please help me with my contact forum.

[KillerWolf]

Ok two things i need help with first one is if someone can make sure that this should work alright, no real big bugs in it.  And 2. I not sure how i should go about validating the email address, i want it to look to see if their is a @ and . in the feild.  Thank you for any help.

 

 

 

<p class="headermain"></p>

</p>




<!--header text -->





<?php 
	//address the mail is to be sent to

	$mailTo="test@test.test, $req_email";


	//mails to the user

	$mailFrom="test@test.test";

	//mailing info

	$msgBody="The following was submitted on ".$sentdate."\n
	Name:\t".$name."
	Email:\t".$_POST['email']."
	Query:\n".$_POST['comments'];
	$xHeaders = "From: $mailFrom\nX-Mailer: PHP/" . phpversion();

	//error msgs

	$req_name="Name";
	$req_email="Email address";
	$req_comments="missing comments";

	//message that is displayed on the screen when mail is sent.
	$success_message="<b>Your message has been sent. Thank you for input.</b>";


	$comments="Query from ".$_POST['comments'];


if ($_POST['submit']) { 
$sentdate=Date("l F jS, Y");

//Check if there is a response from the required fields. 

if(!$_POST['name']&&$req_name){
	$missing[]=$req_name;
	$nosuccess[0]=' class="nosuccess"';
	}
if(!$_POST['email']&&$req_email){
	$missing[]="Email address";
	$nosuccess[1]=' class="nosuccess"';
	}
if(!$_POST['comments']&&$req_comments){
	$missing[]="Comments";
	$nosuccess[2]=' class="nosuccess"';
	}

if(count($missing)>0){
		$s="";
		if(count($missing)>1){
		$s="s";
		}
	print "<div class=\"errormsg\">You missed out the following required field$s:<br><ul>\n";
			for ($i=0; $i<count($missing); $i++){
			print "<li>$missing[$i]</li>";

			}
			print"</ul></div>";
		 //	exit;

  	}
	//endifcountmissing
	else{
		if(mail($mailTo, $comments, stripslashes($comments), $xHeaders)){


		// confirmation
		print "<p>$success_message</p>" ;
		print "<h1>Message successfully sent</h1>";
}
		else{print"<p>Sorry, could not send mail, please try later.</p>";
		} 
	}
} 
	else{

	}


?>


<form action="<?php $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']?>" method="post">
<h3>Contact Us</h1>



<fieldset>

<p class="headermain"<?php print $nosuccess[0];?>>
<b>Name:</b> 

	<input type="text" name="name" value="<?php if (!empty($_POST['name'])) Echo $_POST['name'];?>" size="20" maxlength="40" /></p>
<p class="headermain" <?php print $nosuccess[1];?>>
<b>Email:</b><input type="text" name="email" value="<?php if (!empty($_POST['email'])) Echo $_POST['email'];?>"size="20" maxlength="40"  /></p>



<p class="headermain"<?php print $nosuccess[2];?>>
<b>Comments:</b>		
		<textarea name="comments" rows="5" cols="50"><?php if (!empty($_POST['comments'])) Echo $_POST['comments'];?><?php echo stripslashes($_POST['details']) ;?></textarea></p>	



<div><input type="submit" name="submit" value="submit" />


</div>	

</feildset>	

			</td>
		</tr>

[Jeremysr]

1. I can't read the code because it's all over the place... please indent properly.

 

2. Use regex to validate e-mail addresses, here is a function that will return 1 if it's valid or 0 if it isn't:

 

function is_email_valid($email) {
    return preg_match('/\b[A-Z0-9._%+-]+@[A-Z0-9.-]+\.[A-Z]{2,4}\b/i', $email);
}

 

This regex is from the homepage of http://regular-expressions.info .

[KillerWolf]

cant seem to find how to edit my post.

