Form submit

[linardzb]

Hi,

 

Im trying to submit the email through the online contact page http://www.origin-designs.co.uk/. I cannot receive emails through it, im not sure where is the problem with the code. It seems to be working fine for other people through fiddle or some other tool. I'm providing the code for the form too. any feedback welcome, cheers

 

<?php 
$error = false;
$sent = false;

if(isset($_POST['name'])) {
	if(empty($_Post['name']) || empty($_POST['email']) || empty($_POST['comments'])) {
		$error = true;
	} else {

	$to = "linardsberzins@gmail.com";

	$name = trim($_POST['name']);
	$email = trim($_POST['email']);
	$comments = trim($_POST['comments']);

	$subject = "Contact Form";

	$messages =  "Name: $name \r\n Email: $email \r\n Comments: $comments";
	$headers = "From:" . $name;
	$mailsent = mail($to, $subject, $messages, $headers);

	if($mailsent) {
		$sent = true;
	}
}
}
?>

 

And my HTML is

<?php if($error == true) { ?>
    <p class="error"></p>
    <?php } if($sent == true) { ?>
    <p class="sent"></p>
    <?php } ?>	
    <div id="form">
    	<form name="contact" action="<?php echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']; ?>" method="post">
    		<fieldset>
    			<h4>Contact Me!</h4>
    			<label for="name">Name:</label>
    				<input type="text" name="name" id="name"/>
    				<label for="email"/>Email:</label>
    				<input type="text" name="email" id="email"/>
    				<label for="comments" id="comments">Comments:</label>
    				<textarea name="comments" id="" width="90%"></textarea>
    				<fieldset>
    					<input class="btn" type="submit" name="submit" class="submit" value="Send email"/>
    					<input class="btn" type="reset" value="Reset"/>            
     				</fieldset>	
    		</fieldset>
    	</form>

[Christian F.]

I strongly recommend the use of a mailer class, like PHPmailer or something similar. Should make it a lot easier to send mail, reliably, without having to read up on a whole lot on the protocols, security measures, and other mail-related issues.

 

PS: I also hope that you're using my PHP_SELF sanitation snippet, to stop would-be attackers from pulling off HTML injection attacks.

[linardzb]

Thank you for the sanitation snippet.

[Pikachu2000]

First thing that jumps out is that there is no $_Post superglobal, only $_POST: if(empty($_Post['name']) || . . .

[linardzb]

Hi, tried your superglobal approach, nothing, im xrossed now, been trying to fix this for 2 whole days, people seem to be offering solutions, but nothing comes out of it. Thanks anyway

[Pikachu2000]

What do you mean you tried the approach? What did you change?

[White_Lily]

He is saying he tried what you mentioned and used superglobal to no success >_>

[wickedXxxxlegox]

Here's what you can use:

 

<form action="mail.php" method="POST">
<p>Name</p> <input type="text" name="name">
<p>Email</p> <input type="text" name="email">
<p>Phone</p> <input type="text" name="phone">


<p>Request Phone Call:</p>
Yes:<input type="checkbox" value="Yes" name="call"><br />
No:<input type="checkbox" value="No" name="call"><br />


<p>Website</p> <input type="text" name="website">


<p>Priority</p>
<select name="priority" size="1">
<option value="Low">Low</option>
<option value="Normal">Normal</option>
<option value="High">High</option>
<option value="Emergency">Emergency</option>
</select>
<br />


<p>Type</p>
<select name="type" size="1">
<option value="update">Website Update</option>
<option value="change">Information Change</option>
<option value="addition">Information Addition</option>
<option value="new">New Products</option>
</select>
<br />


<p>Message</p><textarea name="message" rows="6" cols="25"></textarea><br />
<input type="submit" value="Send"><input type="reset" value="Clear">
</form>

 

 

 

 

And then the PHP...

 

 

<?php
$name = $_POST['name'];
$email = $_POST['email'];
$phone = $_POST['phone'];
$call = $_POST['call'];
$website = $_POST['website'];
$priority = $_POST['priority'];
$type = $_POST['type'];
$message = $_POST['message'];
$formcontent=" From: $name \n Phone: $phone \n Call Back: $call \n Website: $website \n Priority: $priority \n Type: $type \n Message: $message";
$recipient = "youremail@here.com";
$subject = "Contact Form";
$mailheader = "From: $email \r\n";
mail($recipient, $subject, $formcontent, $mailheader) or die("Error!");
echo "Thank You!";
?>

 

 

 

 

You're welcome. 

[Christian F.]

I would not use that code, as it's completely devoid of security. As such it would allow any spammer to hijack your code quite simply, and make it send out mass e-mails to everyone on the planet. While making it look like it's actually you who are doing the spamming.

There are multiple examples on a proper contact form, both here and everywhere else on the internet. I suggest doing some research on this, and learn how to properly secure it. I also recommend a look into PHPmailer, instead of using mail () directly.

 

The HTML code doesn't fare much better, I'm afraid, as it's quite invalid. Both from a semantic and from a standards point of view. If you're using HTML5, then I recommend something like this instead:

<form action="" method="post">
<fieldset>
	<label for="inp_name">Name</label>
	<input id="inp_name" type="text" name="name" required>

	<label for="inp_email">Email</label>
	<input id="inp_email" type="email" name="email" required>

	<label for="inp_phone">Phone</label>
	<input id="inp_phone" type="text" name="phone" required>

	<label>Request Phone Call:</label>
	<label class="inline" for="inp_phone_yes">Yes:</label>
		<input id="inp_phone_yes" type="checkbox" value="yes" name="call">
	<label class="inline" for="inp_phone_no">No:</label>
		<input id="inp_phone_no" type="checkbox" value="no" name="call">

	<label for="inp_website">Website</label>
	<input id="inp_website" type="url" name="website"">

	<label for="inp_priority">Priority</label>
	<select id="inp_priority" name="priority">
		<option value="Low">Low</option>
		<option value="Normal">Normal</option>
		<option value="High">High</option>
		<option value="Emergency">Emergency</option>
	</select>

	<label for="inp_type">Type</label>
	<select id="inp_type" name="type">
		<option value="update">Website Update</option>
		<option value="change">Information Change</option>
		<option value="addition">Information Addition</option>
		<option value="new">New Products</option>
	</select>

	<label for="inp_message">Message</label>
	<textarea id="inp_message" name="message" rows="6" cols="25"></textarea>
</fieldset>

<fieldset class="buttons">
	<input type="submit" name="submit" value="Send">
	<input type="reset" name="reset" value="Clear">
</fieldset>
</form>

 

The benefit of that code is that you can quite easily make it HTML 4 or XHTML compatible, by a few simple tweaks to remove the HTML5-only attributes.