echo on page or js popup?

[mdez13]

hey guys,

 

i just grabbed this quick form offline. can anybody help me figure out how to display JS popups about validation errors as opposed to opening a whole new page to display them? also to i'd like to echo the 'thank you' message on the page as opposed to opening a new window as well.

 

i tried echoing the errors as well as creating a 'success' variable to no avail. im not that good with php . can anybody help me out?

 

<?php
if(isset($_POST['email'])) {
     
    // EDIT THE 2 LINES BELOW AS REQUIRED
    $email_to = "matt@gmail.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['company']) ||
        !isset($_POST['email']) ||
        !isset($_POST['telephone']) ||
        !isset($_POST['interest']) ||
        !isset($_POST['comments'])) {
        died('We are sorry, but there appears to be a problem with the form you submitted.');      
    }
     
    $first_name = $_POST['first_name']; // required
    $company = $_POST['company']; // required
    $email_from = $_POST['email']; // required
    $telephone = $_POST['telephone']; // not required
    $interest = $_POST['interest']; // 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)) {
    $error_message .= 'The name you entered does not appear to be valid.<br />';
  }
  if(!preg_match($string_exp,$company)) {
    $error_message .= 'The company you entered does not appear to be valid.<br />';
  }
  if(!preg_match($string_exp,$interest)) {
    $error_message .= 'The area of interest you entered does not appear to be valid.<br />';
  }
  if(strlen($comments) < 2) {
    $error_message .= 'The specific requests you entered do not appear to be valid.<br />';
  }
  if(strlen($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";
    $email_message .= "Company: ".clean_string($company)."\n";
    $email_message .= "Email: ".clean_string($email_from)."\n";
    $email_message .= "Telephone: ".clean_string($telephone)."\n";
    $email_message .= "Area of Interest: ".clean_string($interest)."\n";
    $email_message .= "Specific Requests: ".clean_string($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
}
?>