showEmptyFu:function(label){
label.find('.'+_.emptyCl).slideDown()
_.hideErrorFu(label)
},
hideEmptyFu:function(label){
label.find('.'+_.emptyCl).slideUp()
},
init:function(){
_.form=_.me
_.labels=$('label',_.form)
_.preFu()
_.controlsFu()
_.form
.bind('submit',function(){
if(_.validate)
_.submitFu()
else
_.form[0].submit()
return false
})
.bind('reset',function(){
_.labels.removeClass(_.invalidCl)
_.labels.each(function(){
var th=$(this)
_.hideErrorFu(th)
_.hideEmptyFu(th)
})
})
_.form.trigger('reset')
}
}
_.me||_.init(_.me=th.data({forms:_}))
typeof o=='object'
&&$.extend(_,o)
})
}
})(jQuery)
$(window).load(function() {
$('#ContactForm').forms({
ownerEmail:'#'
})
})
And this is the mailhandler.php file:
<?php
$owner_email = $_POST["owner_email"];
$headers = 'From:' . $_POST["email"];
$subject = 'A message from your site visitor ' . $_POST["name"];
$messageBody = "";
if($_POST['name']!='nope'){
$messageBody .= '<p>Visitor: ' . $_POST["name"] . '</p>' . "\n";
$messageBody .= '<br>' . "\n";
}
if($_POST['email']!='nope'){
$messageBody .= '<p>Email Address: ' . $_POST['email'] . '</p>' . "\n";
$messageBody .= '<br>' . "\n";
}else{
$headers = '';
}
if($_POST['state']!='nope'){
$messageBody .= '<p>State: ' . $_POST['state'] . '</p>' . "\n";
$messageBody .= '<br>' . "\n";
}
if($_POST['phone']!='nope'){
$messageBody .= '<p>Phone Number: ' . $_POST['phone'] . '</p>' . "\n";
$messageBody .= '<br>' . "\n";
}
if($_POST['fax']!='nope'){
$messageBody .= '<p>Fax Number: ' . $_POST['fax'] . '</p>' . "\n";
$messageBody .= '<br>' . "\n";
}
if($_POST['message']!='nope'){
$messageBody .= '<p>Message: ' . $_POST['message'] . '</p>' . "\n";
}
if($_POST["stripHTML"] == 'true'){
$messageBody = strip_tags($messageBody);
}
try{
if(!mail($owner_email, $subject, $messageBody, $headers)){
throw new Exception('mail failed');
}else{
echo 'mail sent';
}
}catch(Exception $e){
echo $e->getMessage() ."\n";
}
?>
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
