Wrong information in Form Fields

[mdmartiny]

I am writing an email form for my site with some simple validation. I have the error messages working just fine. They do what they are supposed to do.

 

However, when the form is brought back up to have the errors fixed. It puts a "1" in the field box. I looked at the code and I do not see where the "1" is coming from.

 

I am also in the process of trying to figure out how to send email through my mail account using smtp. I want to see if it is going to send me the information that I ask for or the "1". Currently all of my work is being done on my localhost server

 

Here is the code that I am using

 

<?php

$email_form = "<form action='' target='' id='contactform' method='post'>\n";
$email_form .="<p class='form_header'>Contact us</p>\n";
$email_form .= "<fieldset>\n";
$email_form .= "<P>\n";
$email_form .= "<label for='name'><em>*</em> Your Name:</label>\n";
$email_form .= "<input type='text' name='name' id='name' value=".(isset($_POST['name']))." />\n";
$email_form .= "</p>\n";
$email_form .= "<p>\n";
$email_form .= "<label for='email'><em>*</em> E-mail:</label>\n";
$email_form .= "<input type='text'  name='email' id='email' value=".(isset($_POST['email']))." />\n";
$email_form .= "</p>\n";
$email_form .= "<p>\n";
$email_form .= "<label for='subject'>Subject:</label>\n";
$email_form .= "<input type='text' name='subject' id='subject' value=".(isset($_POST['subject']))." />\n";
$email_form .= "</p>\n";
$email_form .= "<p>\n";
$email_form .= "<label for='message'><em>*</em> Message:</label>\n";
$email_form .= "<textarea name='message' id='message'>".(isset($_POST['message']))."</textarea>\n";
$email_form .= "</p>\n";
$email_form .= "<input type='submit' id='submit' value='Submit!' name='submitted' /><br />\n";
$email_form .= "<p class='required'>Fields marked with an asterik(*) are required</p>\n";
$email_form .= "</fieldset>\n";

if (!isset($_POST['submitted'])) {
    echo "$email_form";
}
else {
    $name = (isset($_POST['name']));
    $email = (isset($_POST['email']));
    $to = "[email protected]";
    $subject = (isset($_POST['subject']));
    $body = (isset($_POST['message']));

    if ($subject == "") {
        $subject = "Email from website";
    }
    else {
        $subject == $subject;
    }

    if ($_POST['name'] != "") {
        $_POST['name'] = filter_var($_POST['name'], FILTER_SANITIZE_STRING);
        if ($_POST['name'] == "") {
            $errors .= 'Please enter a valid name.<br/><br/>';
        }
    }
    else {
        $errors .= 'Please enter your name.<br/>';
    }

    if ($_POST['email'] != "") {
        $email = filter_var($_POST['email'], FILTER_SANITIZE_EMAIL);
        if (!filter_var($email, FILTER_VALIDATE_EMAIL)) {
            $errors .= "$email is <strong>NOT</strong> a valid email address.<br/>";
        }
    }
    else {
        $errors .= 'Please enter your email address.<br/>';
    }

    if ($_POST['message'] != "") {
        $_POST['message'] = filter_var($_POST['message'], FILTER_SANITIZE_STRING);
        if ($_POST['message'] == "") {
            $errors .= 'Please enter a message to send.<br/>';
        }
    }
    else {
        $errors .= 'Please enter a message to send.<br/>';
    }

    if (empty($errors)) {

        $headers = 'MIME-Version: 1.0' . "\r\n";
        $headers .= 'Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1' . "\r\n";
        $headers .= "From: " . $email . "\r\n";

        $success = mail($to, $subject, $body, $headers);
    }

    if ($success) {

        echo "<p>The following email has been sent</p>\n";
        echo "<p>Name: $name</p>\n";
        echo "<p>E-mail: $email</p>";
        echo "<p>Subject: $subject</p>\n";
        echo "<p><em>*</em> Message: $body</p>\n";
        echo "<p>While you are waiting for a response from one of our staff members. Feel free to look at some of the following sections</p>\n";
        echo "<a href='../waiting.php'>In The Mail</a>";
        echo "Thank you for visiting Michael48060.</p>\n";
    }

    else
        echo "$email_form";
}

if (!empty($errors)) {
    echo "<div class='error_div'>
	<span class='errors'>" . $errors . "</span>
	</div>";
}
?>

[Pikachu2000]

isset() returns a boolean value. When you echo isset($_POST whatever, if it evaluates to TRUE, it will echo the 1. The value of the value= attributes in the form fields should also be quoted; currently they are not.

[mdmartiny]

How do I make it so that I do not get the undefined index messages for each of the fields. I tried making it an if statement but that did not work.  I do not want there to be anything in the field unless it is set.

 

 

[Buddski]

You got the is set part right, you just werent telling it to output anything relevant

value=".(isset($_POST['email']) ? $_POST['email'] : '')."

[mdmartiny]

Thank you for the help

[Pikachu2000]

If it were me, I'd use ternary syntax for brevity, and assign either the value of the element fro the $_POST array or an empty string to a variable, then use that variable as the value= attribute. Make sure you've trim()med the values in the $_POST array so that just whitespace isn't considered a valid entry.

 

$_POST = array_map('trim', $_POST) // if the $_POST array is not multidimensional, trim all the elements.

$name = !empty($_POST['name']) ? $_POST['name'] : '';
$email_form .= "<input type='text' name='name' id='name' value='$name' />\n";

 

EDIT: removed redundant trim() function . . .

 

2nd EDIT: Pretty much what Buddski said, just written a little differently.