Creating html/php email form

wolfsta · May 3, 2012

Hi all

New here.

I have a basic email form that takes name phone email etc, also has 3 file upload boxes for photos.

I have taken most of the code from free examples off the net and patched it together.

It had an error message if something went wrong. I wanted to put an html page instead of just the txt. So read that I could end tag the php then do html then begin tag the php again. Problem is some of the error message was from a different part of the php code. How can i get this displayed on the html.

<?php 
    if(isset($_POST['email'])) { 
         
        // EDIT THE 2 LINES BELOW AS REQUIRED 
        $email_to = "email@email.com"; 
        $email_subject = "JoinUs Model Form"; 
         
         
        function died($error) { 
            // your error code can go here 
            ?> 
             
            <title>title</title> 
            <style type="text/css"> 
            body { 
                background-color: #000; 
                text-align: center; 
            } 
            body,td,th { 
                color: #FFF; 
                font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; 
                font-size: 24px; 
            } 
            </style> 
            </head> 
            <body link="#FFFFFF" onload="setTimeout('history.back()',10000)"> 
            <p><img src="../images/logo.png" width="326" height="144" alt="sdadfsd" longdesc="http://www.dgfsfdg.com" /><br /> 
            </p> 
            <br /> 
            <p>We are very sorry, but there were error(s) found with the form you submitted.</p> 
            <p>These errors appear below.</p> 
             
       ####### this is where i want the below errors to appear in same format as html ######### 
             
            <p>Click back to fix your error(s) or you will be taken back to the form automatically in 10 seconds...</p> 
            <h6> </h6> 
            <h6>© asafdsodf  2012</h6> 
            </body> 
            </html> 
             
            <?php 
            die(); 
        } 
         
        // validation expected data exists 
        if(!isset($_POST['first_name']) || 
           !isset($_POST['last_name']) || 
           !isset($_POST['email']) || 
           !isset($_POST['telephone']) || 
           !isset($_POST['comments'])) { 
            died('We are sorry, but there appears to be a problem with the form you submitted.');        
        } 
         
        // Where the file is going to be placed 
        $target_path = "uploads/"; 
         
        /* Add the original filename to our target path.   
        Result is "uploads/filename.extension" */ 
        $target_path = $target_path . basename( $_FILES['form2']['photo1']); 
        $target_path = $target_path . basename( $_FILES['form2']['photo2']); 
        $target_path = $target_path . basename( $_FILES['form2']['photo3']); 
         
        $first_name = $_POST['first_name']; // required 
        $last_name = $_POST['last_name']; // required 
        $email_from = $_POST['email']; // required 
        $telephone = $_POST['telephone']; // not required 
        $comments = $_POST['comments']; // required 
        $age = $_POST['age']; 
        $city = $_POST['city']; 
        $state = $_POST['state']; 
        $height_feet = $_POST['height_feet']; 
        $height_inches = $_POST['height_inches']; 
        $photo1 = $_FILES['form2']['photo1']; 
        $photo2 = $_FILES['form2']['photo2']; 
        $photo3 = $_FILES['form2']['photo3']; 
         
        $error_message = ""; 
        $email_exp = '/^[A-Za-z0-9._%-]+@[A-Za-z0-9.-]+\.[A-Za-z]{2,4}$/'; 
        if(!preg_match($email_exp,$email_from)) { 
            $error_message .= 'The Email Address you entered does not appear to be valid.<br />'; 
        } 
        $string_exp = "/^[A-Za-z .'-]+$/"; 
        if(!preg_match($string_exp,$first_name)) { 
            $error_message .= 'The First Name you entered does not appear to be valid.<br />'; 
        } 
        if(!preg_match($string_exp,$last_name)) { 
            $error_message .= 'The Last Name you entered does not appear to be valid.<br />'; 
        } 
        if(strlen($comments) < 2) { 
            $error_message .= 'The Comments you entered do not appear to be valid.<br />'; 
        } 
        if(strlen($error_message) > 0) { 
            died($error_message); 
        } 
        $email_message = "Form details below.\n\n"; 
         
        function clean_string($string) { 
            $bad = array("content-type","bcc:","to:","cc:","href"); 
            return str_replace($bad,"",$string); 
        } 
         
        $email_message .= "First Name: ".clean_string($first_name)."\n"; 
        $email_message .= "Last Name: ".clean_string($last_name)."\n"; 
        $email_message .= "Age: ".clean_string($age)."\n"; 
        $email_message .= "Height: ".clean_string($height_feet) .clean_string($height_inches)."\n"; 
        $email_message .= "City: ".clean_string($city)."\n"; 
        $email_message .= "State: ".clean_string($state)."\n"; 
        $email_message .= "Email: ".clean_string($email_from)."\n"; 
        $email_message .= "Telephone: ".clean_string($telephone)."\n"; 
        $email_message .= "Comments: ".clean_string($comments)."\n"; 
        $email_message .= "".clean_string($comments)."\n"; 
        $email_message .= "Comments: ".clean_string($comments)."\n"; 
        $email_message .= "Comments: ".clean_string($comments)."\n"; 
         
         
        // create email headers 
        $headers = 'From: '.$email_from."\r\n". 
        'Reply-To: '.$email_from."\r\n" . 
        'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion(); 
        @mail($email_to, $email_subject, $email_message, $headers);   
    ?> 

<!-- include your own success html here --> 
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> 
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> 
<head> 
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /> 
<title>asdf </title> 
<style type="text/css"> 
body { 
    background-color: #000; 
    text-align: center; 
} 
body,td,th { 
    color: #FFF; 
    font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; 
    font-size: 24px; 
} 
</style> 
</head> 

