StevenMG Posted February 25, 2015 Share Posted February 25, 2015 (edited) GoDaddy is hosting my site on Linux. I called their support line and was told they can not answer these simple questions! My site is all done with one exception. The Contact Form. My website has an "Email" link in the top navigation area. The link to the contact.html works just fine. The Contact Form is designed and in place on the contact.html page. The styles.css formats the contact.html just fine. Now the $64,000 questions... I have no idea and am unable to find on the web how to get the contact_form.php page to communicate with the Contact Form on the html webpage. For example, when a user clicks the Submit button there is no link to the php file that tells the html page where to submit the message to along with the message, Name, etc. The styles.css file is in a directory named css and styles.css resides in it. In the < head > of the page there is a link pointing to the styles.css page. It looks like this: <link href="http://www.mywebsite.com/css/styles.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="screen"> Questions: How on earth do I get the contact_form.php file to work with my website Contact Form? Where does the contact_form.php reside? What file extension does the contact_form.php? is .php correct? What is up with the .ini file I keep reading about? I have honestly spent the largest portion of today trying to find the answers to these simple questions. Any help is greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance! Edited February 25, 2015 by StevenMG Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/294882-where-does-php-go-how-does-the-html-page-see-it-etc/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Solution QuickOldCar Posted February 25, 2015 Solution Share Posted February 25, 2015 (edited) How on earth do I get the contact_form.php file to work with my website Contact Form? Usually there is a form, that forms action will determine where is redirected <form action="contact_form.php" method="POST"> Where does the contact_form.php reside? Did you ever make one or is one supposed to be supplied a website creator? you can try looking in \var\www\html\ using an ftp client like filezilla or in your provided admin panel from the host What file extension does the contact_form.php? is .php correct? In order to parse php code the extension must be php, you can also allow html to parse php if set it up on the server. What is up with the .ini file I keep reading about? an .ini file is similar to a text file, maybe people are informing you of the php.ini configuration file. If you create a new file called info.php in the public www(root of your site), you can see where it's located or other information Depending on which hosting admin panel you have can access it from there as well. info.php <?php phpinfo(); ?> To summarize contact.html should contain a form and the action pointing to your php script your php script would perform the mail function Some people do it all in one php script, the form and also the mail function, like contact.php Edited February 25, 2015 by QuickOldCar Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/294882-where-does-php-go-how-does-the-html-page-see-it-etc/#findComment-1506665 Share on other sites More sharing options...
StevenMG Posted February 25, 2015 Author Share Posted February 25, 2015 QuickOldCar, THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU!!!In all the contact form web examples I looked at today NOT ONE of them mentioned to use <form action = "contact_php.php" etc... as where the pointer goes!!! Amazing. Even GoDaddy's tech support would not tell me that as she said there are so many configurations to webpage design that she can not help me with it. HELLO!!! lol I did the info.php earlier today, ran it and a mountain of meaningless information concerning php on GoDaddy was displayed on my screen. Maybe it will have meaning one day. However, today all I want is a Contact Form to work! Thank you again for your help and time! Steven Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/294882-where-does-php-go-how-does-the-html-page-see-it-etc/#findComment-1506667 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ch0cu3r Posted February 25, 2015 Share Posted February 25, 2015 In all the contact form web examples I looked at today NOT ONE of them mentioned to use <form action = "contact_php.php" etc... as where the pointer goes!!! Well if you actually took the time to look a HTML Form tutorial such as this one. It will explain all there is to do with HTML forms and you would of known what to do then. You will never find an exact code example that will solve your problem. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/294882-where-does-php-go-how-does-the-html-page-see-it-etc/#findComment-1506727 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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