Newbie needs help please

[cmf]

I get this message when hit submit button on my form.

 

Warning: preg_match() [function.preg-match]: No ending delimiter '^' found

 

It is on a contact form. The email gets sent and I receive, however, I have no idean how to get rid of this message.

Thanks for your help

 

 

[boompa]

You will have to provide the code that's generating this error.

[cmf]

I hope this is what you need:

 

<?php

 

if(!$_POST) exit;

 

$email = $_POST['email'];

 

 

//$error[] = preg_match('/\b[A-Z0-9._%-]+@[A-Z0-9.-]+\.[A-Z]{2,4}\b/i', $_POST['email']) ? '' : 'INVALID EMAIL ADDRESS';

if(preg_match("^[a-z0-9]+([_\\.-][a-z0-9]+)*" ."@"."([a-z0-9]+([\.-][a-z0-9]+)*)+"."\\.[a-z]{2,}"."$",$email )){

$error.="Invalid email address entered";

$errors=1;

}

if($errors==1) echo $error;

else{

$values = array ('name','email','message');

$required = array('name','email','message');

 

$your_email = "[email protected]";

$email_subject = "Web Inquiry: ".$_POST['subject'];

$email_content = "new message:\n";

 

foreach($values as $key => $value){

 if(in_array($value,$required)){

if ($key != 'subject' && $key != 'company') {

 if( empty($_POST[$value]) ) { echo 'PLEASE FILL IN REQUIRED FIELDS'; exit; }

}

$email_content .= $value.': '.$_POST[$value]."\n";

 }

}

 

if(@mail($your_email,$email_subject,$email_content)) {

echo 'Message sent!'; 

} else {

echo 'ERROR!';

}

}

?>

[cpd]

Your if(preg_match... has no ending delimiter and from the look of it no starting one either. I assume you've used ^ to signify the beginning of the string.

 

Insert delimiters, e.g. preg_match("#([A-Z0-9]+)#", $string) where the # is the delimiter.

[cmf]

Thanks cpd; this is my first form using php  I have no idea what you mean; correction, I have no idea what i'm doing    I've been reading all day about this issue and am not expecting you to solve my problem (unless you really want to help a grandma LOL)).  Do you mind telling me what I have to change in the above code I posted?  PS you are really cute!

[cpd]

Change 

if(preg_match("^[a-z0-9]+([_\\.-][a-z0-9]+)*" ."@"."([a-z0-9]+([\.-][a-z0-9]+)*)+"."\\.[a-z]{2,}"."$",$email )){

to

if(preg_match("#^[a-z0-9]+([_\\.-][a-z0-9]+)*@([a-z0-9]+([\.-][a-z0-9]+)*)+\\.[a-z]{2,}$#",$email )){

And thanks.

[cmf]

Reporting back that it worked! Thank you for saving me hours of research!

Is it true that I should move the php file out of root directory for security purposes?

[cpd]

Not necessarily. Its dependent on the functionality of your PHP script. Many people move scripts outside the public domain for added security but if its a simple template script you don't necessarily have to.