Right so i'm trying to make a subscribe page at the moment for my website. I've got a section that's listed be the first one to see it here...from there i wanted to make a text box for the user to type their email address and then a button to submit and send me an email of the users email address.
Also, I wanted to make the submit button my own graphic and not just a button?
The HTML code is:
<form class="email" action="mailer.php" method="post">
<input name="email" type="text" size="70" />
<input class="send" type="submit" value="Send">
</form>
and the PHP:
<?php
/* Set e-mail recipient */
$myemail = "cweyer@hotmail.co.uk";
/* Check all form inputs using check_input function */
$email = check_input($_POST['email']);
/* If e-mail is not valid show error message */
if (!preg_match("/([\w\-]+\@[\w\-]+\.[\w\-]+)/", $email))
{
show_error("E-mail address not valid");
}
/* Send the message using mail() function */
mail($myemail);
/* Redirect visitor to the thank you page */
header('Location: thanks.html');
exit();
/* Functions we used */
function check_input($data, $problem='')
{
$data = trim($data);
$data = stripslashes($data);
$data = htmlspecialchars($data);
if ($problem && strlen($data) == 0)
{
show_error($problem);
}
return $data;
}
function show_error($myError)
{
?>
<html>
<body>
<p>Please correct the following error:</p>
<strong><?php echo $myError; ?></strong>
<p>Hit the back button and try again</p>
</body>
</html>
<?php
exit();
}
?>
If anyone could help it would be so appreciated! To get more of an idea on my problem, visit www.itscharlottesweb.co.uk
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Posted 20 January 2013 - 12:23 PM
The submit button can be done in CSS or you can use:
Where height and width are the size of the image.
<INPUT TYPE="image" SRC="yourimage.jpg" WIDTH="x" HEIGHT="x" BORDER="0" ALT="SUBMIT!">
Where height and width are the size of the image.
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Posted 20 January 2013 - 12:24 PM
Have you uploaded mailer.php?
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Posted 20 January 2013 - 04:09 PM
I have uploaded both the HTML file and mailer.php but it still seems to run an error. Brilliant, ill give the button a try! Thanks
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Posted 20 January 2013 - 04:20 PM
an error. Mhm.
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Posted 20 January 2013 - 04:28 PM
I have uploaded both the HTML file and mailer.php but it still seems to run an error. Brilliant, ill give the button a try! Thanks
Earlier on it didn't get to the php page, it just loaded an error. I've just tried another and it's given the thank you message....
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Posted 20 January 2013 - 05:35 PM
Working perfectly now, thanks for the help!
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Posted 20 January 2013 - 05:44 PM
One last quick question. I'm trying to centre the form. I've got:
<form method="post" name="myemailform" action="form-to-email.php">
<p>;</p>
<p><br>
<input name="email" type="text" size="70">
</p>
<p>
<input type="image" SRC="subscribe.png"
WIDTH="85" HEIGHT="35"
BORDER="0" ALT="SUBMIT!">
</p>
</form>
and am trying to centre it. Anyone got any suggestions?
<form method="post" name="myemailform" action="form-to-email.php">
<p>;</p>
<p><br>
<input name="email" type="text" size="70">
</p>
<p>
<input type="image" SRC="subscribe.png"
WIDTH="85" HEIGHT="35"
BORDER="0" ALT="SUBMIT!">
</p>
</form>
and am trying to centre it. Anyone got any suggestions?
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Posted 20 January 2013 - 06:16 PM
Solved with a few Divs. Thank you everyone for your help
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Posted 21 January 2013 - 08:00 AM
If you want it to look more like your original design, you can style the text box too.
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