[xcoderx]

u could do better with little piece of coding

 

here is what u can do

 

if(!$email == "" && (!strstr($email,"@") || !strstr($email,"."))) 
{
echo "Use a valid email address\n"; 
$error = "Email not sent\n";
echo $error;
die ("Try again ");
}

[KillerWolf]

oh thats tight, so just put that in were i have the existing email check?

[xcoderx]

yes exactly figure it out where u must add the code and u are done and nomore invalid email addresses 

[KillerWolf]

thanks, ill figure out how to implement that now. but everything else looks alright?

[xcoderx]

indent ur codings properly first coz its very messy to even go through 

[KillerWolf]

tryihng to figure out how to edit the code i posted

 

[KillerWolf]

this is the best i can make it, it looks weird cause of this data box.

 

<p class="headermain"></p>

</p>


<!--header text -->

<?php 
	//address the mail is to be sent to

	$mailTo="test@test.test, $req_email";


	//mails to the user

	$mailFrom="test@test.test";

	//mailing info

	$msgBody="The following was submitted on ".$sentdate."\n
	Name:\t".$name."
	Email:\t".$_POST['email']."
	Query:\n".$_POST['comments'];
	$xHeaders = "From: $mailFrom\nX-Mailer: PHP/" . phpversion();

	//error msgs

	$req_name="Name";
	$req_email="Email address";
	$req_comments="missing comments";

	//message that is displayed on the screen when mail is sent.
	$success_message="<b>Your message has been sent. Thank you for input.</b>";


	$comments="Query from ".$_POST['comments'];


             if ($_POST['submit']) { 
    $sentdate=Date("l F jS, Y");

//Check if there is a response from the required fields. 

if(!$_POST['name']&&$req_name)
                                                       {
                                       	$missing[]=$req_name;
                                        	$nosuccess[0]=' class="nosuccess"';
	                              }
if(!$_POST['email']&&$req_email) 
                                                       {
	                                       $missing[]="Email address";
                                         	$nosuccess[1]=' class="nosuccess"';
	                              }
if(!$_POST['comments']&&$req_comments)
                                                       {
	                                       $missing[]="Comments";
	                                       $nosuccess[2]=' class="nosuccess"';
	                              }

if(count($missing)>0)
                                                       {
		                           $s="";
		                           if(count($missing)>1)
                                                                                              {
		                                                               $s="s";
		                                                        }
	                                        

                                                                 print "<div class=\"errormsg\">You missed out the following required field$s:<br><ul>\n";
			             
                                                                 for ($i=0; $i<count($missing); $i++)
                                                                                                               {
			                                                                   print "<li>$missing[$i]</li>";

			                                                             }
			               print"</ul></div>";
		 //	exit;

  	                                
                                                        }
	//endifcountmissing
else
                  {
             if(mail($mailTo, $comments, stripslashes($comments), $xHeaders)){


		// confirmation
		print "<p>$success_message</p>" ;
		print "<h1>Message successfully sent</h1>";
                   }

                          else
                               {
                                      print"<p>Sorry, could not send mail, please try later.</p>";
                   } 

                   }
} 
else
                  {

           	      }


?>


<form action="<?php $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']?>" method="post">
<h3>Contact Us</h3>



<fieldset>

     <p class="headermain"<?php print $nosuccess[0];?>>
<b>Name:</b> 
	<input type="text" name="name" value="<?php if (!empty($_POST['name'])) Echo $_POST['name'];?>" size="20" maxlength="40" /></p>

     <p class="headermain" <?php print $nosuccess[1];?>>
<b>Email:</b><input type="text" name="email" value="<?php if (!empty($_POST['email'])) Echo $_POST['email'];?>"size="20" maxlength="40"  /></p>

     <p class="headermain"<?php print $nosuccess[2];?>>
<b>Comments:</b>
	<textarea name="comments" rows="5" cols="50"><?php if (!empty($_POST['comments'])) Echo $_POST['comments'];?><?php echo stripslashes($_POST['details']) ;?></textarea></p>	

             <div>
	<input type="submit" name="submit" value="submit" />
</div>	

</feildset>