Contact form

[freshtokyo]

Ok, so I've been working on my site and i'm getting really close to getting it live, (except for a couple of things...) one is the contact page... here is the form

<form METHOD=POST ACTION="contact1.php"> 
		<table width="300" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
			<tr>
				<td>Name:</td>
				<td><INPUT TYPE="text" NAME="name"></td>
			</tr>
			<tr>
				<td>E-mail:</td>
				<td><INPUT TYPE="text" NAME="email"></td>
			</tr>
			<tr>
				<td valign="top">Comments:</td>
				<td><TEXTAREA NAME="comments" ROWS="10" COLS="34"></TEXTAREA></td>
			</tr>
			<tr>
				<td>
<input type="submit" name="Submit" value="Submit"></td>
				<td>
<input type="reset" name="reset" value="Reset"></td>
			</tr>
		</table>
		</form>

and here is "contact1.php" code...

<? // THIS IS THE BEGIINNING OF THE PHP CODE 

$name     = @$HTTP_POST_VARS['name'];
$address  = @$HTTP_POST_VARS['address'];
$state    = @$HTTP_POST_VARS['state'];
$city     = @$HTTP_POST_VARS['city'];
$zip      = @$HTTP_POST_VARS['zip'];
$country  = @$HTTP_POST_VARS['country'];
$phone    = @$HTTP_POST_VARS['phone'];
$email    = @$HTTP_POST_VARS['email'];
$comments = @$HTTP_POST_VARS['comments'];
$fax      = @$HTTP_POST_VARS['fax'];
$error_msg="";
$msg="";



$sender_email="";

if(!isset($name)){
	if($name==""){
		$sender_name="Web Customer";
	}
}else{
	$sender_name=$name;
}
if(!isset($email)){
	if($email==""){
	$sender_email="Customer@website.com";
	}
}else{
	$sender_email=$email;
}
if($error_msg != ""){
	echo"You didn't fill in these required fields:
"
	. nl2br($error_msg) .'
Please   return  to the'
         ." previous page and try again.";
exit;}
$mailheaders  = "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";
$mailheaders .= "Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1\r\n";
$mailheaders .= "From: $sender_name <$sender_email>\r\n";
$mailheaders .= "Reply-To: $sender_email <$sender_email>\r\n"; 
mail("","",stripslashes($msg), $mailheaders);
 echo "<h2>Thank you for your feedback $name</h2>";
echo 'This is the information you submitted 
';
echo nl2br(stripslashes($msg));
echo '

';
//THIS IS THE END OF THE PHP CODE ?>

Now I've been working on finding a contact script that works (and is free) for about 2 hours straight... and this is the first one that seems to be the closest to actually working! It seems to be pretty simple, but I can't figure out a couple of things...
1. why does it pass even if no information has been provided?
2. HOW COME I'M NOT GETTING THE CONTACT INFO EMAILED TO ME?!!!!

Thanks!

[Tekime]

Bro, I'll try and play with this soon. Pretty fuggin busy today. Have a massiv PHP project we are rolling out over the next month (and that's just stage one), so unfortunately I have a zillion lines of my own code to pour over, lol... I will check this out though!

[freshtokyo]

actually don't bother... it was a shit tutorial... I posted it on codewalkers... and basically got laughed at... but if you do have a simple contact form you could send me I'd much appreciate it! (trying to tie the remaining pieces of freshtokyo.com together!)

[freshtokyo]

ok here's another one...

	<form action="process.php" method="post">
			Name: <input type="text" name="name" size="20" maxlength="20">

			Email: <input type="text" name="email" size="30" maxlength="30">

			Subject: <input type="text" name="subject" size="30" maxlength="30">

			Content: <textarea name="text" cols="50" rows="10"></textarea>

			<input type="submit" name="submit" value="Send">
		</form>

and to process the form...

<?php
	@extract ($_POST);
	$name = stripslashes($name);
	$email = stripslashes($email);
	$subject = stripslashes($subject);
	$text = stripslashes($text);
	mail ('matt@freshtokyo.com',$subject,$text,"From: $name <$email>");
	header ("location:contact.php");
?>

Any ideas why this isn't working? Should this work off my Laptop or does it need to be out there on the web to work?

[Tekime]

Have you tried echoing the variables to see if they are receiving the proper values?

Sample code is nice, but I would be less dependent on existing code to find your way, and try coming up with your own solution. Most of the problems you run into are basic syntax errors, or application control logic failures that can be addressed with some standard debugging techniques.

Making code that works, and making code that you understand, are two totally different things. Not saying you don't understand wth it's doing, but I see you wrestling with a ton of sample code when you could probably work through one on your own and really learn what the code is doing, why it's written as it is, how the application logic is controlled, etc. Guarantee you spend 10 hours fuxoring around with some little problem, when you finally figure it out, it will be both exhilerating and educational.

[freshtokyo]

that's it... i'm going to molest this code. ;D thx for the input

[freshtokyo]

oh man... there is no smilie for ;D how about

[freshtokyo]

ok few

[Tekime]

Hehe good luck Don't hesitate to post your questions obviously just giving my $.02 based on my very similar experience of learning PHP.