Contact form w/ radio buttons questions

[mcho74]

Hi there,

I'm a newbie to PHP and I've been stumbling my way through some PHP contact form script tutorials and could use some more guidance. Can you tell me what I'm doing wrong?

 

1 - I don't know how to add the code correctly for my radio buttons into my PHP script.

2 - Even without trying to add the botched radio button code, I can't get my script to direct me to the proper html header after I input the info into the contact form and click submit.  It just goes back to the same Contact.html instead of the ThankYou.html.

 

I have separate html and PHP files.  Here is my html code and then the PHP code.

 

<form id="Contactform" name="Contactform" method="post" action="sendmail.php">
    <table width="285" height="220" border="0" cellspacing="0">
      <tr>
        <td width="88">Name:</td>
        <td width="240"><input name="Name" type="text" id="Name" size="25" maxlength="100" /></td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td>Address:</td>
        <td><input name="Address" type="text" id="Address" size="25" maxlength="100" /></td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td>City:</td>
        <td><input name="City" type="text" id="City" size="25" maxlength="100" /></td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td>State/Prov:</td>
        <td><input name="State/Prov" type="text" id="State/Prov" size="25" maxlength="100" /></td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td>Zip</td>
        <td><input name="Zip" type="text" id="Zip" size="25" maxlength="100" /></td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td>Country:</td>
        <td><input name="Country" type="text" id="Country" size="25" maxlength="100" /></td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td>Phone:</td>
        <td><input name="Phone" type="text" id="Phone" size="25" maxlength="100" /></td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td>Email:</td>
        <td><input name="Email" type="text" id="Email" size="25" maxlength="100" /></td>
      </tr>
    </table>
    <p>Are you interested in financing opportunities with Twin Seas?
      <label>
        <input type="radio" name="Financing" id="Financing Yes" value="Financing Yes" />
      </label>
      Yes
      <label>
        <input type="radio" name="Financing" id="Financing No" value="Financing No" />
      </label>
      No</p>
    <p>Comments or Questions:<br />
      <label>
        <textarea name="Comments" id="Comments" cols="45" rows="4"></textarea>
      </label>
    </p>
    <p>
      <label>
        <input type="submit" name="Submit" id="Submit" value="Submit" />
      </label>
      <label>
        <input type="reset" name="Reset" id="Reset" value="Reset" />
      </label>
    </p>
  </form>

<?php
  $Name = $_REQUEST['Name'] ;
  $Address = $_REQUEST['Address'] ;
  $City = $_REQUEST['City'] ;
  $StateProv = $_REQUEST['State/Prov'] ;
  $Zip = $_REQUEST['Zip'] ;
  $Country = $_REQUEST['Country'] ;
  $Phone = $_REQUEST['Phone'] ;
  $Email = $_REQUEST['Email'] ;
  $Comments = $_REQUEST['Comments'] ;
  
  
  
  $Financing Yes_status = 'unchecked';
  $Financing No_status = 'unchecked';
  
  if (isset($_POST['Submit'])) {
  $selected_radio = $_POST['Financing'];
  
  if ($selected_radio = = 'Financing Yes') {
  $Financing Yes_status = 'checked';
  }

  else if ($selected_radio = = 'Financing No') {
  $Financing No_status = 'checked';
  }
  }
  
  
   
  if ( preg_match( "/[\r\n]/", $Name ) || preg_match( "/[\r\n]/", $Email ) ) {
header( "Location: http://www.twinseasdevelopmentcabosanlucas.com/Error.html" );
exit ;
}
  
  if (!isset($_REQUEST['email'])) {
    header( "Location: http://www.twinseasdevelopmentcabosanlucas.com/Contact.html" );
}
  elseif (empty($Name) || empty($Phone) || empty($Email)) {
    header( "Location: http://www.twinseasdevelopmentcabosanlucas.com/Error.html" );
}
  else {
mail( "[email protected]", "Contact Form Results", "From: $Name <$Email>" );
  header( "Location: http://www.twinseasdevelopmentcabosanlucas.com/ThankYou.html" );
  }
?>

 

[KevinM1]

You're processing the radio buttons correctly.  However, the overall design of your form handler needs to be addressed.

 

There are two steps you need to take, in order:

 

1. Check to see if the form has been submitted

2. Check each form input manually

 

So, the form handler should have the structure of:

 

if(isset($_POST['submit']))
{
   if(isset($_POST['name']) && isset($_POST['email']))
   {
       //run regex checks
   }
   else
   {
      //non-existent data error
   }

   //...
}

 

Essentially, you need to check for the existence of an input value before you can use it.  Also, you shouldn't use the $_REQUEST array.  Use the one you specify in your form's method, in this case $_POST.  Right now, your e-mail script is open to processing data sent via query string (i.e., in the url), which you probably don't want.