<body link="#FFFFFF"> 
<p><img src="./images/logo.png" width="326" height="144" alt="asdfahjdsfka" longdesc="http://www.kasdfhdskaha.com" /><br /> 
</p> 
<p>Thank your for applying to adskfha asdfasd.  We will be in touch with you very soon.</p> 
<p>You will be redirected back to the site in 3 seconds...</p> 
<h6> </h6> 
<h6>© 2012</h6> 
</body> 
</html> 

<?php 
    } 
    ?>

Thanks

Wolfsta

Muddy_Funster · May 3, 2012

if never seen the use of died, just die. but to use this line as an example :

died('We are sorry, but there appears to be a problem with the form you submitted.');

You can apply html tags to the message being returned from the php, so it could be done like :

died('<span style="color:red;text-decorate:underline;">We are sorry, but there appears to be a problem with the form you submitted.</span>');

Is that what your after, 'cause I'm not too sure.

wolfsta · May 3, 2012

Sorry let me explain a little more.. this is the original code that i got from a website. I started messing with it.

<?php
if(isset($_POST['email'])) {
     
    // EDIT THE 2 LINES BELOW AS REQUIRED
    $email_to = "you@yourdomain.com";
    $email_subject = "Your email subject line";
     
     
    function died($error) {
        // your error code can go here
        echo "We are very sorry, but there were error(s) found with the form you submitted. ";
        echo "These errors appear below.<br /><br />";
        echo $error."<br /><br />";
        echo "Please go back and fix these errors.<br /><br />";
        die();
    }
     
    // validation expected data exists
    if(!isset($_POST['first_name']) ||
        !isset($_POST['last_name']) ||
        !isset($_POST['email']) ||
        !isset($_POST['telephone']) ||
        !isset($_POST['comments'])) {
        died('We are sorry, but there appears to be a problem with the form you submitted.');       
    }
     
    $first_name = $_POST['first_name']; // required
    $last_name = $_POST['last_name']; // required
    $email_from = $_POST['email']; // required
    $telephone = $_POST['telephone']; // not required
    $comments = $_POST['comments']; // required
     
    $error_message = "";
    $email_exp = '/^[A-Za-z0-9._%-]+@[A-Za-z0-9.-]+\.[A-Za-z]{2,4}$/';
  if(!preg_match($email_exp,$email_from)) {
    $error_message .= 'The Email Address you entered does not appear to be valid.<br />';
  }
    $string_exp = "/^[A-Za-z .'-]+$/";
  if(!preg_match($string_exp,$first_name)) {
    $error_message .= 'The First Name you entered does not appear to be valid.<br />';
  }
  if(!preg_match($string_exp,$last_name)) {
    $error_message .= 'The Last Name you entered does not appear to be valid.<br />';
  }
  if(strlen($comments) < 2) {
    $error_message .= 'The Comments you entered do not appear to be valid.<br />';
  }
  if(strlen($error_message) > 0) {
    died($error_message);
  }
    $email_message = "Form details below.\n\n";
     
    function clean_string($string) {
      $bad = array("content-type","bcc:","to:","cc:","href");
      return str_replace($bad,"",$string);
    }
     
    $email_message .= "First Name: ".clean_string($first_name)."\n";
    $email_message .= "Last Name: ".clean_string($last_name)."\n";
    $email_message .= "Email: ".clean_string($email_from)."\n";
    $email_message .= "Telephone: ".clean_string($telephone)."\n";
    $email_message .= "Comments: ".clean_string($comments)."\n";
     
     
// create email headers
$headers = 'From: '.$email_from."\r\n".
'Reply-To: '.$email_from."\r\n" .
'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion();
@mail($email_to, $email_subject, $email_message, $headers);  
?>

<!-- include your own success html here -->

Thank you for contacting us. We will be in touch with you very soon.

<?php
}
?>

Instead of just displaying a error in plain text. I want it to display nicely on a html page with logo and everything then the errors and also redirect back to the form after say 10seconds.

I took the error section and ended the php tag.. inserted html.. and then started the php at the end again as below:

function died($error) {
            // your error code can go here

		?>
            
		<title>asdf adsf</title>
		<style type="text/css">
		body {
			background-color: #000;
			text-align: center;
		}
		body,td,th {
			color: #FFF;
			font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
			font-size: 24px;
		}
		</style>
		</head>
		<body link="#FFFFFF" onload="setTimeout('history.back()',10000)">
		<p><img src="../images/logo.png" width="326" height="144" alt="asdfa" longdesc="http://www.adsfadsf.com" /><br />
		</p>
            <br />
		<p>We are very sorry, but there were error(s) found with the form you submitted.</p>
            <p>These errors appear below.</p>
            
            
		<p>Click back to fix your error(s) or you will be taken back to the form automatically in 10 seconds...</p>
		<h6> </h6>
		<h6>© asdf 2012</h6>
		</body>
		</html>
            
            <?php
            die();
        }

But i realised that the errors were generated from the php so can you provide either and easier way to display a full page and logo when it does the errors, or b inserted the errors via php into the html section.

Hope I'm explaining this clearly.

Thanks

Wolfsta

colleyboy · May 3, 2012

When it "dies" you don't have to put in all the HTML into the script but instead tell it to display a HTML page.

Just insert:

header( 'Location: yourpage.html' ) ;

Hope this helps

wolfsta · May 3, 2012

Thanks after what you said it made me go back and look.

I just needed to add this in the middle of my html to get it to display.

<?php
echo $error."<br /><br />";
?>

But I will go back and tidy up into an html file like you suggested after.

Thanks guys!

Wolfsta

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